SHSU
Update For Week Of April 9
Chinese Professor To Discuss Culture,
Traditions
Hong Xu, Chinese visiting scholar in the foreign languages
program, will discuss Confucius, Fengshui and other cultural
and social traditions at a lecture on Wednesday (April 12).
The 50-minute discussion will be held at 2 p.m. in Evans Complex
Room 313.
Xu will also discuss Beijing Opera, the Chinese way of life,
economic development, places of interest and well-known cuisines
in an effort to “help the audience better understand
China and Chinese people,” she said.
“It will also be useful to people who want to do business
with Chinese people or want to study or visit China,”
Xu said.
Chinese food and tea will be served after the talk, and a
door prize will be given.
Xu, who is visiting SHSU through the Fulbright program, is
from Tianjin Foreign Studies University in China, where she
teaches translation in the English school. She was raised
in Sihong, China, a county a few hundred miles from Shanghai,
she said.
She has previously discussed the Chinese Spring Festival as
part of the lecture series, which she said, “turned
out quite successful.”
For more information, call Xu
at 936.294.1443.
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Women’s Study
Prof To Take On ‘Aggressive Girls’
Meda Chesney-Lind, professor in the women's studies program
at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will discuss “Bad
Girls, Mean Girls, or Just Girls: Trends in Girls' Aggression
and Violence” on Thursday (April 13).
The discussion, part of the Beto Chair Lecture Series, will
be held from 1-2:30 p.m. in the Kerper Courtroom of the Beto
Criminal Justice Center.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be
followed by a discussion and reception in the Texas Room for
graduate students.
For more information, call Christie Davidson at 936.294.3757.
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McNair Scholars Sought
For Next Academic Year
The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
is seeking 11 SHSU students who are interested in future doctoral
studies to participate in the program next year.
The McNair program is a federally-funded undergraduate research
program that offers a stipend to first-generation, low-income
or minority students.
“We target those three groups because they are underrepresented,
and we want to increase their representation in graduate schools,”
said Lydia Cruz Fox, McNair program director. “We try
to search for students who are interested in getting a doctoral
degree.”
Students who are accepted into the program receive a $1,600
stipend, disbursed in three payments throughout the academic
year, and are paired with a faculty member in their discipline
to complete a research project.
McNair scholars also receive other benefits, such as free
graduate school preparation workshops, a tuition waver for
a three-hour spring research class, paid travel to research
conferences and for visits to prospective graduate programs,
and the use of a laptop computer, as well as graduate application
fee wavers, among other incentives.
“If you are an undergrad and you have research experience
and you’ve been to or presented in conferences, that
makes your odds of being accepted into a graduate program
increase dramatically,” Fox said. “So we try to
make our students as competitive as possible.”
Applicants must be classified as at least a junior at SHSU,
have a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average and be a permanent
U.S. resident.
The application deadline is April 21, and interviews will
be conducted the first week of May. Applications are available
online at http://www.shsu.edu/%7Emcnair/apply.htm.
For more information, contact the McNair Office, located in
Academic Building III Room 216, at 936.294.3279, mcnair@shsu.edu
or visit the Web site http://www.shsu.edu/~mcnair/.
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Alumna, Local Realtor To Exhibit
Art
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Markham's award-winning
"Silent Witness" will be on display in the
LSC Gallery through May 5. |
Huntsville landscape artist and SHSU alumna Pam Markham will
show the community she is "CRAZY for COLOR" with
her exhibit in the Lowman Student Center Art Gallery beginning
April 24.
Many of the paintings in the show, which continues through
May 5, are interpretations of local scenes and the colors
depict familiar settings in unfamiliar ways, according to
Markham.
"I have been an artist, in spirit, all my life,"
said Markham, who received a fine arts degree from SHSU in
1969 and started working seriously in watercolor when she
was about 23 years old.
While teaching during the next few years, she had two children
and the painting went to the back burner and then to the attic,
she said. In 1981, she and her husband, Jeff, opened Markham
Realty in Huntsville.
About 20 years later, Markham returned to her art and discovered
a new medium: soft pastels.
"I love the immediacy, the texture and the color,”
she said. “My style is very loose, and I love painting
the light and shadows of the subject.
“Most of my paintings are started ‘en plein air’
(out of doors) and completed in the studio,” she said.
