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ECU Faculty and Staff Newspaper www.news.ecu.edu/poe/poehome.htmFebruary 25, 2005

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In the past six months, Beverly Harju has climbed the Tibetan Himalayas and Japanʼs Mount Fuji, laid the groundwork for a book and launched an international study involving stu-dents from both ECU and Hiroshima University.

She returned from her role as a visiting professor at Hiroshima University in January, and is now sorting through mail, reacclimating to life in Greenville.

Harju, a psychology professor, is one of a handful of faculty members at ECU who have been able to incorporate international travel into their academic lives. She discovered not only did it enrich her professionally, but held per-sonal benefit as well.

“It was important, for me, to accept this position. I have been a lifelong pacifist, and especially after Sept. 11, I have been very inter-ested in Buddhism,” she said.

“It is amazing to me that 140,000 people in Hiroshima died by 1945. And at that point in their history, Japan made a decision to not want this kind of suffering for anyone else. And so today Japan is one of the world leaders for peace initiatives, and for the environment.”

Harju said she appreciated being able to

spend time at the Hiroshima Peace Park and the International Christian University, both of which were built in the aftermath of the atomic bombs that were dropped on the city during World War II. Both are dedicated to the creation and promo-tion of international peace.

Harju came to Japan by invitation from Hiroshima University. The appointment enabled her to work with graduate-level psychology education students at Hiroshima University and explore parts of the Asian continent – including Vietnam, China and Tibet – with her husband, retired ECU professor Thomas E. Long.

“I ran a research seminar where we discussed achievement, motivation and goals. We had some struggles with English at first, but I was very impressed with their high level of thinking,” she said. As a result of the seminar, Harju and the graduate students designed an intercultural study that will continue between Hiroshima and ECU this semester.

“We decided to set up a research study with 200 students from Hiroshima University and 200 students from ECU. We had been considering concepts, such as collectivism and individualism, and we wanted to look at how

By Erica Plouffe Lazure

ECU psychology professor Beverly Harju enjoyed climbing approximately a mile up to the top of Japanʼs highest peak, Mount Fuji, during her appointment to Hiroshima University. Harju found the international travel benefitted her on both personal and professional levels. (Contributed photo)

Harju Enriched by Hiroshima

The centerpiece of Founders Week this year at East Carolina University will be the installation of Chancel-lor Steve Ballard as the universityʼs 10th chief executive on March 31. The university also will celebrate its commitment to the arts with concerts, films, gallery openings and an iron pour.

As part of the countdown to the centen-nial celebration at ECU, the arts are one of four strategic points of focus for the university. The other three points are teacher education (2003), human health (2004) and economic

VC Candidates Visit Campus

Founders Week to Focus on Arts

By Nancy McGillicuddy

Candidates for two vice chancellorships have begun visiting the campus to meet with faculty, staff, administors and students.

Search committees have identified the finalists for the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and for vice chancellor for research and graduate studies. Campus visits, which include presentations and ques-tion-and-answer sessions, are under way and will run through March 10.

Candidates for provost are Dr. Paul W. Ferguson, vice president for research and graduate studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Dr. Ronald F. Levant, dean of the Center for Psychological Studies at Nova Southeastern University; Dr. Christina Murphy, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Marshall University; and Dr. James LeRoy Smith, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at ECU.

Finalists for vice chancellor for research and graduate studies are Dr. Michael Allen, assistant vice president for research at Texas Tech University; Dr. Dierdre Mageean, associate vice president for research at the University of Maine; and Dr. Marsha Torr, vice presi-dent for research at Virginia Commonwealth University.

After the campus visits are complete, the search committees will submit their recommendations to Chan-cellor Steve Ballard. The provost search committee is led by Dr. Michael J. Lewis, vice chancellor for health


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Pieces of Eight February 25, 2005


Academic Affairs

Betty Beacham, Education, 37 years

Hal Daniel, Biology, 35 years

Janet Fischer, Art, 36 years

Carrie Flye, Library Services, 30 years

Barbara Grimsley, BB&T Center,36 years

Brian Harris, Foreign Lang./Lit., 21 years

Jerry Hunt, Finance, 28 years

Diane Kester, Education, 36 years

Patricia Lindsey, Apparel, Merchandising,Interior Design, 14 years

Gary Lowe, Social Work, 13 years

William McPherson, Technology andComputer Science, 20 years

Philip Rubens, English, 7 years

Clarence Sprecher, Finance, 15 years

Carol Ann Tucker, Health Education, 31 years

Linda Warren, Education, 20 years

Julia Whitehurst, Business, 29 years

Richard Wolfe, Library Services, 16 years

Administration and Finance

James Atkinson, Housekeeping, 13 years

Henrietta Barbour, IT Support, 21 years

Richard Brown, Vice Chancellor, 15 years

William Carmon, Housekeeping, 27 years

Ethel Clemons, Housekeeping – Medicine, 22 years

Jesse Elks, IT Support Services, 22 years

William James, Housekeeping, 20 years

Ronnie Jones, Carpenter Shop, 20 years

Stanley Kittrell, ECU Police, 28 years

Charles Littleton, Electrical Shop, 20 years

Curtis Moore, Housekeeping – Medicine,16 years

Health Sciences Division -(Continued)

