Central Washington University
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Volume 1, No. 50
Feb. 9, 2001
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CWU RECEIVES $115,000 NSF GRANT
As many as 20 students will benefit next year from a $115,000 grant Central
Washington University's computer science department received from the
National Science Foundation (NSF).
Students selected for the NSF Computer Science Scholarship Program will
receive an award of $3,125 per year for up to two years. The award can be
used for tuition, books, supplies and/or equipment.
"I see this as providing a wonderful opportunity for students," CWU
computer science Chairman James Schwing said. "This is a high demand
discipline that gives a good background in a growing field."
Schwing added that students are "chomping at the bit" to apply. He expects
that students new to CWU will receive about half the scholarship awards.
"With this kind of money available, students might consider CWU who might
not have previously," Schwing said. "We will also give current students a
fair chance."
A computer science department committee, chaired by professor Edward
Gellenbeck, will review applications, which are due by March 23.
Schwing thinks the NSF scholarships are an excellent opportunity to
increase the visibility of CWU's computer science program in western
Washington. CWU plans recruiting visits to westside community colleges.
"To me, this is one of the most thrilling grants that I've seen come to the
College of the Sciences in my tenure as dean," Barney Erickson, dean of the
CWU College of the Sciences, said. It is totally student focused.
"This is the type of thing that an institution like Central needs to help
with better student/faculty relationships," Erickson added. "What better
recruitment tool can we get then scholarships for students."
Schwing said he had a good idea in November that his grant proposal would
be successful, but didn't find out officially until January.
Scholarship recipients will be assigned faculty and peer mentors, and will
participate in an enhancement program to foster successful completion of
their computer science degrees.
One scholarship requirement is that students demonstrate financial need,
which is defined as eligibility for the U.S. Department of Education Pell
Grant.
"I am pleased for the students," Schwing said. "This will be wonderful for
them."
Information about the scholarship program and the CWU computer science
department is available at www.cwu.edu/cs_dept, by e-mail at
gellenbe@cwu.edu or by telephone at 509-963-1495.
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CWU EMPLOYEES
Civil Service new hires: Dawn Anderson, Office Assistant III, College of
Arts & Humanities; Robin Anderson, Conference Coordinator II, Residential &
Conference Services; and Megan Riebe, Informational Specialist II, Office
of Development.
Civil Service job changes: Shellie Snyder, Fiscal Technician II,
Accounting; and John Streepy, Media Assistant III, Library.
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NOTICE CORNER
CWU employees may donate leave to a fellow employee who is severely ill
or injured or has a family member who is severely ill or injured.
"Severely" is defined as serious or extreme and/or life threatening.
Recipients must be off work and have used all their paid leave to be
eligible. Employees who wish to receive shared leave must notify human
resources and submit a doctor's certificate.
The following individuals are in need of shared leave: Larry Charles
(Facilities Management), and Shirley Speer (Teacher Education).
Individuals interested in donating leave should request a Shared Leave
donation form from human resources. Copies may also be downloaded from the
HR Forms section of the human resources home page. Requests must be
approved by your supervisor before forwarding the form to human resources.
Donated leave is also subject to approval by your department head and human
resources.
Annual leave may be donated in eight-hour blocks. Employees who wish to
donate annual leave must retain at least 10 days (80 hours) of vacation
leave and cannot donate excess leave (that over 30 days or 240 hours) that
he/she would otherwise lose at the beginning of the leave anniversary month.
Sick leave may also be donated in eight-hour blocks. The donating employee
must retain a minimum of 480 hours sick leave balance after the transfer.
No more than six days of sick leave may be transferred during any 12-month
period.
An employee's personal holiday may also be donated.
Please call human resources (963-1202), if you need a shared leave donation
form.
To welcome the year of the Snake in 2001, The Asian Performing Arts
Theater presents the Seventh China In Dance series "Legends of the
Dynasties," Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in McConnell Auditorium.
The Asian Performing Arts Theater has selected a series of dances featuring
the historical legends of the representative dynasties in China for the
last 5,000 years, including the Tang Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty and
Qing Dynasty. The dance performances also adapt the dance culture of
Mongolian, Han and Korean styles.
The performance of 10 dance recitals combines the art of classical Chinese
music and colorful costumes, artistic impression, multimedia presentation
as well as martial arts and acrobatics in dance.
The Chinese Dance Troupe consists of 36 dancers specially invited from
Beijing Dance Academy of China. Twelve performers are award winners of
dance competitions in China
Tickets are $10 general and $5 students.
A retirement reception for Victor F. Marx, a CWU professor of
librarianship, is planned for Thursday, Feb. 15 from 3-5 p.m. in the second
floor Library staff lounge. Marx has more than 30 years of service at CWU.
Refreshments of hors d'oeuvres, cake, punch, and coffee will be served.
