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Insider Vol. 8 No. 2 Spring 2007 Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU College of Arts and Sciences news College of Arts and Sciences Spring 2007 Insider Vol. 8 No. 2 Spring 2007 College of Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cas_news Part of the Education Commons WMU ScholarWorks Citation College of Arts & Sciences, "Insider Vol. 8 No. 2 Spring 2007" (2007). College of Arts and Sciences news. 10. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cas_news/10 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts and Sciences at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in College of Arts and Sciences news by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact wmu- [email protected]. Visit our website at www.wmich.edu/cas A Publication for Friends of the College of Arts and Sciences Spring 2007 • Vol. VIII, No. 2 FACULTY Tech Profile PROFILE 2 GeoWall brings learning to life 3 STUDENT PROFILE News and Events Graduate students in the news. 4 12 Bronco Biodiesel hits the streets. NAMES & FACES New Chemistry Building Opens Rave reviews from alumni, faculty and students. 6 11 Buy an Element Fund-raiser in progress. STAFF PROFILE 10 Tech Profile GEOWALL BRINGS LEARNING TO TWO FROM COLLEGE NAMED LIFE FOR GEOSCIENCES TEACHING EXCELLENCE WINNERS we are adding to our collection.” The GeoWall allows for students to actually see 3-D representations that would typically have to be imag- ined by the student. The GeoWall is an eight foot by six foot rear-projection passive stereo wall, which examines subsurface models in a 3-D environment. Images are projected onto the screen from separate projectors. The user wears ap- propriately polarized glasses, and can see the image in three dimensions. The GeoWall was introduced in a physical geology class during the fall 2006 semester when students first viewed the GeoWall to help them understand certain topics. GEOS 1000 students (from left) Megan Murray, Timothy Hiller and Cheryl Peters view 3-D “This really helped students to images of the Mars Rover Expedition. The GeoWall allows students to use stereo-pair images in understand tough Geosciences top- three dimensions to view the surface structure of mars. ics that revolve around a 3-D visual perspective such as plate tectonics, n the first day of class a multi-dimesional systems,” explains mineral structures, and more,” notes good visual imagination Christopher Jones, Geosciences Jones. “The next step this semester used to be a requirement graduate student and teaching assis- is to include the GeoWall within the Oat the Department of Geosciences tant. “The students have a hard time physical geology lecture and then ex- at Western Michigan University. It understanding and visualizing our 3- tend it to Earth studies classes to help used to be that students and profes- dimensional world using 2-D pictures students get a better visual of what is sors relied on the 2-D representations in classes and labs. We resolve these being discussed in class.” through maps and profiles that were issues by bringing the 3-D capabilities The future is here. Now, instead occasionally enhanced by physical into the classrooms. We now have in of relying on their student’s imagina- models. tions, faculty may use the GeoWall to Today, the The GeoWall is an eight foot by six foot rear- produce accurate visualization for the GeoWall, an projection passive stereo wall, which displays discussion. eight foot by six subsurface models in a 3-D environment. “Visualizing in 3-D is something foot rear-pro- that geoscientists are inherently good jection passive at, but this can prove difficult for stereo wall, is being used to visualize, place a series of 3-D pictures from the someone without that particular back- understand, interpret, and test three- surface of Mars taken from the Rover; ground. This is where the GeoWall dimensional geologic maps. a picture of the global distribution of comes in. I personally think that the “The GeoWall system provides earthquake centers throughout the GeoWall will help with the instruc- 3-D visualization that allows stu- globe; volcanoes; crystal structures, tion of all Geoscience courses,” adds dents to comprehend and understand and a live heart, all in 3-D. Every day Jones. 2 Faculty ProfileTWO FROM COLLEGE NAMED TEACHING EXCELLENCE WINNERS rs. Irma M. Lopez, field of African studies professor of Spanish, and is the creator and and Suhashni “Sushi” supervisor of WMU’s DDatta-Sandhu, associate professor study abroad program of political science, have received in Cape Town, South the WMU Alumni Association Africa. She teaches in Teaching Excellence Award. Lo- the area of interna- pez and Datta-Sandhu will be the tional and compara- first faculty members honored for tive politics, and her teaching since 2001, when the last offerings include a WMU Alumni Association Teach- popular course called ing Excellence Award was presented. Dr. Irma M. Lopez, professor of Spanish, and Dr. Suhashni Women in Develop- That program, which began in “Sushi” Datta-Sandhu, associate professor of political science, ing Countries. 