Music faculty present
WomanSong: Recapitulation and Coda - top
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Dr. Susan Hove-Pabst, music professor at Black Hills State
University, will present the fifth in a series of research-based music
recitals in the recital hall of Clare and Josef Meier Hall Saturday,
March 25 at 2:30 p.m.
Assisting Hove-Pabst will be Dr. Janeen Larsen, Dr. Randall Royer,
Christopher Hahn, Stephen Parker, Leslie Speirs, Molly Dailey and Lori
Miller, who are all faculty and associates of the BHSU music department.
There is no charge to attend the recital and no reservations will be
taken.
Hove-Pabst’s recital series has examined the lives and careers of
women in the American popular music scene. According to Hove-Pabst,
Torch Singers, those female vocalists who have used the popular song to
wrench at our heartstrings, were the subject of the first research and
recital. Popular Sister Groups who hit the airwaves, record shops, and
eventually television provided material for the second project. Kay
DeWitt, a quintessential performer of all genres, the "toast" of
Washington, D.C. and President Truman’s administration, became the focus
of the next biographical recital and, in fact, continues to be the muse
for Hove-Pabst’s work in progress. The fourth recital examined Women
Folk–the performers and writers coming out of the folk music genre. This
recital also marked the introduction of Hove-Pabst’s original
compositions.
The fifth WomanSong recital will revisit each of these previous
topics of research and performance, thus is titled the "recapitulation."
Hove-Pabst says the fifth recital will also afford an opportunity to add
new material, sampling from the songs and singers of musical drama, the
"femme of film and stage." This final section will bring a close to the
WomanSong series, the coda.
Hove-Pabst has been at BHSU since 1988. She has a wide range of
involvement in the music department and across campus. She teaches music
education, sight singing and ear training, voice, guitar and music
appreciation. She has been active in choir and in many musical
productions, including "Company" and the tribute to Richard Rodgers.
Previously Hove-Pabst organized the Black Hills Folk Festival on campus.
Her work with children’s original opera gained international notice.
Hove-Pabst has been interested in the female vocalists of America’s
early and mid-20th century popular music since her early childhood.
Books, recordings, sheet music, film, and personal encounters have
nurtured that interest. Eventually this interest led to the WomanSong
recital series.
Schallenkamp interviewed
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Dr. Kay Schallenkamp, who was recently selected to serve as the next
president at Black Hills State University, was interviewed on South
Dakota Public Radio this week.
Schallenkamp, who is currently president of Emporia State University
in Kansas, will begin at BHSU in July. In the radio interview conducted
by South Dakota Public Radio staff member Julia Monczunski, Schallenkamp
discussed the potential of the university and her plans for BHSU.
An archived audio of the interview is available on the South Dakota
Public Radio
website.
American Indian Health Research
Program establishes a new location - top
Staff members of the American Indian
Health Research Program at Black Hills State University are hosting an
open house Monday, Feb. 13, from noon to 3 p.m., at their new location
at 1246 St. Joe Street in Spearfish (across the street and east of the
tennis courts on the BHSU campus). Staff members include: front row,
left to right, Kathryn Langwell, M.A., interim director of the program;
Mary Rogers, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology; back row, left to
right, Jake Melson, research assistant who is a senior sociology and
human services major from Truman, Minn.; Peter Gezzi, research assistant
who is a senior sociology and human services major from Rapid City;
Victoria Grey Owl, Ph.D., R.D., researcher; and Steve Andersen, D.B.A., assistant
professor of health administration.
Staff members not pictured are: Daniel
Farrington, D.V.M., Ph.D., serves as principal investigator for the
Project EXPORT grant. Rob Schurrer, Ph.D., professor and director of the
wellness management program; Jace DeCory, M.A., assistant professor of
Indian Studies; and Amie Weglin, research assistant who is a senior
sociology and human services major from Spearfish.
