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| Faculty, Staff, and Student Activities, Awards and Appointments |
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| Scranton, Susquehanna, North Central, and Quinnipiac Faculty Create Acclaimed Works |
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University of Scranton professor of nursing Mary Miscari has published a book Let Kids be Kids that is a defense of what she calls a vanishing commodity—childhood. Earlier, she published two guide books for parents. Susquehanna University professor of English and creative writing, Tom Bailey, has been named the winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters fiction competition. His prize winning novel, The Grace That Keeps This World, was published last October by Shaye Areheart Books from the Crown Division of Random House and is his first novel.
North Central College English professor Richard Guzman has published a literary anthology of sixty of Chicago’s leading African American authors, Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? Selections are included from a range of media, e.g., poems, short stories, memoirs, essays, newspaper columns, and radio broadcast transcripts. Liam O’Brien, media production professor at Quinnipiac University, was recognized by the National Association of Broadcast Educators for his documentary, “Schweitzer: My Life is My Argument,” a project for which O’Brien was producer, director, and writer.
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Fulbright Winners Named at Pacific Lutheran
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Four recent graduates of Pacific Lutheran University have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for study in Germany and Austria this fall. The quartet brings to 71 the number of PLU students to receive Fulbrights. Professor of social work Beverly Sealey at Simmons College is one of approximately 115 Americans selected to teach or conduct research in 32 African countries during 2006-07. She will spend the year at the University of Ghana where she will continue her research on West African family culture and teach courses. |
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| Students at Drury Win National Competition; Quinnipiac Student Wins $5,000 Prize |
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| Mark Thompson, left, dean of the School of Business, congratulates senior William Dwyer of Prospect, Conn., for winning the Student Business Plan Competition May 3. |
Drury University accounting students distinguished themselves in national Phi Beta Lambda competition in July in Nashville. Matt Cash led the Drury competitors, finishing first in accounting for professionals competition, and three other Drury students finished in the top ten in other categories. Earlier, Drury students won the state LEAP Challenge (Leading and Enhancing the Accounting Profession) at the Missouri Society of CPAs annual conference. Quinnipiac University senior William Dwyer won the $5,000 first-place prize at Quinnipiac’s fifth annual Student Business Plan Competition in May. |
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| Administrative Appointments at Redlands and Simmons |
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| Redlands dean Hank Rubin |
The University of Redlands has appointed Hank Rubin as dean of the School of Education. Rubin’s most recent position was as joint dean of education and professor of educational administration at the University of South Dakota and South Dakota University. His experience includes work as a management and marketing executive with a manufacturing company and operation of a consulting firm Rubin and Associates.
Simmons College has appointed Kenneth L. Turner, former senior vice president of multicultural and emerging markets at AOL, Inc., as its vice president of marketing.
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| Students on the Westminster campus |
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