• Portrait 2000, the public art millennium project, was donated in August to the archives at LSUS. It is a collective portrait of Shreveport and Bossier City made up of 2,000 individual portraits. The project was created by photographer Neil Johnson and a team of volunteers. The project team collected the portraits during 28 photo sessions throughout the community beginning in March 1997 and concluding in December 1999. The whole collection of portraits was put on display for one day in Shreveport’s Expo Hall in January 2000, and then divided among seven exhibition sites around the two cities. Roughly half the actual exhibited prints from the project have been given to the subjects. The remaining prints, negatives, digital scans, documents, records and other artifacts were given to the archives. Subjects who have not received their prints are invited to do so at Noel Memorial Library. Although the exhibit has been dismantled, an interactive CD of the whole project was created. Produced by J. Bowen Creative Services, the CD contains every portrait, interviews with the project directors, videos of the project being created, original music and images from Shreveport’s history.

• The LSUS Department of Communications will offer a seminar course on public relations for non-profit organizations during the 2003 spring semester. Ronald Sereg, an assistant professor in communications, will be the instructor for the course, which will be offered both for graduate and undergraduate credit. Sereg is an internationally recognized public relations consultant for non-governmental organizations. He has worked extensively in the Russian Federation, in Eastern Europe and with several national non-profit organizations. The course, MCOM 490/690, will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Jan. 15 in Bronson Hall on the LSUS campus.

• The faculty, staff and patrons of the Noel Memorial Library appreciate the support and generosity of the following persons and organizations making donations of books or periodicals to the library: August – Nancy Adcock, Mary Ellen Foley, William McCleary, William Peters, Jeffrey Sadow, Cynthia Sisson, Alan Thompson, Anonymous (1), American Swiss Foundation - New York, The John Birch Society - Appleton, Wis., Economic Research Institute - Redmond, Wash, The Newcomen Society of the United States - Exton, Penn., and Roberts Publishing Inc. – Alexandria; September – Charlene Handford Barlow, Richard Colquette, George Head, Conway Link, Larry Marshman, William McCleary, Betty C. Nims, William Pederson, National Internet Tollfree Directory - Blue Bell, Penn., North Louisiana Civil War Round Table - Shreveport, and Rountree, Cox, Guin, and Achee - Shreveport; October – Rachael Green, Wilfred L. Guerin, Chengho Hsieh, Martha Lawler, William D. Pederson, Roberts, Cherry & Company - Shreveport, and Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam – Shreveport.

• Dr. Helen Taylor, professor in English, and Dr. Tom DuBose, associate professor in English, presented papers at the Arkansas Philological Association meeting in October.

• Dr. Lynn Walford, associate professor in foreign languages, had an article, “‘Fuimos cómplices también’: Violence and Sacrifice in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los andes,” accepted for publication in Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura.

• Dr. Jim Ingold, professor in biological sciences, was re-elected 1st vice president in September when he attended the annual meeting of Inland Bird Banding in Harlingen, Texas, where he presented a paper, “Winter Philopatry Of Granivorous Birds Banded In Northeast Texas.” He also attended the 3rd North American Ornithological Conference in New Orleans in late September, where he presented the keynote address on “The History of Louisiana Ornithology.” Ingold was on the organizing committee for the conference, and chaired the fund-raising committee. LSUS supported the conference with a contribution from the Chancellor’s Office.

• Dianne Howell has been named director of alumni services. After reviewing more than 30 applications for the new, full-time position, Vice-Chancellor for Development Marty Albritton hired Howell because of her enthusiasm and her vision for the Alumni Association. “I’m absolutely thrilled to be here,” Howell said. “LSUS is home to me.” A Shreveport native, she worked at Live Oak Retirement Community for 10 years before coming to LSUS. She earned a B.A. in English literature from LSU A&M and has completed more than 30 graduate hours at LSUS, including nine hours toward an MLA that she plans to complete. Albritton said he envisions Howell supporting the Alumni Board in providing more opportunities for alumni to recruit, help in the development of scholarships and athletics, and participate in campus activities.

