Contest awards $1,000 scholarship & cash prizes - Edinboro University seeks entries for annual NWPA High School Journalism Competition

02/01/2013

Calling all high school journalists! Students can use their skills in print, broadcast and online journalism to win prizes in Edinboro University’s seventh annual Northwestern Pennsylvania High School Journalism Competition.

The competition is designed to recognize and reward journalistic talent among high school juniors and seniors. It is open to all students in the 11th and 12th grades who have an interest in print, broadcast, online or photojournalism.

“We’ve been sponsoring this competition for many years now, and we’ve always been fortunate to have the support of high school teachers and students around the region,” said Dr. Melissa Gibson, associate professor and competition chairperson. “It’s a way to showcase the talent of high school students who have an interest in communication and media studies.”

Cash prizes, provided by Gazette Newspapers, YourErie.com, WJET-TV, and Fox 66, will be awarded to the top finishers in each category. Winners will receive the following prizes: First-place, $100; Second place, $50; Third place, $25; Fourth place, certificate; and Fifth place, certificate. One “Best in Show” winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship to Edinboro University.

“Our department is delighted to again recognize outstanding high school journalism. I believe this event is an important indicator of the overall quality of Edinboro University's journalism program and underscores our ongoing efforts in community outreach and student recruitment," said Dr. Tony Peyronel, chair of the Department of Communication & Media Studies.

Each award winner and a guest (guidance counselor, teacher, or parent) will be invited to an awards luncheon on April 12, 2013, that will be held as part of Edinboro University’s annual High School Journalism Day.

All entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges comprised of faculty members from the Edinboro University Communication & Media Studies Department and student staff members from campus media organizations.

High school students can compete in four print journalism categories: news, feature, sports, and opinion; two photo journalism categories: news photo and feature photo; two broadcast journalism categories: broadcast news package and newscast anchor; and one Web publication category.

Students may submit one entry per category. The number of entries per high school is not limited. Two copies of each entry must be received by March 12, 2013.

Send entries to Dr. Melissa Gibson, NWPA High School Journalism Competition Director, Communication and Media Studies Department, 214 Compton Hall, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA 16444.

For more information and entry forms, visit the home page of the University’s Communication & Media Studies Department at www.edinboro.edu.

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EIGHTH ANNUAL SCISSORTAIL CREATIVE WRITING FESTIVAL COMES TO ECU

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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The eighth annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, featuring Andrew Hudgins, Constance Squires, Anna Myers and Walter Bargen, in addition to more than 50 published authors from Oklahoma and beyond is April 4 - 6, 2013, on the campus of East Central University in Ada, Okla.

All sessions are free and open to the public.

Andrew Hudgins’ was born in Killeen, Texas and educated at Huntingdon College and the University of Alabama. He earned his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1983.

Hudgins’ poetry is known for its dark humor, formal control and adept handling of voice. His latest book, American Rendering: New and Selected Poems, was released in 2010. Other volumes of poetry include; Ecstatic in the Poison; Babylon in a Jar; The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood; The Never-Ending: New Narrative, which received the Poetry Prize and Saints and Strangers, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Hudgins is also the author of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil.

Hudgins’ awards and honors include the Witter Bynner Award for Poetry, the Hanes Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hudgins has taught at Baylor University and University of Cincinnati. He currently teaches at Ohio State University.

Constance Squires is a native Oklahoman who lives in Edmond and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in 2005, where she taught creative writing, literature and composition. She also served as editor of the international literary magazine the Cimarron Review from 2003 to 2005.

Her new novel, Along the Watchtower, offers a glimpse into the experiences of an American military family during the end of the Cold War. Squires’ fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Dublin Quarterly, Identity Theory, New Delta Review, The Gingko Tree Review, Bayou and The Arkansas Review to name a few.

Squires won the 2012 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction. She has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and twice nominated for Best New American Voices. In 2007, she was awarded the Matt Clark Prize for Fiction by the New Delta Review, the 2004 Bob Shacochis Award for the Short Story and The Briar Cliff Review 2004 Fiction Award.

