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Volume 33 No. 9 October 2009 Next Publication: November 2009 Deadline for Entries: Monday, Oct. 26 Please submit news to: Leah Jackson, News Bureau, Prather Coliseum, FAX 5905 or e-mail jacksonl@nsula. edu. For more information, call Ext. 6466. NSU News is a newsletter published by the NSU News Bureau. NSU News serves the faculty and staff of Northwestern State University. Personnel on all campuses are encouraged to submit information regarding their professional accomplishments as well as their personal milestones. 2 Participants attended the two-day conference on federal and state grant opportunities sponsored by the NSU Division of Technology, Research and Economic Development and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Conference informs faculty on grant opportunties The Technology, Research, and Economic Development (TRED) Division’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) sponsored a two-day regional grants conference Sept. 15-16 at the Natchitoches Events Center (first day) and at the Friedman Student Union Building (second day). The official title of the conference was “NSU Regional Conference on Federal and State (LA) Grant Opportunities.” Seventy-five faculty members attended the first day of the conference, and 52 faculty members attended the second day. The non-duplicated count of faculty who participated both days was 94, representing institutions of higher education in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. Comments made by those who attended the conference were overwhelmingly positive. The conference featured several federal-grant -program officers—including representatives from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Grants Resource Center (GRC) of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)—as well as BORSFgrant-program managers from the Louisiana Board of Regents. Also featured both days was a poster presentation collected by Dr. Betsy Cochran entitled “Sampler of Undergraduate Research at NSULA.” Faculty contributors to the student-research poster-presentations included Dr. Betsy Cochran, Dr. Gillian Rudd, Mr. Michael Matthews, Dr. Steven Gabrey, Dr. Julie Delabbio, and Dr. April French. The research of 39 NSU students was presented, all of whom were commended for their work in this Continued on page 5 NSU’s Interim Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Dr. Lisa Abney, left, and Vice President for Technology, Research and Economic Development Dr. Darlene Williams, right, welcomed Dr. David Campbell, program director for the National Science Foundation, and Dr. Wilsonia Cherry, National Endowment for the Humanities, to the conference. The NSU ORSP staff greeted presenters at the conference. From left are Sadie Wintersteen, Carla Howell, Director of the AASCU Grants Resource Center Dr. Richard Dunfee, Dr. Priscilla Kilcrease and Alysia Jones.
People...Continued from Page 1 program for broadcast to about 320 noncommercial public radio stations around the country. See more details on Page 9. Dr. Julie H. Ernstein, assistant professor of anthropology and coordinator of the undergraduate program in Heritage Resources, served as program chair for the first Louisiana Studies Conference, hosted at NSU on Sept. 26, which featured more than 40 presentations by scholars drawn from numerous disciplines. Ernstein also presented a paper at that conference titled “Plant the Seed and Watch It Grow: From Collections Management, to Disaster Mitigation, to Heritage (Re) Interpretation at the Kate Chopin House/ Bayou Folk Museum (Cloutierville, LA).” Her presentation addressed ongoing interpretive planning work she is performing at the site that grew out of previous service-learning, disaster mitigation, and classroom projects resulting in an online Virtual Museum developed for this Cloutierville National Historic Landmark. Ernstein spoke about her project currently underway to develop an interpretive plan for the property’s owners (with grant assistance from the Cane River National Heritage Area) and how it has been inspired by her students’ considerable efforts at the site. Dr. Norann Planchock, dean of the College of Nursing, was elected chair of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council (NSDC). As chair of NSDC, she will serve as a member of the Health Works Commission and as a member of the Executive Committee, which consists of five commissioners from Health Works. The Health Works Commission was reestablished last year, by legislature, and placed under the Board of Regents. One of the responsibilities of the HWC is to recommend funding for capitation and stipend programs which benefit the nursing programs’ faculty and students. Dr. Gerra Perkins, College of Education, and former NSU student Amy Foster Johnson recently had their article “What We Know About At-Risk Students: Important Considerations for Principal and Counselor Leadership” published in the June issue of the NASSP Bulletin. The article detailed the important role that middle school counselors play in meeting the needs of at-risk populations. A review by Dr. Keith Dromm, associate professor of philosophy in the Louisiana Scholars’ College, of Kelly Dean Jolley’s The Concept ‘Horse’ Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations (Ashgate) was published in the August 2009 issue of Philosophy in Review. Dr. Dromm’s book Wittgenstein on Rules and Nature (Continnum Books) was reviewed by Lars Hertzberg in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews in July. Hertzberg described the book as “rich,” “thoughtprovoking,” and a “stimulating read.” A paper written by Dr. Steven Gabrey, Biology Department, and colleagues from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries was named Best Paper in the General Conservation category at this year’s annual meeting of the Louisiana Association of Professional Biologists, held in Lafayette in August. The paper, titled Impacts of Nutria Removal on Food Habits of American Alligators in Louisiana, reported on the contents of over 450 alligator stomachs and appeared in the spring issue of the Southeastern Naturalist. Dr. Henrietta Williams Pichon, assistant professor, Student Peronnel Services, presented at the 35th Annual Louisiana Association for College and University Student Personnel Administrators (LACUSPA) at the Learning Center for Rapides Parish in Alexandria. Her presentation title was “Getting At-risk Students Involved in Civic Engagement: The Importance of Service Learning during Times of Economic Downtowns.” The service learning project was supported by the Learn and Serve America through the Louisiana and Kentucky Campus Compact. Volume 33 No. 9 October 2009 3
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