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CoLA Weekly

   October 13, 2017
Good news abounds in the School of Music.  
 
 
Steven Aldredge, Music, was recently selected as the winner of the Reformation 500 Choral Composition Competition   sponsored by the South Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).  His winning choral work, O Glorious Word of Life, was chosen from submissions from around the nation and will be premiered at an event commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on November 1.

Amanda Roberts
, an accompanist in the School of Music, won the Walnut Valley Festival's National Hammer Dulcimer Championship.  Not sure what a hammered dulcimer is? You're not alone! Click here.

Congratulations, Steve and Amanda!
 
   
Kudos to Noeleen McLlvenna, History, who will be presenting a lecture on the "Mutinous Women of the Albermarle" as part of the Edenton Historical Commission's annual lecture-discussion program in Edenton, North Carolina on October 21.  Noeleen's discussion will focus on how early settlers allowed Albemarle women greater freedom to participate in public affairs and to control their own destiny, in contrast to women in Virginia and England.
 
The next Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries exhibition will be Global Matrix IV, An International Print Exhibition, curated by Kim Vito.  The exhibition runs October 25 - December 4. Be sure to check it out. 
 
CLASS Workforce Development is collaborating with the School of Public and International Affairs on an informative evening next Wednesday, October 18, 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Millett Hall Atrium. The School of Public and International Affairs Alumni Career Panel and Program will be an interactive opportunity for students to learn from, and network with, current student interns and distinguished WSU alumni from around the region, representing the fields of government, national security, politics, law, research, commerce, education, and more. Selected CoLA alumni representing a variety of organizations include: Ted Gudorf, Attorney at Gudorf Law Group; Tamara Hawes from Congressman Mike Turner's office; Bryan Bucklew, President and CEO of the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association; Courtney Ditmer from LexisNexis; Mike Wiehe, Director of Wright State's Applied Policy Research Institute; Arch Grieve, a teacher at the Dayton Regional STEM School; and Alex Elkins, Senior Analyst at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).  This will be a wonderful opportunity for our students to focus on their career exploration!
 

The University Chorus & Men's Chorale will host a concert on Tuesday, October 24 and the Wind Symphony & Chamber Players will perform on Wednesday, October 25. Both performances are at 8:00 p.m. in the Creative Arts Center's Schuster Hall.  All are welcome to attend!
 

I have been spending time in the parking lots lately, searching for CoLA window clings so I can give away gift cards and home-baked goodies to our hungry students. I must say, it's much easier to find clings in the CAC lot than in the lots near Millett.  I suspect that the School of Music is the unit with the most students sporting the CoLA logo: at least, that's my deduction based on the other decorations on the cars.  Millett departments, it's time to rise to the challenge and ask your students to show their CoLA pride!
 
Congratulations Megumi Tanabe, Sociology 
   
This week's featured member of the Dean's Student Advisory Board (DSAB) is Emma Peterson Emma is a junior double majoring in Spanish and International Studies and minoring in French.  She also studies Chinese and is pursuing a certificate in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) in hopes of someday teaching English abroad.  Emma spent the last year studying abroad in Costa Rica, Chile, and France and would like to promote the importance of education abroad.  She is a President's Ambassador and works as a supplemental instruction leader for Spanish.  When not traveling, spending time outdoors, or learning languages, she enjoys reading and writing.  After graduation, Emma hopes to work in the international sector with a non-profit or in refugee resettlement.  Emma is very excited to have the opportunity to interact with and advocate for her CoLA peers and to enact positive change as part of the Dean's Student Advisory Board. 
 
Next Friday we will take a break from the CoLA Weekly to bring you our fall e-newsletter full of many exciting stories that celebrate our very diverse and engaged college.  I hope you enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed putting it together for you.
 
Linda Caron
Dean    
 

 
Panel Discussion: Is It Just Bluster, Insults, and Threats? What to Make of U.S.-North Korean Relations, sponsored by SPIA, History, and Religion, Philosophy, and Classics, Tuesday, October 17, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., 163 Student Union/Discovery Room   
 
Remaking the City: Urban Development and Pragmatic Racialization , hosted by Sociology and Anthropology and SPIA, Wednesday, October 25, 12:15-1:30 p.m., 120 Medical Sciences
 
Community Conversations: Books of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize , featuring the works of this year's Dayton Literary Peace Prize Holbrooke Award recipient, Colm Tóibín, Thursday, November 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., Dayton Metro Library 
 
    
CLASS CORNER 
 
Monday, October 16 - Be a Career Fair All-Star - Strategies for Liberal Arts Majors, 11:00 a.m., Millett 106
 
Wednesday, October 25 - Liberal Arts Career Roundtable Discussion - Focus on Graduate and Professional School, 5:00 p.m., Millett Atrium  
 
Please check out the many upcoming activities planned through our Center for Liberal Arts Student Success (CLASS) .