Anna Myers is the author of numerous works of historical fiction for middle-grade readers, many of which are set in her native Oklahoma.

Myers’ first novel, Red Dirt Jessie, is set during the Great Depression and deals with a family trying to cope with the loss of a child, in addition to the difficulties of keeping the family farm operation.

Her second novel, Spotting the Leopard¸ picks ups with the same characters six years later. Jessie, the main character, is faced with finding the funds to go to college to become a veterinarian, all the while caring for an escaped leopard.

Myers’ other novels include Ethan Between Us, a teen romance set in Oklahoma in 1963; Tulsa Burning, takes place against the background of the Tulsa race riot of 1921; and Hoggee, which takes place in the 1830s along the Erie Canal.

Red Dirt Jessie won the 1993 Oklahoma Book Award. Myers also has won the Oklahoma Book Award in 1996, the Gamma State Author’s Award, Parent’s Choice Award, Children’s Book of the Year Award, Honor Book Award, Society of School Librarians Society of School Librarians International and the Children’s Book Council/National Council for Social Studies Award. In 2012, Myers was awarded the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Oklahoma Center for the Book.

Walter Bargen has published 14 books and two chapbooks of poems. His works of poetry and fiction have appeared in over one hundred magazines, including American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, International Quarterly and the Notre Dame Review. Bargen’s most recent works include Theban Traffic, Days Like This Are Necessary: New & Selected Poems and Endearing Rains/Liebenswerte Ruinen.

Born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Bargen lived at many different places growing up due to his father’s military career. He has lived outside Ashland, Missouri since he graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a BA in philosophy. He later earned a M.Ed. in English education from the same institution.

Bargen wrote his first poem when he was a senior in high school. He taught himself how to write by two simple processes, reading and writing. He reads not only to enjoy what others write but to learn how others write, and he firmly believes that writing teaches writing.

In January 2008, Bargen was appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Missouri. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, winner of the Quarter After Eight Prose Prize, the Hanks Prize, the Chester H. Jones Foundation poetry prize and the William Rockhill Nelson Award.

The Scissortail Creative Writing Festival runs from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Each day is broken into several sessions. For a complete schedule of readers, visit www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com.

The Darryl Fisher High School Creative Writing Contest winners will also be awarded during the festival. The Scissortail Creative Writing Festival is sponsored in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council. For more information, contact Dr. Ken Hada at 580-559-5557 or visit www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com.

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EIGHTH ANNUAL SCISSORTAIL CREATIVE WRITING FESTIVAL COMES TO ECU

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

The eighth annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, featuring Andrew Hudgins, Constance Squires, Anna Myers and Walter Bargen, in addition to more than 50 published authors from Oklahoma and beyond is April 4 - 6, 2013, on the campus of East Central University in Ada, Okla.

All sessions are free and open to the public.

Andrew Hudgins’ was born in Killeen, Texas and educated at Huntingdon College and the University of Alabama. He earned his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1983.

Hudgins’ poetry is known for its dark humor, formal control and adept handling of voice. His latest book, American Rendering: New and Selected Poems, was released in 2010. Other volumes of poetry include; Ecstatic in the Poison; Babylon in a Jar; The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood; The Never-Ending: New Narrative, which received the Poetry Prize and Saints and Strangers, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Hudgins is also the author of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil.

Hudgins’ awards and honors include the Witter Bynner Award for Poetry, the Hanes Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hudgins has taught at Baylor University and University of Cincinnati. He currently teaches at Ohio State University.

Constance Squires is a native Oklahoman who lives in Edmond and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in 2005, where she taught creative writing, literature and composition. She also served as editor of the international literary magazine the Cimarron Review from 2003 to 2005.

Her new novel, Along the Watchtower, offers a glimpse into the experiences of an American military family during the end of the Cold War. Squires’ fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Dublin Quarterly, Identity Theory, New Delta Review, The Gingko Tree Review, Bayou and The Arkansas Review to name a few.

Squires won the 2012 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction. She has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and twice nominated for Best New American Voices. In 2007, she was awarded the Matt Clark Prize for Fiction by the New Delta Review, the 2004 Bob Shacochis Award for the Short Story and The Briar Cliff Review 2004 Fiction Award.

