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CHSBS welcomes new
department chairs
August 28, 2008
The College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral
Sciences is welcoming two new department chairs for the 2008-09
academic year.
Angela Haddad was named chair for the
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. She began
teaching at Central Michigan University in 1989. Her research
interests include Cuban and Cuban Identity and race and ethnic
inequality in higher education.
Lt. Col. Aaron Kalloch joins the faculty at
CMU as chair of the Department of Military Science and Leadership.
He spent the past five years holding leadership positions in the 1st
Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He has served twice in
Operation Iraqi Freedom and holds degrees from the United States
Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Postgraduate School.
The faculty and staff of CHSBS would like to thank
outgoing chairs Mary Senter and Maj. Gregg Mays for their notable
service to their respective departments.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2007-2008 CHSBS Student Paper
Competition
August 21, 2008
The
College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences recognized
the winners of the 2007-2008 CHSBS Student Paper Competition during
the college's annual meeting held Aug. 21.
The
undergraduate winners receive a $500 cash prize and the graduate
winners receive a $750 cash prize for their award-winning papers.
Students can submit
research papers, essays, creative works, theoretical papers or
reviews of research that were written for CHSBS classes at the 300
level and above during the previous academic year.
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 Dr. Ihor Kamenetsky
Memorial Service
Dr. Ihor Kamenetsky,
professor emeritus of
political science,
passed away on Tuesday,
July 29, 2008.
Dr.
Kamenetsky was a professor in the political science department from
1957 to 1995. His wife, Christa, was a professor in the English
department from 1963 to 1997.
All current and former faculty, staff and
students are invited to attend his memorial service on Monday,
August 4 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's University Parish (next to
Anspach Hall).
The family will greet
guests from 10 a.m.
until the service begins
and during an informal
reception at St. Mary's
following the service.
Click here to view
the
obituary
or sign the
guest book.
Consumers talking on cell
phones or dealing with a
crying child in the store
may make more impulsive
purchases. A Central
Michigan University study
has found that consumers are
more susceptible to making
impulsive purchases for one
brand over another if they
are distracted while
shopping.
CMU psychology professor
Bryan Gibson surveyed
undergraduate college
students by measuring their
preference for a variety of
soft drinks, including Coke
and Pepsi.
In one experiment,
participants were shown Coke
and Pepsi paired with either
positive words and images
such as the word amazing or
an image of a mother holding
a child, and some negative
such as the word terrifying
or an image of exhaust
coming from a car.
A second experiment
presented participants with
an unrelated cognitive task
- memorizing an eight-digit
number - then offered them a
can of Coke or Pepsi.
Results of Gibson's study
found that implicit
attitudes, or those that
people may not be conscious
of and able to verbally
express, predicted product
choice only when
participants were presented
with a cognitive task,
suggesting that implicit
product attitudes may play a
greater role in product
choice when the consumer is
distracted or making an
impulse purchase.
"The results of this
research suggest that our
intuitions and feelings
about brands may lead us to
choose them, particularly
when we are distracted,"
said Gibson. "So don't be
surprised if a distraction
at the grocery store leads
to more impulse purchases."
The study "Can Evaluative
Conditioning Change
Attitudes toward Mature
Brands? New Evidence from
the Implicit Association
Test," was published in the
June issue of the Journal of
Consumer Research.
CMU anthropologist helps uncover
ruins in Bolivia
July 10, 2008
From David Mercado, Reuters
 Archeologists,
including CMU faculty member Sergio Chavez, have
begun digging at an ancient ceremonial site in
eastern Bolivia to piece together the rites and
daily life of cultures dating as far back as
3,000 years ago.
Locals stumbled upon the remains while clearing
the ground to build a new market in the
picturesque town of Copacabana, a tourist
hotspot on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
Many of the unearthed tombs, textiles, clay pots
and jewelry belonged to the well-documented
Tiwanaku and Inca cultures that populated the
area hundreds of years ago.
But some relics go back as far as 3,000 years,
when a little-known religious tradition called
Yayamama is thought to have flourished in the
Andes.
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Alumnus John Kulhavi receives CMU
alumni award
CHSBS alumnus John
Kulhavi, '65, is the
2008 recipient of the
Central Michigan
University Distinguished
Alumni Award.
