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Eastern alumni living in California had the opportunity to network with each other and learn more about the many exciting happenings at their alma mater during three receptions held in March in Malibu, San Diego, and San Francisco. The Office of Institutional Advancement coordinated the events. On March 11, President and Mrs. Michael Pernal joined representatives of the CSU System, officers of the ECSU Foundation, and Eastern alumni as guests at the Malibu, CA, residence of television industry veterans and special friends of the University, Susan and Kent McCray. A second reception was held at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina on March 14, followed by a dinner party in San Francisco on March 16 for Bay Area alumni.
“The receptions exceeded our expectations,” said Ken DeLisa, vice president for institutional advancement. "It was wonferful to update alumni on the fabulous things happening on campus, and hear of the success alumni are experiencing."
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Dawson selected for leadership role
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Anne Dawson, professor of art history and chair of the Visual Arts Department, has been selected to participate in the highly competitive New England Regional Leadership Forum for Women Academic Administrators, organized by the American Council of Education — to be held at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA, April 26-28, 2006. The topic for this forum is "Advancing Women's Leadership: Styles, Strategies and Tools."
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Eastern Wins Building Design Awards |
The Child and Family Development Center has received a First Place Award in the 2006 Connecticut Building Congress (CBC) Project Team Awards Competition. Plaques will be presented at an awards program on May 18 at the New Haven Lawn Club.
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President Michael Pernal added his own story-telling flair as a guest
reader at the Child and Family Development Resource Center on April 6.
Earth Day 2006: The action-filled, informative day focused campus
attention on energy conservation and protecting the environment.
It's never too early to learn how to conserve energy and
protect our natural resources, as these Early Childhood
Education students demonstrate by teaching preschoolers
at the Child and Family Development Resource Center how
to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle during Earth Day 2006.
Kala Prasad and David Nelson delighted their University Hour audience
on April 19 with a Carnatic Music Concert of classical South Indian music.
Saul Rodriguez ’08 fine tunes a blade for his wind turbine. |
Eastern Authors Recently in Print |
| * A Spanish translation of Sociology Professor James W. Russell’s “After the Fifth Sun: Class and Race in North America,” published by Editorial Miguel Angel Porrúa in Mexico City in association with the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. * “A Comparative Study of the Political Communication Styles of Bill Clinton & Tony Blair,” written by Assistant Professor of Communication Olugbenga C. Ayeni and published by Edwin Mellen Press.
* “Linda Lê, l’écriture du manqué,” by Michèle Bacholle-Boškovi?, published by Edwin Mellen Press. This is the first book-length study published on contemporary Francophone Vietnamese writer Linda Lê.
* University Press of Florida has published “The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico,” by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ricardo Pérez. Pérez's study explains how state intervention has retarded the development of small-scale fishing economies in coastal Puerto Rican communities.
* Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education Darren Robert (with Bill Yongue of Florida International University) is the author of “Play, Physical Activity, and Physical Education for Young Children,” published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Co. of Dubuque, Iowa.
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* Professor June Bisantz-Evans had an article, “The race is to the Well-Prepared,” in the January 2006 issue of Industrial Fabric Products Review.
* Eastern’s Green Campus and energy conservation efforts were featured in the Hartford Courant on Feb. 26.
* The Willimantic Chronicle (March 16) featured Sarah Weddington, the attorney who won the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade abortion case, who visited campus on March 15.
* CPTV was on campus on March 17 filming for a five-part series on energy initiatives on Connecticut university campuses.
* Professor Ann Higginbotham, Assistant Professor Nanette Tummers, and the Child and Family Development Resource Center all were featured in the March/April 2006 issue of the CSU Universe.
* Eastern was featured in a story about college towns in the Boston Globe on April 16.
* On March 24, The Broadcaster featured a story about a billboard project created by students in June Bisantz-Evans’ Design Group that is helping the Willimantic Food Co-op advertise its new store.
  Photos by Brenda Sullivan/Reminder Community News
Have you had an article published? Were you or your students featured in the news? Send us the highlights and we’ll publish it in NewsFlash. (osborne@easternct.edu) |
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