Anna Myers is the author of numerous works of historical fiction for middle-grade readers, many of which are set in her native Oklahoma.

Myers’ first novel, Red Dirt Jessie, is set during the Great Depression and deals with a family trying to cope with the loss of a child, in addition to the difficulties of keeping the family farm operation.

Her second novel, Spotting the Leopard¸ picks ups with the same characters six years later. Jessie, the main character, is faced with finding the funds to go to college to become a veterinarian, all the while caring for an escaped leopard.

Myers’ other novels include Ethan Between Us, a teen romance set in Oklahoma in 1963; Tulsa Burning, takes place against the background of the Tulsa race riot of 1921; and Hoggee, which takes place in the 1830s along the Erie Canal.

Red Dirt Jessie won the 1993 Oklahoma Book Award. Myers also has won the Oklahoma Book Award in 1996, the Gamma State Author’s Award, Parent’s Choice Award, Children’s Book of the Year Award, Honor Book Award, Society of School Librarians Society of School Librarians International and the Children’s Book Council/National Council for Social Studies Award. In 2012, Myers was awarded the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Oklahoma Center for the Book.

Walter Bargen has published 14 books and two chapbooks of poems. His works of poetry and fiction have appeared in over one hundred magazines, including American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, International Quarterly and the Notre Dame Review. Bargen’s most recent works include Theban Traffic, Days Like This Are Necessary: New & Selected Poems and Endearing Rains/Liebenswerte Ruinen.

Born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Bargen lived at many different places growing up due to his father’s military career. He has lived outside Ashland, Missouri since he graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a BA in philosophy. He later earned a M.Ed. in English education from the same institution.

Bargen wrote his first poem when he was a senior in high school. He taught himself how to write by two simple processes, reading and writing. He reads not only to enjoy what others write but to learn how others write, and he firmly believes that writing teaches writing.

In January 2008, Bargen was appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Missouri. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, winner of the Quarter After Eight Prose Prize, the Hanks Prize, the Chester H. Jones Foundation poetry prize and the William Rockhill Nelson Award.

The Scissortail Creative Writing Festival runs from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Each day is broken into several sessions. For a complete schedule of readers, visit www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com.

The Darryl Fisher High School Creative Writing Contest winners will also be awarded during the festival. The Scissortail Creative Writing Festival is sponsored in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council. For more information, contact Dr. Ken Hada at 580-559-5557 or visit www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com.

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‘Technology Challenge’ will draw middle and high school future engineers to Edinboro University on Saturday - 18th Annual Event

11/14/2012

Imagine a mouse trap-powered car, a CO2-fueled dragster, or a wind turbine generating energy from a simple box fan. These three engineering challenges were put to regional middle and high school students who will complete during an annual technology contest at Edinboro University on Saturday.

Students in grades seven through 12 in Erie, Crawford and Warren counties will participate in the 18th Annual Technology Challenge hosted by Edinboro University’s Continuing Education Department and sponsored by the Technology Education Association of North Western Pennsylvania and the Erie Engineering Society Council.

According to Bill Moats, a technology education teacher in the General McLane School District and program coordinator, up to 80 participants, including technology teachers and students, will participate in Saturday’s program. Ten volunteers with engineering and technology expertise will judge.

Moats said the events begin at 9 a.m. in the newly renovated and expanded Cooper Science Center. Lunch will be provided at Van Houten Dining Hall, during which Dr. Richard Lloyd, chair of Edinboro’s Physics and Technology Department, will speak on University’s new Associate of Applied Science in Applied Technology degree program. Following lunch, a brief awards ceremony will be held about 1 p.m. in Van Houten South.

Students competing in the Technology Challenge will be given a set of rubrics that include grade-level activity projects, craftsmanship and creativity, drawing requirements and oral and written documentation reports. The judges will grade in each of the four areas.

This year, the 7th-and 8th-grade activity involved building a mouse trap-powered car that can travel 10 feet and stop exactly at a taped marker. If the car travels too far, or not far enough, points are deducted. The 9th-and 10th-grade assignment was for students to design and manufacture a CO2-fueled vehicle that can travel a set distance in the shortest time, similar to a drag race. The 11th-and 12th-grade challenge was for students to design and manufacture a wind turbine that generates maximum power in a set time period from wind provided from a simple box fan.

