College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Week of February 9, 2009

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Night at the Museum, Lyon County Historical Society
Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 7PM
Granada Theater, Downtown Emporia

Guest Speaker:  Dr. John Neff, University of Mississippi, The Beginning at the End: The Lasting Significance of Lincoln's "Heroic Eminent Death"
Graduate Student: Eric S. Saulnier, Colorado State University

Tuesday 1.10.09 and Wednesday 1.11.09

Allocation Process Workshop
Associated Student Government will be hosting workshops to help RSOs who have questions or need assistance with the allocation process.  We will also be going over OrgSync and how to use this tool to your organizations advantage.  4:00-5:00 in the Heritage room of the union

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Whitney McGinnis, ASG Fiscal Affairs Chair, at wmcginni@emporia.edu or 341-5481.

Wednesday 1.11.09

KPERS and KP&F Pre-Retirement Seminars
Memorial Union Kanza Room
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM      KPERS Retirement
  1:00 PM -   2:00 PM       KP&F Retirement

Artists at Work
6-8 p.m. -Professors James Ehlers and Eric Conrad will throw their studio in 15A Morse Hall open to students and other members of the campus community who would like a glimpse of artists at work.

Thursday 1.12.09

Laura Coup, ING Representative will be on Campus from 10am to 4pm in MU Office C

Saturday 1.14.09

Dean Sommerville, Tubist 3:00 p.m. Heath Recital Hall $5 General Admission, $4 Students & Senior Citizens, Children 12 and under are Free

Catch it at the Emporia Arts Council
February 1 – 14
5th Annual Valentine Invitational Scholarship Fundraiser

This exhibition will be held at the Emporia Arts Council (at 618 Mechanic Street), and will feature work for sale by different artists dealing with the theme of LOVE. ESU Art faculty will be invited to submit one work each and are encouraged to invite at least one outside person to submit work. Proceeds from this event will benefit our art students through scholarships.

Closing Reception : 6-8 pm on Saturday, February 14

Catch it at the Eppink Gallery
January 16th-march 24th
Engraving Invitational Portfolio

Upcoming Events/Deadlines

Friday, 2.20.09—3rd Annual Assessment Forum

Wednesday, 2.18.09---5:00 pm Deadline for Allocation Request due to CSI

Packets can be picked up at Center for Student Involvement or on ASG website at www.emporia.edu/asg

Wednesday, 2.18.09---Annual German Club Bake Sale

Roosevelt Hall, second floor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.  Proceeds will benefit Abundant Harvest Soup Kitchen.  For more info contact Dr. Roxane Riegler. 341-5902, rriegler@emporia.edu

Wednesday, 2.18.09---2008 Service Awards Ceremony

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 5PM
Teacher Dinner at the Granada Theater
Guests invited include area Secondary School Teachers and Secondary Education Majors

Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7PM
Granada Theater, Downtown Emporia
Guest Speaker:  Dr. Paul Finkleman, Albany Law School,
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator as Lawyer
Graduate Student TBD

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 7PM
Granada Theater, Downtown Emporia
Guest Speaker:  Dr. Jean Baker, Goucher College, Mary Todd Lincoln's White House
Graduate Student: Jared Peatman, Texas A&M University

Thursday, February 26, 2009, 6:30 PM
Book Club Meeting at Emporia Public Library
Jean Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, led by Dr. Ellen Hansen, Chair, Dept. of Social Sciences, Emporia State University.

Nominations

Thursday, 2.19.09--Dr. Mary Headrick Award Deadline
The application form may be picked up in the Counseling Office, 211 S. Morse Hall or you may request an electronic copy at abodkin@emporia.edu

Friday, 2.20.09—Ruth Schillinger Faculty Award Deadline
For further Information call Karen Smith at 5570 or call the Ethnic and Gender Studies Office at 5661.  E-mail questions to Ethnic and Gender Studies Program cc ksmith@emporia.edu.

Scholarships

Monday, 3.2.09--Shepherd Scholarship  http://www.emporia.edu/honors/

 

LA&S Lecture Series
4.2.09- Dr. Evandro Camara

Congrats!

Emporia State University Theatre was very successful at the Region V meeting of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival held January 19 thru 24 on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, KS.  ESU Theatre was one of only five universities selected in the region (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota) to present a production at the festival.

ESU was represented by the department's December 2008 production of Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire.  For this production, Jim Bartruff received a commendation for outstanding direction and Susan Samuelson (senior, Burlington) received a commendation for outstanding costume design.  In addition, Miss Samuelson won the National Barbizon Award in Costume Design for her Rabbit Hole designs. In recognition of this achievement, she will represent ESU at the national festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. this April.

The First Place award in Graphic Design was presented to Senior Benjamin Howard (Lenexa) for his design for Rabbit Hole.  Earning a Sound Design Certificate of Merit was alum and former technical director Kyle Land (Overland Park) for last season's Nickel & Dimed.   Senior Tricia Stogsdill (Pleasanton), Naoko Ishizuka (senior, Tokyo, Japan), Al Daugherty (sophomore, Leavenworth), Cassie Kay Hoppas (senior, Erie), Chris Lohkamp (junior, Wichita) and Ben Williams (senior, Elbing) also entered design projects into the Design Exposition hosted by the Lawrence Arts Center.

In the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship audition, ESU was represented by nine nominees: Dylan Lewis (Wichita), Kelsey Fredricks (Mandan, ND), Bob Hart (Overland Park), Lindsay Roland (Grand Island, NE), Ben Fleer (Olathe), Gabe Moyer (Olathe), Emily Warren (Wichita), Elise Blann (Newton) and Julie Soroko (Topeka). 

Junior Bob Hart and Sophomore Dylan Lewis made the Semi-final round as two of only sixty-four students out of a field of 400 nominees. Ashley Kobza, a member of last year's ESU Summer Theatre, was one of two regional winners of the Irene Ryan competition and will also be going to Washington this April to represent the entire region at the national festival.

 

Last Updated February 25, 2009