2020-February-21-The River And The Wall, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 21, 2020) – “The River and the Wall,” an award-winning documentary by conservation filmmaker Ben Masters, will be screened at East Tennessee State University on Saturday, Feb. 29, at 7 p.m. in the D.P. Culp Student Center’s Martha Street Culp Auditorium.

The free public screening is sponsored by American Variety Radio host Court Lewis and the ETSU Department of Sustainability in cooperation with Fin and Fur Films.

The film follows Masters, along with National Geographic explorer Filipe DeAndrade, ornithologist Heather Mackey, river guide Austin Alvarado and conservationist Jay Kleberg on a two-and-a-half-month journey down 1,200 miles of …

Staff Council Meeting Minutes, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

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Staff Council Agenda, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

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2020-February-20-Hooper Named Associate Dean Of Research And Scholarship At Etsu College Of Nursing, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Dr. Vallire Hooper

JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 20, 2020) – Dr. Vallire Hooper has been named Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship and Director of the PhD program at East Tennessee State University’s College of Nursing.

“I am very excited to have Dr. Hooper join our faculty and serve as Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship,” said Dr. Wendy Nehring, dean of the College of Nursing. “She brings excellent experience in successful grant writing and sustained scholarship. I believe that she can be instrumental in taking our college to the next level in scholarship and research funding.”

For the last nine …

2020-February-20-Three Emerging Writers, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 20, 2020) – “Three Emerging Writers” – poets J. Scott Brownlee, Kristin Robertson and Matthew Wimberley – will visit East Tennessee State University on Monday, March 2, to work with university students and to give a free public poetry reading.

The reading will begin at 4 p.m. in the Reece Museum.  Each writer will present a 20- to 30-minute reading, and the public will have the opportunity to interact with each poet during a Q&A and book-signing. 

The “Three Emerging Writers” series is a popular and well-attended program featuring public poetry and fiction readings and class visits …

2020-02-20 Faculty Senate Regent Report, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

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Faculty Senate Regent report from February 20, 2020.

2020-02-20 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from February 20, 2020.

2020-02-20 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter from February 20, 2020.

2020-February-19-Professional Characters In Westerns, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 19, 2020) – “Professional Characters in Westerns” is the topic of a free public lecture to be given by Dr. Ken Hall at East Tennessee State University on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 3:30 p.m. in the Reece Museum.

Hall’s talk is part of the Sigma Tau Delta Lecture Series sponsored by ETSU’s chapter of the international English honor society that promotes universal literacy, excellence in writing and appreciation of the literary arts.

Hall, a professor of Spanish in the ETSU Department of Literature and Language, will base his talk on material from his new book, “Professionals …

2020-February-19-Professors Receive Funding To Study Adverse Childhood Experiences Aces, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 19, 2020) – Dr. Megan Quinn and Dr. Shimin Zheng, associate professors in the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, have been awarded a Research Development Committee Major Grant for a pilot study to assess how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) affect a patient’s readiness to adhere to HIV treatment. 

The researchers will collaborate with ETSU Health’s Center of Excellence for HIV/AIDS and the Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease and Immunity. This project stemmed from work that Quinn completed with Elaine Loudermilk, a doctor of public health student in …

2020-February-19-Carter Railroad Museum Heritage Day, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 19, 2020) – For the first time ever, East Tennessee State University’s George L. Carter Railroad Museum will hold its monthly Heritage Day about America’s railroading industry on Saturday Feb. 29, leap day.

During this free event, several of the Heritage Day layouts will focus on the simpler days of American railroads. Normally operating less than 200 miles of track, short lines were just what the name implies, railroad companies that ran local and rural train movements. Some companies operated alone while others were owned by corporations that invested in them to access specific areas. These operations …

2020-February-19-The Healthy Campus Focus Of Etsu Student Success Symposium, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 19, 2020) – “The Healthy Campus: Well-Being and Your Campus Community” is the focus of the 2020 Student Success Symposium to be hosted by ETSU’s Division of Student Life and Enrollment on Friday, March 27, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. in the D.P. Culp Student Center.

Keynote speaker Dr. Nance Lucas will address “Uplifting Well-Being in Higher Education.”

Lucas is executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University, where she is the co-founder of Leading to Well-Being programs, MasonLeads, and the Leadership Legacy Program, for which she also serves as the senior …

2020-February-18-Etsu Elevates Pitch Competition, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 18, 2020) – Seven minutes – that’s how long each of the five competing teams will have to convince the audience that their service project is worthy of a $5,000 service grant from East Tennessee State University. The public is invited to be a part of this “Shark Tank Style” competition at the ETSU Millennium Center ballroom on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 6:30 p.m.