All students will also be involved in spontaneous competitions that will be announced the morning of the Challenge. Students will have an hour to solve the problems on site with only the materials provided (much like the Apollo 13 Challenge, during which participants have only an hour to design a square filter that fits into a round hole with only the materials aboard the spacecraft).

“The competition involves the students in basic engineering skills, including technology, math and science,” Moats said.

At the end of the day, prizes will be awarded to the top individual point-getters and schools.

(Note to news directors and assigning editors: Great photo and interview opportunities involving the region’s best and brightest middle and high school students. The competition will be conducted in Cooper’s corridors and Rooms 131, 170 and 171. Availability will also be during lunch at Van Houten Dining Hall.)

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Great savings on books and gifts! - Edinboro University’s annual Books Are Fun Fair will be held at Baron-Forness Library Feb. 13-14

02/04/2013

Looking for great savings on books and gifts? Look no more! Edinboro University’s annual Books Are Fun Fair will be held Wednesday and Thursday, February 13 and 14, at the Baron-Forness Library.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library organization, Books Are Fun will be held both days from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Available for purchase will be popular books from the New York Times’ best-sellers list, cookbooks, children’s books in all age ranges, educational products, games and toys, all at great savings. Even jewelry, just in time for Valentine’s Day, will be available for purchase. Cash, checks and credit cards are accepted.

This annual event is open to the public. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the University’s library.

For more information, e-mail mwieczorek@edinboro.edu or phone 814.732.1062.

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Contest awards $1,000 scholarship & cash prizes - Edinboro University seeks entries for annual NWPA High School Journalism Competition

02/01/2013

Calling all high school journalists! Students can use their skills in print, broadcast and online journalism to win prizes in Edinboro University’s seventh annual Northwestern Pennsylvania High School Journalism Competition.

The competition is designed to recognize and reward journalistic talent among high school juniors and seniors. It is open to all students in the 11th and 12th grades who have an interest in print, broadcast, online or photojournalism.

“We’ve been sponsoring this competition for many years now, and we’ve always been fortunate to have the support of high school teachers and students around the region,” said Dr. Melissa Gibson, associate professor and competition chairperson. “It’s a way to showcase the talent of high school students who have an interest in communication and media studies.”

Cash prizes, provided by Gazette Newspapers, YourErie.com, WJET-TV, and Fox 66, will be awarded to the top finishers in each category. Winners will receive the following prizes: First-place, $100; Second place, $50; Third place, $25; Fourth place, certificate; and Fifth place, certificate. One “Best in Show” winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship to Edinboro University.

“Our department is delighted to again recognize outstanding high school journalism. I believe this event is an important indicator of the overall quality of Edinboro University's journalism program and underscores our ongoing efforts in community outreach and student recruitment," said Dr. Tony Peyronel, chair of the Department of Communication & Media Studies.

Each award winner and a guest (guidance counselor, teacher, or parent) will be invited to an awards luncheon on April 12, 2013, that will be held as part of Edinboro University’s annual High School Journalism Day.

All entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges comprised of faculty members from the Edinboro University Communication & Media Studies Department and student staff members from campus media organizations.

High school students can compete in four print journalism categories: news, feature, sports, and opinion; two photo journalism categories: news photo and feature photo; two broadcast journalism categories: broadcast news package and newscast anchor; and one Web publication category.

Students may submit one entry per category. The number of entries per high school is not limited. Two copies of each entry must be received by March 12, 2013.

Send entries to Dr. Melissa Gibson, NWPA High School Journalism Competition Director, Communication and Media Studies Department, 214 Compton Hall, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA 16444.

For more information and entry forms, visit the home page of the University’s Communication & Media Studies Department at www.edinboro.edu.

