Professional Announcements

8/22/05

Sarah Baker, English and Music, presented an essay, "Exploring the Wild Voice: The Value of Song in Between the Acts", to the 15th annual conference on Virginia Woolf at Lewis and Clark College, Portland Oregon, June 9-12. A panel discussion on music in Woolf's fiction followed the presentation. Baker completed her Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Studies in October, 2004.

An article by William Babula, English, "The Taming of the Shrew and the New Historicism," appears in Vol. 4, 2004, in the Journal of the Wooden O Symposium sponsored by the Utah Shakespearean Festival and Southern Utah University.

Carolyn Epple, Anthropology, and Laurel Holmstrom, Academic Senate Analyst, were interviewed on KRCB's OutBeat Salon on Aug. 7 about the success of the Queer Studies Student Research Conference which took place at SSU June 23 and 24. Holmstrom and Epple were co-coordinators of the conference.

Myrna L. Goodman, Sociology, was one of 19 scholars selected to participate in the 2005 Silberman Seminar for University Faculty, sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington D.C. from June 8 to 17. The 2005 Silberman Seminar was designed for university faculty teaching or preparing to teach Holocaust-related courses in the social sciences and is the seventh in a series of annual summer seminars focusing on strengthening Holocaust teaching at the college and university level. Participants benefited from intensive sessions with leading scholars in the field of Holocaust studies and also shared their own teaching experiences and interdisciplinary expertise with one another.

Scott Wells of the dance faculty recently received an Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Choreography in San Francisco. He also was selected by Dance Magazine as "one of the 25 to watch in 2005." Scott directs a dance company in San Francisco in addition to teaching at SSU.

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Jean Wasp