September 2001   

Dear Colleagues,

In this inaugural issue of “The Chronicle” of the College of Liberal Arts for the 2001-2002 academic year, I am pleased to outline for you some important features of the year ahead for Liberal Arts.

As was announced in late July, the College of Liberal Arts was awarded a fiscal year budget totaling 100.8% of our operating budget for the previous year.  This funding was made possible through the University-wide budget planning process and our internal reallocation of resources. It represents the best funding package that we have had in the past three years.  With new and reallocated funds, the College of Liberal Arts’ budget will support this year:

• up to 23 searches for new and replacement faculty positions—Three new positions have been established in Anthropology, Communication and Speech and Hearing Sciences.
• a new faculty administrative position, the Director of General Studies—The faculty member selected for this position will coordinate the academic offerings in General Studies, including certificate programs; the search will begin in early fall.
• a restored position for the College of Liberal Arts student recruiter—This search is in progress.
• funding for graduate assistantships and temporary instruction—The College received $500,000 in temporary funds to support instruction.
• omnibus equipment funds for classroom equipment and faculty computers—With $600,000 in equipment funds we have purchased 145 computers for student labs and faculty and staff offices, as well as equipment for laboratories, theatre and music.

I want to thank our department chairs and the faculty members of our Dean’s Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation who assisted in the budget process this year.  As a result of their careful planning, we are able to meet several of the goals of our College Strategic Plan and maintain and enhance the excellent work of our academic programs.

This fall will also mark progress on several college-wide projects. Planning will begin in earnest this year for the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies, an initiative for which the College will seek funding as a University-sponsored federal funding priority.  If you are interested in joining a planning team for this effort, please contact or encourage others to contact my office (bcouture@wsu.edu) and include your office phone number and e-mail address.  In conjunction with this project, on Sept. 14 the College will host representatives from the U. of Idaho, Montana State U. and Oregon State U. for a second meeting to discuss ways that our institutions might collaborate to support Indian studies and support services for Native American students.

Also, this fall we will continue exploring opportunities to establish an advising center to serve Liberal Arts and Sciences students.  University officers who are assisting us in our planning include our new Vice President for Student Affairs, Charlene Jaeger, and Director of Enrollment Management, Jim Rimpau; Director of SALC, Al Jamison; and Dean Lee Radziemski. If you have thoughts to share with us about this concept or would like to become involved in the planning, please contact me.

We start the new academic year with several faculty celebrating grant funding for new projects, among them: Timothy Kohler, $920,000; Karen Lupo, $60,000; and Loren Lutzenhiser, $1.2 million.  Associate Dean John Kicza invites you to consider joining one or more of over a dozen faculty workgroups that are devoted to interdisciplinary research and curriculum projects in the College.  Workgroups will soon be accessible from our College Web site.

Also in development this year are a number of new curricular options, including a proposal to offer the Electronic Media and Culture General Studies option as a separate degree, a new MA in Philosophy (with U. Idaho), and a new MA in History (with Portland State U.) at our Vancouver campus.  Please see Associate Dean Marina Tolmacheva for details.

On October 26, the College of Liberal Arts will be hosting the fall meeting of our College Advisory Council, a group of over 20 prominent leaders in business, government and industry who have committed their time and effort to work in support of our academic programs.  Our Council members also will be joining us for our second Authors’ Recognition Ceremony, to be scheduled that day.

As a result of the success of our College Development efforts last year, we exceeded our goal of raising $3 million.  With monies contributed for the Dean’s Excellence Fund, the College significantly increased its distribution of college-level scholarships.  The fund also enabled us to establish this academic year two new annual College awards: the College Fellow award, to be awarded to a faculty member who will receive $2,000 for each of two years; and an Innovation Award, to be awarded to a department or program and funded at $5,000 for one year. Details regarding award criteria and application procedures will be released soon.

With each issue of our College “Chronicle” this year, I will update you on our progress on these and other College activities.  I urge you to attend President Rawlins’ upcoming All-University Address at 3 p.m. on Sept. 20 for important news about University initiatives.

