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Georgia Southern University First Lady Dr. Tammie Schalue (from left), President Dr. Brooks Keel, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Professor Christina Lemon pose for a photo after Lemon presented Albright with a handmade brooch.
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Art Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing Professor Christina Lemon presented former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright with a handcrafted brooch at Albright's on-campus presentation on Sept. 18. The brooch, "Magnolia grandiflora," is a magnolia blossom made from sterling silver with engraved lines on the petals. The blossom is centered between two asymmetrical and stylized wings that are accented by three stones, two blue sapphires and one yellow citrine cabachon, to symbolize Georgia Southern University. Lemon was featured by several news outlets, including Foundation Studies Professor Elsie Hill will present "Processing the Pace of Information through a Painting Practice" at the Southeastern College Art Conference in Durham, N.C., in October. In August, Hill unveiled her portrait of Chief Judge Charles B. Mikell, which was commissioned by the State Court of Appeals and will hang in the Atlanta courtroom. This summer she also began a series of paintings based on demolition sites in Savannah, Ga. Lecturer Julia Fischer will present "Roman Imperial Cameos: Iconographic Borrowing in the Early Empire" at the Southeastern College Art Conference in Durham, N.C., in October. Foundation Studies Professor Jessica Burke's work will be included in the Women and Body exhibition at the Kepco Art Center Gallery Museum in Seoul, Korea, from Oct. 13-19. Burke is also featured in the Atlanta exhibition Billboard Art Project, which runs through Oct. 26. Photography Professor Jessica Hines' "My Brother's War" is being featured in the exhibition A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks at Gallery Carte Blanche in San Francisco. Hines has also been selected as a finalist for the Aftermath Grant, and her book War is Only Half the Story, Vol. 4 was reviewed in Photo-Eye Magazine by Georgia Slade, the curator for Boston's Photographic Resource Center. "Square One," a steel sculpture by MFA alumnus Roger Finch ('93), was installed on the north concourse of the Allen E. Paulson Stadium and dedicated Sept. 22 before the kickoff of the Georgia Southern - Elon football game. Finch, a former aircraft mechanic, constructed the 8-foot-by-8-foot "Square One" from hundreds of pieces of welded steel as a piece for his final Master's of Fine Arts exhibit while he was a student in the Department.
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Writing & Linguistics Senior Evin Hughes, from Swainsboro, Ga., won the Norman Mailer Center Muhammad Ali College Ethics Writing Award for his essay "Float Like a Plane, Sting Like a Bomb: The Ethics of U.S. Drone Attacks." Hughes, who is working to complete two degrees, one in information technology and one in writing and linguistics, will receive a $10,000 prize; recognition by the Muhammad Ali Center and the Norman Mailer Center at the Mailer Center's annual gala on Oct. 4; travel, lodging, and tickets to the gala; and the opportunity to participate in a weeklong writing workshop at the Norman Mailer Center in Provincetown, Mass,. during summer 2013. The Department cosponsored the successful Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah on Sept. 21 and 22. This year's conference - which brings together librarians, academics, and teachers from universities, technical colleges, and public secondary schools - was the largest ever, with more than 300 attendees. Dr. Laura Valeri's story collection Safe in Your Head will be published by the Stephen F. Austin University Press in early March 2013. With assistance from Dr. Thomas Klein, Time Out Chicago provided its readers a close analysis of some words from Word Shout Song, a traveling Smithsonian exhibit on scholar Lorenzo Dow Turner, who first linked African roots to the language of the Gullah (now referred to as Geechee) people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. The Department hosted novelist Eleanor Henderson on Sept. 24. Henderson's acclaimed debut novel, Ten Thousand Saints, was named among the New York Times' 10 best books of 2011. Music The Magnolia String Quartet has been selected to represent Georgia in the regional Music Teachers National Association Competition in the Chamber Music category in January and was invited to perform in the Winners Recital on Nov. 1 at Young Harris University. Dr. Allen Henderson has been selected as one of four voice teachers nationwide to serve as a master teacher for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program next summer. The NATS Intern Program provides a 10-day mentorship for 12 young voice teachers who have been teaching for five or fewer years. Drs. Steven and Larisa Elisha taught and performed during the Summit Music Festival near Purchase, N.Y., in July and August. The Elaris Duo also performed in May at Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, and the concert was listed in the national registry of Chamber Music America. Senior jazz performance and music education major Richard Johnson performed during the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project in Schladming, Austria. While abroad, Richard also had the opportunity to sit in with an Austrian brass band during an informal performance. Lee Holley, a senior music education major, participated in the Eugene Rousseau Saxophone Workshop at the Shell Lake Arts Camp in Wisconsin. Sociology & Anthropology Dr. Ted Brimeyer's article "Longitudinal Modeling of Frame Changing and Media Salience: Coverage of Worker Displacement, 1980-2007" was published by the International Journal of Communication. Dr. April Schueths presented "Critical Ethnographic Methods and Mixed-Status Couples" at the inaugural Georgia Southern University Eagle Qualitative Research Community Speaker Series and Workshop. The conference's theme was Advocacy Through Research. The Georgia Southern Archaeology Team received a grant from the City of Savannah to begin investigation of the Cluskey Vaults near River Street. The one-year project will result in a 3D model of the vaults and will provide insight on what the vaults were used for. Student Blake Ayala will use this study as his master's thesis project. | 