Sarah Pritchard, PEDS – Childrenʼs Developmental Services, 38 years

Lona Ratcliffe, Family and CommunityNursing, 37 years

Judith St. John, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 32 years

Della Suggs, PEDS – Childrenʼs Developmental Services, 30 years

Dan Whitehead, Anatomy and CellBiology, 29 years

Marvin Whitehurst, Physiology, 31 years

Annie Williams, PEDS – ChildrenʼsDevelopmental Services, 31 years

Norma Williams, Obstetrics and Gynecology Administration, 25 years

Research and Graduate Studies

Dorothy Baker, Sponsored Programs, 20 years

Emilie Kane, Sponsored Programs, 22 years

Wayne Wescott, ICMR, 25 years

Student Life

Kay Boyd, Student Union, 30 years

Annie Bullard, Student Health Service, 22 years

Patricia Holcomb, Student Health Service, 27 years

Jesse Mills, University Union, 9 years

Cleveland Taylor, University Union,29 years

Administration and Finance - (Continued)

Paul Nobles, Housekeeping, 7 years

Tim Rains, Systems Coordination, 30 years

Rudy Shepard, Mail Services, 29 years

Kennieth Sheppard, Housekeeping, 30 years

Geraline Spruill, Housekeeping – Medicine, 20 years

Mageline Staton, Housekeeping, 23 years

Grady Whitehurst, Plumbers – School of Medicine, 20 years

Athletics

Darrell Bryant, Student Development,28 years

Health Sciences Division

Inez Ambrose, Eastern AHEC Administration, 9 years

Judy Barnes, Family and Community Nursing, 30 years

Trina Calfee, Patient Access Services,23 years

Kathy Edmondson, Pathology – Clinical Pathology, 30 years

Linda Evanovich, Health Sciences Personnel Administration, 29 years

Lou Everett, Family and Community Nursing, 29 years

Karen Fletcher, Surgery – GeneralSurgery Oncology, 12 years

Nannie Foss, Family Practice Center, 21 years

Sheila Fratzke, Allied Health, 35 years

Jerri Harris, FM – Education, 17 years

Frances Hart, Family Practice Center,11 years

Belinda Lee, Adult Health Nursing, 32 years

Kenneth Lowe, Health Services Research and Development, 9 years

Shirley Nett, Medical Humanities, 31 years

Eldean Pierce, Adult Health Nursing, 30 years

The 2004 retirees list includes employees with effective retirement dates from Jan. 2, 2004 to Jan. 1, 2005. Those who retired effective Jan. 1, 2004 were included in the 2003 listing. The list was provided by Human Resources and ITCS. Years of service do not include time earned through accumulated sick or annual leave.

A great deal of effort has been made to ensure the listing is correct, however, if errors are found, please notify the Pieces of Eight editor by e-mail at [email protected].

ECU Bids Fond Farewell to 2004 Retirees

Following are East Carolina Uni-versity s̓ 2004 retirees by division, with their departments or schools and their years of service:


February 25, 2005 Pieces of Eight


News in Brief

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Editor: Joy Manning Holster(5,000 copies of this issue were printed at an approximate pre-tax cost of $595 or 12 cents per copy.)

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Molly Corbett Broad, left, president of the University of North Carolina system, and Martin Lancaster, head of the N.C. Community College System, listen to opinions on education programs and manpower development during a public meeting at Pitt Community College. The event on Feb. 4, co-hosted by ECU, was one of several stops on a “Listening Tour” by Broad and Lancaster. Also at the table are David Massey, president of PCC, and James LeRoy Smith, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at ECU. (Photo by Marc J. Kawanishi)

Center Makes Call for Abstracts

The ECU-University Health Systems Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center is issuing a call for abstracts for its second Pediatric Healthy Weight Summit, “Harnessing the Power of Communication: Marketing and Its Influences on Childhood Obesity.” The summit will be held April 18 at the Edwin W. Monroe AHEC Conference Center in Greenville. Academic researchers, secondary and college-levels educators, health professionals, policy makers and others working on issues related to marketing of food or the promotion of positive health behaviors related to weight are encouraged to submit abstracts. Abstracts may be submitted for research or programs to increase awareness or provide education on topics such as media literacy, health com-munication, the development and evaluation of positive health promotion campaigns, and ways private citizens and health professionals can effect changes in marketing of food or physical activity to children. Applications are available on the Summits and Seminars page of the ECU-UHS Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center site at www.ecu.edu/pedsweightcenter. For more information, contact Yancey Crawford at [email protected] or by phone (744-5061).