1966, has extended the honor to have received the WMU Alumni Association Teaching Excellence A former student Award 131 faculty members. In 2006, the who has since gone on new program was launched and will to a career in film pro- honor up to three full-time faculty ing abroad for language study, and duction praised Datta- members each year. infuse in them an appreciation for Sandhu for her ability to “convert WMU Interim President Di- Mesoamerican cultures. the casual academic passerby” and ether H. Haenicke presented the A former student who has gone send him or her away “inspired, awards to Lopez and Datta-Sandhu. on to a doctoral program at Harvard enthralled, or otherwise changed for The teaching award carries a said the program changed his life the better” by taking her course. one-time cash prize of $2,000 and a and played a key role in the career “Dr. Datta-Sandhu has an subsequent increase in base salary. path he has chosen. uncanny enthusiasm, a flair for “These awards celebrate teach- “Her ability to communicate Socratic argument, a vast wealth of ing, which is the core mission of with students on many levels, knowledge and a genuine passion our University,” says Dr. Katherine generate and share enthusiasm for for what she teaches,” he wrote. “Dr. Joslin, professor of English, chair of the study of language and culture, Datta-Sandhu’s class was not about the awards committee and a 1997 and support students’ interests in in- regurgitating a curriculum; it was recipient of the Teaching Excellence terdisciplinary research is what truly about changing a local perspective Award. distinguishes her as an outstanding to a global one, and understanding Lopez, a faculty member since teacher and mentor,” the student our lives, relationships and notions 1994, is an expert on Mexican wrote. in the broader context of world and literature and Latin American Lopez earned her bachelor’s gender history.” women writers. She teaches a full degree from Weber State Univer- A native of Kenya, Datta-Sand- range of Spanish language and sity in 1987, her master’s from the hu first joined the WMU faculty in literature courses, with two-thirds University of Utah in 1989, and her 1970 as an instructor in the Col- of her teaching at the advanced doctoral degree from the University lege of General Studies. She earned level. Lopez, who directs WMU’s of Kansas in 1994. She was a teach- both her bachelor’s and master’s study abroad program in Queretaro, ing assistant at Kansas for five years degrees from WMU in 1969 and Mexico, also was praised for her before joining the WMU faculty. 1972, respectively, and her doctoral ability to engage students, overcome Datta-Sandhu, a faculty mem- degree from the University of Nai- any fears they have about travel- ber since 1970, is an expert in the robi in 1979. 3 Student Profiles STUDENT AMBASSADORS Student Ambassadors play a vital role in communi- cating the messages of the College of Arts and Sci- ences to students, parents, faculty, administrators and donors. Their role is to act as goodwill ambas- sadors on behalf of the College and the University. n the fall of 2006, the College of Arts and Sciences implemented PANTHER DENG its first-ever Student Ambassadors DUOT Iprogram. Students were selected from Panther Deng Duot nominations for their academic achieve- took an unorthodox ap- ments and social involvement at the proach to a typical stu- Student Ambassador Will Johnson (right) ponders the myster- University. Student Ambassadors rep- ies of astronomy at Major Excitement, the College of Arts and resent the College of Arts and Sciences dents’ chronological life. Sciences informational event for undergraduate students and at a variety of events, many targeted at He went back-packing parents. recruitment and retention. Among the through Sudan Africa first, events they attended this year were Ma- then began his academic University and double majoring in Biol- jor Excitement, Homecoming, Com- career. ogy and Biomedical Science. mUniverCity, Senior Visitation Day, Originally from Sudan, Africa, he “Today there has been a great and others. was forced to abandon his village of change in my life. I am progressing with Student Ambassadors play a vital Duk when a militia fighting for the my education, I live in a better place, role in communicating the messages Christian minority attacked and set the I feel safe and more secure than ever of the College of Arts and Sciences to village on fire. before.” students, parents, faculty, administra- “I was confused during the attack tors and donors.
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