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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 31, March 14, 2005 Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU 2004-2005, Volume 29 Grand Valley Forum, 1976- 3-14-2005 Grand Valley Forum, volume 029, number 31, March 14, 2005 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum29 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Grand Valley Forum, volume 029, number 31, March 14, 2005" (2005). 2004-2005, Volume 29. 31. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum29/31 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2004-2005, Volume 29 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~ .)'1, }10, ~J s: Ill ri :::r ..a. ~ N 0 0 UI A NEWSLETTER FOR THE GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY ••• Clark named new poet laureate for Grand Rapids The Grand Rapids Area Council for the Her new book, My Father on a Bicycle, two projects Humanities has named Patricia Clark as the includes some of her work supported by the with GVSU new poet laureate for the city of Grand grant. Included are poems with the setting of composer Rapids. She is the second person to be the Grand River, especially Riverside Park, as and jazz appointed to the two-year position. Clark is a a meditative landscape, discovering how "wis­ pianist Kurt professor in the Writing Department and the dom is moving water." Clark researched his­ Ellenberger. university's poet-in-residence. toric documents, photographs and diaries from the Van Andel Public Museum archives. "I wish that The council's board of directors appointed the in the public first poet laureate in 2003 to bring poetry to Other poems make a spiritual journey from the schools and the forefront of the city's cultural experience. Pacific Northwest forests of her childhood. libraries Goals for the poet laureate include stimulating They explore the themes of love, mortality, there would community dialogue and encouraging thought­ and loss in the setting of the natural world, as be days for ful writing and reading of poetry, which is in "the deserted road/impossible to find now, children of often under-represented to the public. overgrown and gone." In the outdoors, near all ages to rivers and on walks, the speaker in these lyri­ bring poems "Dr. Clark has an excellent publication history, a cal poems meditates on subjects she observes, to school, Patricia Clark remarkable record of community involvement, celebrates life, and explores memory. poems by and strong desire to increase public exposure to writers they have found," Clark said. "Then they poetry," said Cheryl Van Ti!, executive director During her term as poet laureate, Clark said could simply read the work out loud and enjoy of the Grand Rapids Area Council for the she is committed to working on further collab­ the poems, laugh , and appreciate the poems, Humanities. "She will ensure that our record of orations with cultural institutions in Grand rather than endlessly trying to analyze them ." successful poetry programming will continue to Rapids, between the community and Grand draw large and enthusiastic audiences." Valley, and with artists who work in different Clark will launch her new book on Monday, areas. She has worked with her husband, Stan March 21, during a noon reading, booksigning Clark was also the recipient of a Creative Krohmer, a GVSU liberal studies faculty and reception in the Van Solkema Recital Hall , Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan for 2003. member, on several commissions as well as Performing Arts Center. ···-------------------------- Across Campus Winter construction 'Hamlet' highlights Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare's most famous work, "The Tragedy of Hamlet," will highlight Grand Valley's 2005 Shakespeare Festival. Stage director and communications professor Roger Ellis said the play, not performed in the area since 1977, will be set in classic Renaissance style. General auditions for the play are scheduled for April 15-17; actors' union auditions will be April 4 in Chicago. Hamlet will be performed September 30-October 9. Helping Ellis stage the play are artisans with lengthy backgrounds in Shakespeare performances, including Jill Dole Hamilton (costumes) and Alfred Sheffield (scenography and lighting). Jim Bell, resident play­ wright with Grand Valley's theater program, will serve as dramaturg on the production , a post he's held at several professional theaters. Photo by Bernadine Carey-Tucker Preparing the script is also a big job, Ellis said, since the play is one of Construction continues on the new academic building, which will be Shakespeare's longest. named Lake Ontario Hall, at the south end of the Allendale Campus. Construction is expected to be complete by August. continued on page 2 GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY 2 Forum I March 14, 2005 Across Campus continued from page 1 Family Owned Business Institute "I've been working with friends from the Atlanta, Shenandoah and creates scholars program Alabama