Gov. Mike Easley has appointed two East Carolina University deans to the North Carolina Institute of Medicine.

Phyllis Horns, dean of the School of Nursing, and Cynda Johnson, dean of the Brody School of Medicine, will serve five-year terms with the institute.

Chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1983, the institute seeks solutions to statewide health care issues. Its 100 members are selected from government, education, business, health and legal professions, hospital and health insurance industries, private philanthropy and the public at large.

The purpose of the organization is to assure that complex health issues are examined and disseminated to public sector officials with decision-making authority.

Horns has served as dean of the School of Nursing since 1990. She also served as interim vice chancel-lor for the Division of Health Sci-ences from 2001-2002.

She is an active member of the National League for Nursing Board of Governors, North Carolina Council of Deans/Directors of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs, American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau Beta Nu Chapter.

ECU Deans Horns, Johnson Earn Easley Appointments

By Jeannine M. Hutson She received her doctorate in nurs-ing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1980 and her masterʼs degree in public health from the Univer-sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971.

John-son joined ECU in 2003 as dean, com-ing from the Uni-versity of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, where she was chair of the Department of Family Medicine. A native of Kansas, Johnson earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1973 and her medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1977.

She completed a family medicine residency at the University of Kansas School of Medicine as well as a faculty development fellowship.

She also holds a masterʼs of busi-ness administration degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She was listed in the 2002 “Best Doctors in America.”

On a national level, Johnson is vice president of the American Board of Medi-cal Specialties and is a past president of the American Board of Family Practice. She also serves on the National Kidney Foundation Advisory Board.

The North Carolina Institute of Medicine reports and publications can be found online at www.nciom.org.

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Shortly after eastern North Carolina takes delivery of one of the most significant organs on the East Coast, the firm that crafted the instrument will offer the public several question and answer sessions. Leading the sessions will be Greg Bover, project manager for C.B. Fisk, the manufacturer of the 3,000 pipe organ. “Fisk is a cutting-edge company anchored in old world craftsmanship,” said Janette Fishell, professor of organ and sacred music at ECU. “These sessions are a time for the public to take a tour of the organ,” she said. Bover will explain the organʼs design and construction. “The case will just be going up, so you will be able to see all the constituent parts, the key action, and what the mechanical linkages are that eventually open the valves that release air to the pipes,” Fishell said. The three sessions are scheduled at St. Paulʼs Episcopal Church as follows: Feb. 27 at 11:45 a.m.; Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.; and Feb. 29 at 7 p.m.

Craftsmen to Field Questions About $1.4M Organ

Five ECU doctoral students were selected to travel to UNC–Charlotte March 1 to participate in a program designed to introduce university students to Nobel Laureates.The selected students are: Oswaldo Rodriquez-Mora, in Microbiology/Immunology; Brent Hendrixson, in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences; Robert Brock, in Biomedical Physics; Hossam Shaltout, in Pharmacology; and Wesley Patrick in Coastal Resource Management. The laureates, who will participate in a panel discussion, were invited due to their scientific achievements and interest in encouraging the next generation of scientists and thinkers. The laureates are: Günter Blobel, Edmond Fischer, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Douglas Osheroff and Robert Richardson.

ECU Doctoral Students To Meet Nobel Laureates

Shelton To Take New Role at ECUBill Shelton, vice chancellor for advancement, will take a new role in the College

of Education in the summer to work with a program designed to train future community college leaders. Shelton, who led the development of a similar program at Eastern Michi-gan University, said preparing such leaders is especially critical now because of the large number of coming retirements among the current generation of community college senior administrators. “Working with community college leaders is a long-standing interest for me,” he said. Chancellor Steve Ballard said, “When Bill Shelton proposed this new assignment, it seemed like a superb combination. Bill is widely known and respected in American higher education, and leadership is a hallmark of East Carolina. He will bring a unique combination of experience, enthusiasm and knowledge to his new role.” Ballard added, “On behalf of the university and eastern North Carolina, I want to thank Bill for the important role he has played and will continue to play at ECU. He provided invaluable wisdom and a steady hand during a critical time.” Shelton, a former president of Eastern Michigan, joined ECU as vice chancellor for university advancement in July of 2003. He served as interim chancellor from Sept. 18, 2003, to May 31, 2004, before returning to his role as vice chancellor.

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ʻTreasured Pirate ̓To Honor Everyday Contributions

In an effort to acknowledge the everyday contributions of East Carolina University employees, the Treasured Pirate Award Program will recognize em-ployees for a special or unique contribu-tion to their college, unit or the university.

The program recognizes permanent SPA, CSS, non-teaching EPA and EPA employees with an award certificate and a $25 gift certificate to a selected ECU ven-dor, such as Target, Wal-Mart or Loweʼs Hardware.

