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 Dr. Kathy Albertson, Department of Writing and Linguistics, will be a Showcase Presenter at The Center for Excellence in Teaching's Showcase: "Innovative Teaching Strategies Retreat" on May 8, 2006, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the College of Information Technology, Room 1201. Dr. Albertson's reflections on her experience at the retreat are available at the CET website and are archived here.
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 Foreign Languages Department faculty members, Dr. Serna, Dr. Suazo, and Dr. Martinez-Conde, recently attended a lecture series given by Mario Vargas Llosa at Emory University, from April 2-4. They attended the lectures "Jorge Luis Borges, Today," "Ortega y Gasset and The Revolt of the Masses," and "The Reading."
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 History Deparment Faculty member Dr. Anastatia Sims publishes paper on UNC Library webpage.
"Mother Cotten and the Crazy Daisy: North Carolina Women at the Turn of the 20th Century." |
 Van Tassell named professor of the year at 2006 Honors Day Convocation
Darin Van Tassell was presented with the Wells/Warren Professor of the Year Award at the Georgia Southern University 2006 Honors Day Convocation held on Wednesday, April 5.
Van Tassell is an assistant professor in the University's Center for International Studies. A graduate of Georgia Southern, he has been part of his alma mater's faculty since 1994.
Van Tassell's academic areas include global issues, international relations theory, politics of U.S. foreign policy, sport and international relations, Latin American development and international organizations.
Van Tassell has been honored on numerous occasions for his work with students in the classroom. He was a 2004 Governor's Teaching Fellow for the Summer Symposium of the Governor's Teaching Fellows Program, and he was Georgia Southern's nominee for the University System of Georgia's Teaching Excellence Award in 2002.
In addition, Van Tassell was named Outstanding Student Mentor in 2003 by the Georgia Southern Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society, and he was recognized as the University's Teacher of the Year in 1999 by Alpha Omicron Pi. Van Tassell is the chair of the University's International Studies Curriculum Committee. He also serves on several other University committees, including the Admissions Recruiting Efforts Committee and the Scholars Day Planning Committee.
A native of Statesboro, Van Tassell was a Rhodes Scholar Finalist when he was a student at Georgia Southern. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1989 with a B.A. in political science. He later earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in international studies from the University of South Carolina.
The winner of the Wells/Warren Professor of the Year Award is selected annually by the University's students. Members of the Gamma Beta Phi honor society interview the department heads of the finalists and look at student evaluations of the professors. The group then conducts a blind interview of the finalists before selecting the winner of the award, which is endowed by former Gamma Beta Phi advisors J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells. The award is named in honor of their parents, Nolan and Audrey Wells and Hartwell and Lucile Warren. |
 Jessica Hines' work "Prima Materia" featured in the February/March 2006 issue of Camera Arts available at major booksellers.
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 Southern Georgia Symphony to present Mozart's ‘Requiem' April 3
The Southern Georgia Symphony will present Mozart's final masterpiece, “Requiem,” on Monday, April 3, at 8 p.m. in at the Performing Arts Center. For this performance, the symphony will be joined by the 40 voices of the Georgia Southern Chorale and four distinguished soloists: Tamara Watson Harper, soprano; Sarah Hancock, mezzo-soprano; Matthew Heil, tenor; and Allen Henderson, bass.
“The ‘Requiem' is a mass commissioned by one of Mozart's patrons, Count von Walsegg, to memorialize his wife, who died at the age of 20,” said symphony conductor Cheung Chau. “What many people don't know is that Mozart wrote this work in the last few months of his own life, just before he succumbed to rheumatic fever in December 1791 at the age of 35. Mozart was unable to complete it, but two of his students accepted the task following his death.” The “Requiem” was performed as a memorial to Mozart shortly after he died, then performed again as a memorial to Countess Walsegg several years later.
“Requiem” is written for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass voices in 15 movements. In writing this kind of music, Mozart was producing a new kind of sacred music that focused on voices, but never singled out one voice over another.
Tickets for the concert are available by calling box office at ext. 7999 or by going online to ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/pac/pactickets.html. Regular admission is $17.50, admission for students under 18 is $12, and Georgia Southern students are admitted free with ID.
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 Legends Gallery featuring work of Nick Nelson through April 4
Nick Nelson, assistant professor of art in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, presents a solo exhibit titled “Landscapes” in the Legends Gallery of Statesboro's Averitt Center for the Arts. The exhibit continues through Tuesday, April 4.
Nelson has shown his work regionally and nationally. He is also a member of the Stillmore Roots Group, an artist group that exhibits site-specific installation in non-traditional spaces. His mixed media works combine a variety of painting media with photography and found objects to explore tensions between humanity and nature, illusion and reality, order and chaos, and understanding and the incomprehensible.
