SHSU
Update For Week Of March 4
Workshop Series To Give
Career-Obtaining Skills
Career Services will assist in students’ transitions
from college life to the career world after graduation during
a workshop series beginning Tuesday (March 6).
“Our Spring Workshop Series will focus on developing
resume, interviewing and business etiquette skills,”
said Rachel Phelps, Career Services counselor. “You
will also learn tips on how to transfer the skills you have
learned as a student to skills that are crucial in the workforce.”
The series will kick off with a “Resume Writing Workshop”
on March 6, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., and an “Interviewing
Skills Workshop” from 10-11 a.m. on Wednesday.
Second resume and interviewing skills workshops will also
be held on March 20, from 3:30-4:30 p.m., and March 21, from
3-4 p.m.
Also part of the series, a “From Student to Professional
Workshop” will be held on April 3, from 9:30-10:30 a.m.,
and a “Business Etiquette Workshop,” from 10-11
a.m. on April 4.
Seating is limited, so participants are urged to come early.
All workshops will be held in the Career Services Library
and are provided for free for SHSU students and alumni.
Career Services is located at 919 Bearkat Blvd.
For more information, call 936.294.1713 or visit www.shsu.edu/careerservices.
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Campus To Spring Break
March 15-16
Sam Houston State University will join faculty and staff
on Spring Break with offices closing on March 15-16.
Spring Break will be held March 12-16 for all faculty and
students.
Residence Halls will close at 6 p.m. on March 9 and will reopen
at 2 p.m. on March 18.
Classes will resume March 19.
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Rec Sports To Help
Students Survive Spring Break
The Department of Recreational Sports’ wellness program
will put students in the mood for Spring Break with music,
door prizes and other give-aways on Wednesday (March 7).
Survivor Spring Break will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area.
Rec Sports will also disseminate information on how to stay
safe during the break, on such topics as self-defense, nutrition,
exercise, sun safety, alcohol and drugs and sexual protection.
“The purpose of Survivor Spring Break is to give students
the knowledge they need to prepare for a safe Spring Break,”
said Mindy Oden, assistant director for wellness programs.
“This same knowledge and information will benefit students
and employees for the rest of their lives, which is one of
our goals.”
For more information, call Oden at 936.294.1307.
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Student Seeks Family
Volunteers For Divorce Study
SHSU clinical psychology doctoral student Jessica R. Gurley
is seeking families with children between the ages of 6 and
12 who either have finalized a divorce or are in the process
of getting a divorce for her dissertation study.
“I am currently testing two treatment programs for families
of divorce,” Gurley said. “A main focus of these
programs is helping the children adapt to the changes; divorce
can be really tough for children and these programs were designed
to help children deal with their thoughts and feelings about
the divorce.”
“Another focus of these programs is to help the parents
help the children by teaching the parents things they can
do to make this time as easy as possible on the children and
themselves,” she said.
In order to participate, parents must have finalized a divorce
in the past 30 months or be in the process of a divorce.
Participants also much be a custodial parent, having the children
at least 50 percent of the time.
As a participant, volunteers will fill out a series of questionnaires
at different times in a three-month period, and in addition
to free treatment, families will be compensated by up to $50.
For more information, call Gurley
at 936.294.3376 and leave a message with your name and phone
number.
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Visitor Center Seeks
Saturdays@Sam Volunteers
The SHSU Visitor Center is seeking volunteers to help with
its campus preview day, "Saturdays @ Sam," which
will be held on March 24.
Volunteers are needed to greet students and parents, conduct
campus tours and assist with the many activities scheduled
for the day.
Interested students should attend one of the information/training
meetings in the Visitor and Alumni Center. Participants will
meet in the center’s lobby and will be directed to the
meeting room.
Meetings will be held on Tuesday (March 6) at 3:30 p.m., March
20 at 12:30 p.m. and March 21 at 5 p.m.
Volunteers can also earn community service credit.
