Current Issue: Volume 19 - Number 27 - March 11, 2005
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Jie Chen
concert tonight on campus
Jie Chen, the Grand Prize winner of the 2004 Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, will play a "Return from Carnegie" concert Friday, March 11.
Ms. Chen played a debut recital in Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City on Oct. 4, 2004. Ms. Chen will play at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 11 in Webster Recital Hall on the Missouri Southern State University campus.
Jeff Skibbe of 88.7KXMS radio will assist with program remarks.
The concert will be broadcast live internationally at www.kxms.org and locally on 88.7KXMS. At 7 p.m. the radio station will air a half-hour program of performances by other 2004 MSIPC winners. Those performances will continue during the 15-minute intermission at the midpoint in the live recital broadcast.
Tickets for the event are $10 general admission, $5 for students and seniors. Reservations and ticket information are available by calling 625-9755.
At the age of 19, pianist Jie Chen has already established herself as a mature musician. During the 2004-2005 season her performances include recital debuts at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert, Chicago, the Schubert Club, and solo recital tours throughout the country. Upcoming concerto engagements include the Minnesota Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, among others.
She will also make her recording debuts with "One Thousand Lakes" label and Yamaha "Piano Soft".
Jie Chen was born in 1985 in Guang Dong, China. She started playing the piano at age four and attended the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory before moving to the United States in 1998.
In addition to the Grand Prize in the 10th MSIPC, Ms.Chen has won numerous awards including first prizes in "Piano Arts" National Competition, "Five Town" Young Artist Competition in New York, 3rd Prize in the 8th Sanremo Classico International Piano Competition in Italy, and Grand Prize in the 2nd Piano-e-Competition in Minneapolis.
In addition to the "Return" concert, Miss Chen will give music programs for area school children and civic clubs. Financial assistance for the "Return" concert is provided by the US Bancorp Foundation and the General Mills Foundation. The school programs are sponsored by the US Bancorp Foundation.
Today's Brown Bag
Don't miss today's Brown Bag lunch for faculty and staff. Betsy Griffin, Academic Affairs, says Roger Chelf, Physical Sciences, and Gerald Schlink, Biology, will present "The Roots of Science: Mendel, Koch, & Copernicus." The presentation will be from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in Room 310 of the Billingsly Student Center. Pick up your free lunch at the mini-buffet and prepare for a stimulating presentation. Lunch is provided courtesy of Academic Affairs and Sodexho.Model United Nations attends St. Louis sessions
The Missouri Southern Model UN Club attended the 45th Session of the Midwest Model United Nations in St. Louis, Feb. 23-26. MSSU, which represented the country of Mexico, was among the 83 delegations from over 50 colleges and universities.
Co-sponsors William Kumbier, English, and Paul Teverow, History, worked with the ten participating students as they prepared position papers and resolutions reflective of Mexico's foreign policy. During the conference, the students worked with other delegations from colleges and universities throughout the nation to find solutions to the global issues on the conference agenda.
MSSU delegates receiving Honorable Mention in the General Assembly 3rd Committee were Caleb Gallemore, senior International Studies major from Seneca, and Jeff Erman, junior English major from Joplin.
For a full list of students attending, visit www.mssu.edu/pages/news/modelUNfeb05.htm
Celebración to feature Spanish/Latin American culture
The Spanish Club announces the first annual Celebración: An Evening of Spanish and Latin American Art, Theatre, Music, Dance and Literature”. The event will be held at 7 p.m., Monday, March 14 in the Taylor Performing Arts Center. "We cordially invite you and your students to attend this cultural event which will benefit the MSSU Spanish Club," says Jimmy Noriega, Spanish Club president. "We have been working hard to gather quality representations of Spanish and Latin American expression which will enrich the lives of your students." The program will last a little over an hour. Noriega says the Spanish Club will take care of sign-up sheets for faculty wanting to give students extra credit for attending. "Just let us know in advance and we'll take care of the rest," he comments. The event is open to the community with local area native Spanish speakers, high school and college students and parents encouraged to attend. The cost is $2 for high school students, $3 for MSSU students with ID and $4 for adults. The proceeds will go to benefit the Spanish club and its interests in the community. Those with questions should contact Pedro Talavera-Ibarra, Foreign Languages, at (417) 625-3108 or Leslie Parker, Foreign Languages, at (417) 659-4471.Missouri Region 6 History Day winners
The Missouri Region 6 National History Day contest took place on the campus Friday, March 4, under the sponsorship of the Social Science Department. This year's History Day theme is "Communication in History: the Key to Understanding." Entries on any topic pertaining to this theme - in a global, national, or local context - could be submitted in the form of a research paper, an exhibit, a performance, or an audio-visual documentary. The top three entries in each category are eligible to compete in National History Day in Missouri on Saturday, April 16.For a complete list of winners, visit www.mssu.edu/pages/news/nationalhistorydaymarch05.htm
The top two entries in each category at state may compete in the National Contest in June. More information about the state contest may be found by going to www.umsystem.edu/whmc/nhd/nhdcontest.html.
