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98th Year
2007-08

Oct. 10, 2007

Calendar
highlights:

 * Homecoming Week, Oct. 8-13

* College of Nursing and Health Professions Gala, Friday, Oct. 12,
6 p.m.-11 p.m., Centennial Hall

* Lecture-Concert Series presents Buddy Collette, Monday, Oct. 15,
7 p.m., Student Union Auditorium

* ASU Tribe Jazz Band performs Collette works Tuesday, Oct. 16,
7:30 p.m., Riceland Hall

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Homecoming week activities well underway
Homecoming week is more than football; it's a time to revisit the alma mater and to reconnect with fellow travelers from the journey that is the college experience. The events sponsored by individual colleges may be of particular interest to faculty, while alumni may well wish to read about their distinguished fellows in various colleges or attend events planned with alumni in mind. Current students may be interested in events that are part of the tradition of Homecoming week at ASU.

 Geography professor, grad student, publish paper
 Dr. Bill Stroud, Geography, and Jason Self, a graduate student in Environmental Sciences, have co-authored a paper published in The Florida Geographer. Their paper,co Island: Tropical Paradise or Environmental Disaster," focused on the relationship between subdivision planning and environmental degradation. In addition, Dr. Stroud has recently published a paper, "Problems Associated with Amenity-Based Subdivisions in the Poconos: The Case of Pike County, Pennsylvania," in The Pennsylvania Geographer.

ASU faculty member invited to speak at conference
Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolívar, Plant Metabolic Engineering, was an invited speaker at the 61st Tobacco Science Research Conference, "Frontiers in Tobacco Biotechnology," held in Charlotte, N.C. Dr. Medina-Bolívar's presentation, "Screening for Bioactive Stilbenoids in the Genus Nicotiana and other Solanaceae species," focused on research conducted in his laboratory for the discovery of medicinally important compounds that can be induced in the roots of tobacco and related species.

Dr. Studdard presents papers at international conferences
Dr. Nareatha Studdard, Management and Marketing, presented papers this summer at two international conferences. Her "Student Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Perception of Business Plan Competitions" was presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference held in Madrid, Spain. Her presentation "From Social Capital to Human Resource Development: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Role of HRM in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in High-Tech Organizations" was presented in Tallin, Estonia, at the International Human Resource Management Conference. This paper was co-written with Dr. Roger Darby, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, Britain.

Ecotox to host workshop for continuing education credit
ASU's Ecotoxicology Research Facility will host a Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Testing workshop on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 18-19, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. The one-day eight-hour workshop is approved by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services (ADHHS), and it offers 8 hours of continuing education credit for both wastewater treatment managers and water operator training. For details, contact Dr. Jennifer Bouldin at ext. 2570.

'War Games' is this week's featured 'Science Flick'
 The departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Physics are sponsoring "Science Flicks," Hollywood films portraying scientists and the work they perform. "War Games" will be shown Thursday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m., in Lab Sciences Room 219. The panel for the following discussion will include Dr. Ross Marlay, Political Science, and Gregory Williamson, Information and Technology Services. For details, call the Department of Biological Sciences at ext. 3082; click here for film listings and dates.

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