For more information, call 936.294.4482 or e-mail shannonbearkat@shsu.edu.
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Physics To Show Students
Spring Skies, Orion
The physics department will continue its series of planetarium
showings by giving students, faculty and staff a glimpse of
the “Spring Skies and Orion” on Friday (March
9).
The series, which shows attendees which constellations, stars
and planets they can expect to see in the upcoming weeks,
will be held at 7 p.m. in the Planetarium, located in Farrington
Building Room F102.
The program, which began last semester, aims at increasing
public awareness and interest in the field of astronomy, according
to Michael Prokosch, staff aid for the physics department
and SHSU alumnus who also teaches elementary school at Lansberry
Elementary in Trinity.
“The turnout was excellent last semester, especially
the last day,” he said.
The show will last approximately one hour and will include
a tour of the winter constellations and the department’s
prearranged movie, "Orion," specifically formatted
for viewing on a dome-shaped screen.
The Planetarium, which seats up to 29 visitors, includes a
dome that is approximately 18 feet in diameter and more than
20 feet high in the center, Prokosch said.
“Essentially a time machine, the planetarium's projector
can show how the night sky appears to an observer at any point
in time from any place on the earth, from 100,000 years in
the past, to 100,000 years into the future,” he said.
The program also will be presented on April 13 and May 11,
at 7 p.m. on all three days. The remaining presentations will
essentially be the same, Prokosch said.
Admission is free, and if seating is full, a secondary show
may be given if time permits.
For more information on current show times for the Planetarium
or the Observatory, call 936.294.3664.
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Tech Professor To Discuss Social
Security
Andres J. Vargas, assistant professor of economics at Texas
Tech University, will present his paper, "The Effect
of Social Security Contributions of Wages: The Colombian Experience,"
on Thursday (March 8).
The lecture, part of the SHSU Economics and International
Business Spring 2007 Seminar Series, will be held at 2:30
p.m. in Smith-Hutson Building Room 139.
Vargas joined the economics faculty at Texas Tech in the fall
2006 after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin.
In his paper, Vargas estimates what fraction of social security
contributions employers pass on to workers in the form of
lower wages using the Colombian social security reform of
1993, which “transformed the institutional framework
for pension funds and health care provision,” according
to his abstract.
For more about the seminar, visit http://www.shsu.edu/~eco_www/resources/seminar_spring2007.htm.
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Faculty Concert To Feature
Bassoon
School of Music faculty members Scott Phillips and Jay Whatley
will perform pieces that span eras during the Faculty Bassoon
Recital on Monday (March 5).
Phillips, playing bassoon and accompanied by Whatley, a pianist,
will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Including music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and
20th Century eras, the concert will include Romeo Cascarino’s
“Sonata,” Alexandre Tansman’s “Sonatine,”
George Perle’s “Three Inventions for Solo Bassoon”
and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Concerto in B-flat
Major, K. 191,” among others.
“You may not be familiar with the lovely sounds of a
bassoon, but this recital will open your ears,” Phillips
said. “All of it will feature the singing qualities
and bouncy tones of the lowest woodwind instrument.”
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Graduate Choreographers Show
‘All Things Considered’
SHSU graduate dance students will present a variety of their
own pieces on Wednesday and Thursday for "All Things
Considered: A Graduate Choreography Concert."
The concert will be held at 8 p.m. in Academic Building III’s
Dance Theatre.
Both graduate and undergraduate dancers will perform styles
of dance ranging from modern to ballet to African to contemporary
and even Caribbean.
The featured works were choreographed by graduate students
Samantha Angus, Cheryl Callon, Melissa Diamond, Olney Edmondson,
Melissa Harvey, Megan Lasher, Courteny Mulcahy, Kyla Olson,
Heather Samuelson and Mary Zepeda.
Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the door.
For more information, call Zepeda
at 936.294.4195.
