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Museum of Culture and Environment's First Exhibit Opens Sept. 26
Women's suffrage became US law with adoption of a constitutional amendment in 1920. Women were actually enfranchised in Washington in 1910. That milestone is being celebrated with art exhibits, plays, and presentations on community through CWU's "Women's Votes, Women's Voices." The Opening Receiption and Art Exhibit is on Friday, October 9, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Sarah Spurgeon Art Gallery. Additional information about the CWU celebration of Women Voting is available online at: http://www.cwu.edu/~suffrage/
Student Achievements
2009 SOURCE REVEALS DEPTH AND BREADTH OF CWU TALENT AND INTELLECT The 2009 Symposium On University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) on May 21 featured 280 presentations from forty-one contributing departments. COTS again sponsored the majority of student posters and presentations at the Symposium. 
2009 SOURCE was the first year that students from Central's westside University Centers participated in the symposium with poster presentations at CWU-Des Moines and CWU-Lynwood.
The COTS winners of this year's SOURCE awards and the abstracts for the 2009 presentations are available online at: http://www.cwu.edu/~source/
Jackie LANGILLE has been named as the winner of the Dale and Mary Jo Comstock Distinguished Thesis Award. A geology graduate student, Langille's thesis, titled "Middle Curstal Ductile Deformation Patterns in Southern Tibet: Insights From Vorticity Studies in Mabja Dome," will be submitted to the Western Association of Graduate Schools regional competition in August.
Grants, Awards and Accreditation
Professor Lisa Ely has been elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in recognition of her research on flood hydroclimatology and global change, her professional service, particularly to the Geological Society of America, and her mentoring of students. Fellowship is one of the highest honors bestowed by the Society on members of the geologic community. Dr. Ely joins a distinguished group of highly accomplished professionals. Established in 1888, The Geological Society of America provides access to elements that are essential to the professional growth of earth scientists at all levels of expertise and from all sectors: academic, government, business, and industry.
The mental health and counseling program received accreditation from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) in 2008/09. The accreditation makes the CWU program one of only three CACREP accredited mental health counseling training programs at a public university in the state of Washington. The clinical psychology program has also submitted formal documentation for a similar accrediting review in 2009/2010.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $403,942 grant to fund ongoing research in China under the direction of Dr. James COOK, professor, history; Dr. Hong XIAO, professor, sociology; and Dr. Richard MACK, professor emeritus, economics. The project, "Negotiations and Impacts: Great Western Development, Rural Peasants and Water Policy across China's Loess Plateau," will be funded through March 2010. The grant will allow for three trips to China where faculty and students will conduct research. Four CWU students, along with eight peers from universities across the country, will travel to China this summer for the first trip under this grant. Former CWU professor Dr. Roberta SOLTZ will join that group. Publications and Presentations Professor Mike JACKSON, physics, and Travis PETERSEN had their manuscript "Frequencies and Wavelengths from a New Far-infrared Lasing Gas: 13CHD2OH" published in the July 2009 issue of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 45, 830-2. Petersen, a physics and philosophy double major, was a Science Honors student and June graduate. He will be pursuing graduate studies at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics this fall. Jackson also attended the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) business meeting in Bozeman, Mont., on June 18-19. He received a "Volunteer of the Year" award for his efforts as councilor for the institute's Physics and Astronomy Division and as chair of the CUR Fellows Task Force.
Evolution 2009, an annual meeting of three national scientific societies, was held June 12-16 in Moscow, Idaho. CWU professors Lixing SUN, Rhiannon PEERY, and Tim CHUMLEY presented research posters at the conference; Linda RAUBESON and Wenbin MEI also attended and were poster co-authors. The three participating scientific societies were Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN).
Biology lecturer Gabriella JACKSON and co-authors R. ZINGMARK and A. LEWITUS had their paper, "Modeling Epiphytic Community Production," accepted for publication in the Journal of Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Biochemistry Professor Carin THOMAS, and co-authors Mitzi MACKEY, Amy DIAZ, and Dave COX, recently had a paper, "Hydroxyl radical is produced via the Fenton reaction in submitochondrial particles under oxidative stress: Implications or diseases associated with iron accumulation," accepted for publication in Redox Reports.
Two students from Associate Professor Carin Thomas’s research group presented at the Northwest Regional Meetings of the American Chemical Society (NORM) in Tacoma, Washington on June 29, 2009. Sara Rosario presented a poster in the General Poster Session 1 titled "The Toxicity of Buckminster Fullerenes" and Stephanie Bryner gave an oral presentation titled "Investigation of the Link between Mitochondrial Function and Diabetes" with co-authors Carin Thomas and Lucinda Carnell who is a faculty member in the Biology Department at CWU.
Professor Martha Kurtz, Chemistry and Science Education, organized and instructed the two-week long Yakima WATERS Institute along with faculty members Carey Gazis, Ian Quitadamo, Beth Pratt-Sitaula and Steve Wagner. Tim Sorey and TJ Hellend attended the Institute and will form a team with Roger Hume of Ellensburg High School to work during the upcoming year to incorporate watershed research in the schools
Press Releases Pre-Med Student First in CWU History to Win Prestigious Udall Scholarship Ellensburg, Wash. - Joseph Nelson, a pre-medicine junior, is the first Central Washington University student to receive a Morris K. Udall Scholarship. Nelson, 20, plans to return to the Yakama Indian Nation to be a family physician after he has completed his studies. 
The scholarship is a prestigious one that gives students studying environmental issues, tribal public policy or Native American healthcare, a chance to further their undergraduate careers with $5,000. The only other CWU student to be involved with the Morris K. Udall Foundation program was Vanessa Vandever, who was a Udall Native American Congressional Intern in 2004.
Nelson had to write several essays, some of which focused on current health issues facing the Yakama Indian Nation. He is particularly interested in helping the many tribal members who suffer from diabetes and also focusing on water quality. "There's a lot of farming in the area, and the nitrates get in to the water. It heightens the acidity level and makes people sick," Nelson says. He was surprised to be one of the scholarship recipients, but CWU anthropology professor Tracy Andrews wasn't. Andrews is the Morris K. Udall Foundation campus representative and helped Nelson prepare his application materials. All students interested in applying for the scholarship must work with Andrews. "He's been very hard working and took a lot of initiative in this process," Andrews says. "There were a lot of essay questions, and it takes a proactive student to complete this application." The scholarship was given to 80 students nationally from 66 colleges this year. Five of those students hail from the state of Washington. The winners were selected from among 515 candidates with four of them being Native American students who plan to study healthcare. "I was surprised and really happy to get it," Nelson says. "It will help me to pursue my goals. I plan to reapply for it again during my junior year." Media Contact: Tracy Andrews, Department of Anthropology, 509-963-3220,andrewst@cwu.edu
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The Museum of Culture and Environment was established in 1970 and was known as the Museum of Man. Staffing, time, and budgetary constraints led to its closure by the late 1980s. In 2006, work began to establish a new museum in the renovated Dean Hall. The new museum creates bridges between the campus and the community, and explores the ways in which the environment influences people and people affect the environment.
"Perhaps Martha's greatest strength has been her accomplishments in professional and community service. She has been a tireless advocate for science education at the state, regional and national levels…" Johnson wrote in his letter.