The Harbinger

January 16, 2007


Thursday: Installation ceremony honoring endowed chairs

 

This Thursday, January 18, 2007, three members of the Hiram College professoriate will be installed as holders of endowed chairs. A special ceremony commemorating the transition of these chairs will begin at 11:45 a.m. in Hayden Auditorium.

 

On behalf of Hiram College President Thomas V. Chema, all members of the Hiram College community are invited to attend this special event and the reception that will follow in the Kennedy Center Lounge.

 

Professor of English Joyce Dyer will be installed as the John S. Kenyon Chair in English. Outgoing chair is Professor Emeritus of English David Anderson.

 

Associate Professor of Biology Brad Goodner will be installed as the Edward J. Smerek Chair in Mathematic, the Sciences, and Technology. Outgoing chair is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Ed Smerek.

 

Professor of Religious Studies Jonathan Moody will be installed as the George & Arlene Foote Chair in Ethics. Former chair is Kenneth Alpern.

 

Hiram College faculty should meet in Drury Hall to process into Hayden Auditorium.

 

 

Funds from HHMI to spur online research and collaboration

 

Hiram College has been awarded a shared mini-grant of $50,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which previously granted the College $1.2 million to spur undergraduate research in the sciences.


As in the case of the previous award, Associate Professor of Biology Brad Goodner (pictured left) was the lead writer of the new grant, with Sarah Elgin of Washington University in St. Louis collaborating. The new grant will allow the development of web-accessible genomics tools and result in research challenges for undergraduate education.



The goals of the project, according to Goodner, are:

  • To bring together scientists generating and analyzing genomic data, faculty interested in engaging their undergraduate students in problem-solving and research, and faculty already engaging their undergraduate in genomics researching, covering a number of different prokaryotic and eukaryotic model systems;
  • To develop a web-based site with access to existing genomics and educational tools and databases for use in training students, based on what is available and what is needed;
  • To conduct workshops to train faculty in the use of the web-accessible set of tools and databases.

 

The grant period runs from January 2007 to December 2009.

 

Chu-Fang Huang, Cleveland International Piano Competition winner, to perform at Hiram

 
On Wednesday, January 24, winner of the prestigious Cleveland International Piano Competition, Chu-Fang Huang, will perform at Hiram College. The performance will include works by Haydn, Ravel, Scarlatti, and Chopin and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hayden Auditorium.

 

Huang, age 23 at the time, competed with 29 other pianists from 17 countries to win first prize at the prestigious competition in August 2005. She performed the final round with the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra.

 

Huang began her piano study at the age of seven before coming to the United States in 1998. She has won numerous top prizes in national and international competitions, including the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, the Beijing International Piano Competition in China and the Sydney International Piano Competition in Australia. SHe was a finalist at the renowned Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, in May 2005.

 

As a solo performer, Ms. Huang has played concerts throughout China and the US, the latter of which included an appearance at Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York.  In the US, she has appeared as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, Eastern Symphony Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic. Abroad, she has performed with the Australia Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Liaoning Philharmonic, and the Shenzheng Philharmonic.

 

On radio, she has been heard with the Cleveland Orchestra on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” and other major programs.  Her performances at the Cleveland Competition were featured on a syndicated program about the competition  broadcast in January 2006.

 

Ms. Huang graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music with her bachelor’s degree and is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the Juilliard School.

 

This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Randall Fusco in the Hiram College Department of Music at 330.569.5298.

 

 

This Friday: Kiwanis spaghetti dinner


The Kiwanis Club of the Western Reserve invites all members of the Hiram community to their all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner on Friday, January 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Hiram College Kennedy Center. Dinner includes spaghetti with a choice of meat or marinara sauce, salad, garlic bread, beverage, and dessert. Adults are $6 and children ages 10 and under eat FREE! Carry-out is available.


Proceeds from the dinner will benefit Crestwood High School Choir. 

 
For more information, please contact Dottie Summerlin at 330.569.5170.


“Kiwanis Club is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.”

 

Hiram College Democrats sponsor financial aid roundtable

Students: if you have ever wondered who gets how much financial aid and why, then don’t miss this roundtable discussion about financial aid and the political process. The discussion will be held on Tuesday, January 23, at 6 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Student Lounge. Refreshments will be served.