Graduate assistantship applications for summer quarter 2001 and for the
2001-2002 academic year are due by Feb. 15 in the office of graduate
studies and research, Barge 305. Applications and information can be
obtained in Barge 305, or by calling 963-3103. Graduate students who are
currently employed as graduate assistants also need to submit an
application by Feb. 15 if they are interested in obtaining an assistantship
for next year. Graduate students interested in the assistantship program
are also requested to submit a financial aid application available in the
financial aid office.
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CENTRALIGHTS
(Editor's note: Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit information to
the Centralights section. Please let us know what you are doing
professionally. If possible, please e-mail to campusbullet@cwu.edu).
CHEN Lin, Visiting Exchange Scholar/Artist from Anhui University, PRC, and
Cynthia KRIEBLE, Art, have co-curated "Mo Yun Shi / Ink, Rhythm, Poetry:
Contemporary Traditional Paintings from China (Five Artists from Anhui
Province)," which will open at the Bank of America Gallery in Seattle on
Thursday, Feb. 22, and run through March 30. A large number of Chen Lin's
paintings will be featured in this exhibition, which will reopen April 9 at
CWU Sarah Spurgeon Art Gallery.
In conjunction with the painting exhibition, a grant recently awarded by
the Blakemore Foundation in support of Asian Fine Arts in the U.S. will
enable all the artists to come from China for a three-week residency on
Central's campus April 5-25. They will be participants in a program of
artists' lectures, studio workshops and a symposium on Chinese painting
open to the university community.
Vijay SINGH, Music, performed as part of the "Jumpin' January Jazz" concert
series in Midland, Mich., Jan. 12-13. Singh and his a cappella jazz
quartet "Just 4 Kicks" sold out the Midland Center For the Arts and
received high accolades from music critics and reviewers in attendance. He
also performed a recital of American war songs in Yakima for the Yakima
Symphony Orchestra/Yakima Valley Museum's fundraising campaign "Drawing
Room Diversions" series.
Two poems by Mark HALPERIN, English, appear in the latest number of the
"Nebraska Review." They are titlet "Advice," and "New Money," the latter
in two parts.
Douglas RYDER, Academic Facilities, received a plaque from the Phoenix
Economic Development Group Jan. 26, 2001. Ryder served as chair of the
21-member board last year. In his term as chair, the group completed an
airport industrial park feasibility study, a business retention and
expansion report and designed and awarded a contract for the 10,000 square
foot, first phase of an airport industrial facility at Bowers Field.
Phoenix Economic Development Group is a private, non-profit corporation
whose mission is to provide leadership that stimulates business and
promotes economic opportunities to support the needs of Kittitas County.
To learn more about the Phoenix Group click on: http://www.kvalley.com/phoenix/
The Edward Elgar Press has published two articles by Richard MACK, Graduate
Studies, Research and Faculty, in "The Economics of Industrial Water Use,"
edited by Steven Renzetti of Brock University, Canada. The works are:
Chapter 7, "Valuation of Water in Industrial Uses"; and Chapter 12,
"Valuing Water for Inland Waterways Navigation." The chapters are
co-authored with R.A. Young of Colorado State University.
Carol BUTTERFIELD, Teacher Education Programs, and Kay PRATHER, Curriculum
& Supervision, presented at the 28th Southwest International Reading
Association Regional Conference in Albuquerque, N.M., Feb. 1. Their
presentation was titled "Recasting Comprehension: Dueling Strategies for
Multicultural and ESL Learners."
Karyl K. CARLSON, Music, incorporated a series of workshops for the CWU
Chamber Choir in conjunction with L.A. Dodgers sports psychologist James
Kremmel. The sessions addressed issues of performance anxiety, performance
enhancement, and ways to achieve an optimal performance state.
Also, Carlson will conduct the Olympic College Choral Festival on Feb. 21
in Bremerton. She and Vijay Singh will conduct the day-long rehearsal,
culminating in an evening concert with Carlson conducting the featured CWU
Chamber Choir and the combined Festival Choir.
The CWU Chamber Choir participated in the Collegiate Choral Festival, which
features the select ensembles of many of Washington's universities and
colleges, at the University of Puget.
Craig JOHNSON, IET, is co-author of a paper to be presented at the 2001 TMS
Annual Meeting Feb. 12-15. Principal author David Bahr and graduate
students M. Pang and D. Rodriguez-Marik are from WSU where the work took
place. On an American Chemical Society Summer Fellowship Grant, Nelson
developed the stress corrosion test system that enabled the research.
This work supports oil pipeline protection and the resulting paper is
titled "The Effects of Solution Chemistry on Passive Film Fracture and
Stress Corrosion."
