Campus Notables

Emam Hoosain, teacher development, had an article, Problem-Solving Strategies of First Graders, published in the May issue of the NCTM Journal, Teaching Children Mathematics. He also presented the article at the 82nd Annual Conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Philadelphia on April 22.

Pamela Hayward, languages, literature, and communications, presented Using Apples to Apples to Highlight Language Concepts as part of the panel It’s How You Play the Game: The Use of Game in the Classroom to Facilitate the Understanding of Communication Concepts at the Southern States Communication Association Conference held last month in Tampa.

Wendy Turner, history, anthropology, and philosophy, has been awarded a Mayers Fellowship to conduct research this summer at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. In addition, the Huntington has nominated her for a grant from the British Academy.

Jurgen Brauer, business administration, was the keynote speaker at the International Symposium on Natural Resources and Conflict in the Asia-Pacific held April 6 in Sydney, Australia.

Anthony Kellman, languages, literature, and communications, was a visiting author at St. Lawrence University in New York. He gave a public poetry reading, was the judge in the university’s Nelson Poetry Contest, and delivered a lecture, Toward a National Caribbean Epic.

Deborah Richardson, psychology, was a presenter at the Anger and Aggression Conference at the University of Arkansas April 16-17. The theme of the conference was The Relation between Anger and Aggression: Implications or Intervening in Interpersonal Violence.

Robert Foster, fine arts, was invited by Masani, host of Georgia Public Radio’s The Jazz Spot, to do an interview and performance featuring his recently released CD How’s That April 29.

Sabina Widner and Stephen Hobbs, psychology, presented a program April 13 in the Humane Values Lecture Series of the university’s chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Dr. Brigitte Ziobrowski, business administration, discussed her groundbreaking research examining U.S. Senators’ stock investments at a public lecture April 19. The research, conducted with her husband Dr. Alan Ziobrowski, has received national and international media attention.

Dana Trowell

Dana Trowell, building projects coordinator, has been named as the Physical Plant’s Employee of the Quarter for the first quarter of 2004. Dana has been employed at ASU since December 2000.

“She has been a great asset to this department and is always available to help others,” said Deborah Kilpatrick, office manager “She is a team player. She has a wonderful sense of humor and never fails to entertain us.”

Ms. Trowell lives with her husband, Brian, and her five dogs, two cats, a bird, and a fish. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, gardening, boating, camping, and spending time with her family.

Ms. Trowell says that she enjoys her job at ASU because she feels like she is an integral part of a large family where she knows that she is loved and cared about.

Brian Rust, fine arts, has been selected to participate in Accessibility 2004, a public, month-long exhibition of installation and site-specific art in Sumter, S.C. The exhibition is scheduled to open on Friday, Oct. 1.

Tom Colbert, chemistry and physics, attended several education policy seminars this semester at the University of Georgia as a result of his being named a Governor’s Teaching Fellow. The seminars involved a variety of topics relating to effective teaching and education.

Bill Nelson, library, co-presented two workshops in April: ACRL College Library Standards: Practical Application for Academic Libraries at a Preconference workshop of the Kentucky Library Association in Barren River State Resort, Ky; and The New ACRL Standards and Library Assessment at the Western InterLibrary Organization in Kansas City. Also, The Association of College and Research Libraries, in April, ordered a second printing of Standards and Assessment for Academic Libraries: A Workbook, a book co-authored by Dr. Nelson that was originally published in November 2002.

Paul Harris, political science, delivered a paper, Networks and Support for Newly Arrived Russian-Jewish émigrés in the United States at the symposium Russian Jewish emigration after the Cold War–A Transnational Community in the Making?, sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University, April 20-22. He also spoke to the CSRA Alliance Francais April 27 on the topic of the Muslim headscarf ban in France and its political and social implications.

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