On Campus
- Faculty and Staff News
September
26,
2003 Vol. 56, No. 14
Former Iowa Gov.
and Drake
President Robert D. Day, BN'52, LW'54, has an exhibit
of photographs titled "Reaching Around the World" on display through
Sept. 30 at the Polk County Heritage Gallery, Polk County Office Building, 111
Court Ave. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Brian
J. Sanders, associate professor of psychology, has received a three-year grant
of $100,000 from NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Using
behavioral, cardiovascular and neurochemical strategies, the project will examine
the role that early life experience plays in modifying the adult response to
stress. Senior Alan Anticevic will assist on some aspects of the project this
year.
Two members of the
Drake community were honored Thursday at the Governor's Volunteer Award Ceremony
at the Ankeny campus of Des Moines Area Community Community
College.
Gov. Tom Vilsack and First Lady Christy Vilsack presented the awards, which are
designed to honor and recognize noteworthy commitment, service and time contributed
to Iowa's state agencies and partnering organizations. Doug Hillman, the Aliber
professor of accounting, was honored for his work with Iowa Prison Industries,
a part of the Department of Corrections. Ray Pugh, professor emeritus of education,
was honored for his work with the Iowa Department of Economic Development.
Russell
Lovell, professor of law, was the featured speaker at the Central Iowa Chapter
of the Society for Human Resource Management Professionals on Sept 18.
He presented a paper on the implications the University of Michigan cases have
for affirmative action in private and public employment. His paper was titled "Breaking
Down the Walls of Exclusion, Enriching the Learning of All, Leveling the Playing
Field, and Preventing Future Discrimination: The Many Missions of Affirmative
Action in a Multi-Racial U.S."
Melissa H. Weresh,
associate professor of legal writing, presented two articles at the Central Region
Legal Writing Conference
on Sept. 13 in St. Louis. The
first presentation focused on unpublished judicial decisions. The second presentation
focused on legal scholarship.
Graham Foust, assistant
professor of English, recently won the second annual Sawtooth Poetry Prize competition.
He was selected for
his manuscript Leave the
Room to Itself. The competition, offered annually by Ahsahta Press, attracted
more than 500 manuscripts from all over the world. The winner of the Sawtooth
Poetry Prize receives $1,500 and publication (in January 2004) by Ahsahta Press.
This is Foust's second collection of poetry. His first, As In Every Deafness,
was published earlier this year.
William S.E. Coleman,
professor emeritus of theatre arts, will discuss his book, Voices of Wounded
Knee, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.
7, in the Cowles Library Reading
Room.
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