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STAFF EXCELLENCE AWARDS

Dr. Scott Cutler

Thoara Collard

Dr. Scott Cutler and Thora Collard won the Staff Excellence Awards for 2006. Find out why by visiting Excellence.

Seeking All Campus Committees That Have Faculty

The Academic Senate office is attempting to identify all campus committees that include faculty. The Senate office would like to have information on those serving on a non-Senate committee that includes faculty that is not a School or Department committee. A final list will be published on the Senate Web site especially for new faculty to be aware of all campus service possibilities.

Phone 4-2801 or e-mail laurel.holmstrom@sonoma.edu for further information.

Fall Convocation Program Online

The program for Fall Convocation scheduled from 8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 18 is now available on the Senate Web site. The site is undergoing a renovation, so please use this direct link: http://www.sonoma.edu/
Senate/convocationf06.html.

Currently, the Convocation information is not linked from the Senate home page.

The President’s Barbeque for Faculty and Staff is set for
Noon-2 p.m. at the Arbor by the campus lakes area.

Church

SSU Shutterbugs Take Top Honors - GIS Site Administrator Mike Hearty's photo of his son Patrick in the Visitors Center of the Mormon Temple in Oakland won Best in Show in the amateur color photography competition recently at the Sonoma/Marin Fair. Also taking home awards was Alumni Coordinator Donna Francis. Her photo "Baffled Bovine" won a First Place, Best of Section, Award of Excellence in the category of Amateur Photography/Color, Domestic Animals.

Bovine

Global Sonoma Web Site Looking for International Photos

The SSU Global and International Education Initiative is in the process of creating a Web site to highlight those programs, research and classes at SSU that have a global or international focus. Organizer Suzanne Toczyski says it will be a kind of "virtual international center" for people surfing the web to learn more about the University or looking for international connections while they are here.

In order to make this Web site visually exciting, Toczyski is seeking digital photographs taken during study abroad or travel in another country to illustrate the site. To participate, send no more than three digital photos (only JPG or GIF format images no more than 100 kb in size) to suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu.

Include the following information for each photo: the name of the photographer, the approximate date the photo was taken (month and year if possible), the circumstances (study abroad in X, travel to Y), and a short identification of what the image contains.

For the initial version of the Web site, photos will be collected
until Aug. 21. Thereafter, new photos will be rotated as they are received and selected. "If you are heading to another country this summer or next fall, keep us in mind and choose your best three," says Toczyski.

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