In closing, I invite you to take some time to review in this issue the exciting accomplishments of our faculty who advanced their research, creative and scholarly projects this past summer.

I look forward to a productive year ahead, working together with all of you.

Barbara Couture
Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Please join us in welcoming Ellen Arnold to the Dean’s Office. Ellen, who comes to us from Distance Degree Programs, will be filling Carolyn Hood’s former position as Assistant to the Dean. Her first day will be Sept. 14.

Loren Lutzenhiser (Sociology) has been awarded a $1.2 million grant by the California Energy Commission to conduct a comprehensive study of energy conservation by California households and businesses.

Alex Kuo (Comparative American Cultures, English) has been appointed the University’s first Writer-in-Residence. The position, within the College of Liberal Arts, will permit him to devote more time to his own writing while continuing to teach creative writing. Kuo recently completed his sixth book, a collection of short stories called Lipstick, which has been nominated for an American Book Award. His other most recent books are a novel, Chinese Opera, and a book of poems titled This Fierce Geography.

James Schoepflin (Music) served as adjudicator for the final round of the International Clarinet Associa-tion’s Young Artist Competition in New Orleans on Aug. 18. This competition annually selects a world champion young clarinetist from a field of pre-screened finalists.

Gene Rosa (Sociology) was elected to the Sociological Research Association, founded in 1936 as an association that honors sociologists for outstanding research and scholarship. In addition, his nomination to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Principles and Operational Strategies for Staged Repository Systems has been approved by the National Research Council. The committee’s tenure is for one year, at the end of which its charge is to produce a National Academy report on a topic of urgent national concern, the process for democratic disposition of nuclear waste.

Christopher Lupke (Foreign Languages and Literatures) has received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to conduct research in China and Taiwan for the coming school year. The grant will enable him to complete his manuscript, Lilacs from the Dead Land: Modernity, Postcoloniality, and Diaspora in Chinese Literature, 1942-1995.

Paul Strand (Psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) was named an associate editor of the Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Camille Roman (English) presented a paper at the International D.H. Lawrence Conference in Naples, Italy, in June entitled “Lawrence’s Lesbian Legacy to Elizabeth Bishop in the Love Lyric.” This paper established for the first time Lawrence’s influence on Bishop.
    Roman is also offering a course this fall in modern American poetry she developed with a 2000-2001 cultural diversity mini-grant from the University. The class will investigate the wide variety of poetry written in the United States from 1900 to 1945 by African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Latinos and Native Americans.

Lori Wiest (Music) participated in the American Choral Directors Association Leadership Conference in August as the National Chair of Youth and Student Activities. She delivered a presentation to the state and district presidents of ACDA suggesting ways to nationally mentor recent choral music education graduates as they begin their teaching careers. Washington was one of the states selected at the conference for the pilot program.

Paige Ouimette (Psychology) has been awarded two mini-grants from the Office of the Provost: one for “Increasing Coverage of American Diversity Issues in PSY/WST 230 Human Sexuality” in the amount of $2,000, and one for “Alcohol Abuse and Violence Prevention Curriculum Infusion for Human Sexuality” worth $750. In August she co-presented “Predicting Long-Term Remission Course Among Patients with Posttraumatic and Substance Use Disorders” at a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco.

Don Dillman (Sociology) gave the keynote address to the opening session of the 100th anniversary meeting of the Swedish Statistical Society in Kalmar, Sweden, on Aug. 8. Dillman also taught a short course on designing Web surveys.

Carol Ivory (Fine Arts) has been offered an appointment as Museum Curatorial Associate at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle in recognition of her continuing efforts in the Anthropology Division.

Thomas Brigham (Psychology) presented with several current and former graduate students at the meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis in New Orleans in May. He gave two posters with Dana Lindemann (PhD candidate), “A scale to assess the relation between condom use skills and other condom related variables” and “The effects of teaching on the behavior of peer instructors,” and a poster on “Evaluation of a course treating multiethnic groups to reduce high-risk drinking and sexual behaviors” with Duane Isava (MS ‘00), Colin Peeler (PhD ‘00) and Ryan Sain (MA candidate).