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The American Indian Health Research Program at Black Hills State
University is holding an open house Monday, Feb. 13, from noon to 3
p.m., at their new location at 1246 St. Joe Street in Spearfish.
Community members, BHSU students, faculty, and employees, and others
who are interested in the program are invited.
The American Indian Health Research Program (AIHRP) was started in
fall 2002 when BHSU and the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council were
awarded a three-year, $1.05 million Project EXPORT grant from the
National Institutes for Health/National Center for Minority Health and
Health Disparities to conduct research and provide community education
about American Indian health disparities. Since then, BHSU faculty
members associated with the AIHRP have conducted 12 collaborative
research studies with six tribes in Montana and Wyoming under this
initial grant.
Daniel Farrington, D.V.M., Ph.D., serves as principal investigator
for the Project EXPORT grant. BHSU faculty members who have led
research, outreach and mentoring programs under the grant include Steve
Andersen, D.B.A., assistant professor of health administration; Rob
Schurrer, Ph.D., professor and director of the wellness management
program; Mary Rogers, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology; Jace
DeCory, M.A., assistant professor of Indian Studies; and Kathryn
Langwell, M.A., visiting assistant professor of health economics. Three
BHSU seniors who are majoring in sociology and human services are
working as research assistants at the center. The students, Jake Melson,
from Truman, Minn.; Peter Gezzi, from Rapid City; and Amie Weglin, from
Spearfish, work with staff members on current projects.
In the last four years, several additional grants for research on
American Indian health topics have been awarded to BHSU and its tribal
organization partners. In the fall of 2003, the Montana-Wyoming Tribal
Leaders Council was awarded a three-year, $1 million Minority Research
Infrastructure Support Program grant by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, HHS. BHSU is a sub-grantee to the Tribal Leaders
Council. Andersen and Langwell are conducting research to measure tribal
members satisfaction and experiences with receiving services from the
Indian Health Service.
Schurrer and Victoria Grey Owl, Ph.D., BHSU researcher, are
conducting a study to increase rates of screening for cervical cancer on
the Wind River (WY) Reservation.
The Tribal Leaders Council has also contracted with BHSU to conduct
an evaluation of their 30-month grant for Building Community Supports
for Indian People with Diabetes, awarded in 2004 by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. Langwell and Grey Owl are leading the evaluation
project.
Other funded research being conducted by faculty and other
researchers associated with the American Indian Health Research Program
includes a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. This award, facilitated through Senator Tim Johnson’s
office and lead by principal investigators Rogers and Dr. Charles Schad,
is structured to identify and disseminate information on effective
strategies for producing improved outcomes for children born with Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome and to evaluate the value of the information for
teachers, juvenile justice system workers, and others. Under the grant,
a two-day workshop for professionals who work with children with FAS
will be held in Rapid City March 13-14, with additional one-day
workshops offered in Eagle Butte and Mission during late March. The
Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board is a partner with BHSU on
this grant and is conducting educational programs for prevention with
fifth through eighth graders in Pine Ridge and Rapid City.
The American Indian Health Research Program has also partnered with
the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Montana-Wyoming
Tribal Leaders Council, Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board,
and Sinte Gleska University for a five-year, $7.4 million Center for
Excellence in Health Disparities Research grant that was awarded in fall
2005. The BHSU component on this grant includes designing and conducting
programs to prevent and reduce obesity in American Indian children on
ten reservations in Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota and research on
the relationship between cultural resiliency and adolescent risk
behaviors that will be conducted with the Crow Tribe and with the Fort
Peck Tribes in Montana.
Other funded research underway or recently completed by the program’s
researchers includes evaluation of a pilot program for reducing SIDS and
FAS on the Pine Ridge Reservation, under a Wellmark Foundation grant to
the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board. The staff members are
also working on the development of a catalogue of data available to
study American Indian/Alaska Native health and well-being issues, under
the assistant secretary of planning and evaluation award to Westat, a
high level statistical research firm based in Maryland.
