SHSU
Update For Week Of April 22
Reception To Officially
Open Visitor, Alumni Center
The Visitor Center and Alumni Relations offices will show
off their new home on Friday (April 27) during the Visitor
and Alumni Center grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony
at 4 p.m.
University president Jim Gaertner, Alumni Relations director
Charlie Vienne and Visitor Center director Joey Chandler will
speak at 4:30 p.m., when the ribbon cutting ceremony with
the Huntsville-Walker County Chamber of Commerce will be held.
The come-and-go reception, which will be held until 5:30 p.m.,
will include ice cream and other refreshments, music and an
appearance by Sammy the Bearkat.
In addition, the first 300 people will receive free gifts.
For more information, contact Maggie Collum, special events
coordinator for the President’s
Office, at mcollum@shsu.edu
or 936.294.3415.
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Rec Sports To Ante Up Poker
Walk
All bets are on as SHSU students, faculty and staff walk
across campus and stop by four department booths for the annual
Poker Walk on Wednesday (April 25), hosted by the Department
of Recreational Sports.
Participants will be ‘dealt’ in from 10:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area.
After stops at the Student Activities, the Counseling Center,
the University Wellness Committee, and the Office of the Vice
President of Student Services booths, participants will return
to the beginning, where their hands will be revealed.Prizes
will be awarded for the best team spirit, best hand and the
“Maverick Award.”
In addition, prizes such as T-shirts, mugs and SHSU apparel
will be raffled off.
For more information, call Tina
De Ases at 936.294.3658.
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Retirement Reception
To Be Held For Lukaszewski
This May, political science professor Witold Lukaszewski
will say goodbye to SHSU after 37 years of service.
In honor of his retirement, as well as his work at SHSU, the
political science department will host a reception for Lukaszewski
on Wednesday (April 25), from 3-4:30 p.m. in Austin Hall.
Lukaszewski, who taught on the topics of U.S. international
relations, foreign policy and central European and post-Soviet
area studies, was named a Piper Professor in 1992.
For more information, call the political
science department at 936.294.1457.
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Former ‘Country Campus’
To Receive Historical Marker
A ceremony to place a historical marker on the property
once owned by Sam Houston State University and known as the
Country Campus is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday (April 27).
The marker will commemorate the site as one of the first prisoner
of war camps built in the United States During World War II.
The event is sponsored by the Texas and Walker County historical
commissions.
The plaque that will be placed at 3299 Highway 19 reads: "Camp
Huntsville was one of the first prisoner of war (POW) camps
built in the U. S. during the war. On this site on September
18, 1942, construction was completed. Built to house 3,000
POWs, the camp had more than 400 buildings. The first POWs,
members of Germany's Afrika Korps, arrived in the spring of
1943. By October of that year the camp's population peaked
at 4840. As a large base POW camp it administered eight branch
camps.
“Late in the war, Huntsville's status changed and it
became a branch camp for Camp Hearne. In September 1945, the
camp's German POWs were sent to Camp Hearne in preparation
for the arrival of a small group of Japanese POWs before their
return to Japan.
"The camp closed on January 5, 1946. Later that year
the government transferred more than 800 acres and 405 buildings
to Sam Houston State Teachers College for use as a Country
Campus."
The property is now privately owned.
In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held at the Country
Campus Baptist Church.
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Roundtable To Discuss
Future Of Homeland Security
Executive director of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
Daniel Ostergaard will visit the SHSU campus on Monday (April
23) for the “Future Of Homeland Security Roundtable,”
sponsored by the Criminal Justice Center and the Institute
for the Study of Violent Groups.
The discussion will be held at 6 p.m. in the Beto Criminal
Justice Center’s Kerper Courtroom.
Moderated by the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups
director Daniel Mabrey, the discussion will also include Richard
Ward, associate vice president for Research and Special Programs
and former dean of the College of Criminal Justice; and Steve
Young, a clinical faculty member in CJ and ISVG associate
director for collection.
Ostergaad, who was appointed to his position on the advisory
council in July 2004, provided advice and recommendations
to the former and current secretary of Homeland Security,
Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff.
He has previously served as the liaison for Homeland Security
and Criminal Justice in Washington, D.C., for the executive
office of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the State of Florida.
He has also worked closely with other state and local governments
and private industry to create partnerships and share best
practices.
The discussion is open for all SHSU faculty, staff and students,
as well as members of the Huntsville community. Questions
and comments from the audience will be allowed at the end
of the program.
For more information, call 936.294.3317.
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Trade Commissioner To Discuss
US, Canadian Relations
Rod Johnson, consul and senior trade commissioner of Canada,
will discuss “U.S.-Canada Trade Relations” on
Tuesday (April 24).
The event, part of the College of Business Administration’s
Global Business Lecture Series and sponsored by the management
and marketing department, will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:15
p.m. in Smith-Hutson Business Building Room 186.
Johnson, who works for the Canadian Consulate General in Dallas,
joined the Trade Commissioner Service in 1972. The Trade Commissioner
Service is the foreign-service arm of Canada’s federal
Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce.
To date, he has served with the Canadian High Commission in
Wellington, New Zealand; the Canadian Embassy in Moscow; the
Canadian Consulate General in Los Angeles, Calif.; the Canadian
Embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia; and the Canadian Consulate
General in Düsseldorf, Germany; among others.