• Jennifer Carter has been named assistant director of the LSUS Career Center. She has extensive experience in career centers, having served as career center director at William Woods University, Fulton, Mo., for two years, and as career center coordinator, Student Employment Services, at the University of Missouri for six years. She also served for two years as the Career Services recruitment coordinator at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. Carter received a B.S. in retailing from Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo.; a B.S. in computer information management from William Woods University, and a Master of Education in higher and adult education from Arizona State University.

• At the annual awards banquet for Century Campus Housing Management, the privatized housing company that provides the management of LSUS’ campus housing, University Court Apartments won two awards and was nominated for seven others. UCA won Marketing Theme of the Year for its “Louisiana Lagniappe” theme and postcard series, and Outstanding Partnership Award. Sharon Manson, UCA director, said the partnership award was for the “outstanding relationship we have with our host university. University Court and the LSUS Division of Student Affairs’ working relationship is a model for other campuses.” UCA was nominated for Outstanding Customer Service Program of the Year, Outstanding Community Service Initiative of the Year, (which it won last year), Outstanding Individual Residence Life Program of the Year, Outstanding Overall Residence Life Program of the Year (which it also won last year), and Assistant Director of the Year – Marcia Hunter. UCA, with 480 beds, competed against schools such as George Mason University, 4,000 beds, and the University of Texas at San Antonio, 2,000 beds.

• LSUS was selected by Shreveport Green as a 2002 Merit Award Winner. The award was for campus beautification, especially the crepe myrtles that highlight the center of the campus. Chancellor Vince Marsala praised Facility Services personnel for their dedication and hard work. “You made this award possible and the university thanks you,” he said.

• Dr. Sanjay Menon, assistant professor in management, has had his paper, “Pre-Charismatic Emergence, Charismatic Leader Types, and Reactions of Non-Followers: Expanding the Domain of Charismatic Leadership Research,” accepted for presentation at the Southwest Academy of Management conference in Houston in March.

• Members of the Math Department had three papers published in The Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference. The conference was held in Lafayette in March. Dr. Carlos Spaht, professor in mathematics; Conway Link, assistant professor in mathematics, and Rogers Martin, instructor in mathematics, co-authored, “Using Cryptology to Demonstrate the Student’s Interest in Mathematics Through Applications of Functions and Their Inverses”; Link and Spaht co-authored, “Demonstrating a Technique for Estimating the Constant of Proportionality in a Commonly Occurring Variation Problem in College Algebra Textbooks”; and Link authored, “Using a Fish Bowl, Beads, and a Paddle to Demonstrate the Construction of Control Charts”. Spaht attended the meeting and presented the two papers he co-authored. In August of 2002, Link attended two Biometrics Section meetings (Statistics Students as Disease Detectives and Introductory Overview Lectures on Disease Surveillance and Bio-terrorism) at the annual ASA/IMS/ ENAR/WNAR Conference in New York City. Link also had his article, “An Examination of Student Mistakes in Setting Up Hypothesis Problems,” accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2002 Louisiana/Mississippi Section of the Mathematics Association of America.

• The new LSUS American Marketing Association Collegiate Chapter, started this fall, has 29 members. Dr. Karen James, associate professor in marketing, is the faculty advisor. The chapter will host LSUS alumnus Will Clarke (B.S. marketing, ‘93), an ad executive with Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, at a meeting in the spring. James will serve also as the consumer behavior track chair for the Management and Marketing Association conference in Chicago in March.

• Wolfgang Hinck, assistant professor in marketing, and Karen James associate professor in marketing, had their article, “An Empirical Investigation of the Failure of Eastern German Products in Western German Markets,” accepted for publication in the Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship (spring 2003 issue). The paper is co-authored with Angela Cortes, of the University of Texas Pan American. Hinck had his paper, “The Effect of Anticipatory Emotions on Student Performance in Marketing Simulations,” accepted for presentation and proceedings publication at the American Marketing Association’s Winter Conference in Orlando, Fla., in February. The paper is co-authored with Cortes and G. Delossantos, also of UTPA. Hinck has also been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Global Entrepreneurship and Business, a new journal. The appointment is effective in January. He has also been appointed program director of the 2003 Association of Global Entrepreneurship and Business Conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August 2003. And, Hinck has been invited by the University of Hannover (Germany) to travel there in May to speak about recent trends in cross-cultural consumer behavior research.