Tim Kohler (Anthropology) was an invited speaker at a small colloquium in Abisko, Sweden, in May entitled “A Workshop on Emergence, Transformation, and Decay in Socio-Natural Systems.” The meeting was held at a research station run by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences about 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. Kohler’s paper was entitled “Information Flows in Computational Approaches to the Evolution of Cooperation.” This was the second in a series of three workshops that will culminate in a publication through the Santa Fe Institute.

James Short (professor emeritus, Sociology) and Gene Rosa (Sociology) made two invited plenary co-presentations, “Publics, Organizations and Institutions: The Importance of Context in Siting Decisions” and “Some Principles for Siting Controversy Decisions: Lessons from the U.S. Experience with High Level Nuclear Waste,” at the International Multidisci-plinary Conference on New Perspectives on Siting Controversy, held May 17-20 in Glumslov, Sweden.

Gregory Yasinitsky (Music) is the recipient of a 2001-2002 ASCAP award for music composition. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers make these awards to assist and encourage writers of serious music. They are granted by an independent panel and are based on the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog as well as recent performance activity.
  This fall, Yasinitsky begins his second year of a three-year residency as Composer-in-Residence with Clarkston High School. The residency is funded by the Commission Project of New York.

Karen Lupo and Dave N. Schmitt (both Anthropology) recently received an L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Grant and National Science Foundation Grant to continue their research among Bofi foragers in the Central African Republic. The research is on meat-sharing and the archaeological record.

T.V. Reed, director of American Studies, has been appointed co-chair of the 2002 American Studies Association’s national convention program.

Cornell Clayton (Political Science) gave an invited lecture entitled “Learning from State Constitutional History” to the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society at the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., in March. He also presented a paper, “Politics and the Legal Administrative States,” at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association in Budapest, Hungary, in July.

Gail Chermak (Speech and Hearing Sciences) presented at a one-day invited workshop for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, educators and physicians on auditory processing disorder, held in June at the Kapi’olani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. In August she gave two lectures on differential diagnosis and management of auditory processing disorder and attention deficit disorders at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Current Perspectives on Auditory Processing Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Conference.

Paul Brians’ (English) Web site “Common Errors in English” was cited in Yahoo!’s coverage of the National Spelling Bee in May. A link to the site was placed in a sidebar of “Related Web Sites.” The “Common Errors” site may be found at the following URL: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

Paula Williams (Psychology) received a WSU New Faculty Seed Grant for her project “Individual differences in self-assessed health: A prospective examination of mechanisms and health behavior outcomes.”

Louis Gray (Sociology) is spending this academic year as a visiting professor at Bowling Green State University.

Amy Mooney (Fine Arts) delivered a lecture in Chicago at the Terra Museum of American Art on Aug. 8. Her presentation, entitled “Conflating Countenance with Class,” dealt with portraits by Chicago artist Archi-bald J. Motley, Jr. Mooney was awarded the PhD in Art History from Rutgers University last April. She has published works on Motley, as well as other African American artists, and has delivered several public lectures, including one at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art entitled “Presenting the Self: Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Approach to Portraiture.”

Dave Demers (Communication) has joined the editorial board of the Journal for Media Economics, a refereed journal published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associ-ates. Demers is also a member of the editorial board of the Newspaper Research Journal. He is on sabbatical this semester, writing a mass communication textbook for Allyn & Bacon.

Gene Rosa (Sociology) was interviewed in May by STT, the Finnish News Service, and by YLE public radio on the potential of reviving public acceptance of nuclear power in the United States and on the comparison in public acceptability of the nuclear waste solution in the United States and Finland.

In May Linda Kittell’s (English) poetry was featured on National Public Radio’s show “The Connection.” Guests included Don Zimmer, Eliot Asinof and Elinor Nauen, who read Kittell’s “What Baseball Tells Us About Love” at the request of NPR. This followed the fifth printing of Roger Angell’s New Yorker article “In the Country,” which includes an extended literary conversation on baseball with Kittell.