A specified number of awards will be available to each college/unit accord-ing to the number of employees. Each

award is given to an individual employee. Winners will be chosen based on leader-ship, cost effectiveness, morale building, service and creativity.

The Treasured Pirate Award Pro-gram is made possible by a $10,000 dona-tion from TIAA-CREF.

“For decades, weʼve been honored to be part of the ECU community, and weʼre pleased to be able to recognize the contributions of ECU faculty and staff in this unique way,” said the companyʼs relationship manager, Greg Diagonale. “This is just one more way we continue to serve those who serve the greater good.”

The Department of Human Re-sources will administer the Treasured Pirate Award Program.

Left to right, Annie Fuller (Human Resources), Greg Diagonale (TIAA-CREF), and John Toller (Human Resources) met to discuss how a $10,000 donation would be used for ECU employee recognition. (Photo by Nancy McGillicuddy)


ECU-TV Debuts Original Programs Featuring Health LeadersThe Center for Health Sciences

Communication at ECUʼs Brody School of Medicine announces the creation of ECU-TV, the official cable station for East Carolina University. Available on Greenvilleʼs Cox Cable Channel 99, and online through www.ecu.edu/ecutv/, the station features original programming produced at the ECU-TV studios at the Brody School of Medicine.

By accessing ECU-TV on their computers, the university community, alumni and friends can view rebroadcasts of Pirate sports programs; coverage of NASAʼs space program activities and missions; and broadcasts of original pro-gramming such as Health Leaders, a new series that examines the careers of eastern North Carolina physicians.

Hosted by Tom Irons, associate vice chancellor for Regional Health Services, the 30-minute Health Leaders program has included such guests as Michael Lewis, vice chancellor of Health Sci-ences; Randolph Chitwood, professor of surgery and chief of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery; Wayne Cascio, chief of

cardiology in the Department of Internal Medicine; and Robert Tannenberg, pro-

fessor of endocrinology and metabolism.Upcoming segments will feature

Dave McRae, chief executive officer of University Health Services; Stephen Thomas, dean of the School of Allied Health; Cynda Johnson, dean of the Brody School of Medicine; and Julius Mallette, senior associate dean at the Brody School of Medicine.

“Weʼre very excited to have this series on ECU-TV,” said Bryan Edge, ECU-TV director.

“This program takes an in-depth look at how these physicians got started and why.”

In addition, Edge said, physicians on the program will discuss critical health issues for eastern North Carolina.

The link to NASA-TV offers live coverage of NASAʼs launchings and land-ings, reports from the International Space Station, and interviews with astronauts and crews. ECU-TV users can also view footage from recent Mars and Saturn missions, rebroadcasts from early Genesis missions, and an ongoing series of educa-tional programs for all ages.

Center to Draw on ECU Talent

Arts Focus of Founders Week

In a move that will benefit ECU students and graduates, an information technology company – Rural Sourcing, Inc. (RSI) – will open a development center in Greenville.

The company has committed to hiring ECU graduates and experienced IT professionals from the region. In addition, internships will be offered to ECU juniors and seniors majoring in information tech-nology and related areas.

“Greenville is an area rich in programming talent and East Carolina University is a respected academic insti-

tution with a distinguished faculty and state-of-the-art IT facilities,” said RSI founder Dr. Kathy Brittain White. “With strong support from both the university and the areaʼs economic development leadership, I expect this to be among our largest centers employing over 100 IT professionals.”

The opening of the Greenville Center, slated for May, is part of RSIʼs strategy to open as many as 50 technol-ogy development centers in rural areas

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development (2006). The universityʼs centennial celebration is set for 2007.

The official Founders Day is March 8 and will be marked by the annual memorial at the Cherry Hill Cemetery in downtown Greenville at 10 a.m. to honor the father of ECU, Gov. Thomas Jarvis.

Founders Week activities are sched-uled March 28 through April 2.

On Monday, March 28, designated Community Day, the Chancellorʼs Forum on the Arts will take place at 2 p.m. in Speight Auditorium in Jenkins Fine Arts Center. At 3 p.m. there will be a recep-tion in honor of the annual undergradu-ate exhibition at the Wellington B. Gray Gallery.

On March 29, Student Day, there will be a birthday celebration for students at the brickyard outside Mendenhall Student Center at 3 p.m. At 6:30 p.m. the School of Communication will hold the third annual Oratorical Exhibition in Wright Auditorium. At 8 p.m., ECU students will present a theatrical produc-tion, “Songs for a New World,” in the A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall.

On March 30, which is also themed Student Day, the Blu Moon Student Film Festival will take place in Hendrix The-ater in Mendenhall at 5 p.m. There will be an iron pour documentary in Speight Auditorium at 7 p.m. At 8 p.m. the School of Art and Design will conduct an iron pour at the south side of Jenkins Fine Arts Center. A student classical guitar reception will take place in the Fletcher Recital Hall at 8 p.m.

