SHSU
Update For Week Of May 7
Alumni To Take SHSU To The
Ballgame
SHSU students, faculty, staff and alumni will all receive
discounted rates when the Houston Astros take on the Minnesota
Twins during the Alumni Association’s Sam Houston State
University Night at Minute Maid Park.
The June 20 game will begin at 7:05 p.m.
The association will have chartered transportation to the
game departing from Bowers Stadium at 4 p.m. for $15 per person.
Club-level game seating and a pre-game reception are also
available through the association for $40 per person.
Food and drinks will be served at the pre-game reception,
which will begin at 6 p.m. on the first base side of the stadium
towards the end, near section 230, according to assistant
director for Alumni Relations Emily deMilliano.
Information for ordering half-price tickets for field boxes,
bullpen boxes, mezzanine and view deck I and II is available
by visiting http://alumni.shsu.edu/documents/SHSUNight_001.pdf.
To make reservations for the chartered bus or club-level seating
and pre-game reception, call 800.283.7478 or visit http://ww2.shsu.edu/alum02wp/.
The reservation deadline is June 6.
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CJ Professionals
To Discuss Leadership
Two representatives from the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice, the executive director for the Texas Juvenile Probation
Commission and the executive director for the Texas Commission
on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education will all
discuss leadership within their respective agencies during
the Correctional Management Institute of Texas’ Leadership
series on May 17.
The free, eight-hour training session will be held from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Hazel B. Kerper Courtroom, in the Beto
Criminal Justice Center.
Speakers slated for the day are Timothy Braaten, executive
director for the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
Standards and Education; Doug Dretke, director for the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice’s Correctional Institutions
Division; Vicki Spriggs, executive director for the Texas
Juvenile Probation Commission; and Carey Welebob, deputy director
for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Community
Justice Assistance Division.
Each speaker will discuss personal experiences and will hopefully
give participants new ideas for leadership within their agencies,
as well as ideas they can take back and implement in the field,
according to Christie Davidson, CMIT interim director.
The event is open to the public, as well as those affiliated
with probation and parole, law enforcement, TDCJ and the SHSU
College of Criminal Justice.
“One of our goals is to provide quality leadership programs
to the correction field, and we’re trying to expand
on our leadership trainings,” Davidson said.
Registration, which will be held at 7:45 a.m., is required
and can be done through the day of the event.
The Criminal Justice Center is located at Bobby K. Marks Drive
and Bearkat Boulevard, formerly Avenue I and 16th Street.
For more information, contact Amanda Bilnoski at bilnoski@shsu.edu
or Chris Kowalski at ckowlaski@shsu.edu
or call 936.294.1682.
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Physics Professor Receives
$70,000 Grant
Barry Friedman, professor of physics, has been awarded a
$70,000 grant under the Advanced Research Program funded by
the Texas Legislature and administered by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
During the next two years Friedman and his student assistants
will conduct “A Computational Study of Strongly Correlated
Electron States in High Landau Levels.”
Friedman said that it is difficult to predict how his study
of quantum Hall electron systems, in magnetic fields 10,000
times stronger than the earth’s magnetic field and at
temperatures 30,000 times lower than room temperature, will
be useful in the future.
One possibility is that such systems may be able to function
as topological quantum computers.
“A topological quantum computer has the capabilities
of an ‘ordinary’ quantum computer, in addition
possessing a strong robustness to noise,” he said.
“There are certain problems of practical interest, for
example in cryptography, that are solvable on a quantum computer
but are intractable on an ordinary computer no matter how
large the ordinary computer is.”
Friedman has received a previous Advanced Research Program
grant, as have several other members of the SHSU physics department.
The last two previously were by Russell Palma and Gan Liang,
both in 1999.
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Graduates’ Works To Be
Displayed In Gaddis Geeslin
Works from students who will graduate this May will be on
display in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery beginning Monday (May
8).
The Senior Exhibit, which will run through May 13, will include
a variety of types of art, including photography.
A reception, with refreshments, will be held in the gallery
after the commencement ceremony on Saturday (May 13). The
ceremony for the College of Arts and Sciences will be held
at 2 p.m.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery is located in Art Building F. Gallery
hours are Monday through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m.
For more information, call the art
department at 936.294.1315.
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Chemistry Awards
More Than 40 Scholarships
More than 40 students received scholarships from the chemistry
department during its annual awards ceremony on April 18.
Kara Marquez received the James C. Stallings Scholarship,
Ashley Standerfer received the Ray E. Humphrey Scholarship,
and Katie Rothlisberger received the Jeffrey E. Zagone Scholarship.
Chemistry academic scholarships were awarded to Cassandra
Atkin, Catherine Babcock, Krista Baldys, Charity Béhérec,
Jessica Berry, Derek Blaylock, Allison Burns, Whitney Damborsky,
Brittney Gonzalez, Amanda Henneke, Karl Kuklenz, Shamah Lloyd,
Rachael Malfer, Garret Marek, Kelley Matula, Rebecca Montes,
Kathy Navasard, Nancy Ortiz, Eloisa Pérez, Laurie Raesz,
Donald Ramirez, Jenna Sassie, Jamie Stanton, Ranson Stillwell
and Brittany Wilbert.
In addition, Robert A. Welch Fellowships, for research to
be conducted this coming summer, were given to Sridevi Anduri,
Stephanie Coleman, James Fox, Christine Henry-Smith, Daniela
Ide, Anna Leggett, Rachel Malfer, Kara Marquez, Sharla McCloskey,
Hudson Pace, Bala Pathem, Laurie Raesz, and Jamie Stanton.
The ceremony was held on the first floor and foyer of the
Chemistry and Forensic Science Building.
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Program, Department
Reward Student Research
Eleven graduate students recently were awarded for their
scholastic and research abilities during the 9th Annual University-Wide
Research Exchange in the SHSU Lowman Student Center.
Graduate student award winners included Ilung Yun, Jo Ann
Beken, John Williams, Rebecca Riley, Pamela Gray, Leila McDonald,
Josie Padilla, Enobong Inyang, Jennifer Tracy, Josie Trevino
and Ann Daniels, all of whom received $50 for giving the top
research presentations.
“Those in attendance expressed tremendous satisfaction
with the research exchange and the opportunity to learn about
student research topics from a variety of disciplines,”
said Rebecca Bustamante, educational leadership and counseling
visiting professor.
The research exchange, which was held this year on April 21,
was sponsored by the Center for Research and Doctoral Studies
in Educational Leadership, housed in the department of educational
leadership and counseling.
The center was established by department chair Beverly Irby
nine years ago as a means to encourage students to share their
innovative research projects with a larger audience.
The research exchange has grown considerably over the past
years, according to Bustamante.
This year’s attendance included master’s and doctoral
students from a wide variety of disciplines including community
college administration, criminal justice, biochemistry, counseling,
and school leadership among many others.
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International Students
Welcomed Into Strauss’ Home
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| Over 40 international students recently
dined at the home of Bernice Strauss, director of academic
support programs for the Student Advising and Mentoring
Center, as a time to meet and socialize. |
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center and the Office
of International Programs recently gave students a home-cooked
meal courtesy of Bernice Strauss, SAM Center director of academic
support programs.
Over 40 international students from more than a dozen countries
attended the dinner, which was held at Strauss’ home.
“The informality and sharing of home cooked food is
a wonderful way to welcome our increasing international community
of scholars,” Strauss said. “It provides an opportunity
to meet and socialize, but equally important, it serves as
a vehicle to acquaint students with all of the services available
at the SAM Center that support academic achievement.”
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Jennifer Gauntt
May 7, 2006
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