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LU C/3 t U D O S INSIDE MOREHOUSE, OCTOBER 2008 Bean Beetle Grant Biology professor Lawrence S. Blumer (above) and Emory University biology pro fessor Christopher W. Beck have been awarded a S500.000 grant by the National Science Foundation. The two are developing a handbook, website and workshops that will give biology-based instructors nationwide more expertise in using bean beetles in inquiry-based laboratory courses and to increase the involvement of under-represented minorities in inquiry-based research. Inquiry-based research promotes a more investigative way for students to ask questions and find answers to their questions. The grant will be funded from March 2009 through February 2013. Office of Human Resources Accepting Nominations for Employee of the Month The Office of Human Resources and the Student Advisory Council are seeking nominations for Morehouse's Employee of the Month. Outstanding employees are recognized for their exemplary actions, abilities, attitude and articulation of the College’s values in the course of their work. The Employee of the Month is also automatically qualified for the Employee of the Year award which is given during the spring semester. To nominate someone for Employee of the Month, go to: http://www.morehouse.edu/lntranet/humanresources/employeerecognition.html and fill out the nominating form. Print and return the completed form to the Office of Human Resources, Suite 207, Gloster Hall, by the 20th of each month. CHANGING GEARS Ebenezer Aka, director of Urban Studies and Planning, was appointed to the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education's (ARCHE) working group on county govern ment internship. Aka also has a paper that has been accepted for presentation dur ing the fifth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural Economic and Social Sustainability at the University of Technology, Mauritius, in January 2009. Beverley Crane, executive assistant in the Office of the General Counsel, senior Neal Arp and junior Elijah J. Williams were all 2008 summer interns with the Con gressional Research Service Student Diversity Internship Program in Washington D.C. —Terrance Dixon ‘87, associate dean of Admissions and Recruitment, and senior Chad Mance, Student Government Association president, were both interviewed by CNN in September for a story about the importance of historically black colleges and universities. -Stephane Dunn, visting assistant English professor, was featured in Skirt! Magazine photo spread in September featuring accomplished women and their rules for living. Elise Durham, media relations manager in the Office of Communications, produced the Colleges 2008 recruitment video which won a national Telly Award, the second year in a row Durham and the Office of Communications have won one of the presti gious awards. Durham has also been selected to the United Way's Volunteer In volvement Program, which enhances skills needed for effective membership on non-profit agencies boards of directors. Hazel Ervin, director of General Education, wrote a chapter for Books and Beyond:The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading (Greenwood Pres, Oct. 2008). Ervin's chapter is titled "Contemporary African American Literature." Gregory Hall, chairman of the political science department, gave a lecture titled "The Crisis in Georgia: Perspectives in Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Yeltsin Era" at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, on Sept. 25. He also was inter viewed by BBC/New York Times Public Radio on Aug. 15 about the crisis in Georgia and US-Russia relations. Duane Jackson *74, associate professor of psychology, was honored with the Pro gressive National Baptist Convention's J.0. Peterson Education Award in recognition of his contributions as an educator and as the former curator of invertebrates and re search scientist for Zoo Atlanta. Michael Janis, assistant professor of English, had an essay on the late Senegalese novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene published in the CLA Journal in March 2008 titled "Remembering Sembene: The Grandfather of West African Feminism." The CLA Journal is edited by English professor Cason Hill. Melvin Jones '01, director of bands, performed as part of the Atlanta Jazz Chorus during "The Sound of Freedom and Resistance" on Oct. 5 at the High Museum of Art during the final weekend of the History Remixed civil rights photography exhibit. Jones also performed with the Atlanta Jazz Chorus at "A Special Jazz Vespers in Cel ebration of Homecoming 2008" at First Congregational Church, UCC in Atlanta. Terry Mills, dean of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, will give a pres entation titled "Ethnogerontology: New Directions in Awareness of Diversity" on Oct. 7 at Wayne State University's Center for Gerontology in Detroit, Mich. In September, Mills concluded his third and final year appointment to the National Advisory Coun cil on Aging with an NACA meeting at the National Institutes of Health conference in Bethesda, Md. The Morehouse College Glee Club, directed by David Morrow '80, performs "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," over the closing credits for the latest movie by film director Shelton "Spike" Lee '79, "Miracle at St. Ana." Promotions Kevin Branch, purchasing manager, Purchasing Vanessa Ellerbe, administrative assistant II, Learning Resources Center Sophia Foye, financial adviser III, Financial Aid Stephanie Moore, grants and accounting manager, Accounting Erica Sanders-Jamison, manager, Student Employment & State Program, Financial Aid Charles Huntley Nelson, assistant professor of art, was part of a visual arts group exhibit titled, "Hello Liberty," at the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College on September 24. Nelson also showed a video he created for another exhibit, "Explod ing Language," that was curated by the Obsidian Arts Collective in Minneapolis, Minn, and will be shown as a projection on the wall of a barber shop in the historically black community of North Minneapolis. John Williams ‘69, senior vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named president of the National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Business Deans' Roundtable. The group will hold its national meeting in Atlanta in June 2009. Cynthia White, user services supervisor, Information Technology Shelia Worthy, executive assistant, Information Technology