David Wick selected to join delegation to Germany
David Wick, International Programs, has been chosen to join a
highly-selective delegation of 15 higher education professionals at
the Baden-Württemberg Seminar in Heidelberg, Germany, this October.
The seminar, sponsored by the German Ministry of Science, Research
and the Arts, will focus on the German educational system,
German-American academic equivalencies and student exchange between
Germany and the United States. Lectures and discussions will be
complemented by visits to primary, secondary and tertiary
educational institutions in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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Agreements with universities
in Peru & Argentina
A Master Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation was
signed in March between ASU, represented by Dr. Elizabeth Hood,
Research and Technology Transfer, and Universidad Nacional Agraria La
Molina. The coordination committee of this agreement is represented
on the ASU campus by Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolivar, ABI.
Additionally, a Master Agreement on Scientific and Technological
Cooperation was also signed between ASU, represented by Dr. Hood,
and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. The
coordination committee of this agreement is also represented by Dr.
Medina-Bolivar. The plan is to facilitate research
projects that will benefit the institutions as well as the exchange
of students and faculty and to promote workshops. In addition, these
agreements should facilitate recruitment of students, researchers
and faculty to ASU.
Football calendar & alumni
activities set for fall
The
2006 ASU football schedule will include games
in both Little Rock and Memphis. The ASU Alumni Association will
sponsor festive tailgate parties at both locations: War Memorial
Stadium in Little Rock on Saturday, Sept. 9, before the game against
Oklahoma State, and prior to the University of Memphis game in
Memphis on Saturday, Oct. 14. And don't forget the best tailgate of
all - Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 21, when ASU hosts North Texas in
Indian Stadium.
Latest edition of Arkansas Review
is ready
The Department of English and
Philosophy has announced the publication of the April issue of
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies. Edited by a
committee of faculty and graduate assistants, the magazine offers an
interdisciplinary approach to the seven-state Mississippi River
Delta region through academic articles, interviews, fiction, poetry,
creative nonfiction, visual art and reviews. The April issue offers
articles by University of Virginia professor Matthew Holden Jr., and
ASU alum, Maj. James Dunivan. For more details,
click here.
Model UN Summer Camp: June
14-17
The ASU student Model UN
organization will conduct a Model UN Summer Camp for incoming
freshmen through seniors, Wednesday, June 14, through Saturday, June
17. The camp will provide the basics of MUN rules, procedures and
practice -- everything needed to become a full-fledged diplomat and
participant in future model UN competitions. The cost is $150, which
will include staying in one of the residence halls and all meals in
the new Student Union, plus insurance and a T-shirt. Registration
forms will be available shortly on the MUN web site. In the
meantime, contact Under Secretary General Cindy Grisham at 972-3048
or via email at Cindy.Grisham@smail.astate.edu or Secretary General
Lauren Dapp at the same number, or call the College of Humanities &
Social Sciences at 972-3973. Payment is due by Friday, June 9.
Bluegrass Monday on May 22
KASU will present the next
installment of Bluegrass Monday at the new permanent
location, Atkins Celebration Hall, 101 S. Pruett St., in downtown
Paragould on Monday, May 22, at 7 p.m. The bluegrass band Cedar Hill
will perform. Admission is free, but KASU will literally “pass the
hat” to collect money to pay the band. Cedar Hill is recognized
nationwide as one of the best bands working today. The band won five
honors representing the Mid-West region at the 2006 Society for the
Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America Awards.
Also, Simply Delicious Catering will provide a country-style buffet meal
beginning at 5 p.m. for $10. Bluegrass Monday concerts are
held on the fourth Monday night of each month. These concerts are
presented with support from Backbeat Music, the Burrow-Halsey Realty
Group, the Posey Peddler, Main Street Paragould and KASU.
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