MAR. 16: SPRING BREAK BEGINS MAR. 17: 2015 FALL SCHEDULE POSTED MAR. 23: CLASSES RESUME MAR. 23: SUMMER REGISTRATION BEGINS MAR. 30: 2015 FALL REGISTRATION OPENS APR. 27: LAST DAY OF CLASSES APR. 28-29: READING DAYS APR. 30-MAY 7: FINALS MAY 9: COMMENCEMENT IMPORTANT DATES STUDENT SERVICES Graduate School Staff Changes Pg. 2 Student Services Pg. 3 2014 Chapman Travel Grant Recipients Pg. 4 Update on Goldie’s Adventures Pg. 8 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION Research Colloquium Information Pg. 9 Appreciation Week Calendar Pg. 10 DEPARTMENT NEWS Arts & Sciences Pg. 11 Business Administration Pg. 14 Engineering & Natural Sciences Pg. 17 TU adds College of Health Sciences The University of Tulsa was excited to announce the latest addition to our colleges: The College of Health Sciences. This new college will begin operations on Jan. 1, 2015, under the leadership of a dean and vice president for health sciences. The University of Tulsa is creating a College of Health Sciences to further opportunities for our students and faculty while improving the wellbeing of residents in our community. "The formation of a College of Health Sciences affords The University of Tulsa with new opportunities for student and faculty recruitment, research and interdisciplinary programs," TU President Steadman Upham said. "More im- portantly, this new college increases our ability to contribute to improved health and wellness across Tulsa — and, in fact, Oklahoma — where the medical field is in constant need of highly skilled professionals." The College of Health Sciences will bring together several existing TU programs, including nursing, physician assis- tant, athletic training, exercise and sports science, and communication disorders. Additionally, the new college will house TU's faculty of community medicine and advance our strong partnership with the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. The University of Tulsa currently is home to three undergraduate colleges: Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sci- ences, Collins College of Business, and College of Engineering and Natural Sciences. TU also offers programs for students seeking master's or doctoral degrees through the Graduate School and a top 100 legal education through our College of Law. VOL. 9 ISSUE 1 GRADUATE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER MARCH 2, 2015
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MAR. 16: SPRING BREAK BEGINS MAR. 17: 2015 FALL SCHEDULE POSTED MAR. 23: CLASSES RESUME
MAR. 23: SUMMER REGISTRATION BEGINS MAR. 30: 2015 FALL REGISTRATION OPENS
APR. 27: LAST DAY OF CLASSES
APR. 28-29: READING DAYS
APR. 30-MAY 7: FINALS
MAY 9: COMMENCEMENT
IMPORTANT DATES STUDENT SERVICES Graduate School Staff Changes Pg. 2 Student Services Pg. 3 2014 Chapman Travel Grant Recipients Pg. 4 Update on Goldie’s Adventures Pg. 8 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION Research Colloquium Information Pg. 9 Appreciation Week Calendar Pg. 10 DEPARTMENT NEWS Arts & Sciences Pg. 11 Business Administration Pg. 14 Engineering & Natural Sciences Pg. 17
TU adds College of Health Sciences The University of Tulsa was excited to announce the latest addition to our colleges: The College of Health Sciences. This new college will begin operations on Jan. 1, 2015, under the leadership of a dean and vice president for health sciences. The University of Tulsa is creating a College of Health Sciences to further opportunities for our students and faculty while improving the wellbeing of residents in our community. "The formation of a College of Health Sciences affords The University of Tulsa with new opportunities for student and faculty recruitment, research and interdisciplinary programs," TU President Steadman Upham said. "More im-portantly, this new college increases our ability to contribute to improved health and wellness across Tulsa — and, in fact, Oklahoma — where the medical field is in constant need of highly skilled professionals." The College of Health Sciences will bring together several existing TU programs, including nursing, physician assis-tant, athletic training, exercise and sports science, and communication disorders. Additionally, the new college will house TU's faculty of community medicine and advance our strong partnership with the Laureate Institute for Brain Research.
The University of Tulsa currently is home to three undergraduate colleges: Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sci-ences, Collins College of Business, and College of Engineering and Natural Sciences. TU also offers programs for students seeking master's or doctoral degrees through the Graduate School and a top 100 legal education through our College of Law.