Kulhavi is senior vice
president of investments
for Merrill Lynch in
Farmington Hills and
ranks in the top 1
percent of the firm's
financial advisers. He
is vice chairman of the
CMU Board of Trustees
and chairman of the
Campaign for the CMU
Events Center.
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more>
New edition of Temenos now
available
The spring 2008 edition
of Temenos is now
available online at
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/creative_writing/temenos.htm.
Temenos is the
online literary journal
published biannually by
Central Michigan
University's Graduate
Creative Writing
Program.
Justin Oh-Lee receives PRIF award
May 30, 2008
 Psychology
professor Justin Oh-Lee received a $7,500 award
to write a grant proposal to study the effects
of levodopa, a common drug used to treat
Parkinson's disease.
The award was given through Central Michigan
University's President's Research Investment Fund,
which
encourages full-time regular faculty and staff
to seek out external funding for research
projects or to participate in grant writing to
seek that funding.
Patients taking levodopa demonstrate decreased
motor responses over time. Experiments with rats
and alternative drug treatments hope to uncover
safer medications to manage Parkinson's.
The PRIF was implemented in 2001 by CMU
President Michael Rao.
<Read
more>
Susan Jacob receives research
excellence award
May 29, 2008
 Psychology
professor Susan Jacob received a two-year grant
for $95,133 to begin a Center for Research,
Training and Consultation on Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender or Questioning Youth
Issues.
The award was given through Central Michigan
University's Research Excellence Fund grant
program, which provides awards for proposals
submitted by CMU faculty members. Two factors
used in the judging process require that the
projects will continue to financially sustain
themselves and that the projects impact
Michigan.
One goal of the center is to gather information
and continue research on resiliency and other
GLBTQ youth issues, providing teachers that
information for training and education. The
faculty team also hopes to study connections
between higher education and "fostering positive
attitudes toward diversity in sexual orientation
and gender expression."
<Read
more>
CMU English prof
named Michigan Distinguished Professor of the
Year
 For
the second year in a row, a Central Michigan
University professor has been chosen to receive
one of the most prestigious awards in Michigan
higher education.
English professor Susan Steffel is one of three
state educators to be named a Presidents
Council, State Universities in Michigan
Distinguished Professor of the Year.
An expert on young adult and secondary English
education, Steffel is noted for her superior
teaching methods, effectiveness in conveying
subject matter, and the respect and care she
shows for her students. She was honored
during a May 14 awards ceremony in Lansing and
will receive a plaque and $3,000 cash award.
<Read
more>
Foreign language professor walks 75 miles for immigration
policies
May 12, 2008
This
summer, Central Michigan University faculty
member Christi Brookes will endure her second
seven-day, 75-mile walk to address immigration
policies in the U.S.
Brookes, a CMU assistant professor of French,
first took part in the "Migrant Trail: We Walk
for Life" in the summer of 2007. The project is
a coalition of groups that march from Sásabe,
Sonora, Mexico, to Tucson, Ariz., to raise
awareness of the deaths that occur in the Tucson
border sector area due to changes in U.S. border
control policies and to bring attention to
immigration policies. The number of migrant
bodies recovered from the area reached 237
between 2006 and 2007.
"We
saw signs of tragedy all over the desert, making
us realize how many people die trying to make
better lives for themselves," said Brookes, a
native of Calgary, Alberta, who grew up in the
Phoenix area. She joined the walk because of how
important the region is to her. "I wondered what
made these people so desperate as to leave their
families and risk their lives to start over in
our country."
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more>
CMU study shows college student sleep patterns could be
detrimental
May 9, 2008
A
Central Michigan University study has determined
that many college students have sleep patterns
that could have detrimental effects on their
daily performance.
As a
graduate student, CMU alumna LeAnne Forquer, now
a psychology faculty member at Delta State
University in Cleveland, Miss., had her own
trouble sleeping, prompting her to conduct a
study to determine if other students experienced
the same problems.
Along
with CMU psychology professor Carl Johnson,
Forquer surveyed more than 300 college students,
freshmen through graduate students, many of whom
admitted that it took longer than 30 minutes for
them to fall asleep and/or they woke more than
once a night for at least five nights a week.
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more>
Michigan History Day organizers announce
state finals winners
April 28, 2008
More
than 500
people were present as Michigan
students received top honors at the
Michigan
History
Day (National
History
Day in Michigan)
State Finals on Saturday, April 26th
at Central Michigan University.