March 31 is University Day and will feature Ballardʼs installation. The processional line-up will begin at 9:15 a.m. and the ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. in Wright Auditorium, followed by lunch on the mall. An open house for exhibition of art by ECU faculty at the chancellorʼs residence will take place at 2:30 p.m. and a faculty recital in the Fletcher Recital Hall will take place at 8 p.m.

April 1-2 are Alumni and Patrons Days with various reunions and lun-cheons. A Youth Arts Festival will take place on the ECU Mall between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on April 2.

Check the universityʼs website at www.ecu.edu for updated information.


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ECU history professors David Long and Gerald Prokopowicz, both mem-bers of the Abraham Lincoln Bicenten-nial Commission Advisory Board, were among a group invited to the White House Feb. 11 for a presentation titled “Lincoln Seen and Heard,” performed by prominent Civil War scholar Harold Holzer and famed actor Sam Waterston.

Members of the commission, ap-pointed based on their knowledge and study of President Lincoln, focus on informing the public about the impact Lincoln had on the United States.

David Long specializes in Civil War history and is a noted historian on Abraham Lincoln.

His publications include The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln s̓ Re-election and the End of Slavery, which was nomi-nated for a Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Award of Columbia University.

Gerald J. Prokopowicz specializes in public history and the Civil War era. He served for nine years as the Lincoln Scholar at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Ind.

In addition to his membership on the advisory commission, he serves on the boards of directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Lincoln Forum, and the editorial board of the Abraham Lincoln Papers Online Project.

History Professors Attend Lincoln Celebration at White House

A reception attended by First Lady Laura Bush was part of Feb. 11 festivities honoring former President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. ECU history professors and Lincoln scholars David Long (pictured with Mrs. Bush) and Gerald Prokopowicz attended the events. (Contributed photos)

Not every overweight child can have the opportunity to spend the summer at camp, learning how to eat better foods and become more active.

But a $30,000 grant from the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation enabled five children from eastern North Carolina to do just that. With the help of students from ECUʼs School of Communication, their eight-week transformation at Camp Timber Creek was captured on film.

“We thought a project like this would promote interdisciplinary col-laboration, with the Pediatric Clinic of the Brody School of Medicine and ECUʼs School of Nursing,” said Linner Griffin, interim director of the School of Commu-nication. “And we would also get some footage that could used to develop a mar-keting video and, eventually, a full-length documentary.”

ECUʼs School of Nursing received the grant from the Foundationʼs Chil-drenʼs Miracle Network and Community Benefits Grants Program to pay tuition for the children for their eight-week adven-ture in the Appalachians.

The School of Nursing also pro-vided the children with summer camp items, such as athletic clothing and sports equipment. The children were selected for the program based on their physical condition and need, and will continue to be evaluated by doctors and nurses at Pitt County Memorial Hospital and at the Pediatric Clinic at the Brody School of Medicine.

Cara Friez and John Goodwin, ECU communication students, spent their summer at the camp in Hickory, serving as counselors. They also filmed more than 60 hours of video at the camp, under the guidance of ECU Communication professor Shonna Tropf. In reviewing the footage, Tropf said she could really see a

transformation among the children, physi-cal and otherwise.

“Some of the kids at first had no self-confidence, they wouldnʼt talk or look at you,” she said. “Just over the course of eight weeks, you can see they are totally different kids. Most went from being quiet and introverted to being much more social.”

Tropf said she hopes to make the footage into a full-length documentary that would show the challenges and rewards of the journey to becoming healthy. The footage has already re-sulted in a promotional video, edited by ECU students Travis Smith and Shawn Lamons, that Camp Timber Creek will use to show parents, prospective campers and researchers.

One of the students lost 55 pounds in the eight-week period, and the other students showed similar results. Efforts are now underway to check back in with the children to see how they are progress-ing in a less structured environment.

“Even if they cannot take the camp home with them, they can take most of the knowledge. Itʼs totally transferable from camp to home,” Tropf said.

Members of ECUʼs Bariatric Nurs-ing Consortium, Marti Engelke, Sharon Sarvey and Mary Ann Rose, and four physicians from the Brody School of Medicine, Dr. Walter Pories, Dr. Ronald Perkin, Dr. Chuck Willson, and Dr. David Collier, served as the projectʼs advisory board.

Rose, who is chair of the School of Nursing, was pleased they could help these children, but noted that childhood obesity is a challenge facing many fami-lies across eastern North Carolina.

“We canʼt do camps for everyone, but I think we do need a camp in eastern North Carolina,” she said. “There has to be something to keep them structured and keep them exercising.”

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Al Roker, perhaps the best-known weather forecaster in the country, was in Greenville on Valentineʼs Day as part of a Today Show tribute and celebration for Brody School of Medicine resident Dr. Jesse Lieberman and his wife, Michelle. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)

Jesse Lieberman and his wife, Michelle, will be heading to Hawaii courtesy of televisionʼs Today Show.

