SHSU
Update For Week Of Jan. 30
‘Excellence’ Nominations Now Being Accepted
The SHSU Faculty Achievement Awards Committee is now soliciting
nominations for the “Excellence” in research, service
and teaching. One member of the faculty will be recognized
in each category.
The Excellence In Research Award, with a cash stipend of
$5,000, will honor a faculty member who has achieved excellence
in the broad area of scholarly and
artistic endeavor. The achievement might involve a single act or a series of
accomplishments in the area of scientific research, artistic creation, publication,
performance, presentation, or other activities.
Nominations are encouraged from all areas of the university community.
The Excellence In Service Award, also with a cash stipend of 5,000, will honor
a faculty member who has achieved excellence in the area of service to one’s
profession and the university. The achievement might be one act or a history
of service to one’s profession, to a particular component of the university,
or to the university as a whole.
In addition, nominations for the Excellence in Teaching Award will be accepted
online at https://www.shsu.edu/saminfo/excellence-teach.cgi through Feb. 14.
The deadline to nominate for the teaching award is 5 p.m.
Those eligible for the awards must be full-time faculty members, including
program coordinators, who have been employed at SHSU for at least five years,
and previous
recipients are not eligible for the same award.
Members of the achievement awards committee may not be nominated nor may they
nominate others. Committee members are: David Burris, Arts and Sciences (chair);
Don Albert, Arts and Sciences; Furjen Deng, Humanities and Social Sciences;
Dennis Longmire, Criminal Justice; Hiranya Nath, Business Administration; John
Newbold,
Business Administration; and Mary Nichter, Education.
One nomination may be made for each of the awards, and the nomination deadline
is 4 p.m. on Feb. 16.
Only nominations bearing original signatures will be
accepted and no e-mail nominations will be accepted.
To nominate a colleague, send a letter briefly describing these contributions
to: David Burris, Chair, Faculty Achievement Awards Committee, Computer Science
Box 2090.
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Association Scholarships Deadline Approaching
The deadline for applications for Spring 2005 SHSU Parents'
Association scholarships is Feb. 4.
Students whose parents are active members of the Parents’ Association
may apply for the six annual $1,000 scholarships.
Requirements for selection include completion of at least
12 hours at SHSU, a cumulative grade point average of 3.0
and enrollment in 12 semester hours
in
the semester the scholarship is awarded. Students may receive the scholarship
only once.
For information about the application process contact assistant dean of students
Mary Ellen Sims at mesims@shsu.edu or 936.294.3026.
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Academic Affairs, SGA Provide Free Newspapers
The Division of Academic Affairs and the Student Government
Association will make free newspapers available to the
campus community for the next three weeks
as part of their Collegiate Readership Program.
The trial run of the program began on Monday, with USA Today, The Houston Chronicle,
The Huntsville Item and The New York Times provided in kiosks in the Lowman
Student Center, Lee Drain Building, Academic Building 4 and the Criminal Justice
Center.
The papers are available for students, faculty and staff.
Also on Monday, students were asked to complete a survey about their reading
habits and preferences. Students will be surveyed again after the four-week
trial run.
The results of the surveys will be used to determine which newspapers should
be provided on a daily basis beginning in early March.
According to Sue Knight, in the Dean of Students’ Office, said the program
is already showing signs of being very popular. Vendors who distribute and
pick up the papers every day report the numbers back to the office, and the
Houston
Chronicle has been very popular, she said.
In addition, Knight said students have requested that the Houstonian be made
available in the same areas the other papers are distributed, and the office
is working to make that happen.
“
I think this is a great thing,” Knight said. “The program has had
great success on other campuses.”
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Kat Klub Makes New Deal In Texas Hold’Em Tourneys
The Kat Klub is raising the stakes this semester for its
monthly, and sometimes semimonthly, Texas Hold’Em
tournaments.
In addition to winning a “Texas Hold’Em Champion” T-shirt,
those who win each night will now go on to play in the “Tournament of Champions” on
April 20-21. The winner of the championship tournament will not only win bragging
rites as being the best Texas Hold’Em player of the spring 2005 and fall
2004 tournament winners, but will also win a gold bracelet.
The next Texas Hold’Em tournament will be held Wednesday and Thursday
(Feb. 2-3), with another February tournament on Feb. 16-17. Other tournaments
for the
semester will be held March 2-3 and April 6-7.
Each tournament will be held at 5 p.m. in the Kat Klub, on the first floor
of the Lowman Student Center.
Set up Las Vegas-style, each tournament will consist of five to six tables,
with 10 people at each table. Players start out with $1,000 in play money,
and there
is no limit.
The tournaments are open to faculty and staff as well as students, and there
is no entry fee. Those who want to play should sign up ahead of time in the
Kat Klub, though sign ups will be held on the tournament days as well. articipants
can play on both days.
For more information, call Gary Roark at 936.294.1722.