This year an
estimated 5,500 students competed in the History
Day program statewide in
Michigan. After competing in ten regional districts
statewide in March, more than 260 of these students reached the
state finals representing schools from all across the state.
Finalists chosen at the state finals in the
Junior and Senior categories now head to College Park, Maryland in
June to compete in National
History Day with their peers from the
other forty-nine states and several US territories.
The event was hosted by CMU's Clarke Historical
Library. Several faculty members and graduate students from the
history department served as judges during the event.
<Read
more>
Read the complete list
of
finalists and alternates.
View
photo gallery
from the event.
2008 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards
April 28, 2008
The Jane Addams Peace
Association has announced the winners of the
2008 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards.
Susan Griffith, CMU assistant professor of
English, served as chair of the 2008 Jane Addams
Children’s Book Award Committee.
"The Escape of
Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom" is the winner
in the Books for Younger Children Category, is written and
illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully and published by Farrar Strauss
Giroux.
"We
Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin" by Larry
Dane Brimner, published by Calkins Creek, an
imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc., is the
winner in the Books for Older Children Category.
<Read
more>
Prestigious grant funds history professor's
preservation project
April 21, 2008
Central Michigan University
history professor Jim Schmiechen teaches his
students how places and spaces of the past give
meaning to people who live in the present, and
he utilizes what he teaches to preserve one of
Michigan's most historic areas.
Schmiechen, who has served as
chairman of the Saugatuck-Douglas Museum for the
past 15 years, submitted a project proposal to
the National Park Service for the expansion of
the area surrounding the Douglas Union School.
His project, "Back in Time: Tales of the
Village," was one of 43 proposals from 23 states
selected by the NPS to receive a Preserve
America Grant. The federally funded grant worth
nearly $24,000 will be matched by state, local
and private donors to double its worth.
<read
more>
CHSBS Excellence in
Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey
Weinstock (English)
on being named the recipient of the
2007-2008
CHSBS Excellence in Teaching Award.
Click to view the
press release or the
photo gallery
from the presentation.
CHSBS faculty
honored at annual Book
Recognition Event
Thurs., April 17, 2008
Congratulations to the CHSBS faculty and emeriti faculty
members who have authored, co-authored, edited, co-edited,
illustrated or translated books published during 2007.
Click
here to view a list
of the CHSBS honorees.
Going
green could help Michigan's
economy
Panelists at the spring 2008 Griffin Policy Forum
discussed whether climate change could be an answer to improving
Michigan’s ailing economy.
Gary Peters,
the Robert and Marjorie Griffin Endowed Chair in American Government
at Central Michigan University, organized the April 9th
forum entitled “Can Climate Change Heat Up
Michigan’s Economy?”
“Climate change represents a significant global
threat to our environment, but along with this threat comes
potential opportunity,” Peters said. “Michigan businesses are in a
unique position to develop technologies that can address the threat
of global climate change while expanding our state economy.”
<Read
more>
Neuroscience program adds
new Ph.D. degree
Friday, April 11, 2008
Students
entering
Central
Michigan
University's
new
neuroscience
graduate
degree
program
will
have the
chance
to excel
through
a unique
mentorship
model
providing
more
individual
curriculum
flexibility
and
earlier
opportunities
for
research
than
other
graduate
programs
in
neuroscience.
The
foundation
of CMU's
new
doctor
of
philosophy
in
neuroscience
program,
which
was
approved
by the
CMU
Academic
Senate,
is
provided
during
the
first
two
years.
During
this
time,
students
fulfill
all
requirements
for the
Master
of
Science
degree
in
neuroscience.
Upon
earning
the
master's
degree
program,
students
will
work
closely
with
their
chosen
mentor
to
establish
a line
of
research
that
will
lead to
a major
paper
and
dissertation.
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more>
Hartshorne elected to Higher
Learning Commission board
Thursday, April 3, 2008
 Central
Michigan University
psychology professor Tim
Hartshorne will play a
significant role in higher
education accreditation as a
member of the North Central
Association of Colleges and
Schools' Higher Learning
Commission board of
trustees.
As one of
six regional institutional
accreditors in the U.S., the
HLC works to assure the
quality of educational
opportunities at
degree-granting educational
institutions in the North
Central region, which
consists of 19 states.