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SEVENTH ANNUAL ECU FACULTY, STUDENTS, FRIENDS COMPOSERS CONCERT SET FOR FEB. 25

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faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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The artistry, talent and inspiration of 12 local composers will be featured at the Seventh Annual East Central University Faculty, Students and Friends Composer Concert on Monday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, will premier several new compositions, including four instrumental ensemble works by Steve Filkins, a senior sacred music major from Oklahoma City; Angela Marshall, a 2011 ECU graduate from McAlester; Tommy Long, a 2012 ECU grad from Tecumseh; and John Stone, a junior music major from Seminole.

Filkins will premier “Ordinary Nocturne”, written for piano and two clarinets. This haunting melody was inspired by the poem of the same title by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Marshall has orchestrated her composition “Reminiscence” for performance by the ECU Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Allen Correll. “This begins with the piano and gradually moves forward to include an ensemble cast from every instrumental family.

Romantic walks around Ada’s Wintersmith Lake, were the inspiration for Long’s composition of “A Walk with My Love’, a piano, cello, clarinet and flute quartet dedicated to his wife, Casaundra.

From music he heard in a dream, Stone takes listeners on a journey into an ‘endless night sky” in his new composition “Space,” which was written for brass ensemble.

Three solo artists – Claire Marquardt, a junior piano major from Poteau; Ashley Tucker, a junior vocal music major from Sasakwa; and Anna Tynsky, of Ada - will be performing their own compositions at the concert.

Marquardt will perform “In Whispering Pines”, winner of the 2011 National Collegiate Division of the Lynn Freeman Olson Composition Competition.

Tucker will lend her vocal, guitar and poetic talents to the concert as she premiers her passionate folk song “Alone.”

Back for her second performance in the Composer’s Concert, the composer and dancer Tynsky brings her 12-string guitar and glass bottleneck slide to stage to premier her new blues composition “Let it Slide.”

ECU Music Department faculty members presenting works at this year’s concert include Rudy Lupinski and ECU artist-in-residence Victoria Davison. These well-known local composers will present the premiere of their new vocal composition “Ave Maria,” performed by Dr. Steve Walker.

Dr. Alan Marshall’s vocal solo “Remains” will be performed by his wife Dr. Melody Baggech. Both the lyrics and music to this song were written by Marshall when he was an undergraduate student.

Dr. Ben Finley joins the concert with a brand new rhythmic percussion piece entitled “Stynographic’ which is an anagram for the name “Tyson”, after Blake Tyson, Finley’s former mentor and dedicatee.

W.T. Skye Garcia will team up with senior ECU instrumental music major Stephen McCleskey, of Ardmore, to present Garcia’s composition “Gentle Breeze,” from Three American Miniatures for Trumpet and Piano. This piece was inspired by a poem written by Garcia’s wife, Sarah.

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Second Annual Power of Maroon Day Scheduled for March 21

The second annual Power of Maroon Day will be held on Thursday, March 21 to show pride in Eastern Kentucky University and to celebrate the ties that bind the campus and local communities.

Festivities will continue throughout the day. The campus and local communities can enjoy refreshments, games, music, special speakers, and social media contests at various locations around campus and the city of Richmond. Throughout the community, many local merchants will show their Eastern pride by asking employees to wear maroon attire, donate items to be given away and/or display appropriate signage.

Last year's Power of Maroon Day was a tremendous success. The city-recognized holiday stems from a student project in a communication studies class taught by John Strada. The event has received the endorsement of EKU President Doug Whitlock and the university, the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and Richmond Mayor Jim Barnes. Organizers of this year's Power of Maroon Day hope to involve the Madison County community even more so than last year's event.

For more information about the Power of Maroon Day at EKU, visit facebook.com/PowerofMaroonDay, follow @EKU_POMD on Twitter or contact Spencer Barrett at 859-339-6465.

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SEVENTH ANNUAL ECU FACULTY, STUDENTS, FRIENDS COMPOSERS CONCERT SET FOR FEB. 25

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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The artistry, talent and inspiration of 12 local composers will be featured at the Seventh Annual East Central University Faculty, Students and Friends Composer Concert on Monday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, will premier several new compositions, including four instrumental ensemble works by Steve Filkins, a senior sacred music major from Oklahoma City; Angela Marshall, a 2011 ECU graduate from McAlester; Tommy Long, a 2012 ECU grad from Tecumseh; and John Stone, a junior music major from Seminole.