Lieberman, a first-year resident in the Brody School of Medicine general internal medi-cine program, was paralyzed in an accident while in medical school at Wake Forest University.

He and his wife were featured in a segment on Today in Novem-ber. On Valentineʼs Day, Al Roker, Today s̓ genial weather forecaster, was in Greenville to preside over a surprise celebration for the Lieber-mans.

Roker told the couple about

the Hawaii trip and other gifts on a live segment of the show, and then introduced singer Michael Bublé and his band, who serenaded them.

Today is producing similar tributes for a handful of individu-als the show has labeled “Everyday Heroes.”

The Greenville segments of the show were shot at Pitt County Memorial Hospital and hundreds of area residents watched in person during the three-hour production.

Roker joked and bantered with spectators on camera and invited the Pirate cheerleaders and mascot to join him during one shot.

ECU s̓ ʻEveryday Hero ̓ Takes Spotlight on National TV

History professor Gerald Prokopowicz poses with actor Sam Waterston while touring the Lincoln bedroom.




In coordination with the Recognition and Rewards Committee of the ECU Chan-cellor s̓ Staff Senate, the Pieces of Eight series honoring exceptional ECU staff members recognizes Dan Radez.

By Judy Currin

The public was invited to follow the exploration of East Carolina University researchers online as they studied the record of natural and human activities on

the seafloor near New Zealand.On Feb. 4-15, researchers from

ECU joined a team from Canada, New Zealand, and several institutions in the

United States. The team examined the ocean floor to uncover evidence of past events such as submarine landslides, vol-canic eruptions, great storms and human activities.

Public viewing of the research efforts and learning about life aboard a working research vessel were facilitated through an interactive Web site (http://coastal.geology.ecu.edu/nz) where jour-nals and photos were updated daily. The web site remains accessible even though the cruise is completed.

Funded by the National Science Foundationʼs Source to Sink Initiative of the MARGINS Program, the researchers were seeking to better understand how materials are transported from land to sea. This knowledge is critical to evaluat-ing the impact of human activities on the oceans.

“This oceanographic expedition provides an excellent opportunity to assess how events and changes on land are preserved in the sea,” said J.P. Walsh, an assistant professor in ECUʼs Depart-ment of Geology and Coastal Resources Management Program. Along on the journey was Walshʼs wife, Denise, associ-ate director for alumni communications for ECU Alumni Relations. ECU stu-dents Michael Dail, Ben Sumners, Troy Thompson, and Andrew Marciniak were also part of the team.

In addition, faculty and students from the Skidaway Institute of Ocean-

ography, Duke University, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, the Geologi-cal Survey of Canada, New Zealandʼs Na-tional Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and several New Zealand universities participated.

The team worked aboard a new U.S. research vessel, the R/V Kilo Moa-na, off the east coast of the North Island, where the Waipaoa River enters the sea near Gisbourne. Instruments imaged the seafloor surface, and samples were col-lected to examine the sedimentary record.

Denise Walsh posted an online journal describing the re-searchers ̓adventure as events took place. Among her earlier postings was this Feb. 1 account of the traveling required to reach New Zealand:

“After our long series of flights (Greenville...to Charlotte... to L.A...California to Auckland, New Zealand and finally to Wel-lington, NZ) we were glad to ar-rive at our final destination. Travel time in the air was over 22 hours, but with crossing the International Dateline we arrived two days later!”

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ECU Team Examines Seafloor Around New Zealand

Lifetime of Curiosity Translates to Technology Career

Born in 1981, the same year IBM introduced the personal computer, Dan Radez grew up intrigued with technology. While his peers were tuning in to the lat-est edition of televisionʼs Sesame Street, Radez was often found peeking over his fatherʼs shoulder instead, watching the IBM manager interact with the familyʼs home computer.

In the Radez home, the computer was considered “more a household appli-ance than an amenity,” he said. He grew up in an environment that always offered “avenues to explore and learn the latest innovations in computer technology,” Radez said.

Twenty-four years later, as technol-ogy solutions director for ECUʼs Depart-ment of Recreation and Student Activi-ties, Radez continues to enjoy such an environment.

Radez began structuring Recre-ational Services ̓site as a student assis-tant. A 2003 ECU graduate, he spent a year as a graduate assistant in his present position before signing on as a full-time staff member in May 2004.

“My degree is in broadcasting,”

Radez said. “But somehow broadcasting became more of a hobby for me, instead of a career, as I worked my way through college. I found out I was more success-ful in making contributions to the campus community utilizing my computer knowledge.”

Two student assistants and a graphic designer help Radez oversee Web-related projects for Recreational Services, Mendenhall Student Center, Student Media and ECU Transit.

“My students and I work hard look-ing at our Web sites and the systems we put online from a non-technical point of view,” Radez said.