• Dr. Donna Austin, associate professor and director of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, has been a member of the Caddo Career & Technology Center’s Business Council for several years. In October, she brought 21 CCTC students to the LSUS campus, at the request of a CCTC business teacher, “to attend a college class and find out what college is all about,” Austin said. “The students got to hear the American Marketing Association’s officers give a pep talk about their new club, and they took a tour of the campus led by Student Ambassador Erin Franks.”

• The 2003 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges will include the names of 13 LSUS students who have been selected as national outstanding campus leaders. Outstanding college students have been honored for their individual academic excellence by the Who’s Who organization since 1934. The campus nominating committee chose these students based on their academic achievement, service to the community, participation and leadership in extracurricular activities, and potential for continued success. LSUS students chosen for the award are: Mary Pellie Ascol, Angela Marie Brock, Michael A. Copelin, Erica Michelle Eakin, April M. Festavan, Shawn R. Gard, Gina Marie Guy, Elaine Marie Pierce, Carla Ann Preiss, Paul Michael Schneider, Kelli Lea Turnage, Candace D. Williamson and Paula Marie Zeralsky.

• Drs. Lisa Burke, associate professor in management; Karen James, associate professor in marketing, and Donna Austin, associate professor and director of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, had their article, “Student Retention in Online Courses: A Proposed Conceptual Model and Implications,” published in Volume 2, Issue 3 of Communications of the International Information Management Association. Burke and James have also had an article, “Using Online Surveys for Primary Research Data Collection,” accepted for publication in the International Journal of Innovation and Learning.

• At the invitation of the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dr. Binshan Lin, professor in management, will deliver the keynote speech for the Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Outlook 2003 National Conference. Lin’s keynote speech, “Making Knowledge Management Part of SME’s Strategy,” will be delivered Dec. 10 in Taipei, Taiwan, on the first day of the three-day conference. The conference, which is expected to draw more than 300 participants from government, academia and SMEs, will focus on topics such as new opportunities, new directions and globalization for small and medium enterprises.

• Dr. Sura Rath, director of the LSUS India Studies program, was the chief speaker on the Jagannath culture of India at the installation ceremony of Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Subhadra at the Ekta Mandir (Unity Temple) in Dallas in October. The impetus for this program originated in an LEH Summer Institute on the Cultures of India offered by Rath for K-12 teachers at LSUS in 1999. The event was co-sponsored by the Southwest Chapter of the Orissa Society of the Americas.

• Dr. Ray Taylor, professor in marketing, presented his paper, “Ethical Considerations of Electronic Monitoring of Employees as Perceived by Selected Marketing Professionals,” and had it published in the refereed conference proceedings of the 2002 International Business and Economic Research Conference in Las Vegas in October.

• Six papers by College of Business Administration faculty and one co-authored by a College of Sciences faculty member have been accepted and will be presented at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute’s 34th Annual Conference in Houston in March. They are:
° Dr. Michael Brendler, professor in economics, and Frederick R. Parker Jr., associate professor in accounting, “The Willingness to Accept a Tax Incentive to be an Organ Donor: A Survey of Attitudes Among Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional School Students.”
° Dr. Jere Hatcher, associate professor and chair in marketing, “Accelerating the Speed of Quality Improvement.”
° Dr. Stanley W. Hays, assistant professor in accounting, “An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Age and Religiosity on Conservatism.”
° Dr. Chengho Hsieh, professor in economics, and Dr. Timothy W. Vines, associate professor in economics, “On Capital Budgeting When Projects Have Unequal Lives and Costs of Capital.”
° Jason Chuo-Hsuan Lee, assistant professor in accounting, “The Association Between the Overstated Diluted EPS Under SFAS 128 and Stock Repurchases: Evidence on the “Undo-Dilution” Hypothesis in Explaining Open-Market Stock Repurchases.”
° Dr. Binshan Lin and Dr. John A. Vassar, both professors in management, “Defining Intelligence-Based Treat for Global Information Security.”
° Dr. Deborah K. Shepherd, assistant professor in mathematics, and Dr. Raja Nassar (Louisiana Tech), “Measuring Risk in Case-Control Studies.”

• Dr. Elizabeth Zippi, associate professor in chemistry/physics, Michaela R. Hoffmeyer (B.S. ‘02) and Gavin Jones, a senior chemistry major, had a paper, “Differential Scanning Calorimetry of Styrene-Based Polymers,” published in the Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research.

