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Week of November 7 - 13, 2005 Welcome to the Tower Topics E-newsletter for faculty, staff and students at Western. |
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Three Finalists for Provost Post to Visit Campus Three candidates for the position of provost and vice president for academic and student affairs have been invited to visit the Western campus for interviews. Dr. Daniel Hall from Hamilton, Ohio will visit on Nov. 7 and 8; Dr. Neil Mathews from Baton Rouge, La. will visit on Nov. 10 and 11, and Dr. Joseph Bragin from Huntington, W.Va. will visit on Nov. 14 and 15. A presentation will be given by each candidate that is open to the campus and community. The position became vacant in July when Dr. David Arnold resigned as Western’s vice president for academic and student affairs to accept the presidency at Eureka College in Eureka, Ill. Western’s Board of Governors made the changes in the position title to accurately reflect the duties. A search committee chaired by Dr. Phil Mullins, professor of philosophy, has been accepting applications, and the committee has recommended the finalists to Dr. James Scanlon, Western’s president, for consideration. Dr. Hall is currently the executive director of the Miami University of Ohio, Hamilton Campus. He holds the rank of tenured professor of political science at Miami University. He has also served as the chair of the department of criminal justice at the University of Toledo. Prior to that he held positions at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Hall is scheduled to make his public presentation titled “Perspectives on Higher Education” at 3 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the Kemper Recital Hall in Leah Spratt Hall. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers.
Dr. Mathews is currently the vice chancellor for student life and academic services at Louisiana State University. He has previously held department chair, dean and vice provost positions at LSU. He also served at the University of Connecticut and with the Connecticut State Department of Education. His public presentation, “Uniting Academic and Student Affairs in a Quality Learning Community,” will be at 2 p.m. on Nov. 10, also in the Kemper Recital Hall.
Dr. Bragin is professor of chemistry and recently completed a term as the dean of the College of Science at Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va. He previously held positions at the National Science Foundation while on leave from Cal State University, Los Angeles. At Cal State University he was associate dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences for 17 years. Dr. Bragin’s public presentation, “Educational and Administrative Philosophy and the Role of Provost,” will be made at 3 p.m. on Nov. 14, also in the Kemper Recital Hall. |
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Professor has Work Highlighted in NSF The work of Dr. Todd Eckdahl, professor of biology, and his colleagues from the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) was highlighted in the monthly National Science Foundation (NSF) newsletter to the U.S. Congress. Dr. Eckdahl served as laboratory coordinator for two three-day NSF workshops held at Morehouse College in Atlanta in August. In the workshop 43 faculty members from historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal colleges and universities, as well as Hispanic-serving institutions, learned to conduct and analyze DNA microarray experiments. Microarray technology is one of the hottest techniques in biological research, according to the NSF newsletter. The technology simultaneously measures the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes. The workshop was supported by a grant from the NFS, one of four grants totaling over $280,000 for which Dr. Eckdahl has served as coauthor and co-principal investigator with GCAT colleagues. Workshop instructors have also been invited to prepare an article for the prestigious publication Science magazine that will appear in January. The GCAT is composed of faculty from over 120 primarily undergraduate institutions. |
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Harmonizing melodies will once again fill Western's hallways and classrooms this summer. After a one-year hiatus, the Barbershop Harmony Society will return to Western for its annual convention. From July 30 to Aug. 6, 2006, between 600 and 700 members of barbershop quartets from throughout the United States and several foreign countries will gather on campus for “Harmony College.” The group plans to change the name to “Harmony University” to coincide with Western’s recent university designation. The Barbershop Harmony Society had held their convention on Western’s campus for 29 years, but decided to change locations in 2005. The Western Institute’s Conferences and Special Programs office was recently notified that they planned to return to Western in 2006. Dr. Chris Shove, executive director of the Western Institute, credits the recruiting efforts of Sue Meadows, Western conferences director, with the return of "Harmony." |
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Western's Psi Chi, a national honor society in psychology, inducted two new members Nov. 1: Brandy Renee Criss of Savannah, Mo.; and Ashleigh Hicks of St. Joseph. To be eligible for membership in Psi Chi, students must rank in the top 35 percent of their class and have at least a B average in psychology courses. At the ceremony, the 2005-06 chapter officers were also installed: Amanda O’Dell of Lansing, Mo., president; Erin Wilson of Overland Park, Kan., vice-president; Rachel Lyday of Orrick, Mo., secretary; and Alyssa Myers of Savannah, Mo., treasurer. The featured speaker of the ceremony was Dr. David Brown, director of the Western counseling center. Psi Chi was founded in 1929 at the Ninth International Congress for Psychology held at Yale University. Currently, there are more than 1,000 chapters in colleges and universities throughout the nation. The purpose of the society is to encourage, stimulate, and maintain excellence in scholarship and to advance the science of psychology.
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Western Football - Nov. 5 - Western 28, Washburn 21 in overtime Western Volleyball - Nov. 2 - Emporia State 3, Western 1 Western Soccer - Nov. 5 - Truman 5, Western 0 Women's Basketball - Nov. 6 - Texas Christian University 76, Western 62 |
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