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World champion middleweight Kelly Pavlik lands a punch in his December
fight against Miguel Espino in Beeghly Center at YSU. The sociological
aspects of the relationship between Pavlik and Youngstown are examined
in a lecture Thursday, April 1 in Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus.
The presentation is part of the YSU Center for Working–Class Studies
Lecture Series. For more information, see News Brief below.
Calendar Tuesday, March 30, 12:30 p.m.
Carol Tavris, a renowned social psychologist, lecturer and writer who
is devoted to educating the public about psychological science, is
featured in the Shipka Speaker Series in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley
Center. See News Brief below. Tuesday, March 30, 3 p.m. The
YSU softball squad plays a doubleheader against Canisius in McCune Park
in Canfield. The team also plays a doubleheader against Butler 1 p.m. Saturday, April 3, and a single game at noon, Sunday, April 4, also in McCune Park. Wednesday, March 31, noon. YSU
professor Paul Carr speaks at the Main Branch of the Public Library of
Youngstown and Mahoning County. Carr is the co–editor of Doing
Democracy: Striving for Political Literacy and Social Justice, which
takes a critical look at how democracy is taught, learned, understood
and lived. Free. Carr is a professor of Educational Foundations,
Research, Technology and Leadership in the YSU Beeghly College of
Education. Wednesday, March 31, 12:15 p.m. Free Music at Noon concert features the YSU Dana School of Music's Clarinet Studio in the Butler Institute of American Art.
Wednesday, March 31, 3 p.m. The YSU Board of Trustees' Academic and Student Affairs Committee meets in the Galley in Kilcawley Center. The board's Executive Committee meets at 4 p.m., also in the Gallery. Wednesday, March 31, 3 p.m. The YSU baseball team starts the home season with a game against Canisius at Cene Park in Struthers. The Penguins also take on UIC in a three–game set at Eastwood Field in Niles 3 p.m. Friday, April 2, and noon and 3 p.m. Saturday, April 3. For more information, visit www.ysusports.com. Friday, April 2, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
YSU's Rose Melnick Medical Museum and William F. Maag Jr. Library host
a free nursing symposium on evidence–based medicine in the Rose Melnick
Medical Museum on the YSU campus. See News Brief below. Research takes YSU students around the world Since then, the electrical
engineering major's part–time job has taken him to Hawaii, Germany,
California, Chicago and Washington D.C., all expenses paid. But world travel is just
one of the perks that Detwiler and other student research assistants
enjoy, said Carroll, while working on a nuclear isomer research project
supported by $4 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Defense. "These students get to
share in groundbreaking experiments and work with state–of–the–art
technology," he said, adding that many student–researchers have also
co–authored academic papers published in prestigious physics journals
and presented their work at physics conferences around the world. Last October, for example,
Carroll took four members of his team to Waikoloa, Hawaii, for the
annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear
Physics, held jointly with the Japan Physical Society, where the
students presented posters describing aspects of their work with
isomers. Detwiler went on that
trip, along with his brother Tim, a senior also majoring in electrical
engineering; Trevor Balint, a senior physics major; and Isaac Mills, a
senior education major. All four were awarded travel support by the
society on the strength of their research submissions. "It was pretty cool to get
the input of other scientists, but it made me a little nervous at times
because I knew they had a lot more experience that we did," Ben
Detwiler said. "No one else there was doing research on isomers, so
there was a lot of interest in our work." Detwiler was part of a
team that traveled to Germany to perform experiments at the GSI
Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, that country's top nuclear
research institution. He's also conducted several experiments for the
grant–funded research at an Army lab in Washington. Groups of student
researchers have accompanied Carroll on three separate trips to Japan
to perform experiments at the Radioactive Ion Accelerator Complex
there. A private company, Ecopulse Inc., funded the most recent trip. Carroll said he chooses
research assistants representing a wide range of academic majors, not
just physics, and prefers to hire freshmen or sophomores so they can
work for several years on the project. "I want students to get immersed
in the research, to develop ownership in it, to become partners in it,"
he said. Gregg Sturrus, chair of
the Department of Physics and Astronomy, said Carroll's use of student
lab workers helps to fulfill the department's mission to teach through
research. "We believe this kind of experience enhances students'
education and improves their status for entry into graduate school or
future jobs," he said. "Their experiences really rival those for
graduate students on every level." An
internationally–respected nuclear physicist, Carroll has been awarded
more than $4 million in federal research dollars on a competitive,
single–investigator basis since he joined the YSU faculty in 1995, the
largest amount ever awarded to a single faculty member at YSU. Carroll
also had a paper published recently in the Physical Review Letters
and featured on its website, prl.aps.org, his third publication in that
prestigious international physics journal and one of nearly 80
peer–reviewed publications overall. Ron Propri, a YSU alumnus
who worked with Carroll as an undergraduate, and Phil Ugorowski,
formerly a post–doctorate student in the isomer project, were among his
co–authors. "Acceptance of a publication in Physical Review Letters
is quite an accomplishment," Sturrus said, estimating that fewer than
10 percent of research physicists have published in the journal. "It
shows that the work done is more than accepted as quality research; it
indicates that the work is of interest to all physicists." Pavlik and Youngstown is topic of sociology lecture The free presentation is part of
the YSU Center for Working–Class Studies Lecture Series, co–sponsored
by the YSU Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Rhodes' lecture is titled, "Kelly
Pavlik: A Sociological Study of Reporting on the Man, the City."
