The SOU Mathematics Department will host Dr. John Caughman, Professor of Combinatorics and Graph Theory at Portland State University, for the 2013 Kieval Lecture Series, May 30-31. Dr. Caughman will present three lectures: Continue reading
In April, several Math students participated in the Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held at California State University, Chico. Undergraduate students and faculty from northern California and southern Oregon universities, colleges and community colleges were invited to showcase their achievements, thus giving aspiring mathematicians an opportunity to present their work in a supportive environment.
The conference included student presentations, a career panel discussion, a poster session, a game/puzzle room, a “best math joke” competition, and other activities.
Dr. Kemble Yates led a contingent of more then ten students to the conference. Impressively, eight of the 18 presentations at the conference were made by SOU students. Representing the Math department were: Drusilla Hebert, Matthew Keeling, Jem Kloor, Evan Lasley, Corey Metcalfe, Sage Shaw, Elizabeth Wallace and Rosemary Wall.
The Sociology Program is holding the annual induction ceremony for the Alpha Kappa Delta International Honor Society on Monday, April 29 beginning at 7:00pm in the Meese Room, Hannon Library. Alpha Kappa Delta is a non-secret, democratic organization founded in 1920 by Dr. Emory S. Bogardus. It is dedicated to encouraging and stimulating scholarship while promoting the scientific study and advancement of sociology. Throughout the past eight decades, Alpha Kappa Delta has grown to over 80,000 scholars and now has more than 490 chapters established around the world. Continue reading
The Schneider Museum of Art has been awarded a $36,000 grant from the Ford Family Foundation’s Visual Arts Program to implement the Southern Oregon Site (ART) Project.Working in concert with the Department of Art, the SMA will invite six mid-career Oregon artists to create new work, made in response to ‘site’, which will be shown in 6 one-person museum gallery (or outside courtyard) shows between September 2013 and June 2014. Continue reading
On March 2nd join us for the Banff Mountain Film Festival Radical Reels Tour showcasing the cutting edge in action sports. This show is in the SOU music Recital hall at 7:30pm. $13 dollars in advance, $15 at the door. Continue reading 
Senior Music Performance Major and Classical Guitarist Tye Austin Hoseclaw has won first prize in the American Protege International Piano & Strings Competition (professional division) and will be featured in a winner’s recital at Carnegie Hall on March 3, 2013.
The American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2013 is open to school students and adults of all nationalities and countries. All instruments, including piano, strings, voice and winds are welcome to participate in the Competition.
Congratulations to Tye and to James Edwards, Tye’s teacher!
The Schneider Museum of Art is hosting a talk by SOU Professor Marlene Alt who is participating in the museum’s current faculty exhibition, Seeing 8. Professor Alt will explore over a decade of her installation work, and examine the ways she interprets and represents landscape on Thursday, January 31, at 5:30 PM in the Meese Auditorium at the Center for the Visual Arts on the Southern Oregon University (SOU) campus. Continue reading
This past summer, Robert “Ellis” Cochran proved that perseverance pays off. After applying three times to the Smithsonian Museum the previous summer, he was finally selected to intern in Washington, D.C., at the National Museum of National History, one position of just eighteen at the prestigious institute and selected from a pool of more than six hundred. Communication professor and one of Ellis’s mentors through the SOU McNair Program, Alena Ruggerio, also commented that “He was perfect for the Smithsonian opportunity because the internship combined his personal passion with his academic training,” since the museum wanted candidates without extensive research experience but still enough to conduct their own projects. His unique opportunity to research how orientation signs affect how much people learn in exhibits allowed him important firsthand experience that reinforced his post-graduation aspiration to get his PhD in rhetoric so he can study the rhetoric and resulting impact of signs in museums and zoos. Ellis also commented that he felt like he was “going to join the Hall of Fame” because the poster resulting from his work will appear in the Smithsonian intern archive.
Professors at SOU keep a busy schedule on top of working with their students and this summer proved no different for Professor Rhett Bender of the music department. On top of performing, Bender spends his summer months directing not one, but two workshops in Southern Oregon—the Siskiyou Saxophone Workshop and the Ashland Chamber Music Workshop. Each of these intensives attracts people from across the region, not to mention internationally. He’s been recognized and interviewed by Saxophone Journal for his work both as a mentor and his personal musical accomplishments and the Ashland Chamber Music workshop was featured in All Things Strings, not in small part thanks to what he has
helped make it.
All Things Strings article (pdf)
Saxophone Journal article (pdf)
