SHSU
Update For Week Of Jan. 8
Teams Enter Conference
With ‘Impressive’ Records
After impressive pre-conference performances by the Bearkat
men’s and women’s basketball teams, both will
be in action throughout January, February and the first week
of March in Johnson Coliseum.
University students and employees are admitted free. General
admission is $6.
Upcoming men’s games, all scheduled for 7 p.m., include
McNeese (Jan. 12), Northwestern State (Jan. 14), UT-Arlington
(Jan. 28), Louisiana-Monroe (Feb. 4), Southeast Louisiana
(Feb. 9), Texas State-San Marcos (Feb. 23), and UT-San Antonio
(Feb. 25). The home schedule ends with SFA at 5 p.m. March
4.
The women Bearkats host UT-San Antonio (Jan. 19), Southeast
Louisiana (Jan. 26), Northwestern State (Feb. 2), Lamar (Feb.
16), McNeese (Feb. 18), and UT-Arlington (March 1).
The Bearkat men have non-conference wins over quality opponents
including Missouri, New Mexico State, Southern Mississippi
and Central Florida.
The women broke even in a tough pre-season schedule that included
Texas (Austin), Texas A&M, Baylor and SMU.
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Rec Sports To Aerojam
Off The Holiday Weight
The Department of Recreational Sports will help all those
whose New Year’s resolution included getting into shape
with a showcase of its group exercise classes on Wednesday
(Jan. 11).
Aerojam, a “sampling of all our instructors and group
exercise classes we will offer this semester in the old and
new multi-purpose rooms,” will be held at 6 p.m., according
to assistant director of wellness programs Tina DeAses.
All classes, including step, kickboxing and funk, will be
held for 10 minutes each, “so participants can choose
to participate in those they feel comfortable with,”
DeAses said.
The entire program will last 90 minutes.
In addition, those who want to join a class can find out when
and where it will be held with the release of the group exercise
semester schedule on that day.
Refreshments will be served and raffle prizes will be given
away.
For more information, call DeAses at 936.294.1985.
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HKC To Expand Hours For Trial
Semester
The Department of Recreational Sports is temporarily expanding
the hours of the Health and Kinesiology Center addition during
the spring semester to get a feel for student usage of the
new facility, which will then be used to set definite hours
for the following semesters.
Spring hours will be from 6:30 a.m. to midnight on Mondays
through Thursdays, from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Fridays, from
9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays, and from 1 p.m. to midnight
on Sundays.
“We will keep those hours throughout the semester, regardless
of use and then evaluate the usage patterns upon the completion
of the spring semester,” said Tina DeAses, Rec Sports
assistant director of wellness programs.
The 10,000-square-foot state-of-the-art addition now houses
over 40 cardio machines, 25 pin-selectorized machines, over
25 plate-loaded machines and free weights.
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Association Accepting
Nominations For Service Awards
The SHSU Alumni Association is seeking those who have made
significant contributions to the university and live by
the motto “The measure of Life is its Service.” for
the 2006 Service Awards.
Nominations for up to six recipients will be accepted through
Feb. 13, with forms available online at http://alumni.shsu.edu/documents/NominationForm.doc.
Nominees, which can be university alumni, employees and friends,
will be judged according to their contributions toward the
advancement of SHSU, as well as the community.
However, current officers and board members of the SHSU Alumni
Association’s board of directors, members of The Texas
State University System Board of Regents and members of the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board are not eligible
for the award.
Recipients must be able to attend the awards ceremony, which
will be held on April 28 at 11:30 a.m. in the Lowman Student
Center Ballroom.
Service Award nomination forms, along with attached supporting
documents, should be submitted to the SHSU Office of Alumni
Relations, Box 2022, Huntsville, Texas 77341-2022, no later
than 5 p.m. on the day of the deadline.
For more information, contact 936.294.1841 or alumni@shsu.edu.
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White To Spend Spring Semester
In Germany
Rick White, professor of chemistry, will spend the spring
semester abroad doing basic fundamental research on a subject
matter that was only discovered within the past four years.
He and professor Heiko Ihmels from the University of Siegen
in Siegen, Germany, will study cyclic carbonate photochemistry
and solid-state photochemistry of those compounds. The topic
is an extension of the work White was doing with SHSU chemistry
professor Benny Arney.
The two will look at “conical intersection studies,”
a newly-discovered reaction in the chemistry world, that White
calls “really complex mathematical solutions to problems.
“This is basic fundamental research, just trying to
figure out what’s going on in these cases so we can
apply it to other things,” he said. “Part of our
project is to build a larger molecule, look at what bond migrates
and why, and figure out what might happen because then we
can eventually try and get a combination ring contraction/ring
enlargement by this. Those kind of compounds are really big
in medicinal product chemistry.
“I chose this topic because for years, photochemistry
has assumed that excited state surfaces and ground state surfaces
never overlap, and we have found that this is no longer true,”
White said. “This changes the nature of organic photochemistry.”