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PAGE 2 STUDENT SERVICES NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015
Anita Khan was a graduate of Union Public Schools in 2003. In August of 2003, she attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Ok where she earned her Bachelors in Psychol-ogy. After graduating with her Bachelors, Anita decided to pursue her Masters in International Relations with a focus of Human Development, Society and Education. Anita is able to speak many languages and has connected with many stu-dents from different parts of the world and we feel this abil-ity is invaluable to our Graduate School! “It’s been an exciting but somewhat tumultuous journey for me. I am ecstatic to finally be a part of something that is so monumental in changing lives and to be a part of the TU family, I cannot wait to see where the future takes me! I val-ue education so much because this is the very reason why my father immigrated to this country. Ironically, he attend-ed TU over 35 years ago in hopes of a better future for his family and him. So to be at TU is exciting!” Michelle Easley is a native South Dakotan and moved to Tulsa about 30 years ago and fell in love with the city. Michelle graduated from Southern Illinois University in Car-bondale, IL with an associates degree in Legal Studies. When she moved to Tulsa, she began her career at Connor
and Winters Law Firm for eight years. She then moved onto KPMG as a Business Analyst and her office was out of New York. She travelled internationally jet setting from New York to Paris, Berlin and Vienna! After 14 years with the company, she was ready for a change. When she began at TU, she works closely with Dean Haggerty and when asked what she enjoys about her job she says, “I like working with the students and am amazed at how they come from all over the world seeking the highest degrees and can do it in a foreign language!” Both Anita and Michelle are great resources for questions regarding things that take place in the Graduate School. You can reach the Graduate School at 618-631-2336.
2015-2016 Bellwether Fellowship Winners Announced College of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Jatin Agarwal (Petroleum Eng.) Lida Baghemejad (Chemistry) Maryam Fahar (Mechanical Eng.) Feyza Hafizoglu (Computer Science) Stacey Hannebaum (Biology) Indumini Jayasekara (Chemistry) Kristopher Keane (Biology) Xin Liu (Petroleum Eng.) Daya Marasini (Biology) Jessica Myers (Biology) Jeyasingam Nivethan (Comp. Science) Mark Poyner (Chemistry) Rashmi Prava Mohanty (Biology) Bahareh Rahmani (Comp. Science) Duc Huu Vuong (Petroleum Eng.) Soumya Yadala (Chemical Eng.) Feifei Zhang (Petroleum Eng.
Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences: Miram Abu Daqqa (English) Melissa Antonucci (English) Jami Barnett (English) Cameron Brown (I/O Psychology) David Chandler (English) Susan Drevo (Clinical Psych) Kent Emerson (English) Sungjin Jang (English) Emily Kaier (Clinical Psych) Kara Lynn Kerr (Clinical Psych) Namik Kirlic (Clinical Psych) Omer Kazmi (English) Ashley Louie (Clinical Psych) Alicia Odewale (Anthropology) Ashley Schoppe (English) Lindi Smith (English) Benjamin Walser (I/O Psychology) Kate Williams (English)
Staff Changes in the Graduate School Slight personnel changes have occurred in the Graduate School since our last issue printed. The position of Graduate Re-cruiter and Student Services has been filled by our newest hire, Anita Khan and the position of Administrative Assistant has been filled by Michelle Easley. They both play an integral role in the Graduate School and are thrilled they are with us.
Anita Khan Michelle Easley
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LIFE SKILLS WORKSHOP SERIES Cross Disciplinary Presentation Skills March 4th, 20155
You are invited to attend this workshop designed especially for the Graduate Student in today’s world.
Cross-Disciplinary Presentation Skills Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
ACSU, Choteau and Alcove, 2nd Floor 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
*To reserve your seat, please call the Graduate School at 918-631-2336, toll free 1-800-882-4723, come by the office in Lorton Hall, room 201 or email [email protected]*
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MASTER STUDENT AWARDS
Bryant, William. “Which Domain of the PSY-5-RF is Most Related to Substance Use?” MMPI Workshops & Symposi-ums (Scottsdale, AZ-April 2014)
Curtis, Shane. “Third Par ty Violation of Justice and Interpersonal Trust in Dyads.” Society for Industr ial and Or-ganizational Psychology Annual Conference. (Honolulu, HI-May 2014)
Elliott, Megan. “Identification of Novel Proteasome Inhibitors from an Enaminone Library.” ACS National Meet-ing (Dallas, TX-March 2014)
Martell, Michael. “Multipor t Modeling of Force and Displacement in Elastic.” 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Con-ference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (Chicago, IL-September 2014)
Mehrabi, Mehran. “Compar ison of Dynamic Loading of Light Weight and Steel Dr ill pipes Dur ing Tr ipping Oper -ations.” International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (San Francisco, CA-June 2014)
Trotter, Cassie. “Redeeming Selfishness: Selfness in Ir is Murdoch vs Selfhood in Walker Percy.” College English Association Annual Conference (Baltimore, MD-March 2014).
