Campus Notables

Louise Shivers, ASU’s writer-in-residence and author of Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail, will be discussing the book and answering questions Thursday, May 15, at noon in Reese Library, second floor. The talk marks the 20th anniversary of the book.

Georgia Dozier

Georgia Dozier, custodian I, has been named Physical Plant employee of the quarter for spring 2003. Dozier, who is responsible for Hardy Hall, said the students make coming to work enjoyable. “I love coming to work,” she said. “I enjoy saying ‘hi’ and talking to the students on their way to class.” Dozier has been at ASU for 15 years, and when she is not on campus, she enjoys cooking and working around her house.

Robert Bledsoe, Duncan Robertson, and Debbie van Tuyll, languages, literature, and communications, recently participated in a Chair’s Forum: Reading Historically. Bledsoe spoke on reading practices in eighteenth century Germany; Robertson, on reading practices in medieval France; and van Tuyll, on gendered reading, class, and media during dependency during the Civil War.

Richard Davis, languages, literature, and communications, recently had a children’s play The Courtship of Senorita Florabella published in Drama Source. His one act play, Ninety Six Layers of Concrete, Furniture, and Air, opened recently at the American Theatre of Actors in New York City.

Paul Harris (left) and Richard Topolski

Paul Harris, political science, and Richard Topolski, psychology, will take part in an international research project with the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. The project, Socio-cultural self-assertion of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel, Germany and the United States, is funded by a $200,000 grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.

Pamela Hayward, languages, literature, and communications, gave a presentation on Putting your best foot forward: How to approach the first day of class more effectively at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Teaching Undergraduates in Barnesville.

Steven Hobbs, psychology, recently moved from president-elect to president of the Southeastern Psychological Association.

Willene Holmes, financial aid, was recently named the new director of financial aid. She previously served as associate director of financial aid.

Betty House, languages, literature, and communications, was recently named a 2003 Woman of Excellence by the Girl Scout Central Savannah River Council. She was selected in the education category.

Pamela Lightsey, bookstore, was recently presented with an award from the Georgia Association of College Stores as the 2003 Store Employee of the Year.

Tom Nakashima, Morris Eminent Scholar in Art, has an exhibition of his work at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art. A selection of his paintings, prints, and objects from 1979-2002 will be on display through June 6. In the upper galleries are works from three ASU students (Tobya Negash, Raymond Sturkey, and Nicole North) presenting their senior exhibitions. This is the first year of a pilot program between ASU and the GHIA to showcase ASU seniors’exhibitions.

Deborah Richardson, psychology, recently began a three-year term on the executive committee of the Southeastern Psychological Association.

Brian Rust, fine arts, had his work featured on Touch the Earth: the art of nature-based sculpture, a video narrated by Maya Angelou on Washington, D.C.’s PBS station and on KCET, a Los Angeles public TV station. Rust’s installation art work, Earthen Bridge, is located in the South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson. He also has a mixed media drawing in an exhibit called Southworks 2003. The juried exhibition runs through June 13 at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Art Center in Watkinsville.

Hubert van Tuyll, history and anthropology, and Jurgen Brauer, business administration, co-wrote Colonizing Military History: A Millennial View on the Economics of War, which appears in the current issue of Defense and Peace Economics.

F. William Monge, former Augusta College president (1986-1987), passed away on April 26. During his time at AC, he also served as acting dean of the College of Business Administration and vice president for academic affairs.

William Spears, acting chair of the psychology department from 1973-74, recently passed away. While here, Spears also served as president of the Southeastern Psychological Association.

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