HATTIESBURG – The University of Southern Mississippi will host two youth science camps this summer. Camp Invention will be held June 5-9, 2006, and is for students who will be in first through sixth grades as of fall 2006. The camp is from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. Camp costs are based on date of registration and are as follows:

• Before March 15 - $179
• Between March 15 and May 31 - $199
• After May 31 - $219

For more information or to register, go to www.campinvention.org or call 1.800.968.4332.

Camp and Careers in Science will take place June 11-18, 2006. This GEARUP funded camp is for GEARUP students entering 11th grade in fall 2006. Local GEARUP schools include Hattiesburg High School, Perry Central High School, East Marion High School and West Marion High School. This is a residential camp, and participants will stay in the on-campus dorms. The camp is free. For more information or to register, call Aimée Lee at 601.266.6374 or e-mail her at aimee.lee@usm.edu.

Third Annual Aspire Scholarship Benefit Concert

HATTIESBURG – The School of Social Work’s Family Network Partnership will hold the Third Annual Aspire Scholarship Benefit Concert on March 17, 2006. The concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will be held at the Saenger Theater and will feature the University of Southern Mississippi’s Theatre and Dance Repertoire, Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera, Hattiesburg’s Jarvis McKinley, and much more.

A preconcert block party will begin at 5 p.m. outside the theater and will offer a variety of art and entertainment. Tickets are $7 for the concert or $25 for the concert plus two appetizers at two downtown restaurants, 206 Front St. and Walnut Circle Grill. This event will benefit the funding of scholarships for east side, lower income youth. For ticket information, call 601.2266.5418 or 601.268.3220.

Southern Miss Staff Receives Administrator of the Year

HATTIESBURG – The Mississippi Association of Education Office Professionals (MAEOP) has named Dr. Frank Moore the 2006 Administrator of the Year. Dr. Moore is the chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi. He will be honored at a luncheon on Friday, June 16 at the Eola Hotel in Natchez at the MAEOP annual conference. He will also be nominated by the state association for the national award.

For more information, call Patricia Brewer at 601.266.4749.

Sculpture Symposium Set at Southern Miss

HATTIESBURG – The Department of Art and Design at the University of Southern Mississippi has planned its first Sculpture Symposium April 27-29 to celebrate 3-D arts and is now taking registrations.

The three-day symposium will be held at the Structural Steel Services 3-D Arts Building on West Fourth Street in Hattiesburg and includes workshops and lectures with nationally and internationally known artists and materials to cast one 50-pound sculpture.

Also included is the inaugural firing of the university’s mega iron pouring cupola, a gift from Tommy Dulaney and Structural Steel Services and one of the world’s largest university-run blast furnaces for pouring molten iron. During the symposium, an exhibition of cast iron and other metal art sculpture is planned at Southern Miss and other local Hattiesburg galleries.

The registration fee is $40 for student artists and $50 for nonstudent artists. For more information or a registration packet, call Jennifer Torres at 601.266.6032 or e-mail Jennifer.torres@usm.edu.

Southern Miss Percussion Studio Presents Recital

HATTIESBURG – Members of the Percussion Studio at the University of Southern Mississippi will present a recital at 7:30 p.m., March 7 at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature student soloists and a few marimba quartets and quintets. The studio is under the direction of Dr. John Wooton, professor of music at Southern Miss. Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the percussion studio at 601.266.4993.

Woolly Gives Faculty Recital

HATTIESBURG – Dr. Kim Woolly, visiting assistant professor of bassoon at the University of Southern Mississippi, will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m., March 3 in Marsh Auditorium. School of Music faculty members Maryann Kyle, soprano; Reese Land, trumpet; Lois Leventhal, piano; Patty Malone, oboe; and Danilo Mezzadri, flute, will join her on the program, performing the music of Poulenc, Tansman, Hurlstone, and Zilincik.

A graduate of Wellesley College, the Eastman School of Music, and Florida State University, Woolly is formerly a member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and performed frequently with the Jacksonville Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Florida Orchestra, the Lexington (Ky.) Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

She performed with the orchestras of the Tanglewood Music Festival and the Heidelberg, Germany, Schlossfestspiele and also has participated in the festivals of Sarasota, Swannanoa, Chatauqua, and Bowdoin. A native of Little Rock, Ark., Woolly was a faculty member of Ohio University, the University of Florida and Morehead State University.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 601.266.4274.

Guest Artists Team for Concert

HATTIESBURG – A pair of guest artists from the University of South Carolina (USC), Clifford Leaman and Scott Herring, have formed a saxophone/percussion duo that brings a mixed program of works for both instruments in tandem. The duo will perform at the University of Southern Mississippi at 7:30 p.m., March 2 at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center Auditorium.

Hosted by Professor Lawrence Gwozdz and the Saxophone Studio at Southern Miss, the program will include Eckhard Kopetzki’s “Shadows of Wood,” Leigh Howard Stevens’ “Rhythmic Caprice,” Charles Rochester Young’s “Excursions,” Ryo Noda’s “Mai,” Eugene Bozza’s “Improvisation et Caprice,” David Maslanka’s “Song Book,” and Maurice Whitney’s “Rumba.”

Herring is an assistant professor of percussion at USC, where he directs the Percussion Ensemble and the Palmetto Pans Steel Band. A graduate of East Carolina University and Northwestern University, he also served as assistant professor of percussion and assistant director of bands at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan. He has presented clinics and concerts in North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan and Texas.

Leaman, professor of saxophone at USC, is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College and the University of Michigan. He has served on the faculties of Furman University, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Michigan prior to his appointment at USC. An avid supporter of contemporary music, Leaman has commissioned and given the world premiere performances of numerous works, including concertos by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Leslie Bassett and Michael Colgrass.

For more information, call the Southern Miss Saxophone Studio at 601.266.6934.

Last updated: 02/23/06