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Ruffin Interviewed In Poets And Writers Magazine
Paul Ruffin, editor of the SHSU Texas Review Press’s
publication The Texas Review, was among the several literary
journal editors interviewed in
a recent
issue of Poets and Writers.
Ruffin and the others spoke with New York agent Nat Sobel for an essay titled “Stories
from the Front Lines: 14 Editors Tell Their Tales.”
“
It was an honor to be selected for an interview in so prestigious a magazine;
it was an even greater honor to have our journal and press and university recognized,” Ruffin
said. “We are working hard to build our creative writing program here,
and this kind of exposure certainly helps.”
Sobel writes in his introduction to the piece: “With all the bad news coming
out of the New York publishing scene these days, it’s encouraging to
see a hardy band of editors still publishing good writing without always having
an
eye on the bottom line. These editors are the real heroes of publishing. They
are the hardworking, underpaid (or unpaid), and underappreciated editors of
the literary journals.”
The Texas Review was featured among a line-up of old and distinguished journals,
such as Michigan Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Confrontation, and Shenandoah:
The Washington and Lee University Review.
Poets and Writers is an international magazine dedicated to an audience of
poets and fiction writers around the world.
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Development Center To Help Create Business Plans
The SHSU Small Business Development Center will help those
interested in “Developing
Your Business Plan” on Tuesday (Feb. 1).
The seminar will be held from 6-9 p.m. in the center’s Computer Learning
Center. There is a $10 fee for the seminar, which is open to the public.
The SBDC is located at Sam South, or 2424 Sam Houston Ave. To RSVP or for
more information, call 936.294.3737.
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PC To Celebrate Black History, Chinese New Year
The Program Council will celebrate Black History Month
with several activities slated to kick off on Tuesday (Feb.
1) with a rally at noon in the Lowman
Student Center Mall Area.
That evening, the council, with host Tjohne Entertainment, will challenge
students’ black
history knowledge with Thinkfest at 7:30 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center
Ballroom.
“
The way it works is that people who think they know enough about black history
can be on teams or try to win the grand prize all by themselves,” said
Jeffrey Oribhabor, PC vice president for public relations. “The winner,
or winners, will receive $200 if they go through three rounds of black history
questions.”
Other PC events for the week include a birthday celebration, in conjunction
with the Black History Month Kick-Off Rally, on Tuesday and a celebration
of the Year
of the Rooster for the Chinese New Year on Thursday (Feb. 3).
For more information on any of these events, call Oribhabor at 936.294.1763.
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MISS To Show Love For Diversity, Teach About Racism
The Office of Multicultural and International Student Services
will celebrate diversity while teaching the student body
about racism this week with two
events.
The “I Love Diversity” campaign will kick off on Tuesday (Feb.
1) in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area. The pledge event will be held
from 10
a.m. until noon through Feb. 4.
“
You know the shamrocks that you see in the grocery stores, this is actually going
to be a way that students, faculty and staff can list their names and also what
they plan to do for diversity within the next year,” said MISS program
coordinator Jennifer T. Roberts. “It’s like a self-initiative.”
After the four days of pledging, the cards will be displayed. Last year,
the cards were put up in the LSC Art Gallery, but because an exhibit is already
there this year, they will have to find a new location.
Also on Monday, MISS will take a look inside the human brain with “Psychology
of a Racist Mind” from 2-3 p.m. in LSC Room 302.
“
We’re going to have a professor from the psychology department facilitate
this and inform us of what exactly makes a person racist,” Roberts said. “You
can learn racism from a lot of different factors that people encounter in
their lives, whether it be family, friends, television, etc.”
For more information on either of these events, call the Office
of Multicultural and International Student Services at 936.294.3861.
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Faculty Woodwinds To Perform Feb. 3
Four SHSU music professors will showcase their talents
at the Faculty Chamber Recital on Thursday (Feb. 3).
The concert, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital
Hall, will feature Kathy Daniel playing the flute, Spring
Hill playing the oboe, Patricia Card
playing the clarinet and Scott Phillips playing the bassoon.
The performance will also include Eugene Bozza’s “Trois Pieces pour
une Musique de Nuit,” Jean Francaix’s “Divertissement,” and
Thea Musgrave’s “Impromptu No. 1.”
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact
the School of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Lichtman Named Chair Of Organization Section
Brenda Lichtman, professor of kinesiology, was recently
elected as the section chair of the Secondary and Middle
School Physical Education for the Texas Association
of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Lichtman, who has been a member of TAHPERD for 29 years, was chair-elect in
2004, and will be chair through 2005.
“
My job is to help set the agenda for future directions for the Middle and Secondary
School Physical Education Section,” she said, “and screen proposals
from presentations at the summer conference in July which will take place in
Abilene and the larger conference which will take place in December in Corpus
Christi.”
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Jan. 30, 2005
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