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Date 4-6-06
Southern
Miss Moorman Professor to Lecture on “Woodstock Nation”
Hattiesburg—Dr. Maureen Ryan, the Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Alumni
Professor of Humanities 2004-2006 at the University of Southern
Mississippi, will give a public lecture at 4 p.m., April 20 on “Woodstock
Nation: The Counterculture and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement in American
Fiction.”
The material
is part of her book in progress, The Other Side of Grief: The
Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam
War, scheduled for publication by the University of Massachusetts
Press in 2007. In it, she examines the cultural texts that continue
to emerge from and about America’s longest war.
Ryan, who received
her undergraduate degree from Penn State University and master's
and doctorate from Temple University, has also served the university
as director of undergraduate and graduate studies for the Department
of English; as assistant dean of the former College of Liberal Arts,
now the College of Arts and Letters; and as associate provost.
Her publications
include Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford
(Louisiana State University Press, 1987); articles on modern and
contemporary American women writers, including Marilynne Robinson,
Lillian Hellman, and Bobbie Ann Mason; and articles on American
women writers and Vietnam, the Vietnam novels of Robert Olen Butler,
aftermath novels by Vietnam veterans, Vietnam POW wives in American
literature, Vietnamese refugees in southern fiction, and the Vietnam
antiwar movement in contemporary American literature.
The Moorman
endowment, named for the late Southern Miss English professor and
vice president emeritus of academic affairs, provides as much as
$30,000 over two years for research projects to selected professors
from among the university's humanities departments, including history,
English, foreign languages and philosophy. Each recipient is appointed
for a two-year term. Ryan is the sixth recipient of this award.
The 4 p.m.
lecture will be held at the Gonzales Auditorium in the Liberal Arts
Building on the Hattiesburg campus. Admission is free and open to
the public. For more information, call 601.266.4831.
Gulf
Coast Business Assistance Center to Present “Lunch and Learn Series”
GULFPORT—The
Gulf Coast Business Assistance Center, operated by the University
of Southern Mississippi, will present the “Lunch and Learn” series
geared toward small businesses on the Gulf Coast. These workshops
are in a format that provides for the most efficient use of time
for small business owners.
The series,
held on the second and fourth Thursday of the month, will begin
Thursday, April 13 from 11 to 1 p.m. at the Gulf Coast Business
Technology Center, 1636 Popps Ferry Road, Biloxi. Early registration
is $10 and includes a boxed lunch if registered by April 10. The
late registration fee is $15.
Dr. Stan Lewis,
professor of accountancy and information systems at Southern Miss,
will present “Gain Access to Your Business’s Future… Access for
Database Management.” Participants of this session will not only
learn the basics of using Microsoft Access, but also the benefits.
For more information
about the Business Assistance Center and the “Lunch and Learn” series,
contact Jeffrey Brewer at 228.385.1237 or visit www.usm.edu/bac.
Professor,
Writer Sullivan to Discuss New Book during Presentation at Southern
Miss
Hattiesburg—Dr.
Clayton Sullivan, professor emeritus of religion at the University
of Southern Mississippi, will discuss his latest book, Rescuing
Sex from the Christians, recently published by Continuum Publishing,
at 4 p.m., April 28 at the Liberal Arts Building, Room 203, on the
Hattiesburg campus. The program is sponsored by the Department of
Philosophy and Religion at Southern Miss.
Sullivan taught
at Southern Miss for more than 30 years and has written numerous
books on religious topics, including Jesus, biblical inerrancy,
and realized eschatology. In recent years he has published several
fictional works, including Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside
the Baptist Church and Jesus and the Sweet Pilgrim Baptist
Church: A Fable.
Earning a doctorate
from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., Sullivan
also did postdoctoral studies at Princeton University, Southern
Methodist University, Union Theological Seminary, and Harvard Divinity
School. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion.
Sullivan retired
from full-time teaching at Southern Miss in 2000, but maintains
an active schedule that includes writing and part-time teaching.
Information about his books is available at his Web site at www.claytonsullivan.com.
For more information about his talk April 28, call 601.266.4518.
Southern
Miss Student to Intern at ABC-World News Tonight in New York
Hattiesburg—Jessica
Bowman, a junior majoring in broadcast journalism at Southern Miss,
will intern at ABC-World News Tonight in New York City during the
summer of 2006. She will work in the field with reporters and behind
the scenes, assisting in the writing and production of segments
for the news program. Only three interns were chosen out of a nationwide
pool of applicants.
"Jessica
is really driven and quite serious about her career goals,"
said Kim LeDuff, assistant professor of broadcast journalism. "This
is an excellent opportunity for her, and I have no doubt that she
will represent the university quite well. I also hope that her involvement
and example will lead to opportunities for other Southern Miss students
at ABC News."
For more information,
contact Kim LeDuff at kim.leduff@usm.edu
or 601.266.5461.
Benefit
Banquet at Southern Miss Celebrates American Women Authors
Hattiesburg—To
celebrate American women authors, University of Southern Mississippi
professors and students will speak on or read selections of famous
American writers at a benefit banquet April 20, with ticket proceeds
being donated to the Hattiesburg Public Schools. Attendees are also
asked to bring used books to be donated to school libraries.
Heather Peerboom,
a senior at Southern Miss, is coordinating the event. Speakers will
include Dr. Jeanne Gillespie, Jee Eun Kim, Dr. Kate Green, Dr. Sherita
Johnson, Katrina Sheely, Rebecca Dickenson, Amelia Arender and Peerboom.
Several local
businesses have donated food and drink for the event, including
the Coca Cola Bottling Company, the Corner Market, Jody’s Bakery,
The Oaks Café, St. John Lutheran Church, Sam’s Club, Starbucks,
Sweet Peppers, Sysco Distributing, and Three Little Pigs BBQ.
Tickets for
the 7 p.m. event at the R. C. Cook University Union building on
the Southern Miss campus are $10 per person. For tickets or more
information, call Peerboom at 601.579.9458.
National
Geographic to Support Southern Miss Archaeological Investigations
at Winterville Mounds
Hattiesburg—H.
Edwin Jackson, professor of anthropology at the University of Southern
Mississippi, received a $26,000 grant from the National Geographic
Society to continue archaeological research at the Winterville Mounds
in Washington County. The grant will support fieldwork at the site
during the summer as well as laboratory analysis.
Winterville
Mounds is a Mississippian culture (A.D. 1200-1500) mound complex,
representing the political and ceremonial center of a once thriving
prehistoric chiefdom.
Work at Winterville,
the first in nearly four decades, began in 2005 by a Southern Miss
Department of Anthropology and Sociology field school. It will continue
with a group of graduate and undergraduate students from several
institutions, including Washington University, St. Louis, and the
University of Michigan.
Excavations
are examining residential areas of the site, as well as mound summit
activities. Past research has indicated that Winterville had a significant
role in the cultural developments of the Lower Mississippi Valley
after A.D. 1000.
For more information,
call Jackson at 601.266.6887.
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