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Cheerleaders Sought For All-Girl
Squad
The SHSU all-girl cheerleading squad will host two remaining
workdays as it prepares to fill approximately 16-20 vacant
positions in April.
Anyone interested in trying out for the team can attend the
workdays on March 24 and April 14, from noon to 2 p.m. on
both days. The first workday was held March 3.
Workdays are optional and provide participants the opportunity
to get to know the coaches, current team members and practice
stunting, tumbling and other skills, according to cheer team
coach Raelynn Deaton, who is also a professor of biology.
In order to be a member of the squad, ladies must have previous
cheerleading or gymnastics experience, be able to stunt and
tumble. Cheerleaders must be able to do a standing backhandspring
and preferably a back tuck as well, though it isn’t
required.
The all-girl squad cheers at football, girl's basketball and
some men's basketball games, according to Deaton.
Team members also attend camp and practice twice a week during
the summer, as well as one additional workout on their own.
Tryouts for the team will be held on April 27, from 6-10 p.m.
and April 28, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information, contact Deaton at 936.294.1550 or rdeaton@shsu.edu.
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Group Teaches Fifth Graders
‘Fun’ Science
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| Approximately 50 area fifth graders
made GAK, looked at bones and insects and found out with
local plants were poisonous during the Tri Beta Biological
Society's Science Saturday on Feb. 18. |
Approximately 50 area fifth graders recently visited the
SHSU campus for the Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society’s
Science Saturday.
Volunteers from the Delta Tau chapter assisted students as
they visited four different labs in the Lee Drain Building
during the event, which was held on Feb. 18.
Among the activities students participated in included “Weird
Animals,” a comparative vertebrate anatomy lab where
students could see and touch the bones of different kinds
of birds, rodents, lizards and fish, and “GAK,”
a chemistry-based lab where students made GAK, a rubbery putty,
by using different non-toxic household chemicals.
The fifth graders also visited a “Botany” room,
where students learned about different plants native to the
Huntsville area, as well as which were poisonous, and made
a small flip book of all the different types; and the “Invertebrates
and Microscopes” lab, where students looked at insects
of all types, as well as slides and live protest specimen,
through microscopes.
Afterward, the students were served pizza in the LDB Atrium
and received raffle prizes.
“The purpose of Science Saturday is to get young students
involved and interested in the field of science, said Carlye
Schulte, public relations officer for the organization.
Tri-Beta hosts Science Saturday every spring.
For more information, contact Schulte at org_bbb@shsu.edu.
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McNair Scholars Present
In Denton
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| McNair Scholar Carlye Schulte was one
of two presenters from SHSU during the organization's
9th annual research conference on Feb. 17. |
Two students from the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate
Achievement Program recently presented their research during
the 9th Annual Texas National McNair Scholars Research Conference.
Spanish and criminal justice major San Juanita Garcia presented
on "The Decision-Making Process of Juvenile Probation
Officers: An Analysis of Probation Revocation" and biology
and chemistry major Carlye Schulte discussed "Research
Performed on Pentobarbital Withdrawal in Congenic Mice Strains
using c-Fos Immunohistochemistry" on Feb. 17 in Denton.
These research projects are similar to a master’s thesis
and are completed under the guidance of a faculty mentor,
according to McNair Scholars Program director Lydia C. Fox.
Garcia’s faculty mentor was Jennifer Schulenberg, assistant
professor of criminal justice, and Schulte’s faculy
mentor was Ted Brummel, assistant professor of biology.
In addition, five other McNair scholars attended the conference,
including Lyndsy Duet, Ashley Ligons, Nicole Lozano, Pete
Nunez and Candice Withrow.
McNair scholars receive a $1,600 research stipend, which is
disbursed in three amounts during the academic year and a
tuition waver for a three-hour spring research class.
For more information on the McNair program, call Fox
at 936.294.3264 or visit www.shsu.edu/~mcnair.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
March 4, 2007
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