Kevin Haas (Fine Arts) has curated the exhibit titled “Boundless” for the Northwest Print Council in Portland, Ore. The exhibit includes six contemporary artists from across the United States and runs from Sept. 4 to Oct. 31.

Yolanda Flores Niemann (Comparative American Cultures, WSU Tri-Cities) has been appointed to the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs.  The appointment is effective immediately and will continue until Aug. 2, 2002. Niemann’s priorities in her work with the commission will be to facilitate quality education in general and higher education opportunities for all Hispanics in the state.

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication selected Erica Austin (Communication) to receive the 2001 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, one of the association’s highest honors. The award was created to honor faculty members in journalism or mass communication who have made outstanding contributions in teaching, research and public service. The award carries a $1,000 cash prize.
 Austin has also agreed to serve on the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Media Literacy Guidelines Panel. The panel will aid the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign by helping “identify the best ways to use media literacy as a tool for drug prevention education.”

Last April, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra recorded Charles Argersinger’s (Music) recent composition for string trio entitled “The Seven Deadly Sins.” The recording should be available on CD later this year.

As part of the Office of Student Programs’ summer lecture series, Nooners on the Lawn, John Irby (Communication) led a discussion in June called “Media Ethics: An Oxymoron?” on the ethical dilemmas journalists face.

Paul Whitney (Psychology) gave an invited address at Bowdoin College in June, “Beyond Cognitive Styles: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Understanding Impediments to Conceptual Change.”

Sue Peabody (History, WSU Vancouver) was Faculty Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University in April. She presented a public talk there entitled “Slave, Subject, Citizen: Gender and the Transition to Freedom in the French Caribbean, 1635-1800.” She is currently at work on an edited collection, The Color of Freedom: Histories of Race in France, forthcoming from Duke, and a new book on slaves’ suits for freedom in the Atlantic World.

James Short (professor emeritus, Sociology) chaired a session on “Social Aspects of Risk” at the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) annual meetings Aug. 17-21 in Anaheim, Calif. Also, at the request of the ASA, Jim organized and chaired a panel entitled “Officially Retire: Hardly Retiring” at the same meetings.

Nicholas Lovrich (Political Science) and Stephen Ziegler (PhD candidate, Political Science) have been named national Mayday scholars in the study of legal and political barriers to pain relief for cancer and non-cancer patients in the United States. Although physicians admit that their pain management practices have been lacking, they nevertheless fear that dispensing heightened levels of opioid analgesics for both cancer and non-cancer patients will result in a criminal investigation or prosecution by local prosecutors. The study will survey prosecutors from Connecticut, Oregon and Washington in an effort to assess empirically whether the fear is based in reality. Their research is sponsored by the Mayday Fund of New York and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics of Boston.

Amy Mazur (Political Science) will spend this semester at the University of the Ruhr in Bochum, Germany. She has been appointed to the Marie-Jahoda Chair in International Women’s Studies. She will teach classes in her area of expertise (government gender policies and institutions) and travel extensively in Germany to give talks and lectures.

The Fine Arts Department is hosting 20 Japanese exchange students and two professors from the College of Art at Nihon University.  The Japanese visitors will be at WSU from Aug. 21 through Sept. 19. The students will attend Fine Arts studio classes, art history lectures and English classes at the Intensive American Language Center.

Patty Sias’ (Communication) organizational communication class completed their audit of internal communication at WSU and presented their report to President Rawlins, Ron Hopkins, Sally Savage and other University officials in May.

Carol Ivory (Fine Arts) has been re-elected vice president of the Pacific Arts Association, representing the North American members. She attended PAA’s 6th International Symposium in Noumea, New Caledonia, in July, where she gave a paper, “The Fifth Marquesan Arts Festival.” In June, she again lectured on the freighter/cruise ship Aranui in the Marquesas Islands.

Gene Rosa (Sociology) and Richard York (MA candidate, Sociology), with Tome Dietz of George Mason University, presented the paper “Modernization and the Environment: Modeling the Impacts of Economic Development” at the conference New Natures, New Cultures, New Technologies at Fitzwill-iam College, Cambridge University, in July.