• Dr. Ken Masters, associate professor in management, co-authored with Dr. Emeric Solymossy (University of Western Illinois), “Ethics Through an Entrepreneurial Lens: Theory and Observation,” which was published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 38 No. 3.

• Dr. Mike Leggiere, an LSUS assistant professor in history and an adjunct professor of strategy and policy for the College of Distance Education, >.S. Naval War College, presented two lectures on “Policy and Strategy in a Revolutionary Era: Europe, 1792-1815,” at the >.S. Naval War College Non-resident Strategy and Policy Seminar, Fleet Training Center, San Diego, in October. Also, Tempus, a British publisher, purchased the rights to Leggiere’s book, Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813, from the University of Oklahoma Press, and in September released the European version under the title, Napoleon and Berlin: the Napoleonic Wars in Prussia, 1813.

• Dr. Robert Colbert, associate professor of English, and Dr. Sura Rath, professor of English, presented papers and chaired panels at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., in October. Colbert chaired a session on Flannery O’Connor and presented a paper, “The Uses of Violence in O’Connor and Walker Percy.” Rath chaired two sessions, “Caribbean Literature (Non-French),” and “Preparing Your Professional File for Tenure and Promotion,” and presented a paper, “Practical Approaches to Teaching Cultures: The Example of Cultures of India at LSUS.” Rath also served as alternate chair for another session, and began his term as president of the RMMLA Executive Board.

• Dr. Meredith Nelson, an assistant professor in psychology; Jessica Gusko, a graduate student in the Specialist in School Psychology program, and Shelley Doty, a graduate student in the Master of Science in Counseling Psychology program, presented “Eating Disorders: An Overview and Implications for Treatment” at the Louisiana Counseling Association Annual Conference in Baton Rouge in October. Nelson and Doty also presented “An Introduction to Asperger’s Syndrome” at the same conference. Nelson presented “Counseling Students Who Fail High Stakes Testing” with University of New Orleans colleagues at the same conference.

• Dr. Vince Marsala, LSUS chancellor, is serving as president of the Conference of Louisiana Colleges and Universities for the 2002-03 academic year. His responsibilities include hosting the annual meeting of Louisiana public and private college presidents and chancellors. The CLCU supports the advancement of higher education in Louisiana, and serves as a communications medium among institutions of higher learning in the state. Among its members are representatives from universities, colleges, and junior/ community colleges in the state, as well as the Louisiana Board of Regents, and the supervising boards of the LSU System, the University of Louisiana System, the Southern University System, and the Louisiana Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Marsala is also serving as chair of the Committee of 100’s Education Committee, which receives requests for educational grants and funding from various entities in the Shreveport-Bossier area. The committee reviews and ranks the requests, then forwards a recommendation to the Committee of 100 general membership for approval. The Committee of 100 mobilizes the business community for the betterment of Shreveport-Bossier.

• Habits, Patterns, and Things That Go Bump in the Night, a book by George Sewell, an adjunct faculty in communications, is on the market, and currently available on all the online bookstores. Habits … is a lively and often humorous journey through the realm of mental, emotional, and physical habits and their creations - patterns and expectations. It’s all about managing the process of change in personal life. “But the book is more than a self-improvement work,” Sewell says, “it can help manage change on the job, within the family, or anyplace you find yourself.”

• After eight semesters of running a basic Hatha Yoga class through the Kinesiology and Health Sciences Department, part-time instructor Pamela Viviano will start an advanced Hatha Yoga class in the spring, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 8 to 8:50 a.m. The prerequisite is the beginning class, HPE Hatha Yoga 103. It will be an active class with a daily workout focusing on advanced postures, pranayama (breathing techniques), and meditation.

• The Marge Kozak Memorial Scholarship has been established for musicians and music educators with financial need seeking a graduate degree from LSUS. In order to qualify for the scholarship, an applicant must be both a full-time public or private teacher of music and a performer as well, performing within the community on a regular basis. Donations are being accepted from anyone who would like to contribute to this scholarship. The scholarship was established to honor Edward Kozak and the memory of his wife. Edward Kozak has been a musician for 70 years, teaching music 50 of those years.