Campus Notables

Reese Library has been awarded an American Library Association grant in the amount of $2,500 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature project that begins in September. Yadira Payne is serving as project director. The library also received a second grant for the preservation of archival and related materials. As grant participants, Carol Waggoner-Angleton, Yadira Payne, Jennifer Boone and John O’Shea, library, and Janet Jordan, history, anthropology, and philosophy, received SOLINET training and Basic Archive Curriculum Certification.

Robert Mays, Virginia Luke, Shannon Stephens, and Shannon Nix, counseling center, participated in the Joint American College Counseling Association Conference and Georgia College Counseling Association Conference in Savannah in February. Ms. Stephens also presented Understanding and Managing Stress at the monthly meeting of the local chapter of the National Association of Purchasing Management.

Martin David Jones, music, had his piano piece, Winter Suite, world premiered at the La Crosse New Music Festival by pianist Joyce Grill. The festival took place at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Also, his piano student, Shawn Shealy, was one of three college winners in the Georgia Music Educators Association statewide auditions. Dr. Jones performed at the GMEA conference in Savannah as part of the recognition of his work.

Jason Andrus, biology, discussed his present research and student involvement in a new program begun on campus to highlight faculty-student research. The program took place Feb. 22 in Science Hall.
 
Clint Bryant, athletics, served as a panelist for a hiring workshop at the North Coast Athletic Conference in Ohio. He also made a presentation to the legislative delegation and to the attorney general’s office during Augusta’s Day at the state legislature. The presentation is about a new program for youths in a four county region.

Anthony Kellman, communications and professional writing, gave a reading at Borders Books in Manhattan in January. The reading launched the University of Nebraska Press's creative non-fiction anthology, Living Blue in the Red States, which contains Professor Kellman's essay, Minority Within Minority: Thoughts on Race and Culture in the New South. The event was held during the Associated Writing Program's annual conference.

Kristin Casaletto, art, will have her artwork on display in the show Inscribing Meaning: The Context of Text in Visual Art, at the Georgia College and State University Art Museum in Milledgeville, Ga., which will run from March 13 –May 30.  She also will participate in the panel discussion on March 13.

Ms. Casaletto also had artwork accepted into the print collection at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore., and into the collection of a printmaking institute in Krakow, Poland, named Stowarzyszenie Miedzynarodowe Triennale Grafiki.

Four faculty and two alumni will be among the initiates into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi March 14. They include Eric Zuckerman, chemistry and physics; Mary McCormack, English & Foreign Languages; Michael Searles, history, anthropology, and philosophy; and Tom Nakashima, art. Alumni initiates include Dan Whitfield, business operations, and Patti Myers, music.

The Department of Communications and Professional Writing hosted the 77th Annual Convention of the Georgia Communication Association Feb. 22-23 on campus. James Garvey, chair, participated in a panel discussion, Chairs, Directors, and Coordinators of Mass Communication Programs; Shelly Ford, Mary McLaughlin, and Gaye Ortiz presented Women and Theatre: Radical Feminism and Dramatic Realism, From Pelosi’s Pearls to Hillary’s Hair: The Ethics of Genderizing in the Representation of Female Politicians and Gender Studies and Feminism in Film, in a session on Women in Media Studies: Analyses in Performance and Representations.

Ms. Ford also presented Collaborative Media: Scene Design as Mechanism for Encoding Director’s Messages. Rick Pukis and student Chris Pope presented a guided tour of the Television and Cinema Lab. Kathy Schofe, public relations, presented a virtual tour of campus. Ms.Schofe and Heather Hopkins, public relations, presented a session, Putting the You in YouTube.  Rick Pukis presented Study Abroad: The Trials and Tribulations of a First Timer. Debbie van Tuyll moderated a panel on Media Impact. Edgar Johnson moderated a panel on Hermeneutics and Semiotics in which ASU Alumnus Tilman Russell made a presentation on The Significance of the Subject: The Hermeneutical Theory of Bernard Lonergan. Kathleen Trigg moderated a panel addressing Explorations in Rhetoric in which Will Bryant, an ASU alumnus and a graduate student, served as a panelist. ASU students Lindsay Thetford and Kathryn DeBorde presented,Welcome to WeeWorld: An Activity for Teaching Cognitive Dissonance Theory, and Sarah Anderson presented Understanding Sibling Conflict Through the Analysis of Gender and Age. Pamela Hayward served as conference chair; she also is the president of the organization.

In the News

The following faculty and staff appeared as a source for the media in print, television, or radio:

Jackie Stewart, institutional research, and Michael Searles, history, anthropology, and philosophy– The Augusta Chronicle, Rome News Tribune, and WACG about a Black History Month activity in which a funeral was held to bury negative stereotypes. Mr. Searles also appeared on ASU Reports on Air about Black History Month Activities and WNRR about the Buffalo Soldiers.

Paul Harris, political science – WAGT, about the primaries and Congressional investigation of steroid use

Ralph Walker, political science – WJBF and WRDW about the primary elections; WAGT, about the city of Augusta’s consolidated government document; The Augusta Chronicle, about the voter ID law

Ted McNeal, public safety – Metro Spirit, about the Northern Illinois University tragedy

Kristin Casaletto, art – ASU Reports on Air, about the 20/20 Vision art exhibit

Clint Bryant, athletics – WRDW, about careers over crime program

Jackson Cheatham, gallery director – Metro Spirit, about an exhibit at the Mary Pauline Gallery

Mark Thompson, Hull College of Business – The Augusta Chronicle, column on petro-economics

Julie Goley, Career Center – ASU Reports on Air and WJBF, about the career expos

Marc Miller, Hull College of Business, and Craig Cooper, kinesiology and health science – The Augusta Chronicle, about a new business course on golf/networking

Philip Morsberger, art – The Cincinnati Enquirer, about a return exhibit to Miami

Edgar Johnson, communications and professional writing – The Atlanta Journal Constitution, about the filming of a documentary

Kim Davies, sociology, criminal justice, and social work – National Public Radio’s Georgia Gazette, about her new book on murder

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