Jack Dollhausen (Fine Arts) has received an honors commission from King County to do a piece for the new Regional Justice Center in Kent, Wash.

A book by Eloy Gonzalez (Foreign Languages and Literatures), La conclusión del Amadís de Gaula: Las Sergas de Esplandián de Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (The Conclusion of the Amadis de Gaule: The Exploits of Esplandián by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo), was released this summer by Scripta Humanistica. The Exploits is a Spanish chivalric romance of the 16th century.

Paige Ouimette (Psychology) co-authored a chapter, “A comparative, process-effectiveness evaluation of VA substance abuse treatment,” in Recent Developments in Alcoholism: Services Research in the Era of Managed Care, printed by Plenum Publishing.

Gene Rosa’s (Sociology) new book, Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action, co-authored with Carlo C. Jaeger, Ortwin Renn and Thomas Webler, has been published by Earthscan Press.

Robert Helm’s (professor emeritus, Fine Arts) paintings illustrating the publication Dream Prints were featured July 5-28 at the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Ore.

Gail Chermak (Speech and Hearing Sciences) had an article, “Auditory processing disorder: An overview for the clinician,” published in the July issue of the Hearing Journal.

Forthcoming in Social Forces is an article by Amy Wharton and Mary Blair-Loy (both Sociology) entitled “Employees’ Use of Family-Responsive Policies and the Workplace Social Context.”

An anthology co-edited by Rachel Halverson (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Textual Responses to German Unification: Processing Historical and Social Change in Literature and Film, has been published by Walter De Gruyter of Germany. She also wrote one of the articles in the book, “Comedic Bestseller or Insightful Satire: Taking the Interview and Autobiography to Task in Thomas Brussig’s Helden wie wir.”

Leonard Burns (Psychology) and colleagues published an article in the August issue of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology on the organizational structure of the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.

Along with their collaborator Michelle Illuminato, Emily Blair and Phuong Nguyen (both Fine Arts) exhibited part of their “Personal Landmarks” project in June in the gallery of the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, and also gave a presentation on their work. The three also exhibited their installation “Invisible Spaces” at the N-Space Gallery as part of the annual SIGGRAPH conference, which took place in Los Angeles during August. In addition, they discussed their work on the SIGGRAPH panel “Embodied Spaces.”

Thomas Brigham (Psychology) co-authored an article published in the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, “An analysis of the effects of a program to reduce heavy drinking among college students.”

Gregory Yasinitsky’s (Music) article “Selecting Music for Developing Jazz Bands” will be published in the September issue of the Instrumentalist. He has also had two new books published: For Saxes Only: 10 Jazz Duets for Saxophone, music composed and arranged by Yasinitsky with a CD featuring Yasinitsky on saxophone, published by Warner Brothers; and Blues for Kids, a collection of pieces by Yasinitsky for young pianists with a CD featuring Gerald Berthiaume (Music) on piano, published by Advance Music (Germany).
  Yasinitsky has also had five new jazz band compositions published by Kendor Music, including “Blue Note” and “Put It on My Tab,” and new arrangements of “Groovin’ High” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” published by Warner Brothers Music. His recent commissions include pieces for the Seattle Youth Jazz Ensemble, the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Music Educators Association and the University of New Hampshire Jazz Band.

Marcel Wingate’s (professor emeritus, Speech and Hearing Sciences) letter to the editor, “SLD is not stuttering,” was published in the April issue of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Paul Strand (Psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) co-authored an article, “The impact of behavior-specific and behavior-nonspecific reinforcement on child compliance to mother directives,” published in the September issue of Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Ann Christenson (Fine Arts) and Sandra Deutchman (professor emeritus, Fine Arts) will open an exhibition of their recent works at the Pritchard Art Gallery in Moscow, Idaho, on Sept. 7 from 5-8 p.m. The show will continue through Oct. 3.

A book edited by Amy Mazur (Political Science), State Feminism, Women’s Movements, and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy, will be out this fall with Routledge.