Vasquez, Ludivina. “Transmitting Trauma Across Generations: Defining a Construct and Multiple Mechanisms." International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Miami, FL-November 2014)
White, Barrie. “The Externalizing Spectrum Inventory Validation: Substance Abuse Subscales and MMPI-2-RF Externalizing Scales.” Society for Personality Assessment 2014 Annual Convention (Arlington, VA-March 2014)
Williamson, Amelia. “A Blue Dream; A Dream I was Dreaming’: Consciousness, Nar rative, and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” MELUS Conference & Ralph Ellison Centennial Symposium (OKC, OK-March 2014)
Yang, Yalin. “Different Age. Different Teaching.” Society for Research in Human Development 19th Biennial Con-ference (Austin, TX-March 2014)
Zanotti, Danielle. “Family Deployment Preparedness, Reintegration Exper iences, and PTSD Symptoms in Military Fathers with Young Children.” International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Miami, FL November 2014)
Zwierko, Beth. “Does Weekend Communication Recover Employees’ Self-regulatory Resources?” Society for Indus-trial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference. (Honolulu, HI-May 2014)
2014 Chapman Graduate Scholar Grant Recipients
DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARDS Arabnejad Khanouki, Hadi. “Calculation of Turbulent Boundary Layer for a Slot Jet Impingement on a Flat Surface.” ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (Chicago, IL-August 2014) Chen, Yuanhang. “Model for Transient Circulating Mud Temperature in the Event of Lost Circulation and its Application in Mapping Loss Zones.” 33rd International Conference on Ocean Offshore and Arctic Engineering (San Francisco, CA-June 2014)
Dokhani, Vahid. “The Effects of Moisture Transpor t on Wellbore Stability in Shale Formations.” US Rock Me-chanics/Geomechanics Symposium (Minneapolis, MN-June 2014)
Emerson, Kent. “Melvin Tolson’s Har lem Gallery: Rethinking Afr ican Amer ican Identity.” Modernist Studies Association (Pittsburg, PA-November 2014) Fahar, Maryam. “Exper imental and Numer ical Investigation of the Effect of Viscosity and par ticle Size on the Erosion Damage caused by solid Particles.” ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (Seattle, WA-June 2014) Gibson, Megan. “Lydia’s Seduction: Reinterpreting Female Sexual Agency in Jane Austen’s Pr ide and Preju-dice.” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (Knoxville, TN-February 2014)
Habig, Stewart. “Old Luze ain’t been nowhere’: Mapping Cultural Geographies in Alber t Murray’s Train Whis-tle Guitar.” MELUS Conference (OKC, OK--March 2014)
Habig, Stewart. “Finding Our Way in Edward P. Jones’s City.” Amer ican Literature Association (Washington DC-May 2014)
Hudson, Linda. “I Said I Won Not Tamed’: Constructing the Femaile Role Model in Mar ia Edgewor th’s Belin-da.” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (Knoxville, TN-February 2014)
James, Spencer. “Self-Consistent Calculations of the Interactions Between Drift Wave Turbulence and the Tearing Mode.” 2014 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference (San Diego, CA-April 2014)
King, Susan. “Assessment of Genetic Diversity and Differentiation in Populations of Blanchard’s Cr icket Frogs Within and Among Urban and Rural Wetlands in Northeastern Oklahoma.” 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (Chattanooga, TN-July 2014)
Koduri, Naga. “Synthesis of Enaminones Via Copper Carbenoid Chemistry.” 247th ACS National Meeting (Dallas, TX-March 2014)
Lau, Lily. “Detection of Coached Neuropsychological Dysfunction: An Exper iment Regarding Mild Closed Head Injury.” International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA-February 2014)
Liu, Yingdi. “Atomic-Scale Mechanism of Incorporation of Carbon Dioxide in Coal.” 2014 APS March Meeting (Denver, CO-March 2014)
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Doctoral Student Awards Continued
Mannicci, Holly. “Jean Rhys: Developing More than Silhouette of the ‘Luminous Halo’ of Modernist Women Writers.” Modernist Studies Association 16: Confluence and Division (Pittsburg, PA-November 2014) Mansouri, Amir. “Exper imental and Numer ical Investigation of the Effect of Viscosity and par ticle Size on the Erosion Damage caused by Solid Particles.” ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (Chicago, IL August 2014)
Marasini, Daya. “PFGE as a Way to Screen for Large Plasmids in Campylobacter spp. Isolated from Var ious Retail Meats.” ASM 2014 Annual General Meeting (Boston, MA-May 2014)