Shakespeare festivals on different versions of the script that they've used," he said. "And also in preparing study guides for our youth Grand Valley's Family Owned Business Institute created a Research audiences." Scholars Program to encourage faculty to conduct high quality research with an emphasis on family business issues. Three special midweek matinees are also scheduled for nearly 1,500 mid­ dle and high school students who regularly attend Festival productions The institute is currently accepting proposals for the 2005 Research each season. Scholars Program. Four grants will be awarded in 2005; each winning proposal will have a stipend of $5,000. The submission deadline is WGVU programming manager April 6. For more information, visit fobi .gvsu.edu, or send an e-mail to [email protected]. receives Silver Circle Award The Research Scholars Program has been offered for the past four years to Carrie Corbin, programming manager fund a variety of research projects. The faculty and researchers who at WGVU, was inducted into the received this award in 2004 were Sharon M. Danes, University of Silver Circle by the National Minnesota; Patricia and Paul Frishkoff, Leadership in Family Enterprise; Academy of Arts and Sciences in late Vipin Gupta, GVSU; Ashok Kumar, GVSU; and Hari Singh, GVSU. February. Recipients in 2003 were Sid Barton, University of Cincinnati; Glen Corbin was honored for her more than Kreiner, University of Cincinnati; Chamu Sundaramurthy, University of 25 years of service and leadership in Cincinnati; and Jim Lee, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. television broadcasting. She joins Chuck Furman, WGVU's assistant general manager - community rela­ tions, who was inducted last year. What's Ahead Carrie Corbin She joined WGVU's staff in 1980. Concert features From 2000-02, she served as chair of the Michigan Programmers' Group. She was elected to the board of directors of the Public Television national trumpet finalists Programmers' Association in 2001 and was recently named its recording secretary. She is also a member of the association's executive committee. The National Trumpet Competition accepted four Grand Valley stu­ dents to compete in the College Solo Competition. Also, both Grand As programming manager, Corbin is responsible for compiling the pro­ Valley Trumpet Ensembles will compete in the NTC Ensemble gram schedule for WGVU each month, keeping that schedule current, as Competition. well as for helping to create the effective programming schedules for all of WGVU-TV's membership drives. An evening of music from the studio of Professor Richard Stoelzel today will feature students as they prepare for competition. The concert She graduated from Iowa State University of Science and Technology in will begin at 8 p.m. in the Sherman Van Solkema Recital Hall , 1969 with a bachelor's degree in child development- elementary educa­ Performing Arts Center. Call x 13484 for more information. tion, and received a master's degree from La Verne University in 1974. She began working in public television in 1977. What's Ahead continues on page 3 • •• FORUM Community collaboration helps medical innovation Volume 29, Number 31 The GVSU Forum is published by the News Grand Valley continues to fulfill its role as a Elkins hopes to provide this prosthesis to the and Information Services Office every regional economic development partner through tens of thousands of people who are confronted Monday when classes are in session and assistance to a new medical device research and with the loss of an upper extremity, either through biweekly during the summer. The submis­ development small business. Elkins Innovations is birth defect, injury, or disease. The research is sion deadline is Tuesday noon. Send publica­ working with the West Michigan Science and supported by a $100,000 grant from the National tion items to Michele Coffill , editor, c/o Technology Initiative at GVSU to bring an innova­ Institute of Health's Small Business Innovation [email protected]. Telephone: 616-331 -2221 . tive new prosthesis to the market. Research program. Fax: 616-331-2250. Faculty and staff members can find an online Elkins Innovations is conducting research into a Once this concept phase is completed in about six "Sketches" submission form on the Web at prosthesis capable of multiple movements con­ months, the project will concentrate on the refine­ www.gvsu.edu/online/forum/form .html . trolled by a wireless electromechanical controller. ment of the artificial hand, the foot control, and Grand Valley State University is an affirmative evaluation tools; as well as, the manufacture of action/equal opportunity institution. Grand Rapids inventor Jeff Elkins developed the hand and foot control devices for clinical trials. concept and worked on a prototype with the Small Business and Technology Development Center, The company is housed at Grand Valley's West Visit GVNow, Grand Valley's daily online pub­ which is also housed at Grand Valley.
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