For more information, contact Langwell, interim director of the
American Indian Health Research Program, Black Hills State University,
at 642-6627 or
KathrynLangwell@bhsu.edu.
Susanne Skyrm will perform “A
Recital of Latin American Piano Music” at BHSU -
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Black Hills State University will host “A Recital of
Latin American Piano Music” performed by Dr. Susanne Skyrm Sunday, Feb.
12 at 2:30 p.m. in the recital hall in Clare and Josef Meier Hall.
Skyrm, a fortepianist and founding member of the
period instrument touring ensemble Dakota Baroque and Classic Company,
has performed as a piano soloist and collaborative artist throughout the
United States and Europe. She also teaches studio piano, class piano,
and piano literature at the University of South Dakota. She specializes
in both modern and early piano and combines performing with her research
interests in Spanish and Latin American keyboard music.
Her performance, “A Recital of Latin American Piano
Music,” grew from a summer seminar at the University of Texas-Austin,
for which she was awarded one of 12 fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The seminar was taught by Dr. Gerard
Behague, an eminent Latin American music scholar.
While attending the seminar, Skyrm was able to
research the notable holdings of the University of Texas-Austin music
library and found music that is rarely heard in the United States. As
part of her research project, she traced the influence of native and
folk elements on the art music of Latin America.
Skyrm’s CD Treasures of Iberian Keyboard Music on
the Antunes Fortepiano (Music and Arts), which was recorded on a
rare 1767 Portuguese piano at the National Music Museum in Vermillion,
received critical acclaim. She has also received numerous awards for her
performances, including awards from the Mason and Hamlin state and
regional auditions and the Cincinnati Three Arts Foundation.
Skyrm has performed for professional societies
throughout the world and has given workshops on Spanish and Latin
American keyboard music for teacher groups in the Midwest. She is a
frequent presenter at the Diego Fernandez International Symposium on
Spanish Keyboard Music, held annually in Mojácar, Spain, and is
currently involved in a project to catalogue and identify 19th Century
keyboard manuscripts in the monastery of San Pedro de las Dueñas outside
of León.
As a recent recipient of a Governor’s 2010 Seed Grant,
Skyrm is currently compiling and editing a collection of 18th Century
Spanish keyboard music to be published in the next two years.
The BHSU recital is open to the public at no cost. For
more information, contact Janeen Larsen at 642-6241 or
JaneenLarsen@bhsu.edu.
History
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Black Hills State University will host the 2006
District Six National History Day Competition Wednesday, March 22 on the
BHSU campus. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. outside the Jacket Legacy
Room in the David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union.
National History Day is a nonprofit education program
dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of history in
elementary and secondary schools. More than 700,000 young people
annually participate in district, state, and national competitions.
A first or second place award in the District Six
competition, which comprises much of western South Dakota, allows
students to advance to the state competition scheduled for Saturday,
April 22. Winners from the state competition then go on to Washington,
D.C., for the national competition June 11-15.
The theme for 2006 is "Taking a Stand in History:
People, Ideas, Events." In response to the theme, students may submit a
paper, create an exhibit, do a performance, or develop a documentary.
Students may enter as individuals or in groups. There are two
categories: the junior division, grades six through eight, and the
senior division, grades nine through 12. Last year nearly 150 students
representing seven schools brought projects to the District Six
competition. Forty of those students advanced to the state competition.
According to David Wolff, BHSU associate history
professor and District Six coordinator, History Day competitions are
excellent opportunities for students to become engaged in history and to
develop the skills of researching, writing, and critical thinking.
Students must work with their high school or middle
school social science or history teacher to enter the History Day
competition. All students must pre-register by Wednesday, March 15. For
more information or to register for the District Six competition,
contact Wolff at 642-6221 or
DavidWolff@bhsu.edu.
Black Hills State University to
host high school art program - top
Artist Dale Lamphere, Sturgis, gives
recommendations to Anne Ellingson, Bison, during a summer art program
held at Black Hills State University last year. Nominations are now
being accepted for high school students to attend the program this
summer on the campus of BHSU.