Rhodes's research examines how Pavlik, a Youngstown native and the
middleweight world boxing champion, has been used to reject claims
about Youngstown''s demise. Rhodes is concerned with the role that
memory, masculinity, race and class play within the popularity of
Pavlik. The research looks at representations of Pavlik and Youngstown
within local and national discourses, examining how these reveal
ongoing tensions between the past, the present and the future. The
YSU Center for Working–Class Studies is a multidisciplinary teaching
and research center devoted to the study of working–class life and
culture. For more information, contact John Russo at 330–941–2976 or
jbrusso@ysu.edu or Sherry Linkon at 330–941–2977 or sllinkon@ysu.edu. 'Dinner with Industry' set for April 7 Society of Women Engineers is also seeking industry leaders and companies to sponsor tables, which will cover the cost of two industry representatives at each table, along with six students. Leonardi concert features bassist Rufus Reid Dana's Jazz Ensemble 1 will also perform. Reid, one of today''s premiere
bassists on the international jazz scene, has traveled, performed and
recorded with scores of great jazz masters, past and present.
Also a venerable composer, Reid participated in the BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop for five years. He won the Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Award for his composition, "Skies Over Emilia." The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named Reid a Guggenheim Fellow in 2008, and he received a 2006 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His book, The Evolving Bassist, has been continuously published since 1974 and is recognized as the industry standard as the definitive bass method. The Leonardi Legacy Concert is an
annual event honoring the late Tony Leonardi, founder of YSU's Jazz
program. The event brings a prominent jazz artist to YSU to participate
in master classes and workshops, interact with students and perform a
concert for the community. All tickets are general admission and may be purchased the evening of the performance. Tickets are $10. Admission is free for YSU students with a valid ID. Corporate tables are available for $300 and include eight tickets to a pre–concert reception and meet and greet with the artist; eight premier reserved table seats; complimentary table refreshments and table designation. Tickets and tables may be purchased in advance through the Bliss Hall Box Office or by calling 330–941–3105. Nursing symposium focuses on evidence–based medicine The symposium features four speakers on various aspects of evidence–based nursing practice: ?? 9 a.m. "Implementing EBM policies at a community hospital," Cindy Wetzel, Salem Community Hospital. 10 a.m. "Safe Medication Administration," Lora Leonard, Kent State University. 11 a.m. "Using Evidence–Based Practice for Managing Clinical Outcomes in Advanced Practice Nursing," Dr. Irene Glanville, University of Akron. Noon. Break for refreshments and to view museum exhibits. 12:30 p.m. "Building an Evidence–Based Practice Infrastructure and Culture: A Model for Rural and Community Hospitals," Dr. Linda Dudjak, University of Pittsburgh. The museum is located at 655 Wick Avenue, across the street from the Wick and Weller Houses. For more information, contact Maria Barefoot at 330–941–3681 (mrbarefoot@ysu.edu), or Cassandra Nespor at 330–941–4662 (clnespor@ysu.edu). Psychologist is Shipka lecturer The lecture is free and open to the
public. A reception will follow the lecture in the Presidential Suites
on the second floor of Kilcawley Center. Tavris' book, with Elliot Aronson, "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by ME): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts," applies cognitive dissonance theory to a wide variety of topics, including politics, conflicts of interest, memory (everyday and "recovered"), the criminal justice system, police interrogation, family quarrels, international conflict and business. She has spoken to students, psychologists, mediators, lawyers, judges, physicians, business executives, and general audiences on, among other topics, self–justification; science and pseudoscience in psychology; gender and sexuality; critical thinking; and anger. |
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