“The less misunderstanding or frustration there is with the end-user, the better job we have done in ʻstructuring ̓a Web site.”

Radez said developing an online system involves translating an ongoing procedure, which most often involves paperwork and is typically repetitive in nature, to a system that can be accom-plished more efficiently by a computer.

He is working with ECU Transit to create an online system where students and staff managers can access and share data.

When the new system becomes fully operational, Radez said, Transit would be able to schedule their drivers as well as manage all the routes online. Students logging on will be able to access the schedule, complete with routes and times.

“I help manage the structure of the

Web site. The department is responsible for updating the content,” Radez said. “It has become an efficient way to post data.”

“My job is a pretty straightforward IT position, “ Radez said. “The work is creative in nature and fairly independent. It is an environment I grew up enjoying.”

During the 2004 Christmas holiday Radez and his wife, Elizabeth, spent time with his family in their Raleigh home.

“Dad asked me to look at a project he was working on,” Radez said. “So we sat down in front of his computer and hashed it out, together.”

An interactive Web site encourages viewers to join in the experience of ECU researchers J.P. Walsh (Geology, Coastal Resources Management) and his wife Denise Walsh (Alumni Relations) as they explore the seafloor near New Zealand. Photographs and daily journal entries on the site keep viewers informed about the teamʼs progress.

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Iceland native and East Carolina University admissions officer Jenny Sigurdardottier is used to people hav-ing bare-minimum knowledge about her homeland. “They say Green-landʼs ice and Icelandʼs green,” she said, the elemen-tary idiom rolling off her tongue with an un-derstand-ing smile.

But on a recent

Bryan Oesterreich used to spend most of his time telling stories on his CB radio as he hauled steel from one end of the country to another.

“Man, I had a talk show! If I was down South, Iʼd be like a Yankee from up North. If I was up North, Iʼd put on a twang like I was from the South. It was like stand-up comedy, only on the road.”

His truck driving is now a thing of the past, but Oesterreichʼs journey in storytelling continues. During the past decade, heʼs managed to parlay his life on the road into one of academics, teach-ing writing courses at ECU and Beaufort Community College. He also contributes regularly to Our State magazine and has written two book manuscripts and a play. His most recent play, “Live, From Wash-ington – Itʼs Christmas Eve Night!” was performed in Washington, N.C. in 2001.

“Iʼm meeting people Iʼd never thought Iʼd be meeting. And I never thought Iʼd be doing what Iʼm doing,” he said. “I tell my students sometimes something better happens than you think it will be initially.”

During the past few years, Oester-reich has orchestrated poetry readings, freelanced for a few newspapers and has been the keynote speaker at several com-munity college graduations.

“I gave those brave hearts a short version of my own career change,” Oes-terreich wrote in Our State last March. “We connected; they knew I understood. Since then, Iʼve spoken at other colleges and have done my best to show them they can do it – if they really want to.”

Oesterreich managed to avoid the straight and narrow path to his current calling as a college professor. A high school dropout at 16, he married young and took a job driving trucks as soon as he could get a license. He spent almost 30 years of his life doing just that. When he was 42 years old, a back injury kept him

off the road and forced him to reassess his life.

“The surgeon told me my trucking days were over,” he said. “He sug-gested a career change.” Oesterreich, who eventually settled from his birthplace of Connecticut to the North Carolina shore, decided to earn his GED at Cape Fear Community College in 1992.

“After 25 years of my sister telling me to get my GED, I finally did,” he said. “English came easiest, and I went with what came natural. I learned that with a GED, I could take college classes. I learned about financial aid and I got a lot of confidence from my younger class-

mates. I realized, from our peer editing, that I wanted to teach writing.”

Within the next seven years, Oester-reich transferred from Cape Fear Com-munity College to UNC-Wilmington, earning both his bachelorʼs degree and his MFA. In addition to working with UNC-Wilmington faculty Clyde Edgerton and Paul Wilken, Oesterreich made a close connection with Frank Capra, Jr., writing speeches and assisting him from time to time at the Screengems, Inc. studio in Wilmington.

“At college, most people want to see you succeed: the teachers, the financial aid people….In the real world,

thereʼs this sense of competition and you donʼt get the support you need,” he said. “I felt really nurtured and supported and proud. Iʼd send my mom the grade reports each semester.”

When he graduated with honors, he “carpet-bombed” the eastern seaboard with job applications and landed a full-time position at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, N.C. Oesterreich said mountain life proved difficult after spending so much time along the coast, and he returned to eastern North Carolina in 2000 and found a job as an English instructor at ECU. Since that time, Oesterreich has worked as an instructor of English at both ECU and Beaufort County Community College (BCCC).

While Oesterreich said he loves teaching students at ECU, he tends to see a little bit more of himself in his students at BCCC.

