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Governor Beebe to appear on campus today
ASU alumnus and Arkansas governor Mike
Beebe will make a brief campus appearance today at 11 a.m. in the
Grand Hall, Fowler Center. Gov. Beebe will address the Youth
Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.) delegation. Y.O.U. offers a
six-and-a-half week program allowing at-risk youth ages 14-16 to
live on the ASU campus while working and attending classes. Students
can earn a half-credit in both math and English. Cultural enrichment
experiences (field trips, museum visits, and more) are provided on
weekends. Thirty-four high school students make up this year's Y.O.U.
delegation. The Arkansas Department of Higher Education and the
Workforce Investment Board are sponsors of the Y.O.U. program. Gov.
Beebe will give a brief motivational speech to the assembled
students.
Dr. Wilkerson-Freeman presents
in United Kingdom
Dr. Sarah
Wilkerson-Freeman, History, was an invited presenter at the
University of Nottingham's recent Hurricane Katrina Symposium. The
symposium, sponsored by Nottingham's American and Canadian Studies
program, featured several international scholars. The
interdisciplinary event focused on the responses of scholars in
film, literature, and history to Hurricane Katrina, to post-Katrina
life in New Orleans, and to the influence of the hurricane and its
aftermath on scholarship, particularly documentaries. Wilkerson-Freeman
presented her work on Jack Robinson's 1950s New Orleans photographs,
which she discovered and identified within the Robinson collection
in Memphis. She also spoke about the impact of post-Katrina
reorganization on traditional infrastructures of artistic life and
culture in the region. Her 26-piece exhibition of 1950s photographs,
installed in the atrium of the Djanogly Art Gallery complex, was the
site of the symposium's closing reception.
Dr. Hannigan featured in College Board Review magazine
Dr. Robyn Hannigan, Environmental
Science, was recently featured in The College Board Review (No. 210,
Winter/Spring 2007), the
 magazine
of the College Board. This prestigious publication provides a
national forum for discussion of new and useful ideas in education.
Hannigan, who designed and established a program to immerse
minority and female undergraduates in environmental science,
appeared in Dr. Kathie L. Olsen's article, "Let's Frame the Future:
Building a Solid Science and Engineering Foundation for This
Century." Olsen is deputy director of the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Dr. Hannigan
received funding through the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Hannigan's
program, Research Internships in Science of the Environment (RISE),
is an interdisciplinary program focusing on relationships between
agricultural land use and ecological health. The RISE program has
funded more than 30 undergraduates in summer research projects since
2001.
Creative Writers' Retreat produces
collection
The works of writers attending the first session of the fifth annual
Hemingway-Pfeiffer Creative Writers' Retreat have been collected
into a volume, "In the Company of Writers." The title of the
collection was derived from a poem by participant Marilyn Batey
Stroud of Cabot and Piggott. The session included 13 writers
led by C.D. Mitchell, an instructor at the University of Alabama,
and Donna James, Sloan-Hendrix Schools. Deanna Dismukes, the
education coordinator for the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and
Educational Center, served as coordinator for the retreat.
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