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Volume 46, April 2010 Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic A airs 07 Fulbright Scholar, College of Fine Arts teaches viola and serves as a member of the Staff Accolades Board of Directors for the Stulberg International Caroline Gore , assistant professor of String Competition. Art and Metals/Jewelry area coordinator, was invited to present an exhibition titled Student Accolades “Site: Interventions, Observations, and Simulation” as part of the Society of North Dance major, American Goldsmiths conference program Chelsie Jackson , (BFA, at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas. 2010) extended her Caroline Gore, Frostic School of Art Assistant Exibition details are available at www. undergraduate course Chelsie Jackson (front) in Sharon Garber’s Shades of Professor and carolinegore.com/site_interventions. research for her senior Glass at the WMU Winter Gala Dance Concert Metals/Jewelry Area capstone project Coordinator Classical music recording label, NAXOS into a meaningful named Soviet Russian service-learning project. Jackson is collecting Viola Music by School of Music Professor, gently-used and new ballet-wear to donate to the Igor Fedotov . One of the new recordings new Institute of Dance in the city of Suleimaniya presents examples of virtually forgotten in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. In addition music written for viola by exceptionally to collecting attire and funds, Chelsie is working talented Russian/Soviet composers. with WMU associate professor of dance Sharon The stature of these composers and Garber to form a beginning ballet curriculum for their contribution the institute. Her project is designed to support the to Russian musical uni! cation of heritages and religions in the Kurdish life give this music region through ballet. The Institute of Dance its intrinsic value. in Suleimaniya is currently operating solely on The rediscovery and donations. Students are admitted to the Institute of recording of this Brooch by Caroline Gore, sourced from Dance in Suleimaniya on the basis of talent, not particular body of on Via della Bella Donne - Florence, Italy religion. This is an unusual practice in Iraq where Soviet music preserves (sterling silver, 24K gold) people of di erent religions have been ! ghting a part of Russian each other for hundreds of years. The city of Professor Igor Fedotov, cultural heritage and signi! cantly expands Suleimaniya is one of the most modern and progressive cities School of Music the viola repertoire. Dr. Fedotov, 2006- Continued on next page Table of Contents College of Arts and Sciences . .8 Extended University Programs . .6 College of Education & Human Development . .5 The Evaluation Center . 7 College of Engineering and Applied Sciences . 11 Graduate College . 14 College of Fine Arts . 1 Haenicke Institute for Global Education . 18 College of Health and Human Services. 2 Haworth College of Business . 16 Emeriti Council . .6 Offi ce of Faculty Development . .8 1 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs in Iraq. Chelsie sees the progressivism of Suleimaniya as fertile ground to develop dance as “a tool for peace.” To donate to the Upcoming Events Institute of Dance in Suleimaniya through Chelsie’s project, contact the WMU Department of Dance at (269) 387-5830. James Daniel , professor of Theatre, will direct “An Italian Straw Hat” by Eugene Labiche and Marc- Gabriel Craig (BFA, 2006) and Michelat (English version by Lynn and Amy Weiks (BFA, 2005) are currently Theodore Ho" man) at the Hope Summer serving as Artists in Residence at the Repertory Theatre in downtown Holland, Houston Center for Contemporary Mich. This classic and hilarious French Craft. Craig is the founding Editor of farce runs from July 9 to August 14 in the conceptualmetalsmithing.com, has DeWitt Theatre. For ticket information authored numerous magazine articles visit: www.hope.edu/ for American Craft, Metalsmith, and Fiber hsrt. Arts Magazine. He recently participated as a panelist at the symposium Making Meaning in the Marketplace, sponsored by Savannah College of Art and Design and Ballet Classes at the American Voices Unity Youth College the American Craft Council. Additionally his Performing Arts Academies in Erbil, Suleimaniya work was featured in the curated exhibition and Kirkuk. of Health “Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st century” at Ohio University where he was invited as a visiting and artist. Craig recently gave a lecture titled Altruism, Activism, James Daniel, WMU Professor of Theatre and the Moral Imperative in Craft at the Society of North Human Services American Goldsmiths. American College Theatre Festival regional ! nalist Crystal Staff Accolades Lucas-Perry (BFA, 2010) and her scene partner Louis Sallan