Topics to be addressed include: why do students get the financial aid they do, how do the federal and state governments manage the aid process, and how can students effect change in financial aid policies?

 

Andrea Caputo, Director of Financial Aid at Hiram College, will provide clarification on financial aid policy and will discuss the Democrat’s agenda regarding financial aid for higher education.

 

For more information, contact Tyler Cole, president of the Hiram College Democrats, at 330.569.5624.

 

 

Hiram’s Garfield Institute will shape future public leaders
Inaugural event on January 30


The Garfield Institute for Public Leadership is a research and applied learning environment for Hiram College students who are interested in careers in government and public policy. On Tuesday, January 30, the Garfield Institute will host its inaugural event. All interested students are invited and strongly encouraged to participate in this day-long symposium.

 

The event is titled “From Scholarship to Leadership: Liberal Arts Education and the Challenge for Public Leaders in the 21st Century” and will feature a panel discussion, meetings with students, a reception, and dinner, followed by a keynote address.

 

The keynote speaker is John Lauder ’68, a Hiram College alumnus with more than 33 years of managerial, analytical, and policy experience in the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and as an arms control negotiator. Lauder (pictured left)  is now a senior fellow at Areté Associates, a science and engineering company that addresses U.S. security problems.

A reception will be held in the Coleman Room of Gerstacker Science Hall from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and dinner is planned in Kennedy Center at 6:30 p.m. The dinner is complimentary, but reservations are required no later than January 26; call or email Kathy Luschek at 330.569.6118 or luschekk@hiram.edu.


A full itinerary and more details about this event are available online at hiram.edu. Additional information will be published in next week’s Harbinger.      


 

Library Forum tomorrow


Dr. Ugur Aker will present the first Library Forum of 2007 at 4:15 on Wednesday, January 17 at 4:15 p.m. in the Pritchard Room. Refreshments will be served, so please join us.


February 3: Intercultural Forum Dinner & Talent Show


Experience cultures from around the globe at the annual Intercultural Forum Dinner and Talent Show on Saturday, February 3. This event is coordinated by Hiram College’s international student population and showcases the cuisine and traditions of the students’ native cultures.

The delicious food (prepared by students) and excellent entertainment (performed by students) has made this event a popular campus tradition for many members of the Hiram College community.

 
The dinner begins at 5 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom and Dix Dining Hall. The talent show starts at 7 p.m. in Hayden Auditorium.

 

Tickets for the show and dinner are $10 and can be reserved by contacting Intercultural Forum at interculturalforum@hiram.edu.




Welcome to Hiram!!

 
Jennifer LaBenne – Nurse Recruiter, Admission Office

 

This Week at Hiram


Tuesday, January 16

  • Psychology candidate talk
    3:30 p.m., Library Bibliographic Instruction Room
     
  • English candidate talk
    4:15 p.m., Bonney Castle Seminar Room

 

Wednesday, January 17

  • Library Forum—Dr. Ugur Aker
    4:15 p.m., Pritchard Room
     
  • Women’s basketball v. Ohio Wesleyan
    6 p.m., Price Gymnasium
     
  • Men’s basketball v. College of Wooster
    8 p.m., Price Gymnasium
     

Thursday, January 18

  •  Installation of Endowed Chairs
    11:45 a.m., Hayden Auditorium
     
  • Bread & Soup
    5 p.m., Dix Dining Hall
     

Friday, January 19
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET

  • Kiwanis Spaghetti Dinner
    5 p.m., Kennedy Center
     
  • Swimming & diving @ John Carroll University
    6 p.m., University Heights, Ohio
     
  • Indoor track @ Oberlin
    6 p.m., Oberlin, Ohio

 

Saturday, January 20
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET

  •  Weekend College Information Session
    10 a.m., Hinsdale Hall
     
  • Swimming & diving @ Wittenberg
    1 p.m., Springfield, Ohio
     
  • Women’s basketball @ Denison University
    1 p.m., Granville, Ohio
     
  • Men’s basketball v. Denison University—ALUMNI GAME
    3 p.m., Price Gymnasium

 

Sunday, January 21
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET

 

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