Suzuki Violin Academy
Missouri Southern's Suzuki Violin Academy will host the fourteenth Southern Music Festival at MSSU. Kexi Liu, Director of the Suzuki Violin Academy, says the festival was formerly known as the String Festival, which started in spring 1992 with about 20 string students performing. Last year, the festival added piano student and this year the festival also will include vocal students. As a result, the festival's name has been changed to the Southern Music Festival. A total of 150 studentswill participate in this year's festival. The festival is part of the National Junior Festivals of the National Federation of Music Clubs, of which Suzuki Violin Academy is a member. The festival is free and open to the public. For details, contact Kexi Liu at (417) 625-9681.International festival to present French classic
The film Silence of the Sea will be presented as part of the 43rd Annual International Film Festival at Missouri Southern. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29 in Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall. Jean-Pierre Melville's quiet, haunting film about love was a forerunner of the French New Wave movement. When an old man and his beautiful niece are forced to endure the presence of a Nazi officer during the occupation of France, they vow never to speak to the invader and listen in silence as he pours out his feelings about music, war and even his love of France. Just as the officer overcomes their enmity and, at the same time, discovers the realities of Nazism in France, he is ordered to the eastern front. The film is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Harrison Kash at (417) 625-9614.MSSU prayer night March 14
A group of Missouri Southern State University student organizations are setting their doctrinal differences aside to sponsor an evening of music and prayer. The student organizations affiliated with various religious groups are sponsoring the MSSU Prayer Night from 6-8 p.m., Monday, March 14 in Billingsly Student Center's Connor Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. Regina Shank, Carthage, a state coordinator for the Missouri Prayer Mission, will participate in the program. She is active in her Carthage church, Bykota, and since 1998, she has led prayer teams to Israel, Romania, Hungary, Italy, and across the U.S. The event will include various campus groups, as well as members of the Carthage International House of Prayer.Pisanki presentation planned
The Russian Club is sponsoring a presentation on the art of Pisanki (Ukranian Easter Eggs). The presenter will be Carolyn Trout, Joplin Public Library Director. The event will be held at 4 p.m., Wednesday, March 16 in Room 350 of Webster Hall.Christie Cathey, Assistant Professor of Psychology, attended the Midsouth Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis Feb. 24-25.
Beverly Block, Marketing/Management, says the MSSU School of Business Administration will be featured in an upcoming book to be published by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Association of Institutional Research (AIR). The book describes innovative and best practices in assessment of student learning outcomes in business schools.
Edited by Kathryn Martell of Montclair State University and Thomas Calderon of the University of Akron, the book will be used by business schools to design assessment programs. The MSSU School of Business, accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, is the only school without AACSB accreditation to be included in this project . Mark Comstock, Accounting, co-coordinator of the School's Assessment initiative, authored the MSSU chapter, which focuses on the use of "balanced score card" methodology to directly tie faculty roles and responsibilities to student leearning. The assessment book will be available for sale at the AACSB Annual International Conference in San Francisco this April.
Greg Buchholz, Business, coauthored a paper that appears in the January 2005 issue of the refereed Southern Economic Journal which has been published quarterly by the Southern Economic Association since 1933.The article, "The Campus Parking Game," was developed at the 2002 National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop on Classroom Experiments in Economics which was held at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. It uses the notorious lack of parking on most university campuses to demonstrate how the use of a multi-tiered pricing policy can sort people by their strengths of preferences and eliminate much of the frustration associated with finding a parking space before class. The game can be played in principles of microeconomics classes to illustrate the workings of price discrimination. Link to www.okstate.edu/economics/journal/south1.html.For Sale: Eight-year-old bay mare. $1,200. For more information call (417) 358-3431.
Open House: This Sunday 2-4 pm, 2031 Bluebird Drive, Webb City. House is 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 1544 sq. ft., woodburning fireplace, whirlpool tub in master bath, 2-car garage, oversized city lot with privacy fenced backyard, deck, storage building. In Robin Ridge Subdivision. Webb City schools. Great family neighborhood, 10 minutes from MSSU. $116,900. Call (417) 483-5997 for more information.
For Sale: Nissan, 95, Altima, clean, dependable, automatic, power, asking $3000. Contact Coach Wright at ext. 9701.
For Sale: Dodge, 95, Intrepid, dependable, automatic, power everything, asking $2200. Contact Coach Wright at ext 9701.
Wanted: Used Canoe. Call ext. 9551 or (417) 781-3217.
Chili Feed: Saturday, March 12, 4 p.m. till chili is gone at Grandma D's on W. Main St. in Carterville. Only $5 buys chili, dessert, tea or coffee. All proceeds to fund Webb City High School Project Graduation! For additional information, contact Earlene Fort at ext. 9399 or evenings at 673-5254.
Tennis Lessons at the Cave, Carthage, $25 an hour and racket stringing, $20. Call (417) 358-0600.
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