Mary Blair-Loy (Sociology) and Gretchen DeHart (PhD candidate, Sociology) have a forthcoming article in the Journal of Family Issues entitled “Family and Career Trajectories Among African American Female Attorneys.” Another article by Blair-Loy, titled “Cultural Constructions of Family Schemas: The Case of Women Executives,” will appear in the October issue of Gender and Society.

Tamara Helm’s (Fine Arts) paintings were introduced at the Esther Claypool Gallery in Seattle Aug. 1-25. During June and July, Tamara’s work was featured at the Seattle Art Museum as part of the “Surrogates” exhibition.

Susan Armitage (History) is co-editor of the “Women in American History” series of books published by the University of Illinois Press.

A new publication by a former PhD student in Psychology/Neuropsychology, Dr. Eniko Kramar, just appeared in the journal Brain Research. This paper represents the first on long-term potentiation (LTP) from the Department of Psychology. LTP is thought to represent the basic building block of memory formation and is being used in Jay Wright’s (Psychology) laboratory to evaluate animal models of Alzheimer’s Disease and sleep disorders.

Claudia Reyes-Quilodran (PhD candidate, Political Science) was invited to attend the 39th Graduate Study Programme, “Youth and the United Nations: A Partnership for the Future,” organized by the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in July. The three-week-long workshop brought together 69 students from many countries to learn about the United Nations and human rights, development and environmental issues. Reyes-Quilodran, who worked in Chile as a counselor of torture victims before joining the Political Science graduate program, participated in the human rights section. She plans to do her dissertation on human rights violations—why they occur and what motivates people who commit them—with a focus on Chile.

Washington State University students made a fine showing at the recent Greater Spokane Music and Allied Arts Festival. Junior in flute performance Sophia Tegart won three gold medals. As the winner of the young artist section of the flute division, Tegart appeared as a soloist with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. She also won a gold medal in the orchestral excerpts section of the flute division and a gold medal in the ensemble section of the reed division with the four other members of the WSU Student Woodwind Quintet: Sarah Wilson, clarinet; Sara Blake, oboe; Adam Zahand, bassoon; and Joe Marquiss, French horn. Ann Yasinitsky (Music) is Tegart’s teacher and coach of the quintet. This year the festival drew student competitors from as far away as Boston as well as Utah, Montana, Oregon, Idaho and the greater Seattle area. In all the various divisions there were over 1700 entrants in the festival.

Wendy Montgomery (MA candidate) received the award for the 2001 Outstanding Graduate Student in Speech and Hearing Sciences, recognizing her extra efforts in the classroom and clinic, during the Washington State University Spokane spring commencement ceremonies. Said Professor Gail Chermak (Speech and Hearing Sciences), “She studies hard and supplements class work with other sources to gain a higher level of understanding. In the clinical area, Wendy puts others at ease, demonstrating compassion and empathy, as well as a high level of professionalism when dealing with patients.” After graduating, Montgomery plans to pursue a career as a clinical audiologist.

Already serving on the City of Pullman Board of Adjustments, Darren Eastman (undergraduate, Communication) has now been named a member of the WSU Board of Regents. His one-year term began June 1. Eastman is the fourth student regent in WSU’s history.

Ann Porter’s (Fine Arts) mixed media “Tasty Wear” series will be exhibited at the ArtWear 2001 show in Fort Collins, Colo., and will be on display from Aug. 17 to Sept. 10. Porter’s entry entitled “Household Hints” has won GENDERPLEX, a competition sponsored by the San Jose, Calif., Art League. The resulting exhibition opened Aug. 17 with artist’s reception and ran through Sept. 1. One of her pieces has also been accepted into an exhibition entitled “Beefcake/Cheesecake,” which will run at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, Calif., during the month of September.

Nesaraj Vamadevan (MA candidate, Sociology) was selected by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies to attend an expenses paid workshop in July at Yale University titled “Experiments in the Social Sciences.”