Filkins will premier “Ordinary Nocturne”, written for piano and two clarinets. This haunting melody was inspired by the poem of the same title by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Marshall has orchestrated her composition “Reminiscence” for performance by the ECU Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Allen Correll. “This begins with the piano and gradually moves forward to include an ensemble cast from every instrumental family.

Romantic walks around Ada’s Wintersmith Lake, were the inspiration for Long’s composition of “A Walk with My Love’, a piano, cello, clarinet and flute quartet dedicated to his wife, Casaundra.

From music he heard in a dream, Stone takes listeners on a journey into an ‘endless night sky” in his new composition “Space,” which was written for brass ensemble.

Three solo artists – Claire Marquardt, a junior piano major from Poteau; Ashley Tucker, a junior vocal music major from Sasakwa; and Anna Tynsky, of Ada - will be performing their own compositions at the concert.

Marquardt will perform “In Whispering Pines”, winner of the 2011 National Collegiate Division of the Lynn Freeman Olson Composition Competition.

Tucker will lend her vocal, guitar and poetic talents to the concert as she premiers her passionate folk song “Alone.”

Back for her second performance in the Composer’s Concert, the composer and dancer Tynsky brings her 12-string guitar and glass bottleneck slide to stage to premier her new blues composition “Let it Slide.”

ECU Music Department faculty members presenting works at this year’s concert include Rudy Lupinski and ECU artist-in-residence Victoria Davison. These well-known local composers will present the premiere of their new vocal composition “Ave Maria,” performed by Dr. Steve Walker.

Dr. Alan Marshall’s vocal solo “Remains” will be performed by his wife Dr. Melody Baggech. Both the lyrics and music to this song were written by Marshall when he was an undergraduate student.

Dr. Ben Finley joins the concert with a brand new rhythmic percussion piece entitled “Stynographic’ which is an anagram for the name “Tyson”, after Blake Tyson, Finley’s former mentor and dedicatee.

W.T. Skye Garcia will team up with senior ECU instrumental music major Stephen McCleskey, of Ardmore, to present Garcia’s composition “Gentle Breeze,” from Three American Miniatures for Trumpet and Piano. This piece was inspired by a poem written by Garcia’s wife, Sarah.

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Edinboro University seeks nominations for 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards - Recipients honored during annual MLK Luncheon

11/16/2012

Know of someone whose contributions to society reflect the spirit, philosophy and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? If so, you might want to nominate such a man or woman to become a recipient of Edinboro University’s 17th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards.

Edinboro University is now accepting nominations for the MLK awards, which will be presented during the University’s annual awards luncheon on Friday, February 8, 2013. Several dozen prominent citizens from northwestern Pennsylvania have been honored by the University since the awards luncheon began in 1997.

Nominations must contain a narrative description of the candidate’s achievements and contributions to society with specific examples listed. Achievements and contributions also must be reflective of Dr. King’s philosophy and teachings, in particular in the area of social justice, social activism or peace initiatives.

Nominations should also include the candidate’s career profile or resumé, and all contact information for both the nominee and the nominator.

All nominations should be submitted to Edinboro University Vice President for Student Affairs Kahan Sablo, c/o Ms. Cyndi Waldinger, 218 Frank G. Pogue Student Center, 405 Scotland Road, Edinboro, PA 16444. Completed nominations can be e-mailed to cwaldinger@edinboro.edu.

To be eligible for consideration, all nominations must be received by the close of business on Friday, December 7, 2012.

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Edinboro University’s Music Department presents Annual Fall Choral Concert on Sunday

11/15/2012

Edinboro University will present its annual Fall Choral Concert Sunday at 3 p.m. at historic Louis C. Cole Auditorium.

The concert will feature all Edinboro University Music Department choral ensembles, including the University Singers, University Chorale, University Women’s Chorus and University Men’s Chorus.

Free and open to the public, concert music will range from classical to contemporary.