White and Ihmels will work at the University of Siegen’s
laboratory, which has “great libraries and equipment,”
to uncover more information on the subject.
“It opens up a whole lot of stuff here,” White
said. “We didn’t used to know about those kinds
of things (the existence of conical intersections), so we’re
simplifying photochemical mechanisms, but now it turns out
that it’s not so simple.
“We’re opening up a whole knew area because we
can kind of get an idea what’s happening in photochemistry
with these kinds of molecules,” he said.
White, who met Ihmels while serving as a visiting faculty
member at the University of Wuerzbug, will be on a faculty
development leave from Jan. 12 until June 3. The project is
funded by the German government.
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Art Department To Showcase Faculty
Students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to
see the work of art professors outside the classroom during
the 46th Annual Art and Photography Faculty Exhibit Monday
(Jan. 9) through Feb. 2.
“We will have a full range of art, drawings, paintings,
sculpture, animation, installations and photography,”
said art slide librarian Debbie Davenport.
The pieces will be on display in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery,
located in Art Building F.
A reception will also be held in the gallery on Jan. 19, from
5-7 p.m.
The exhibit will feature the works of Martin Amorous, Cari
Ashworth, Jimmy H. Barker, Jack Barnosky, Brian Benfer, Kate
Borcherding, David Bowson, Chuck Drumm, Rebecca Finley, Laura
Fisher, Frank Golden, Matthew Guest, Emmette Jackson, Michael
Henderson, Pat Lanier, Jason Neumann, James Paster, Tedd Pettibon,
Tom Seifert, Tony Shipp and Tracy Viser.
For more information, call Davenport at 936.294.1317.
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COBA Renews AACSB Accreditation
SHSU’s College of Business Administration was one
of 19 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
accredited institutions to recently successfully complete
its maintenance of accreditation review in business.
"AACSB accreditation represents the highest achievement
for an educational institution involved in management education,"
said John J. Fernandes, president and chief executive officer
of AACSB International. "The faculties, deans, directors,
and administrative staffs of our newly accredited schools
are to be commended for their role in earning initial accreditation."
Along with the 19 accredited universities in the U.S. and
Canada to receive renewal of their accreditations, nine universities
from around the world earned accreditations this year, raising
the number of AACSB schools to 515 worldwide.
Less than 10 percent of schools worldwide have achieved this
designation, according to an AACSB press release.
Accreditation with AACSB International involves applicant
schools undergoing meticulous internal review, evaluation,
and adjustment -- a process that can take from three to seven
years. During this period, schools develop and implement a
plan intended to meet the 21 AACSB standards that ensure high
quality of management education.
"Earning AACSB accreditation requires a great deal of
dedication from the entire educational institution,"
said Jerry Trapnell, chief accreditation officer of AACSB
International. "Schools that go through the process not
only meet a multitude of standards of excellence, but also
make a commitment to continuous improvement. Every five years
they will be required to undergo a rigorous peer review to
maintain their accreditation."
The AACSB, founded in 1916 by a consortium of 17 business
schools, is the premier accrediting agency for bachelor's
degree, master's degree, and doctoral degree programs in business
administration and accounting.
The association also is the business education community's
professional development organization, conducting a wide array
of conference and seminar programs at various locations around
the world.
For a complete list of AACSB International accredited schools
visit http://www.aacsb.edu/accreditation/accreditedmembers.asp.
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Math Profs To Participate In
Conference Meetings
Three SHSU faculty members in the mathematics department
will serve as panelists and presenters for an estimated 4,600
mathematicians at an upcoming joint conference.
The Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical
Society and the Mathematical Association of America, which
will be held Jan. 12-15 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention
Center in San Antonio, will feature Jacqueline A. Jensen,
John W. Snow and Jon W. Short.
Jensen will serve as a panelist in the MAA-YMN panel discussion
"You have a job, now what? Professional Development Opportunities"
on Jan. 12.
Snow, an organizer of the AMS special session, will discuss
the “Many Lives of Lattice Theory,” the “Theory
of Ordered Sets,” and “Universal Algebra, I, II
and III,” on Jan. 13-14. He will also present "M-4
and Congruence Heredity" on Jan. 13 and a program with
the title of the book he co-authored, "Semilattices and
Congruence Heredity," also will be presented on Jan.
13.
A program on Short’s book, which he co-authored, entitled
"When Do Locally Isometric Topologies For The Real Numbers
Yield Isomorphic Topological Groups?" will be presented
on Jan. 15.
In addition to the AMS and MAA members, members from professional
societies such as the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
the Association for Women in Mathematics, the National Association
of Mathematicians, and the Association of Symbolic Logic will
also be in attendance.
The Joint Mathematics Meetings are held for the purpose of
advancing mathematical achievement, encouraging research,
and providing communication in the field. The meetings serve
to preserve, supplement, and utilize the research results
of mathematicians worldwide.
For more information, visit http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2095_intro.html.
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Jennifer Gauntt
Jan. 8, 2006
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