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| Arts and Letters
Collin Asmus’s (art) painting “Burst” received a Best of Show award and another, “Reflect,” received 1st place in the Meridian Museum of Art's Annual People's Choice Competition. Asmus received an ACS techno-logy grant to develop interactive web material for use in teaching studio art courses. Gail Buzhardt (mod. lang.) spoke on French Exploration in the New World at the meeting of the Alliance Francaise in Washington, D.C. She also received the Mississippi Foreign Language Association's Distinguished Service Award. Cheryl Coker (music) wrote several reviews of new music in American Music Teacher. Laura Franey (Eng.), Anne MacMaster (Eng.), Leanora Olivia (class.), and Lisa Sigel (hist.) presented papers at the Associated Colleges of South's Women's Studies Conference in Birmingham; Olivia also took five students who delivered papers. Morgan Gadd (thea.) played Reverend Jonathan Larance in the Mississippi premiere of Beth Henley's new comedy Impossible Marriage at New Stage Theatre. Greg Miller (Eng.) spent five weeks in residence at Yaddo, an artists' working community in Saratoga Springs, New York. Elizabeth Moak (music) has been elected to the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation Board of Directors. The board consists of seven international members who oversee all activities of the Foundation. Leanora Olivia (class.) presented at the American Women and Classical Mythology Conference at the University of Maryland on H.D.’s use of Sappho. Elise Smith’s (art) book manuscript, Evelyn De Morgan and the Allegorical Body, has been accepted by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Sandra Smithson (art) had two images accepted in the Tulane Review's national art competition. John Thatamanil (rel. stud.) was a panelist on “The Hindu Christian Conversion Controversy” at the national American Academy of Religion Conference in Boston. Thatamanil’s article, “Managing Multiple Religious Identities: An Argument for the Theological Study of Hinduism,” has been accepted by the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies and was invited to join the Steering Committee of the “Issues in the Thought of Paul Tillich Group” of the American Academy of Religion. PREVIOUS PAGE | PAGE 1 OF 1 | NEXT PAGE |