Hartshorne's
four-year term on the board
of trustees will begin Sept.
1. As a member of the board
of trustees, he will be
involved in policy matters
related to accreditation,
with priorities including
public information and
disclosure, process
evaluation, assessment of
student learning, and
relations with the U.S.
Department of Education.
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more>
CMU
social work accreditation
extended through 2016
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Students pursuing a bachelor of
social work degree at Central Michigan
University will be one step ahead in the
workforce upon graduation thanks to the
program's national accreditation.
The Council on Social Work
Education has extended the university's
accreditation until 2016. CMU's social work
program received initial accreditation in 2004.
Susan Grettenberger, a faculty member in CMU's
department of sociology, anthropology and social
work and director of the social work program,
believes that this significantly adds to the
career options students will have.
"More and more jobs are
requiring graduates to have social work
licenses," Grettenberger said. "However,
students must have a degree from an accredited
social work program like CMU's in order to
receive a social work license in Michigan."
Students who are admitted into
the social work program must complete 50 hours
of course work from areas such as social welfare
policy, social work practice, human behavior,
sociology and psychology. In addition, students
are required to complete 400 hours of a capstone
social work experience under the supervision of
an experienced social worker.
The social work program is one
of several specialized degree programs at CMU
that hold national accreditation. For more
information about the social work program, visit
the department of sociology, anthropology and
social work Web site at
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/sasw.
Beyond Barbie: CMU doll exhibit to
entertain and educate
March 26, 2008
An
exhibit of dolls from around the world at Central Michigan
University will provide both entertainment and education for
visitors of all ages.
"Beyond Barbie: Dolls, Dress and Culture in Global Perspective" at
CMU's Museum of Cultural and Natural History will open April 9 and
run through January 2009. More than 100 dolls from more than 50
different countries will give visitors a firsthand look into these
countries' cultures and traditions through their elaborate clothing.
Some
of the dolls' attire represents the everyday dress of their
countries, while others show clothing worn for special events or
holidays. Many of the dolls are clothed in costumes representing
national traditions; regional or social identity; or local
occupations, such as a fisherman and a lace maker. Character dolls
illustrating traditional stories or folktales also will be on
display. <Read
more>
Elizabeth Brockman pens handbook
for aspiring police leaders
March 24, 2008
A new book by a Central Michigan
University English professor is defining the role that written
communication plays for law enforcement officers.
Elizabeth Brockman, professor and director of
composition in CMU's English department, says that her book, "The
Blue Guide: Written Communication for Leaders in Law Enforcement"
published by Pearson Education, challenges traditional ideas about
writing in the field of law enforcement.
"Police officers have long understood written
communication as "copspeak," bureaucratic paper shuffling or a
matter of mere correctness, but I take a different approach in this
book," she said. "Instead, I argue that good writing is a leadership
tool with the power to build self-image, enhance public relations,
promote policies and procedures, and increase departmental morale.
In other words, police officers can be more effective leaders if
they are good writers."
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more>
CHSBS faculty honored
with top CMU research awards
March 19, 2008
CHSBS faculty members Brigitte Bechtold
and Solomon Getahun have been selected as this year's
recipients of the university's most prestigious research
awards.
Bechtold, a professor of sociology,
anthropology and social work, received the President's
Award, which recognizes the career achievements of senior
faculty members. Getahun, an assistant professor of African
history, received the Provost's award, which honors the
accomplishments of junior faculty members.
The recipients, along with other CHSBS
faculty award winners, were recognized during the Faculty
Excellence Exhibition March 19 in CMU's Park Library.
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more>
CMU museum selected for
national conservation bookshelf
March 6, 2008
Valuable museum collections and
artifacts at Central Michigan University will be
preserved for future generations with the help
of a national conservation effort.
CMU's Museum of Cultural and
Natural History has been selected to receive the
Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, a core set
of conservation books, a variety of DVDs and
access to valuable online resources awarded by
the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
"IMLS has targeted small museums
for this program since they often don't have the
resources to acquire this type of technical
information on their own," said William Pretzer,
history faculty member and director of CMU's
Museum of Cultural and Natural History. "These
materials will aid in the museum's conservation
efforts and be a tangible asset to students in
the museum studies program."
<Read
more>
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