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Online Campus News is maintained  by the Office of University Communications.  Information may be e-mailed to asunews@omaha.astate.edu, faxed to 870-972-3069, or delivered to Administration Building, Room 101.

* Herb Lawrence, Small Business Development Center, was recently named the 2000 Resource Partner Of The Year by the Small Business Administration. Gov. Mike Huckabee recently presented the award at the annual ceremony in Little Rock.  Lawrence was recognized for the assistance he gave to clients in obtaining $8.8 million in SBA loans and conducting 30 training seminars in 1999. 

* Madeline Williams, Ellis Library, was guest speaker for the annual May banquet meeting of the ASU Faculty Women's Association.  Her topic was "Information Competency: What is it? Why is it important? and How are Universities Teaching these Skills to their Students?"

* Peggy Wright, Delta Studies Center, was recently named one of three new members of the board of directors for the Arkansas Humanities Council. She will serve a three-year term.

*Madeline Williams, Ellis Library, recently directed a workshop at the regional convention of Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society for two-year colleges. The workshop was entitled "The Sevens Habits of Highly Effective People," from Stephen Covey's book of the same name. The convention was held at Westark College in Fort Smith. 

*Dr. Mike Panigot, Chemistry, and two of his undergraduate research students, Jessica Middleton and Jason Boggs, participated in the Area College Chemistry Meeting held at the University of Tennessee - Martin on April 15. Middleton presented her paper "Synthesis of a Linker Molecule for the Preparation of C-Glycoside Dendrimers" and Boggs presented "Preparation of an Electrophilic 3-Methylindole Derivative: Difficulties in Forming a Stable, Suitable Material for the Preparation of Tryptophan." Additionally Panigot and two other undergraduate research students, Melissa Arnold and Amy Bailey, presented papers at the Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia on April 28-29. Arnold's presentation was entitled "Selective Functionalization of the 6-Hydroxyl Group of Methyl alpha-D-Glucopyranoside: Application to the Preparation of C-Glycoside Based Dendrimers" and Bailey's presentation was titled "Preparation of a Galactose-Derived Lactone and Conversion to an Alkynyl C-Galactoside for use in the Preparation of C-Glycoside Containing Dendrimers." 

*Dr. Cyndy Hendershot, English and Philosophy, presented a paper, "The Evil East in 1950s Horror Films," on April 19 entitled at The National Popular Culture Association Meeting in New Orleans. 

*Dr. Lillie Fears, Dr. Mary Jackson-Pitts, Dr. Dennis Robertson, Jennifer Rogers and Mike Doyle, Radio-Television, and graduate student Darcy Douglass, participated at the Southern States Communication Association in New Orleans recently. Douglass and Jackson-Pitts presented "Arkansas: Hollywood of the South," Rogers and Doyle participated in a group that presented "Cowboys and Mermaids," and Robertson presented the paper "Uses of Emerging Technology in Rural Health Care Advocacy." Fears began her duties as the new vice president-elect of the gender studies division while Jackson-Pitts began her duties as the new vice president-elect of the popular communication division. 

* Dr. Scott W. Reeve, Chemistry, recently presented a seminar on Friday, March 24, to the department of chemistry at the University of Mississippi. The lecture was entitled "Infrared Diode Laser Spectroscopy of Jet Cooled Organometallics." 

* Dr. Mike Panigot, Chemistry, and five of his students presented papers at the Arkansas Academy of Science meeting in Hot Springs on April 7-8. Two students, Shang-U Kim and Layla Bland, received awards in the chemistry division. Kim received first place in the graduate division with "Synthesis of an Ethynyl C-Glycoside and Attempted Coupling to Polyhalogenated Arenes to form Dendrimers." Bland, who graduated last December, received third place in the undergraduate division for her presentation of "Reaction of Alpine Borane with Aldehydes: Reactivity Rate Assessment by Observation of the Disappearance of the Carbonyl n - pi star Peak by UV-Visible Spectrometry." Other students who presented papers at the conference were Melissa Arnold, Amy Bailey and Jason Boggs. 

* Dr. Catherine Calloway and Dr. Jeane Harris, English, presented papers at a joint meeting of the Popular Culture Association of America and the American Culture Association in New Orleans on Saturday, April 22. Calloway's paper discussed the effect of the Vietnam War on women and other family members as presented in literature, while Harris' paper was entitled "'It's the end of the world as we know it:' the Rise and Fall of Lesbian Culture." 

* The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Dr. Staria Vanderpool, Dr. Roger Buchanan and Jack D. Wilhide, Biological Sciences, a grant of almost $100,000 for improvements to the biological science laboratory course for non-majors, which is part of the general educational curriculum. This course enrolls about 1,500 students in 55 sections each year. Changes will occur during a two-year period beginning in the fall. NSF funds will be matched by the university and used to convert the laboratory to a problem solving-based learning environment, relying on computer-based data collection and analysis. 

* Dr. Mark Draganjac, Chemistry, was installed last weekend as president of the Arkansas Academy of Science, during the organization's meeting in Hot Springs. He will serve until the spring 2001 meeting in Conway. 

* Dr. Ruth A. Hawkins, Arkansas Delta Byways, received the Henry Award for "Tourism Special Achievement" on March 28 at the Arkansas Governor's Conference on Tourism in Bentonville. She was cited for spearheading the effort which created the Crowley's Ridge National Scenic Byway and for tourism development in Piggott, especially through the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center. The center also was Henry finalist for the Arkansas Heritage Award. 

* Dr. Robert Engelken, Engineering, recently had two review articles published in the specialized multi-volume encyclopedia "Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues" published by Salem Press of Pasadena, Calif. The articles were entitled "Agent Orange" and "Black Lung."

* Dr. Tyra N. Turner, Psychology, co-authored two articles, "A holistic approach to multicultural rehabilitation counseling" in the Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling and "Long distance education/interactive television: Practical challenges," in the Journal of Rehabilitation Administration. 

* Dr. Mike Panigot, Chemistry, received a travel award from the Eleanor Lane International Travel Fund to present a poster, "Steps Toward the Preparation of C-Glycoside Dendrimers," at the Ibn Sina International Conference of Pure and Applied Heterocyclic Chemistry in Alexandria, Egypt, during the last week in March. 

* Dr. Cyndy Hendershot, English and Philosophy, had an article "Mythical and Modern: Representations of Los Alamos," published in Journal of the Southwest.

* Dr. Gary L. Emmert, Chemistry, and graduate students Sean Puckett and Hui Zhang and undergraduate Kristy Budd, presented a research paper entitled "Congo Red as a Reagent for measuring Chlorine Dioxide Concentrations in Drinking Water" at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy in New Orleans in February. Dr. Emmert also worked with graduate student Chris Duty and presented a research paper "A Supported Capillary Membrane Sampling for Measuring Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water." 

* Dr. Kim Hester, Management, co-authored a paper titled "The Influences of Individualism/Collectivism and Procedural Justice on Union Participation." The paper was presented at the Southwest Academy of Management meetings in San Antonio and published in the proceedings. In addition, the paper was honored as the best paper in the Human Resources/Industrial Relations track. 

* Greg Chance, KASU, was recently notified that KASU has been named the 2000 winner of the Arkansas Education Association's School Bell Award for outstanding coverage of education. A representative from KASU will accept the award at a luncheon in Little Rock on Saturday, April 8. 

* Dr. Kent Staley, English and Philosophy, will serve as a commentator at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, April 6. The paper on which he will comment discusses whether successful novel predictions by a scientific theory are grounds for believing that the theory gives a literally true description of the world.

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