Micol, Rachel. “Treatment Outcome Between Exposure, Relaxation, & Rescr ipting Therapy (ERRT) with an Active Control Treatment.” American Psychological Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC-August 2014) Miller, Ashley. “A Compar ison of the WMS Rarely Missed Index to the WAIS Reliable Digit Span in Depressed Inpatients.” International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA-February 2014)
Miller, Katherine. “Nightmare Treatment in Special Populations.” Amer ican Psychological Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC-August 2014) Miller, Katherine. " The Impact of Childhood Trauma of Treatment Outcomes among Individuals with Complex Trauma Histories" and "Are Disclosures of Childhood Traumatic Events Less Believable than Medical Problems?" In-ternational Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 30th Annual Conference (Miami, FL-November 2014) Mraz, Veronica. “Across the Landscape: An Examination of Environmental and Cultural Changes Through Analysis of Late Prehistoric Lithic Assemblages from North-Central Oklahoma.” Annual Society for American Archae-ology (Austin, TX-April 2014)
Overstreet, Samantha. “Lessons in Psychometr ics from the MMPI-2-RF Part 2– Removing Demoralization: Are we Measuring Disorders or Traits?” 40th Annual MMPI Symposium (Scottsdale, AZ-April 2014)
Parker, Kelsey. “The Influence of Occupational Intimidation on Journalists’ Attitudes and Per formance.” Socie-ty for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference (Honolulu, HI-May 2014)
Phillips, John. “Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics of Troglobitic Salamanders” Society of Integrative and Comparative Biologists (Austin, TX January 2014) Phillips, John. “Evolution of the Troglobitic Salamander , Eurycea Spelaea.” Evolution 2014 Conference (Raleigh, NC-June 2014) Puhl, Maria. “L1– Regularized Regression Modeling of Functional Connectivity.” International Conference on Inte-gral Methods in Science and Eng. (Karlsruhe, Germany-July 2014) Ridout, Mark. “With what’s unreal thou coactive ar t”: Gender and the Forces of Illusion in The W inter’s Tale and The Tempest.” Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference (Columbus, OH-October 2014) Scholl, James. “Treating Trauma-Related Nightmares and Insomnia in Children, Adults, and Special Populations.” American Psychological Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC-August 2014)
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Doctoral Student Awards Continued Simonet, Daniel. “Pleasure Working With You: Personality, Stress, and Satisfaction in Teams.” Society for In-dustrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference (Honolulu, HI-May 2014) Slesinger, Ryan. “Adopting the Method of Nature’: Henry David Thoreau and John Joseph Matthews as Spir -itual Stewards of the Land.” Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (Concord, MA-July 2014) Smith, Lindi. “What will now be our fate seems very uncer tain’: Lady Sale and the Myster ies of Afghanistan 1841-42.” 2014 Victorians Institute Conference (Charlotte, NC-October 2014) Soepyan, Frits. “The Use of Single Continuous-Phase Solids Transport Models for Near-Horizontal Stratified Liquid/Gas Glow.” 9th North American Conference of Multiphase Technology (Banff, Alberta Canada-June 2014) Steffen, Michael. “Pheromone Evolution in Dusky Salamanders.” Evolution 2014 Conference (Raleigh, NC-June 2014) Tabke, Chelsea. “Childhood Trauma PTSD, and Depression: Effectiveness of a Pr ison Diversion Program Us-ing a Sample of Substance Abusing Women.” International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Miami, FL-November 2014) Walser, Benjamin. “Career Interests and Emotional Intelligence of Adults With Asperger ’s Syndrome.” Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference (Honolulu, HI-May 2014) Yadala, Soumya. “Design of Raceway Ponds for the Production of Algae Biomass.” AIChE Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA-November 2014) Zhang, Feifei. “Application of Real Time Solid Monitor ing in Annulus Pressure Control and Managed Pressure Drilling.” AADE 2014 National Technical Conference & Exhibition (Houston, TX-April 2014) Zhang, Feifei. “ Pressure Loss in Annulus: Solids are Playing Significant Role.” International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (San Francisco, CA-June 2014) Zhu, Jianjun. “CFD Simulation of ESP Per formance and Bubble Size Estimation Under Gassy Conditions.” So-ciety of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (Amsterdam, The Netherlands-October 2014)
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PAGE 8 STUDENT SERVICES NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015
The University of Tulsa's much-loved canine ambassador, Goldie, turned 1 year old on Friday, March 21, 2014.
