• CSA position open
• Salomon’s essays accepted
• Student research at BHSU receives $112,935 NSF grant
• Grants opportunities announced
• This week at BHSU

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Salomon’s essays accepted - Top

"Hast Thou Found My Daughter?: Shylock and the Death of Jessica" offers a new reading of Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, a reading in which Shylock is not especially cast as the villain but might be perceived as a sympathetic character very close to his Jewish heritage and traditions; the essay is to be published in Representations of the Jew on the Medieval and Early-Modern Stage (ed. M. Addison Amos).

A second essay, "Corpus Mysticum: Text as Body/Body as Text," deals with issues of the body and the text in Catholic mystical theology, focusing on the work of Henri de Lubac; it is to published in The Intersection of Sexuality and the Divine in the Middle Ages: The Word Made Flesh (ed. Susannah Chewning).

The Shakespeare essay was first presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference in St. Louis last year; attendance at the conference was partially funded by an Instructional Improvement Grant.

Student research at BHSU receives $112,935 NSF grant - Top

Undergraduate students at Black Hills State University will benefit from a $112,935 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will introduce them to pure research.

Dr. Mike Zehfus, assistant professor of chemistry at BHSU, wrote the grant to research the importance of the hydrogen bond in protein structure. Over the next three years, six undergraduate students will study hydrogen bonds by making model proteins with hydrogen bonds, then chemically remove specific hydrogen bonds to see how much the structure changes.

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Grants opportunities announced - Top

• Coca-Cola Foundation. Deadline: Sept. 1 and Dec. 1, 2000. The Coca-Cola Foundation devotes much of its efforts to partnership in three main areas:

1. HIGHER EDUCATION

   -Pipeline programs connecting various levels of education that encourage students to stay in school and to proceed with confidence to college and graduate school.

-Scholarship programs in support of graduate and undergraduate students.

-Minority advancement in the form of scholarships, urban programs and cultural diversity programs.

1. CLASSROOM TEACHING AND LEARNING

   -Teacher development programs.

2. GLOBAL EDUCATION

-Global exchange programs that encourage international studies, global understanding or student/faculty exchange.

-Programs outside the United States promoting education.