In March 2010, Debra Lindstrom-Hazel , professor in (BFA, 2010) will be travelling to Washington to complete in the WMU Department of Occupational Therapy, and Karen the national Irene Ryan Competition beginning April 13. Perry Kafantaris, Michigan AARP Associate State Director for Livable and Sallan have also been awarded generous scholarships Communities, were presented with the AARP Member Value to the prestigious MFA program in performance at New York Innovation Award for their work in developing the Home University. Fit Program, a program that helps people over 65 evaluate whether their home “! ts them for a lifetime.” The award was Morgan Medor , a senior art history given by AARP’s national o# ce in Washington, D.C. in a virtual major, has been awarded a prestigious ceremony that connected Michigan’s AARP o# ce and o# ces Katzenberger Foundation Art History in eight other states, where other award recipients reside. Internship at the Smithsonian Institute in Lindstrom-Hazel and Kafantaris were awarded $10,000 to Washington DC. She is one of six art history further Home Fit for national dissemination. Home Fit was students in the country to win this paid initiated at the WMU College of Health and Human Services in summer internship for 2010. Morgan will October of 2009. Programs are planned for April in Okemos, be working at the Freer / Sackler Galleries Mich. and in May in Ann Arbor. OT assistive technology class with an expert arts conservationist on (5730) students are involved in the planning and presentations precise identi! cations of a large collection Morgan Medor, of Home Fit programs. Frostic School of Art, of Central Asian textile art. earns prestigious Dr. Carla Chase , assistant professor in the WMU internship at the Mary (Sieklucki) Murphy (BFA, 1986) Smithsonian Institute Occupational Therapy Department, has been named as WMU’s will be honored as dance educator of the in Washington D.C. alternate Institutional Representative to the Association year at the May 2010 Michigan Youth Arts for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). Dr. Donna Festival. Mary earned her BFA in Dance, Weinreich , associate professor, School of Social Work, is with Special Studies in Ballet and K-12 Teaching Certi! cation WMU’s Institutional Representative. Drs. Weinreich and Chase in Dance Education and Psychology from Western Michigan were program co-chairs of AGHE ‘s 36th Annual Meeting and University. She later received her MAT from Marygrove Educational Leadership Conference held in Reno Nevada College. She studied ballet with the late Jrgen Schneider, of March 4 through March 7 this year. WMU faculty interested the American Ballet Theatre, and Alonzo King of Alonzo King in gerontology and geriatrics are invited to contact Drs. Lines Ballet. While at WMU, Mary studied with modern dance Weinreich or Chase in order to develop campus-wide focus pioneers Erick Hawkins and Alwin Nikolais. Mary is currently and action in aging studies. AGHE is the international leader the Director of Dance for Livonia Public School’s Creative and Continued on next page Performing Arts (CAPA) program. 2 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs in advancing education on aging and is the only institutional Human Services. The center is intended to integrate faculty membership organization devoted primarily to gerontology talents to pursue external resources for quality research, better and geriatrics education. It has been in existence since 1974, train and prepare students, and partner with the community. and WMU was an inaugural member. AGHE’s mission is two- The proposal was approved by the Deans’ Council on March fold: 1) to advance gerontology and geriatrics education 23, 2010 and the Faculty Senate on March 26, 2010. in academic institutions; and 2) to provide leadership and support of gerontology and geriatrics education faculty and Recent honors, publications and presentations from students at education institutions. faculty members of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology include the following: A study conducted by interdisciplinary health sciences • Prof. Bharti Katbamna , Ph.D. will receive the doctoral program Associate Professor Dr. Kieran Fogarty , Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of with a team of researchers, has drawn attention from national Cincinnati Department Of Communication Sciences news web sites. The study article was written by Stephanie and Disorders in May this year. Krajnik, former Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science • Department Professor and Chair Dr. Ann Tyler Center student and current Aquinas College student. It was recently published the following: Ann A. Tyler & Toby ! rst published in The Journal of Pediatrics last year. The research Macrae (2010). Stimulability: Relationships