Goldie serves as a connection between the university and the community. In addition to delighting students and alumni at athletic events and scholarly activities, she is trained as a therapy dog to visit nursing homes, libraries and hospitals. More recently, Goldie and her TU family have taken an active role in promoting responsi-ble pet ownership and the adoption of homeless animals in our community.
"Tulsa has given Goldie such a warm reception during her first year on campus, and we wanted to pay forward the kindness she has received," said Kayla Acebo, TU's vice president of institutional advancement. "What bet-ter way to celebrate than to help our four-legged friends at Tulsa Animal Welfare?"
Last February, Goldie’s handlers decided it was time for her to be spayed, so she partnered with the Tulsa Hu-mane Society for their month-long promotion to get pets spayed and neutered. Goldie even appeared on a local morning TV show with a representative from the Hu-mane Society to talk about the importance of responsi-ble pet ownership.
Then, in honor of Goldie's birthday in March, TU collect-ed items for City of Tulsa Animal Welfare. The most do-nations came from children and families at University School. The students there LOVE animals and had re-cently been making and selling dog treats with the pro-ceeds going to a local pet adoption program.
Goldie Turns 1 Year Old
Did you know Tulsa gives you TONS of discounts for being a student? All you have to do is show your ID. For a full list, fol-low this link: http://orgs.utulsa.edu/sa/discounts/
Take advantage of your discounts!
PAGE 9 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (GSA) MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015
March 6 Family Game Night University School 5:30 pm– 7:30 pm
March 7
Spring Family Picnic On the old U, front of Lorton
11:00 am-2:00 pm
April 7– April 11, 2015 18th Annual Student Research Colloquium
Student Union
April 10-11, 2015 GSA Service Days @ Tulsa Garden Center
April 15-16, 2015
GSA Officer Elections
April 29th, 2015 Graduation Banquet
ACSU, 6:30pm
David Schmidtz will be the keynote speaker at TU’s annual Research Colloquium, speaking on the Topic, Society is Not a Race on April 7, 2015 at 7:00 pm in the Union, Great Hall B. David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He also has appointments in economics and in the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, and is founding director of Arizona’s Center for Philosophy of Freedom. For the fall of 2014, he has been named the John Stuart Mill Professor at the University of Ham burg. He works mainly in ethics, environmental philosophy, rational choice, and politi cal philosophy. Editor of Social Philosophy and Policy, he is the author or coauthor of Rational Choice and Moral Agency; Elements of Justice; Person, Polis, Planet; Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility; Brief History of Liberty; and Markets in Educa tion (forthcoming); and the coeditor of Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. His articles have appeared in journals such as Political Theory, Journal of Philosophy, and Ethics.
David Schmidtz Keynote Speaker at Research Colloquium
“If we perform well in our role as educators, we make our classroom a society—a cooperative venture for mutual ad-vantage. If we perform well as certifiers, we turn our class-room into something else: a race, albeit a fair one. What is the difference between a society and a race? In a race, there is a reason why people should start on an equal footing: a race’s purpose is to measure relative performance, so we want the fact of someone crossing the finish line first to indi-cate having run the fastest. It makes sense that, when we are thinking about racing, our intuitions about justice tend to be intuitions about equal opportunity. However, a society’s pur-pose is not to measure relative performance but to be a good place to live.”
