Musical Notes

Congratulations to trumpeter Brooke Stevens who was accepted to Indiana University (Bloomington) with a full assistantship.

 

 

 

 

In July trumpeter Christian Anderson performed with the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. He was accepted to DePaul University in Chicago with a full assistantship.  

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Communication Studies Accomplishments

Jenn Supple Nadeau and Roxanne Heimann have been hired as Speaking, Listening and Media Literary Consultants for College Board’s Standards for College Success. These Standards make explicit the college prepatory skills such as content knowledge, critical thinking, and reasoning so that states, school districts, and schools can better align their educational programs to clear definitions of college readiness. The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®).

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Jennifer Freitag has been hired as the coordinator of The Lighthouse Prevention & Intervention Center at Central Missouri State University. In her new role, she oversees all crisis intervention services and prevention education programming provided through the Lighthouse. In addition, Jennifer coordinates the Johnson County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) and facilitates collaboration with campus and community members for improving sexual assault and domestic violence response in the county. She maintains a 24-hour on-call advocacy system for victims of sexual assault and coordinates all training and supervision of advocates in addition to serving as a victim advocate in this system.

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Ruth Beerman's paper for the 2005 Iowa Communication Association (ICA) conference won the top graduate paper and was published in the 2006 Annual Iowa Journal of Communication (Spring 2006).  Her paper was entitled “Agency for Whom? Looking at International Women's Day 2004. A Time for Consternation Amidst Celebration."

Women’s and Gender Studies

Women's & Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines women's roles in the family and the work place; sexuality in human existence; cultural images of women; and the contributions women have made in all areas of human endeavor. Women’s & Gender Studies graduate students ended their feminist theory course with “Feminist Theory Live,” a performance in which the students act out different feminist theories.

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A Fulbright scholar from Indonesia, Atun Wardatun graduated from Women’s & Gender Studies with her thesis entitled “Public and Private Spheres in the Compilation of Islamic Law in Indonesia.” Her thesis is being published in Indonesian and English by the Masyarakat Baru / The Institution for New Society in cooperation with Alam Tara Learning Society, which socialize and inform with an alternative interpretation for social development.

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Psychology Graduate Student Welcome Picnic

On August 27, new and returning graduate students, faculty, and their significant others met for the Psychology Department’s annual beginning-of-year party at Island Park. They ate, played volleyball, and learned new and interesting facts about each other (like which graduate student’s former babysitter is now in jail for ax-murdering his whole family!).

“It’s really nice that everyone comes out to meet our new graduate students,” said Graduate Coordinator Dr. Helen Harton. “This event is just one of our initiatives to help welcome new students and integrate them into the graduate community.”