This exhibition is the sixth in a series of faculty exhibitions.
Exhibits in The Legends Series are free and open to the public. |
TimeShop story picked up by Associated Press. Click to view. |
Faculty Service Grants awarded
Service grants are awarded to full-time University faculty who propose: 1) to improve the quality of life for the local, state, national or international community through the use of uncompensated professional skills and expertise; or 2) to serve the academic community through uncompensated public service to professional honor societies.
The Faculty Service Committee has announced the following CLASS faculty as recipients of the 2005-2006 Faculty Service Grants:
- Janice Walker, “Graduate Research Network”
- Annette Laing, “Timeshop: Children's History Program
- Kathy Albertson, “Delivering Professional Development”
- Ellen H. Hendrix, ‘Georgia Southern Writing Project Writing Contest”
- Linda A. Cionitti, ‘To Serve on the Artistic Committee for the 2006 International Clarinet Association ‘Clarinetfest' in Atlanta”
- Barry Balleck, “Constructing the Global Citizen: Developing Model United Nations Programs at the High School and Middle School Levels”
- Christopher Gibson, “Building Bridges: Rural Contexts and Community Research”
- Heidi Altman, ‘Service to the Southern Anthropological Society: Connecting Anthropologists in the South”
- Thomas Klein, ‘Assisting Non-profit Organizations in retrieving and Interpreting Gullah and Geechee Heritage”
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Legends Gallery featuring work of Bruce Little
 Bruce Little, professor of art in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, is presenting a solo exhibit titled Remnants Revisited in the Legends Gallery of Statesboro's Averitt Center for the Arts. His show continues through Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Little is an educator, lecturer and writer who currently serves as professor of art and coordinator for the Art Foundations program at Georgia Southern. He holds both BFA and MFA degrees in drawing and painting from Auburn University, as well as a doctorate in art education from the University of Georgia. Having participated in more than one hundred major exhibitions, his works are represented in private, public and corporate collections including the University of West Georgia, Union University, Auburn University, the Bess Williamson Cultural Art Center, the Dalton Cultural Art Center, the Hyatt Corporation, the Hilton Corporation and AT&T, among others.
Little has won several awards for teaching excellence, including Distinguished Georgia Educator, Art Educator of the Year in Higher Education, and Georgia Art Educator of the Year in 2002. The National Art Education Association selected him to edit a national publication titled “Secondary Art Education: An Anthology of Issues,” which was originally published in 1990 and is now in its fifth printing.
This show is the fourth in a series of faculty exhibitions, The Legends Series, being held in the Legends Gallery of the Averitt Center for the Arts. Subsequent exhibitions will open during the First Friday Gallery Crawl held in downtown Statesboro the first Friday of each month.
Exhibits in The Legends Series are free and open to the public. For more information, call ext. (912) 871-1712.
(Jan. 18, 2006)
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New Museum exhibit chronicles lives of Lowcountry slaves
“Midway: Between Slavery and Self-Sufficiency, the Remaking of a Black Community, 1860-1875” opened at the Georgia Southern Museum on Monday, Jan. 23.
Curated by Peggy Hargis, a professor in the University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the exhibit uses 30 years of letters, photographs, maps and journals to describe the labor system, family structure, religious beliefs and people of Midway's African American community. “We are hoping to convey both the individual resourcefulness and the enduring relationships within this fascinating community at a remarkable time in its history,” said Wendy Denton, the Museum's interim director.
The exhibit will feature photographs and biographical sketches of the African Americans who lived in Midway, first as slaves on the local plantations and then as free people who had one of the highest rates of land ownership in the South.
“Although the Midway district is renowned for its white heroes, political figures, scientists, educators and religious leaders,” Hargis said, “the bulk of its residents have been lost to history.
“This exhibit reveals the human face of a people who struggled to maintain their humanity within the confines of slavery.”“We are hoping to convey both the individual resourcefulness and the enduring relationships within this fascinating community at a remarkable time in its history,” said Wendy Denton, the Museum's interim director.
The exhibit will feature photographs and biographical sketches of the African Americans who lived in Midway, first as slaves on the local plantations and then as free people who had one of the highest rates of land ownership in the South.
“Although the Midway district is renowned for its white heroes, political figures, scientists, educators and religious leaders,” Hargis said, “the bulk of its residents have been lost to history.
“This exhibit reveals the human face of a people who struggled to maintain their humanity within the confines of slavery.”
“Midway: Between Slavery and Self-Sufficiency, the Remaking of a Black Community, 1860-1875” will be on display through May 7.
There is no admission fee for the Museum, which is located in the Rosenwald Building on Southern Drive. The Museum is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
For more information, visit the Georgia Southern Museum website or call (912) 681-5444. |
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