The ETSU Elevates initiative, which supports service projects aimed at improving the lives of people across the region, was introduced by ETSU President Brian Noland last fall. So far, six teams have …

2020-February-18-Pharmacy Students Featured On National Pharmacy Magazine Cover, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Pharmacy students featured on national pharmacy magazine cover

JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 18, 2020) – A group of students at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy were featured on the cover of the American Pharmacist Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists’ (APhA-ASP) Student Pharmacist magazine.

The theme of the photoshoot in the November/December 2019 bi-monthly magazine was “Personal & Team Development” and featured students on the ETSU Basler Team Challenge and Aerial Adventure Course completing team-based activities. The photos were included in the magazine’s feature article, “Becoming a Successful Team,” by Dr. Crystal Atwell, APhA director of student and new …

Darden Restaurants: The Role Of College Education In The Hospitality Industry, Rick Cardenas, Elizabeth Yost

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Rick Cardenas' first job was waiting tables at his local Red Lobster restaurant. Now he is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Darden Restaurants, which owns and operates more than 1,700 restaurants under brands including Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, and Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen. Here, he explains to Rosen College's Elizabeth Yost how his own career developed and discusses the importance of a college education in the hospitality industry.

Out With The Old, In With The New: Education In The Hospitality Industry, Louis A. Lenglet, Sebastien Bazin

Rosen Research Review

What does it mean to be Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the largest hotel group in the world outside of the United States? How do you effectively lead a company that manages so many different brands and franchises? And how is it best to train new employees to be part of that shared vision? Accor is one of the largest hospitality companies in the world, with resorts, hotels and vacation properties across the globe. current CEO Sebastien Bazin is hoping to bring together the world of hospitality and education to build a bright and sustainable future for the company. Rosen …

2020-February-17-Uses Of The Drum In African Culture, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 17, 2020) – “The Many Uses of the Drum in African Culture” is the focus of a free public talk by Rev. Vincent Dial to be held Thursday, Feb. 20, at East Tennessee State University.

In his talk, which will take place at 12:30 p.m. in Rogers-Stout Hall, room 101, Dial will discuss the impact of the drum on the political, economic, cultural and social development of Africa, as well as its various uses in America by Africans who entered the United States during and after the Colonial Era.

Dial, an ETSU alumnus, was a teacher and …

2020-February-17-Edu-Dolly Pn, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 17, 2020) – “Dolly: P/N 35 National Juried Art Exhibition” opens Tuesday, Feb. 18, at East Tennessee State University’s Slocumb Galleries.  The exhibit will continue through March 13.

The juror of this 35^th annual “Positive/Negative” exhibition is Logan Lockner, an Atlanta-based writer and the editor of Burnaway, an online magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South.  His writing has also appeared in such national publications as Art Papers, Pelican, Bomb, Photograph and The Rib, and he recently edited the anthology “Stranger, Harder, Brighter: The 2019 Burnaway Reader.”  In 2018, he was a finalist …

2020-February-17-Fall Deans List, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 17, 2020) – East Tennessee State University has announced the names of students who attained a grade point average qualifying them for inclusion in the dean’s list for the fall 2019 semester.

To receive this honor, undergraduate students must successfully complete a minimum of 12 hours of undergraduate coursework with no grade below ‘B-’ in any course taken, and a grade point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Students from the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy must successfully complete a minimum of 12 hours and earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 …

2020-February-17-Sonja Dubois, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Sonja Dubois

JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 17, 2020) – East Tennessee State University’s Department of History will host a free public talk by Holocaust survivor Sonja Dubois on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. in Rogers-Stout Hall, room 118.

Born Clara van Thijin in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Oct. 19, 1940, Dubois became a Holocaust child survivor in July 1942, when her parents were deported to Auschwitz.  She was adopted and raised by a Dutch foster family, first in the Netherlands and then in the United States, without fully being told about her biological family and true identity.

The Knoxville resident chronicled …

2020-February-14-February Story Slam, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 14, 2020) – “Scars” is the theme for February in East Tennessee State University’s “Re-Generation: A Johnson City Story Slam” series.

This free public Story Slam will be held Friday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. at JRH Brewing, 458 W. Walnut St.  Donations at the door are welcome.

The “Re-Generation” series of unvarnished storytelling concerts opens the door to audience members instead of paid professional tellers.  These events follow the story slam concept that originated in 2001 with The Moth, a non-profit literary society from New York, and spread to cities around the country.