Recently one of Markham's paintings, entitled “Silent
Witness,” won an "Award of Excellence" at
an international art show, and she has won numerous awards
at other art exhibits.
She travels from coast to coast during the year to paint and
often is an assistant workshop instructor for an artist from
the Cape Cod School of Art.
"Because I have a full time real estate career, my paintings
are my passion, not my job," Markham said. "I enjoy
every single minute at the easel."
The show is open to the public daily.
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Prof To Discuss
Commandments On History Channel
Mitch Roth, associate professor in criminal justice, who
also teaches courses in history, is one of the “legal,
religious and historical scholars” who will be interviewed
during a History Channel special on the Ten Commandments.
Promising to tell “the real story behind history’s
most famous written document,” the two-part series is
on at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Roth’s segment
is scheduled for Thursday.
Roth, who spent two hours this past November taping the show
in California, said his segment discusses murder and theft
in the Ten Commandments.
Promos for the show say that the special will examine three
different—and sometimes contradictory—biblical
accounts of Moses on the Mount, and then will look at each
of the commandments in historical context.
Also examined will be the other 603 commandments prescribed
by Moses that are lesser known—“what was in these
commandments and why have they been largely forgotten.”
Author/lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Old Testament expert Daniel
Smith-Christopher will also be interviewed.
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Percussion Ensemble
To Perform April 11
The SHSU Percussion Ensemble will perform a variety of works
from the late 19th and 20th centuries at a concert on Tuesday
(April 11).
The event, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Killinger
Auditorium, will feature such pieces as Antonín Dvorák’s
“Carnival Overture,” Michael Udow’s “African
Welcome Piece,” and Donald Grantham’s “Houston
Strokes,” among others.
The performance is free and open to the public.
The SHSU Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of faculty
conductor Timothy Maynard, is comprised of music students
Jamie Broussard, Daniel Burkeen, Jr., Jennah Burleson, Christopher
Cargill, Benjamin Guillotte, Ross Eckhard, Scott Highsmith,
Lacey Howard, Douglas Maake, Amanda MacDonald, Malory Picard,
Scott Simmons and Tamara Williams.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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SAM Center To Give Grad School
Info
Thinking about continuing your education beyond undergraduate
studies?
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will host a Graduate
School Information Meeting on Monday (April 10), from noon
to 1 p.m.
Representatives will be on hand to answer any questions regarding
such issues as financial aid, academic requirements and the
graduate school time line.The meeting will be held in the
SAM Center, located in Academic Building IV Suite 210.
For more information, contact Gerri Johnson, SAM
Center graduate assistant, at gerri@shsu.edu
or call 936.294.4444.
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December Graduation
Applications Due April 24
Students who anticipate graduating on Dec. 16, 2006, should
file degree applications by April 24 with the Registar’s
Office, located on the third floor of the Estill Building.
Students who fail to apply by the deadline will be assessed
a $25 late application fee in addition to the $25 graduation
fee.
Applying late may also result in names not appearing in the
commencement program or the honors program.
Final exams will be held Dec. 11-14.
For more information, call 936.294.1040.
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Ruffin To Read Selections
From His Books
On Wednesday (April 12), distinguished professor of English
Paul Ruffin will read from his two newest books at 7 p.m.
in the Olson Auditorium in Academic Building IV.
He will be reading from “Here's to Noah, Bless His Ark”
(2005) and “The Segovia Chronicles,” due out this
summer.
Ruffin is the editor of The Texas Review and director of the
Texas Review Press.
He has written two novels, two books of short stories, five
collections of poems and two books of essays, as well as editor
of several other books.
Copies of Ruffin's books will be on sale at the event, which
is open the public at no cost.
There will be a reception following the reading.
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Ministry Group Wins
Competition At National Retreat
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| Members of the Acting on Faith Praise
Dance Ministry receive their first place trophy for the
second year in a row. |
The Acting on Faith Praise Dance Ministry of the Soul Lifters
Gospel Choir won first place at the National Baptist Student
Union Retreat this past weekend.
This is the second year in a row the group has won the title.
Competition in the event included Prairie View A&M, Fort
Valley State, and Henderson State University, according to
director Nicole Simpson.
The National Baptist Student Union Retreat brings together
schools from all over for seminars, fellowship, and spiritual
growth.
Acting on Faith, a student organization at SHSU, has 23 members
that minister through dance in Huntsville and across Texas.
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Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
April 9, 2006
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