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Black Hills State University announces plans for its annual high
school visiting artists summer program June 19-23.
High school juniors and seniors who are nominated by their high
school art teachers will be eligible to attend. A total of 16 students
from across the state will be chosen. This year the attendees will work
with two artists: Dave Wilson, a well known mixed media artist who is an
art professor at BHSU; and Jessie Palczewski, a recent BHSU art graduate
who also earned a graduate degree from the University of North Dakota.
“Last year we had a very successful art camp, so we are excited to
offer it again this year,” said Jim Knutson, BHSU art professor and
coordinator of the summer visiting artist program. He added that
students will stay in a residence hall on campus during the week-long
session which culminates with a closing picnic lunch and showcase of the
artwork created.
The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, March 1. For details
contact Knutson at 642-6104 or email
JamesKnutson@bhsu.edu.
Wheaton to visit area schools
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Tom Wheaton, assistant director of admissions at Black
Hills State University, will discuss college plans with students at 17
area high schools next week. All times are given in Central Standard
Time (CST).
Wheaton will visit the following schools Monday, Feb.
13: Mt. Vernon High School from 8:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.; Mitchell High
School from 10:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.; Ethan High School from 11:45 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.; Parkston High School from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and
Freeman High School from 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 14, Wheaton will visit Canistota High
School from 8:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.; Lennox High School from 10:30 a.m.
to 11 a.m.; Parker High School from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.; Platte
High School from 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 15, Wheaton will visit Dell Rapids
High School from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.; Harrisburg High School from 10:45
a.m. to 11:15 a.m.; and Bon Homme High School, Tyndall, from 2 p.m. to
2:45 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 16, Wheaton will visit Yankton High
School from 8 a.m. to 8:20 a.m.; Menno High School from 9:35 a.m. to 10
a.m.; and Vermillion High School from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Wheaton will conclude his week Friday, Feb. 17 at
Geddes High School from 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.; and Chamberlain High
School from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
High school students needing information about college
costs, financial aid, housing, and academic information should plan to
visit with Wheaton. For more information contact the BHSU Admissions
Office at 1-800-ALL-BHSU or view the BHSU website at
www.bhsu.edu.
Krautschun women's
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Harvey and Joy Krautschun, Spearfish, recently donated
$5,000 to the Joy Proctor Krautschun Scholarship Fund at Black Hills
State University.
This scholarship fund was originally set up in 1999 by
June and the late T.H. Proctor who donated $100,000 via a charitable
remainder trust. Interest from the deferred scholarship fund will be
distributed to female basketball players to honor Joy Krautschun, the
first head women's basketball coach at BHSU who coached in the mid 70s.
Joy is a 1973 graduate of BHSU with a physical
education major and a music minor. As a student, she was involved in the
dance program at the university, was a cheerleader and was involved in
intramural sports. Joy taught physical education and music in the
Lead/Deadwood and Spearfish School districts.
For many years, Joy was an active member of Spearfish
community and served with the Spearfish Ambassadors. Joy was a member of
the Alumni Association board of directors for many years and her husband
was past president of the Alumni Association and is a current member of
the BHSU Foundation board of directors. They are now both emeritus
members of the alumni board.
University Assessment Committee
minutes - top
The University Assessment Committee met Monday, Feb. 6
in the Meier Hall Conference Room from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
Present were: D. Wessel, Alsup, Siewert, Earley,
Hagerty, S. Hupp, Romkema, and Sarkar. C. Cremean and Sickler were
absent.
Assessment plans for writing intensive and
undergraduate research requirements:
- Business
- Writing intensive plan accepted.
- Undergraduate research plan accepted.
- Global issues plan accepted.
- Communication arts/mass communications
- Writing intensive plan sent back for
revision. More details are needed, and goals and objectives need
to be those in the catalog.