A manuscript by Bryan Burke (PhD candidate, Sociology), entitled “Hardin Revisited: A Critical Look at Perception and the Logic of the Commons,” has been accepted for publication in Human Ecology and will appear in a forthcoming issue.

Jeff Crane (PhD candidate, History) has won a lucrative research grant to write an environmental and architectural history of a biological research facility at the University of Missouri. He also won the Pettyjohn Summer Research Fellowship for dissertation support (he will defend his dissertation in December). In addition, an article based on his master’s thesis has been accepted for publication in COLUMBIA magazine, the official journal of the Washington State Historical Society.

The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture selected the joint project of Michael Brown (PhD candidate, History) and Bryce Spencer (MA candidate, History), “Ties That Bind and Lines That Divide: Gender, Class, and Race in Progressive Era Browne’s Addition,” to receive the Joel E. Ferris History Award for 2001.
  The students were members of Janice Rutherford’s (History) spring public history graduate seminar. The class undertook a collaborative project with the museum to provide the historical context from which interpreters would design a new, updated interpretive program for the historic house museum, Campbell House.

Wilbert Fields (Fine Arts) is a senior majoring in Electronic Imaging. Last spring he was recognized as a scholar in the WSU McNair Achievement Program. His Fine Arts faculty advisor is Emily Blair.
  Six of the ten newest McNair Scholars are also College of Liberal Arts majors: Melany Bracking in Psychology, Mike Garcia in Anthropology and Zoology, Cody George in Criminal Justice and Psychology, Tasha Madison in Communication, Jennifer Madrigal in Women’s Studies, and Eva Navarijo in English and Comparative American Cultures.

Until Sept. 15 “Sweep of the Marshes,” paintings by Brenna Helm (BFA ‘97), CUB Gallery.

Until Sept. 21 Current work of University of Idaho MFA students, Fine Arts Gallery II.

Until Oct. 14 “The Raw and the Cooked: A Cabinet of Curiosities from the Collections of Washington State University,” Museum of Art. Panel discussion and opening reception Sept. 4 at the Fine Arts Center, 7 p.m.

Sept. 6, 7 Summer Palace Revival, “Company,” R.R. Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall, 8 p.m. Call 335-7236 for ticket information.

Sept. 10 Foley Institute Lecture, “Irrigation in Uzbekistan and Its Environmental Impact,” Dr. Abdulkhakim Solakhiddinov, Chair of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering and Associate Professor at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (TIIAME) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Todd Hall 302, 4 p.m.

Sept. 11 Foley Institute Lecture, “Getting Elected to Congress,” the Honorable Mike McCormack, ex-U.S. Congressman from Washington State (1970-1980), Todd Hall 434, 11:10 a.m.

Sept. 12 Annual Holland Lecture, “Public Perceptions of Biotechnology,” Dr. Thomas Hoban, Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, co-sponsored by the Foley Institute, the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, and the Department of Rural Sociology, Todd Hall 302, 4-5:30 p.m.

Sept. 20 President Rawlins’ All-University Address, Bryan Hall Theatre, 3 p.m. Reception will follow.

Sept. 20 Faculty Chamber Music, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

Sept. 22 Future Cougar Day/Band Day, Jazz Band Performance, Bryan Hall Theatre, 10:45 a.m.

Sept. 24 - Oct. 14 “Homeostatic Portfolio,” print exhibition from the University of Florida Collection, Fine Arts Gallery II.

Sept. 25 Faculty Recital, Julie Wieck, voice, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

The School of Music and Theatre Arts hosted the Washington State Music Teachers Association State Convention June 24-29. The conference was most successful, with over 150 registered teachers in the association attending and over 100 outstanding students performing in concerts for an enthusiastic audience of parents and teachers. Presenters included teachers from the private sector and faculty from the University of Houston, University of Puget Sound, Seattle Pacific University, Western Washington University, Central Washington University, Walla Walla College and Washington State University.

The WSMTA is now over 100 years in existence and has the second largest membership of any state teachers association in the country. The convention’s featured artist was Nancy Weems, professor of piano at the University of Houston, who performed in Kimbrough Concert Hall.

