Recent faculty and staff achievements
Dr.
Jim Stillwell, Health, Physical Education and Sports Sciences, along
with Dr.
Melodie Philhours, Dr.
Sarath Nonis, and Dr. Gail Hudson, all from Marketing, have recent accomplishments and achievements listed in Campus
News. For all the latest, go to Campus
News.
Fraternity to host faculty
breakfast on Thursday
This Thursday, the Sigma Pi fraternity will host a faculty
breakfast in the Administration Building beginning at approximately 7 a.m.
Donuts, bagels, coffee, milk, etc., will be served until 11 a.m. All faculty
members are invited.
Faculty Recital
promises to be a great concert
The Department of Music will
present the Faculty Recital Series featuring six faculty members and the Faculty
Jazz Quintet, and the Brass Quintet in concert next Monday, March 28, at 7:30
p.m. in Fowler Center, Riceland Hall. The concert will include En Foret
by Eugene Bozza performed by Sherry Baker, horn, and Lauren Schack Clark, piano;
Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet by Francis Poulenc performed by Joe
Bonner, flute; Dan Ross, oboe; Ken Hatch, clarinet; Dale Clark, bassoon; Baker,
horn; and Schack Clark, piano.
The concert will include a performance by the ASU Brass Quintet titled
A Brass Menagerie by John Cheetham. Personnel of the ASU Brass Quintet
include: Richard Jorgensen, trumpet; Neale Bartee, trombone; Sherry Baker, horn;
Ed Owen, tuba, and Sherri Fincher, trumpet. For more, see
Music.
Red Beans & Rice at the Pavilion on
April Fool's Day
 "Red"
Beans & Rice will be Friday, April 1, at the ASU Pavilion to benefit the General Academic
Scholarship Fund. The benefit lunch will be held from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. as
dine in or carry out with a menu of red beans and rice, dessert and drink.
Tickets are available in advance for $5 or $6 at the door. Contact University
Development at 972-3940 or visit the office in Room 103 of the Administration
Building. There will be plenty of
food, fun, Zydeco music, and door prizes along with a visit from Red. See
more "Red" Beans & Rice News.
Rockapella is Tuesday in the Fowler Center
Rockapella will perform tomorrow at the Fowler Center, bringing their unique
blend of soul, rock, jazz, and rhythm and blues to northeast Arkansas for the
first time. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more details, see the release on the
NewsPage or contact the Fowler Center at
870-972-3471.
Delta Blues Symposium XI ... all
the information & updates
Imagining the Delta is
the theme for the 11th annual Delta Blues Symposium, sponsored by the Department of
English & Philosophy. The three-day event begins on Thursday, April 7, and
continues through Saturday, April 9. Scholars, students, artists, and performers
will gather to examine and celebrate the Delta’s rich culture. All symposium
events are free and open to the public. For details on any of the events, see
all the news releases on the
NewsPage.
Latin folk group to perform this
Thursday
The Latin American folk group Sotavento will perform
at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursday in Riceland Hall of the Fowler Center. The concert is free and open
to the public. Sotavento’s folk-inspired music brings to life the musical
heritage of Latin America with more than 30 instruments of strings, winds and
percussion that have roots in Pre-Columbian, European, African or Mestizo
cultures. For more information, please contact Dr. Gil
Fowler, interim Dean of The Honors College, at 870-972-2308 or via email at
gfowler@astate.edu.Chat
University has launched for ASU
The Office of Admissions has launched Chat University, an interactive
software that allows high school seniors to go online at scheduled times and
discuss their enrollment with members of the faculty and staff. The goal of
Chat University is to broaden access to information, particularly for
prospective students who are unable to visit the campus. The first chat session
was held on Feb. 24, with great success. The next chat will be a “Post Preview
Day” chat on Thursday, March 31, from 7 - 9 p.m. If you would like more
information on Chat University, please visit
http://admissions.astate.edu/ and
click on the online chat icon.
FFA Career Development Day brings
60+ schools to campus
The 2005 northeast Arkansas district FFA
Career Development Day will be held Wednesday, March 30, on campus. Career
Development Day will kickoff at the Convocation Center with a morning “welcoming
session” opened by ASU President Dr. Les Wyatt. Then students will participate
in one or several of the 12 events taking place across the campus from the
Convocation Center or the ASU Farm to the Pavilion or Agriculture Building.
Competitions include: agricultural mechanization, agricultural electrification,
agronomy, dairy foods, farm business management, floriculture, forestry, land
judging, livestock judging, meats, nursery/landscaping, and poultry. Last year,
61 schools throughout northeast Arkansas had approximately 1,500 students on
this campus.
Museum opens exhibit on the Boy Scouts
The exhibition Timeless Values --
Duty, Honor, and the Boy Scout Tradition has opened at the Museum. Lt. Gov.
Winthrop P. Rockefeller, the Quapaw Area Council and the Arkansas Museum of
Scouting provided funding. The exhibition, on loan from the MacArthur Museum of
Arkansas Military History, will be in the main gallery through Oct. 30. Hundreds
of items of memorabilia will be on exhibit, including uniforms, hats, patches,
posters, medals, camping equipment and more. There are numerous photographs of
scouting in Arkansas and the role of the scouts in World War I and II is also
examined in the exhibit. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, and 1 - 5 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is a $2 donation. For more
information, call the museum at (870) 972-2074.
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