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UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Art Exhibit: CWU Art Department Faculty Exhibition, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
weekdays and noon to 3 p.m. weekends, Spurgeon Gallery in Randall Hall,
through Feb. 23
Meeting: CWU Board of Trustees, 1 p.m., Barge 412
Natural Science Seminar: "Stress and Coping in Primates: A Comparative
Perspective," by Megan Matheson, CWU Psychology, 4 p.m., Science Building
147
Wrestling: CWU vs. Simon Fraser, 7 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Theatre: "Oklahoma!" directed by Michael J. Smith, 8 p.m., McConnell
Auditorium, $15, $7 students/seniors
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Wrestling: Northwest Conference Championship, all day
Basketball: CWU women vs. Alaska Anchorage, 5 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Basketball: CWU men vs. Humboldt State, 7 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Theatre: "Oklahoma!" 8 p.m., McConnell Auditorium, $15 general, $7
students/seniors
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Faculty Recital: John Pickett, piano, 2 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Random Acts of Kindness Week
Beethoven Concert: CWU Orchestra, conducted by Paul-Elliott Cobbs,
"Beethoven Symphony No. 5," 8 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Classic Film Series: "The Third Man" (Britain, 1949, B&W, 104 min.), 7
p.m., McConnell Auditorium, $2.50
Beethoven Series: Second Tuesday Faculty Series, 7:30 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Leadership and Diversity Lecture Series: "Opportunities for Diversity and
Challenges for Change," by Onofre Contreras, Washington Commission on
Hispanic Affairs, 3:30 p.m., Shaw-Smyser 115, sponsored by CWU School of
Business and Economics
China in Dance: 7:30 p.m., McConnell Auditorium, $5 students, $10 general
Papa John's Coffeehouse: Brian Owen, 8 p.m., SUB
Guest Piano Recital: Eduart Zilberkart, 8 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
CWU Higher Education Day in Olympia
Retirement Reception: for Victor F. Marx, a professor of librarianship
with more than 30 years of service at Central, 3-5 p.m., second floor
Library lounge
Composer's Concert: Kristin Korb and Mark Polishook, 8 p.m., Hertz
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Presidents' Day Holiday
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Geology Seminar Series: "Earthquakes and Eruptions on Kilauea Volcano," by
Professor Susan Owen, University of Southern California, noon, Lind 215
Classic Film Series: "The Phantom of the Opera" (U.S., 1925, B&W, 90
min.), accompanied by composer/pianist Robert Israel, 7 p.m., McConnell
Auditorium, $2.50
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Meeting: Faculty Senate, 3:10 p.m., Barge 412
Reino & Naomi Randall Art Lecture Series: "Contemporary Visions in
Traditional Chinese Painting," a slide presentation of his own work by
Professor Chen Lin, Visiting Exchange Scholar/Artist from Anhui University,
People's Republic of China, 7 p.m., Department of Art, Randall Hall 117
Papa John's Coffeehouse: Dana Robinson, 8 p.m., SUB
Concert: CWU Percussion Ensemble, directed by Andrew Spencer, 8 p.m.,
Hertz Recital Hall
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Basketball: CWU women vs. Western Washington, 5 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Basketball: CWU men vs. Northwest Nazarene, 7 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Natural Science Seminar: "A Meteorologist Does Quantitative Research:
Summarizing the Three-Year, CWU Community Values Project," by James
Huckabay, CWU Geography and Land Studies, 4 p.m., Science Building 147
Concert: Jazz Night 2, directed by Kristin Korb, 8 p.m., Hertz Hall
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Basketball: CWU women vs. Seattle Pacific, 5 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Basketball: CWU men vs. Seattle University, 7 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Concert: CWU Trumpet Choir, directed by Tom Gause, 3 p.m., Hertz Hall
Concert: CWU Brass Choir, directed by Jeff Snedeker and Tom Gause, 8 p.m.,
Hertz Recital Hall
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Art Exhibit: Farrell Scholarship Exhibit, by John Holmgren, photography,
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and noon to 3 p.m. weekends, Spurgeon
Gallery in Randall Hall, through March 2
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Geology Seminar Series: "The Co-Seismic Displacement Fields for the 1992
Landers and 1999 Hector Mine Earthquakes, from Regional GPS Observations,
by Ken Austin, CWU, noon, Lind 215
Classic Film Series: "Chac the Rain God" (Mexico, 1975, color, 95 min.), 7
p.m., McConnell Auditorium, $2.50
Concert: CWU Wind Ensemble, directed by Larry Gookin, 8 p.m., Hertz
Recital Hall
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Fair: Spa Day and Health & Fitness Fair, SUB
Papa John's Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., SUB
Concert: CWU Symphonic Band, directed by Larry Gookin, 8 p.m., Hertz
Recital Hall
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
Wind Ensemble Festival: all day, Hertz Hall, through March 3
Basketball: CWU women vs. Northwest Nazarene, 5 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Concert: Faculty Brass Quintet, 8 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Beethoven Series: First Friday Brown Bag, noon, Hal Holmes Center, Ellensburg
Basketball: CWU men vs. St. Martin's, 7 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
Basketball: CWU women vs. Seattle University, 5 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Comedy Night: 8 p.m., SUB Club Central
Beethoven Concert: CWU Orchestra, "Beethoven Symphony No. 9," with the CWU
Chamber Choir and Yakima Symphony Chorus, 8 p.m., Hertz Hall
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