Forty-one members of the WSU Concert Choir, under the direction of Lori Wiest (Music), recently returned from a two-week concert tour through Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary in May 2001. Julie Wieck (Music) performed as soprano soloist with the choir.

The tour began with a Seattle concert at Plymouth Congregational Church on May 15, prior to the European tour that included Salzburg, Ceske Budejovice, Ceske Krumlov, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Other concerts performed by the Concert Choir took place in Oberndorf and Melk in Austria, and Veseli and Nymburk in the Czech Republic.

The Concert Choir enjoyed tours of each city, a private tour of one of the World War II prisons in the Czech Republic at Terecin, concert attendance at the Prague Music Festival, and a cruise on the Danube River. They also experienced the heartfelt European appreciation for choral music from each audience, resulting in two to three encores at each concert and special receptions and dinners, one of which was attended by the Czech Republic’s Minister of Culture.

One of the most memorable parts of the tour was the concert in Melk, Austria, hosted by the Melk Singverein. The concert included a few Austrian folk songs performed by their choral society, followed by WSU’s concert performance, and concluded with a song the Concert Choir sang with the hosting choir. After the concert, the Melk Singverein performed a beautiful folk dance in the courtyard with candles, accompanied by accordion. At the reception afterward, the Concert Choir members were interested in learning the folk dances. They were invited to participate and were instructed in the intricate dance steps. Dancing and singing in the courtyard continued into the night until reluctant goodbyes were offered to the gracious hosts.

The students of the WSU Concert Choir raised the money for the tour through fundraising opportunities such as ushering at football games and bake sales, as well as extra jobs and parental contributions. At the same time, the Concert Choir, who performed at the 2000 convention of the Washington Music Educators Association and typically tours within the state of Washington, kept up its high level of rehearsals and many performances throughout the school year. The WSU Concert Choir represented Washington State University with pride, beautiful and heartfelt concerts, and a respect and love for the countries visited.

Two of this year’s five first-place Spokane Scholars are planning to attend Washington State University this fall, and both plan to pursue Liberal Arts majors. Jessica Woelke, from Central Valley High School, placed first in the social sciences category and intends to study philosophy and political science. Robyn Brown, of North Central High School, placed first in the fine arts category. She plays the clarinet and plans to major in music performance and music education. The students each received a $3,000 scholarship from the Spokane Scholars Foundation and a matching amount from Washington State University. Both women were 4.0 students and valedictorians of their senior class.

As all who knew Chuck would suspect, Charles H. Sheldon—the Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science—worked on his scholarship on the U.S. courts up until the very last weeks of his life. His final book, Essentials of the American Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Fundamental Law, has just been published by Westview Press—in time to be available for review at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco at the end of August.

Sheldon was under contract with Westview Press to complete this book as part of a series of “primers” in American political institutions when his medical condition made work on the book progressively difficult for him. The series editor, James Thurber of American University, solicited Chuck’s contribution to the series and assisted in extending deadlines for manuscript completion. Chuck’s longtime friend and graduate school colleague Steven Wasby of SUNY Albany completed the final editing of Sheldon’s manuscript as a tribute to his honored friend.

Sheldon’s impact on scholarship in the area of U.S. courts was great indeed, and the posthumous publication of Essentials is certainly a most fitting end to a full and rewarding scholarly career. Few university professors are able to have the kind of impact on their field that Chuck had, and fewer still are able to achieve the kind of legacy of undying respect and affection Chuck has left behind. He is very deeply missed, and his work continues to inspire the less worthy to aspire to his lofty goals and to meet his high personal standards.

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Dean's Office Loses Staff Member

On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 15, Dean’s Office receptionist Bonnie Showalter, 40, suffered a massive heart attack that claimed her life.

Bonnie began working in the College of Liberal Arts in October 2000, where she is remembered as a responsible, hard worker with a lively personality, and one who maintained a solid rapport with her coworkers.

Bonnie left behind her husband, Jay, and two children, Jayson and Jenny. Services were held at Kimball Funeral Home in Pullman Aug. 20.