Storytellers in the …

2020-February-14-Upcoming Music Recitals, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 14, 2020) – The East Tennessee State University Department of Music continues its spring 2019 concert season with a number of performances featuring faculty and guest artists.

All of the following performances are open to the public: 

• Yi-Yang Chen, ETSU assistant professor of piano, will present a Faculty Recital on Friday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Brown Hall auditorium.  He will perform masterpieces by Beethoven in honor of the composer’s 250^th birthday, along with works by Granados, Prokofiev and others.  The program will also include the United States premier of a new work …

2020-February-14-Etsu Presents Antigone, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY – (February 14, 2020) The great Sophocles tragedy “Antigone” will open the spring semester season in the Department of Theatre and Dance at East Tennessee State University.  Performances will be at the Bud Frank Theatre Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 20-22, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m.

As the show opens, the two sons of Oedipus – Eteokles and Polyneikes – have been fighting for the kingship of Thebes. Both men die in the battle. Their successor, Kreon, decides that King Eteokles will be buried, but Polyneikes, because he was leading a foreign army, will be left …

2020-February-14-Etsu Board Of Trustees, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 14, 2020) — East Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees will hold a series of meetings Feb. 20-21.

A called meeting of the Executive Committee will take place Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room on the second floor of Burgin Dossett Hall.

The Board of Trustees will hold its quarterly meeting and several committee meetings on Friday, Feb. 21, at the Millennium Center. The full Board of Trustees will meet in room 220 beginning at 1 p.m.

Committee meetings will also be held at the following times:

• Audit – 9 a.m.
• Finance …

2020-02-13 Academic Appeals Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Academic Appeals Committee.

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Academic Appeals Committee meeting minutes for February 13, 2020.

Nick Thomas On Hospitality Industry Trends And Hospitality Leadership Education, University Marketing And Communications, Nick Thomas

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In the 10 years since DePaul’s School of Hospitality Leadership was established, the hospitality industry has seen dramatic changes. Advancements in technology are improving how hotels, restaurants and convention centers operate; new trends are reshaping the travel experience; and far-off destinations are more within reach. How does DePaul prepare students to enter this fast-growing sector? With a combination of classroom instruction led by professors with industry experience and hands-on training. In this episode, Nick Thomas, the school’s director, talks about how hospitality leadership educators are meeting the challenge of evolving with the industry—and shares what he’s learned from spending time …

2020-February-12-Dr Katherine Weiss, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 12, 2020) – “Claire-Lise Holy: An Artist’s Reflections on Theatre and Literature” is the focus of a free public talk by Dr. Katherine Weiss at East Tennessee State University on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at noon in the Reece Museum.

This talk is part of the “Women on Wednesdays” lecture series sponsored by the university’s Women’s Studies Program. 

Dr. Katherine Weiss

Claire-Lise Holy was a visual artist who worked as a costume and set designer, as well as a painter …

2020-February-11-New Year New Name, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 11, 2020) – The East Tennessee State University Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment, established in 2016, began 2020 with a new name: the ETSU Addiction Science Center (ASC).

The change is part of a concerted effort to keep pace with the evolving nature of the opioid crisis, whereby heroin and fentanyl are now the leading cause of unintentional overdose death in the U.S. – not prescribed pain medications.

In addition, the new name provides an opportunity to expand research efforts to include the study of co-morbid health conditions and poly-substance misuse, incorporating studies focused …

2020-February-10-Professor Receives Grant To Research Transdermal Treatment Of Opioid Addiction, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 10, 2020)  – A faculty member at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy has received a grant to aid in her research of the transdermal naloxone treatment of opioid addiction, potentially saving more lives from overdose by making the life-saving drug easier to administer and require less doses.

Dr. Ashana Puri, assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, received one of 16 national American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy 2020 New Investigator Awards (NIA) worth $10,000 that will help fund her research project “Development of Transdermal Systems of Naloxone for Treatment of Opioid Addiction.”

“I was …

2020-February-10-The Sublime Flawed Animal, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 10, 2020) – “The Sublime Flawed Animal,” an exhibit featuring East Tennessee State University Department of Art and Design adjunct faculty and staff continues through Friday, Feb. 14, at the Tipton Gallery in downtown Johnson City. 

The group exhibition celebrates the creativity, excellence and dedication of these ETSU employees in homage to all adjunct faculty across the country. 

This exhibition is curated by Alice Salyer, former advertising art director and current adjunct faculty in graphic design at ETSU.  It features the work of Marie Barry, Sam Boven, Laken Bridges, Karlota Contreras-Koterbay, Amber Farley, John Hilton, Liz Layton, …