Campus Notables

In Memorium Lyle Smith College of Education Passed away 9/21/04

Ralph Watkins, sociology, was quoted in a September 13 article in the New York Times about hip hop music and religion.

Anthony Kellman, languages, literature, and communications, had a poem, Rainbow of Sand, (from his book, Wings of a Stranger), included in The Forward Book of Poetry, an anthology, published in London by Faber and Faber. Also, his poem Anna Fortuna was published in the most recent issue of Obsidian 111, the literary journal of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He was also a featured performer at the September 5 River Walk Presents, an evening featuring jazz music and poetry.

Deborah vanTuyll, languges, literature, and communications, has been named to the editorial board of Journalism History, the premier journal for media historians. She was also quoted in a recent edition of Pasatiempo, the arts and entertainment magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican in an article about reporters who are embedded with troops in Iraq.

The ASU Career Center partnered with the Society of Human Resource Management, Augusta Area Chapter and the Department of Vocational Rehabilitiation to implement the High School Hi-tech program with a local school district. This program provided career related courses, job shadowing, and job search preparation to disabled students in Augusta-Richmond County Schools. The partnership is aimed at helping students to explore their career and educational pursuits past high school.

McKinley Thomas, kinesiology and health science, recently attended the 75th Annual Meeting and Conference for the Georgia Public Health Association (GPHA) held in Savannah, where he presented a paper titled Understanding Geographic Information Systems in Measuring Public Health
in Georgia. Also, he serves on the Executive Board for GPHA as webmaster for the organization.

News Briefs

The first program in the Building Community program will feature communications professor Steve Clements and his wife, Claudia Coplon, a public relations professional, in a presentation October 27th, at noon in Washington Hall Towers.

Communication Cues and Clues is about how to improve and "dust off" your oral and written communications skills in order to be more professional in the academic setting. After all, how you communicate builds and strengthens working relationships. This one-hour lecture and question and answer session will be conducted by Cree-Walker Distinguished Professor of Communications Steve Clements and his wife, Claudia Coplon, an independent public relations consultant and business writer serving clients such as Deloitte & Touche, Chick-fil-A and the American College of Rheumatology for thirty years. As owner of Executive Speak/Write, Inc., for which Professor Clements serves as Chief Consultant, Ms. Coplon now conducts communications skills training for professionals in some of Atlanta's leading companies.

Hugh Hudson, executive secretary for the Georgia Conference of the American Association of University Professors, will be at ASU on Friday, October 15, at 2 p.m. in W1002 Science Building to discuss the benefits and positive influence of AAUP. Contact Mark Fissel, professor of history, at 737-1709 for information.

German Ambassador Hans Arnold will be at ASU on Thursday, October 7, to give a lecture titled The Future of U.S.-European Relations. The program is scheduled for noon in W1008 Science Building. Ambassador Arnold is currently on a lecture assignment with the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. He brings with him more than 50 years of diplomatic experience, having served as Germany’s Ambassador to Italy, The Netherlands, and the United States. For more information, call the Department of Political Science, 737-1710.

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