- Undergraduate research plan sent back for
revision and resubmission. More details are needed, and goals
and objectives need to be those in the catalog.
- History
- Writing intensive plan sent back for revision
and resubmission. Need to explain use of rubric and provide more
details.
- Undergraduate research plan sent back for
revision and resubmission. Need to explain use of rubric and
provide more details on assessment.
- Human services
- Writing intensive plan sent back for revision
and resubmission. Need to explain use of rubric and provide more
details.
- Undergraduate research plan sent back for
revision and resubmission. Need to explain use of rubric and
provide more details on assessment.
- Music
- Writing intensive plan sent back for revision
and resubmission. Need details on the projects and how they fit
into assessments. Use of a rubric also questioned.
- Creative activity plan sent back for revision
and resubmission. Goals and outcomes should be those in the
catalog. The committee liked outcome 1, but outcome 2
needed more details.
Globalization/global issues requirement:
- The committee discussed the globalization/global
issues requirement but did not arrive at a conclusion as to the best
means to do assessment on this requirement. The committee did agree
that the chair should ask faculty or chairs of those courses listed
as fulfilling the global requirement how they are meeting that
requirement.
The next meeting of the University Assessment
Committee will be Monday, Feb. 27 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the Meier
Hall Conference Room.
Grant opportunities announced
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Below are program materials received in the Grants Office, Woodburn
212, through Thursday, Feb. 9. For copies of the information, contact
the office at 642-6204 or e-mail requests to
grants@bhsu.edu. Fellowship
information will also be posted on the Student Union bulletin board near
the information desk.
Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT)
Through the Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT) program, the CISE
and EHR Directorates of National Science Foundation support research
that (1) enables radical improvements in learning through innovative
computer and information technologies, and (2) advances research in
computer science, information technology, learning, and cognitive
science through the unique challenges posed by learning environments and
learning technology platforms. Integrative research approaches that
build across disciplines and establish tight linkages among theory,
experiment, and design are strongly encouraged. Technology goals may
include systems for tutoring or assessment, modeling and sensing of
cognitive or emotional states, context awareness, natural language
interfaces, collaboration, knowledge management, and non-traditional
goals that redefine the roles of technology in learning. Educational
foci for ALT projects must include an area of science, technology,
engineering, or mathematics (STEM), or general cross-cutting skills
directly relevant to STEM.
Deadline: May 4, 2006. The link to the full announcement can
be found at
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=7927.
FY 2006 DCI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
(Department of Defense, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency)
The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and DS&T’s Chief Scientist
announce a Fiscal Year 2006 competition for the DCI Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship Program. The mission of the DCI Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship Program is to establish long-term relationships and
mentoring of postdoctoral researchers and to provide research institutes
with an understanding of the Intelligence Community’s research
requirements. The program fosters partnerships with postdoctoral
researchers as they move into career positions and provide innovative
solutions to critical Intelligence Community problems. The FY 2006
program has 47 topic areas of interest. The Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA), with all pertinent information, will be posted on
the NGA website at www.nga.mil under
the Business Opportunities tab on February 17, 2006.
Deadline: April 14, 2006. For more information see
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=7928.
Faculty Research and
Instructional Improvement Committees remind faculty of deadlines
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Proposals for funding through the Instructional Improvement Committee
will be accepted through Friday, Feb. 24 for consideration at the March
meeting. Proposals must consist of the proposal and budget outlines
following the specified format available on the Grants and Special
Projects web
page.
The Faculty Research Committee has funds available for the current
fiscal year. Applications to be considered at the next meeting need to
be submitted by Wednesday, Feb. 22. Complete guidelines are available on
the BHSU Grants & Special Projects
website.
Proposals are now being accepted electronically. To submit a proposal
electronically, attach it to an email and send it to
PeggyGubbrud@bhsu.edu;
however, a signed original must also be submitted to the Grants Office,
Unit 9504, or delivered to Woodburn Hall 212.
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