PAGE 10 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (GSA) MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015
Each year, the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, in cooperation with organizations in Cana-da, Australia, and the United Kingdom, sponsor a week to recognize the contributions of graduate and professional students to their universities, communities and nations. There are 796 graduate students enrolled at The University of Tulsa who come from across the United States and from 41 different countries. Graduate education attracts students with varied backgrounds and contributes to the rich diver-sity of students at The University of Tulsa. Our graduate students contribute to the research, teaching and outreach mission of our university, with over 50% of TU graduate students acting as graduate assistants and contributing to these endeavors. The research and development contributions made by TU graduate students not only strengthen Oklahoma, but also our nation. Our graduate students are future leaders, researchers, and educators; please join us in recognizing their value to our university by stopping by one or more of the events below:
Monday, March 2 Breakfast Hour Graduate Leadership Recognition Reception Tuesday, March 3 Breakfast Hour Ph.D. Candidacy Lunch -By invitation only Coffee and Game Night Wednesday, March 4 Breakfast Hour GSA Bowling Night Thursday, March 5 Breakfast Hour College Luncheon Kilkenny’s Night Friday, March 6 GSA Breakfast GSA Subs and Rubs Saturday, March 7 Spring Family Picnic
Stephenson Hall Student Lounge Oneok Suite
Chapman Hall Student Lounge
ACSU Chouteau
918 Coffee on 11th -Free lattes, smoothies, and board games!
-Offer valid for the first 40 attendees!
Helmerich Hall Dust Bowl– A free game for the first
40 attendees
Keplinger Hall Conf. Room (Mid level) Chapman Hall Atrium Kilkenny’s Irish Pub
Light Appetizers provided by GSA If you need a ride, please email [email protected]
Lorton Hall, GSA Office
Free Donuts and Coffee
Helmerich Hall, Mayo Student Lounge
On the Old U in front of Lorton Hall Free popcorn, candies, inflatables, face painting,
PAGE 11 DEPARTMENT NEWS - Arts & Sciences MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015
Katherine Cunningham, Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology had her precan accepted for publication (with very minor revisions) to the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. The manuscript is entitled: “Attitudes about Human Traffick ing: Individual Differences Related to Belief and Victim Blame.” Bobi Deere, Doctoral student of Archaeology was accepted for the archaeological excavation at Spiro Mounds, OK headed by the University of Oklahoma. Deere was the only student from TU on the dig and this site had not been open for excavation since the 1950’s. Keep digging up the good work! Janet Johnson and Jill Sandberg have gone on to become middle school science teachers in Sand Springs, OK. Kara Kerr, Ph.D. student of Clinical Psychology was of fered the Chapman Graduate Scholar Presentation Award but had also received an Early Career Scholarship from the Acade my for Eating Disorders that she will use to make a trip to Bos ton, MA for a conference. Blake Martin has star ted at Union Public Schools as an ele mentary teacher. Ranu Roy, Master ’s student got accepted into Indiana Uni versity at Bloomington to pursue her PhD in Science Education and was offered an Assistantship! Alexandra Savage is working as a long term substitute teacher for Jenks Southeast Elementary and is having a book published, When One Door Closes, through Ambassador Inter national. Her book will be available for purchase on amazon.com and barnesandnobles.com in about a month. Kathryn Webb, Masters student in English, will be attending the Nor theast MLA conference in Toronto ON in May to take part in a panel on the transnational influences and legacies of 19th-century French author Alfred Jarry. Her paper is titled "The "Tall Tale" of André Marceuil: Alfred Jarry and 19th-century American Folklore."
Alicia Odewale, Ph.D. Anthropology student traveled to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands with her advisor, Dr. Thomas Foster, to begin the first stage of Archaeological excavations around the slave quarters in the Danish West India and Guinea Company Warehouse Building. The goal of this phase I investigation was to find archaeological evidence of the for-mer structures labeled on historical maps as “Negro Chambers” or Neger Huuser in the original Danish language. After digging 17 shovel test pits, uncovering part of a wall and foundation, and finding well over 1000 arti-facts from the former slave quarters and the larger courtyard area around the Guinea Company Warehouse building, news about the project spread throughout the community of St. Croix. She does plan to return to St. Croix for a larger excavation of this area during the summer of 2015. Good luck and we hope you can return to dish out the new dirt!