Johnson graduated with a B.S. in agricultural economics from
the University of Alberta.
For more information, contact Irfan Ahmed, in the management
and marketing department, at mgt_ixa@shsu.edu
or 936.294.1276.
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Professor To Discuss
Paper For Economics Seminar
Derek K. Kellenberg, assistant professor of economics at
Georgia Institute of Technology, will present his paper "An
Empirical Test of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis with Strategic
Environment and Trade Policy" on Thursday (April 26).
The lecture, part of the SHSU economics and international
business department’s Spring Seminar Series, will be
held at 2:30 p.m. in Smith-Hutson Business Building Room 133.
Kellenberg joined the Georgia Institute of Technology faculty
in the fall of 2004.
He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in economics
from the University of Colorado and his bachelor’s degree
from Willamette University, Salem, Ore.
Kellenberg’s specializations are in the fields of international
and environmental economics, with particular interests in
international environmental policy, the theory of multinational
firms and investment in public goods, according to his Web
site.
His two current lines of research are focused on the channels
through which infrastructure development influences domestic
industry, multinational investment decisions, and trade flows,
as well as developing empirical tests of the pollution haven
hypothesis.
For more information on the seminar, or to download a copy
of Kellenberg’s paper, visit http://www.shsu.edu/~eco_www/resources/seminar_spring2007.htm.
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Program To Honor Seniors,
Chairs With Ice Cream
The Elliott T. Bowers Honors Program will host a Honors Faculty
and Student Ice Cream Social on Tuesday (April 24).
The event, which will recognize seniors in the program as
well as honors thesis chairs, will be held from 1-3 p.m. in
Austin Hall.
The social is open for all faculty members.
For more information, or to RSVP, contact the Honors
Program office at 936.294.1477 or honors@shsu.edu.
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SHSU To Auction Property
April 28
SHSU will host a public auction on Saturday (April 28) beginning
at 8:30 a.m. at the property warehouse in the Sam South Complex,
at 2424 Sam Houston Ave.
Items will be sold, “as is, where is,” piece by
piece or in lots to the highest bidder.
Some auction items include office furniture, typewriters,
televisions, refrigerators, tables, fax machines, chairs,
file cabinets, copiers, bicycles, audio/visual equipment and
an ice machine, among many others.
In addition, a 2002 Ford Crown Victoria and 1992 Chevrolet
Lumina van will be auctioned off.
Vehicles can be removed the day of the sale if paid by cash,
or check with original current bank letter of credit guaranteeing
payment. Otherwise, vehicles will be held for 10 working days
to allow check clearance.
Cash or checks will be accepted with proper identification.
All items, except vehicles, must be removed after the sale
until 2 p.m. or 8 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m. the following
week.
For more information, call Wayne
Frosch at 936.294.1903 or 936.294.1908.
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Chemistry Awards
More Than 40 Scholarships
The chemistry department recognized its students during
its annual awards ceremony on April 17 in the first floor
and foyer of the Chemistry and Forensic Science Building.
Scholarship recipients included Krista Baldys, who received
the James C. Stallings Scholarship; Katie Rothlisberger, who
received the Ray E. Humphrey Scholarship; Stephanie Banuelos,
who received the Jeffrey E. Zagone Scholarship; Jessica Berry
and Jenna Sassie, who received Chemistry Alumni Scholarships;
Ashley Pipkin, who received the Jason L. Moore Scholarship;
and Steven Doss, who received the Undergraduate Award in Analytical
Chemistry.
Receiving chemistry academic scholarships were Victoria Alfaro,
Charity Béhérec, Allison Burns, Wei Chang, Jeneé
Farrar, John Fecco, David Gillaspie, Brittney Gonzalez, Amanda
Henneke, Jacob Jones, Shamah Lloyd, Kristen Mack, Garret Marek,
Sarah Martin, Ami Massenburg, Sharla Miles, Rebecca Montes,
Kathy Navasard, Trisha O’Bryon, Jennifer Quinton, Laurie
Raesz, Donald Ramirez, James Spurlin, Ranson Stillwell, Andelyn
Weyerman, Emily Young and Somiyeh Zalekian.
Receiving Robert A. Welch Fellowships for research to be conducted
this coming summer were Patricia Chapela, James Fox, Shannon
Gross, Christine Henry-Smith, Casie Jupe, Shamah Lloyd, Ami
Massenburg, Hudson Pace, Laurie Raesz, Sajini Randeniya, Michael
Towler and Emily Young.
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Chemistry Profs Present
At Waco Conference
Several SHSU chemistry faculty members attended the 110th
Texas Academy of Science Meeting held in Waco in March.
Benny E. Arney, Jr., presented two papers: “Photochemistry
of 2,2-dimethyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene oxide,” which
was co-authored by Tiffani Thompson, William Donaldson and
Rick C. White; and “Authentic sample preparations associated
with the photochemistry of indene oxides and dihydronaphthalene
oxides,” which was co-authored by Tiffani Thompson and
William Donaldson.
Paul A. Loeffler presented “Evaluation of nickel(II)
cation in the ammonia recovery process,” which was co-authored
by Mahesh Paladugu.
Finally, Darren L. Williams presented “Assignment of
the UV/VIS spectra of nitroanilines using electron density
difference maps,” which was co-authored by Bassam Alnasleh.
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April 20, 2007
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