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Annual MLK Study Day at Goshen College features luncheon, documentary and authors

Dr. Wilbert Smith

Goshen College will again focus on the values and ideals that characterized Martin Luther King Jr. through music and poetry, a documentary, a luncheon and discussions during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Study Day on Jan. 21. The theme for this year is “Shalom: That we may be whole.” Related events leading up to the day will begin Jan. 15.

This year’s events will feature filmmaker Dr. Wilbert Smith and author Dana Johnson. Smith’s 2012 documentary, Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed, chronicles the life of Vertus Hardiman, an Indiana native subjected as a child to radiation experiments that left him with severe physical deformities. The film raises hard-hitting questions about health care, race relations and forgiveness.

Johnson, from Los Angeles, is the author of Elsewhere, California and Break Any Woman Down, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California where she teaches literature and creative writing.

Dana Johnson

Goshen College’s 2013 Martin Luther King Study Day events:

Tuesday, Jan. 15

7 p.m. – Full-length screening of the documentary: “A Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed,” in Administration Building, Room 28

Saturday, Jan. 19
7 p.m. – Fiction reading by author Dana Johnson, in Newcomer Center, Room 19

Sunday, Jan. 20
4 p.m. – Full-length screening of the documentary: “A Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed,” in Newcomer Center, Room 17

7 p.m. – Community conversation with Dr. Wilbert Smith, in Umble Center
This program will initiate a conversation on health care and race, and will also focus on the long history of medical experimentation on African Americans.

Monday, Jan. 21
9-9:50 a.m. – Spoken Word Coffeehouse, in the Church-Chapel Fellowship Hall
Features GC students, faculty, staff and community members reading poetry and prose related to the theme of “shalom.”

10-11:15 a.m. – Convocation featuring Dana Johnson and Dr. Wilbert Smith, in Church-Chapel
The morning convocation will encompass recognition of injustice and the need for forgiveness that compels action. Johnson will read original work exploring themes of race, identity and alienation. Smith will speak about the story of an Indiana native Vertus Hardiman and the inhumane radiation experiments performed on him as a child that changed his life. The college’s student worship team Parables will also have a short performance.

11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. – Community Luncheon (advance tickets required), in Church-Chapel Fellowship Hall
The program during the luncheon will feature a discussion facilitated by Dr. Rebecca Hernandez with Smith talking about healthcare and social justice and Dr. James Nelson Gingerich talking about local healthcare access.

The luncheon is open to the campus and the wider community. Cost is: $22 per ticket or $176 per eight-person table. Make reservations at the Goshen College Welcome Center by calling (574) 535-7566 (leave a message if there is no answer).

2-2:50 p.m. – MLK and Environmental Justice Workshop, in Newcomer Center, Room 17
This workshop will provide a brief introduction of environmental justice with examples from the national, state and local level.

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Eastern Seeks Toy Nominations for Annual Study

Eastern Seeks Toy Nominations for Annual Study - Press Releases   Search   The Office ofUniversity Relations Eastern Seeks Toy Nominations for Annual Study Posted by Dwight Bachman on January 23, 2013 3:20 PM

Willimantic, CT -- Faculty and student researchers at Eastern Connecticut State University are seeking nominations for the 2013 TIMPANI Toy Study.  This annual study, conducted through Eastern's Center for Early Childhood Education, examines how young children in natural settings play with a variety of toys. 

Faculty and student researchers observe how children play with the nominated toys and rate children's interactions on three subscales: thinking and learning, cooperation and social interaction, and self-expression and imagination. The study provides valuable information to parents and teachers about the types of toys that help children learn, and helps researchers understand how children's play with toys contributes to their overall development.
 
The highest-scoring toys in previous studies have included DUPLO bricks, a toy made by the LEGO Group; Hasbro's Tinker Toys; and Wooden Vehicles and Signs, made by Melissa and Doug, LLC.

Eastern is now seeking nominations of toys to be included in the 2013 study.  Toys may be nominated by parents, grandparents, teachers and others not affiliated with the toy industry.  To nominate a toy, visit www.easternct.edu/cece/timpani.html, or contact the Center for Early Childhood Education at (860) 465-0687.  Nominations must be received by Feb. 1.

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