“Theyʼre paying their own tuition and theyʼre usually going through some change: a divorce, or theyʼve been laid off. Thereʼs a good size group of textile layoffs, displaced workers,” he said. “They challenge you and take you to task.”

In the classroom, it doesnʼt matter where the students come from as long as they arenʼt afraid to put pen to paper. He makes an example of himself and his work, sharing the creative process that goes into writing a magazine article. This is the first semester at ECU that, encouraged by ECU English professor Alex Albright, he is teaching Introduction to Non-Fiction Writing for the English department.

“Iʼm a nuts and bolts kind of guy. You donʼt start doing master cabinetry when youʼre just learning how to do it,” he said. “You start with the basics. You have to deconstruct it, take it apart and look at how itʼs organized. Look at the lede, the sources, the dialogue, compare the writing. If you take it apart, it forces

Oesterreich Travels From Highway to Higher Education By Erica Plouffe Lazure

Recruiter Connects with International Pirate Prospects recruiting trip to Europe, the 28-year-old ECU alumna was pleasantly surprised when high school students on American bases in Germany knew quite a bit about her adopted home in the United States, East Carolina University.

“Many of the students ̓families had previously been based in North Carolina — Jacksonville or Fayetteville — and were aware of East Carolina University,” she said.

That fact boded well for Sigurdar-dottier, who aimed to make connec-tions with prospective Pirates during a three-week marathon recruitment tour in December.

Accompanied by representatives from eight other U.S. institutions of high-er education, Sigurdardottier visited with students in local high schools and inter-national schools from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. After the formal tour ended, Sigurdardottier — who speaks Icelandic, other Nordic

languages and some German — rented a car in Berlin and visited eight Department of Defense academies in Germany where she found a recruiting goldmine.

“The students were very excited, very enthusiastic,” Sigurdardottier said. “My visits were extremely well- received and the feedback from counsel-ors expressed great appreciation for East Carolinaʼs interest in their students.”

Sigurdardottier said the students were impressed by the universityʼs long-distance effort to inform them, not only about ECU, but also of the college entrance process.

Germany, she noted in a report to the university upon her return to Green-ville, is an untapped market.

“This seems to be an unexplored market for college recruitment,” she wrote. “Students were in large part un-aware of the college search, application process and financial aid procedures.”

Most of the students Sigurdardottier

talked to were sophomores and juniors, so it will be a year or two before they could potentially attend ECU. But the initial figures of interest from the Depart-ment of Defenseʼs school students are promising — all 138 students she visited at Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Giessen, Hanau, Wurzburg and Bamberg high schools, said they would like additional information about ECU.

Sigurdardottierʼs mission coincides with efforts the university is making to boost international enrollment. An administrative committee on international student recruitment hopes to raise the enrollment number to 500 degree-seeking students by 2008.

In the meantime Sigurdardottier said she will maintain connections with ECUʼs new prospects. The attention has paid off.

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Author and visiting lecturer in ECUʼs Department of English, Bryan Oesterreichʼs unique career path began with a job driving trucks. He was in trucking for nearly 30 years before a career change led to academics. (Photo by Erica Plouffe Lazure)






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Appointments/Elections

James E. Gibson (Medicine) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Health and Environmental Sciences Insti-tute, a global branch of the International Life Sciences Institute.

Jane Carol Manner (Education) was selected for the Teacher Education Standards Commission, 2005-2006, for the Association of Teacher Educators.

Martha Early (Human Ecology) was elected vice president of the Board of the North Carolina Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Studies.

Maury York (Academic Library Services) was elected to membership in the North Caroliniana Society. Member-ship in the society is limited to fewer than 200 individuals with an interest in or demonstrated support for the stateʼs historical, literary, and cultural strength.

Twenty-two ECU faculty and staff members have completed training to become nationally certified True Colors Trainers. True Colors is a research-based approach to understanding behavior and motivation, that uses color metaphors to identify human perspectives and person-alities. Trainers learn to recognize and appreciate their own unique strengths and preferences as well as those of people at work and at home. ECU True Colors trainers are: Sue Martin, Bruce Max-well, Larry Donley, Catrina Davis, and Donna Wasiczko of Student Professional Development; Waz Miller, Jason Baer, Aaron Lucier, Gretchen Brockmann, Christina Spearman, Karen McLaugh-lin, Ryan Winget, and Amy T. Miller of Campus Living; Nancy J. Mize, Ran-dalla Jones, and Samuel M. Combs of Recreation Services; Heather Arrington and Tytishia Davis of Student Leader-ship; Gwen Green of Human Resources; Toya Jacobs of Intercultural Student Affairs; Michelle Lieberman of the Center for Off-Campus Living; and Mag-gie Olszewska of the Office of Student Conflict Resolution.

Jocelyn Nelson (Music) was in-vited to serve as guest-editor and con-tributor for the August 2005 issue of Lute Society of America Quarterly. Nelson is also a contributor to the online edition of the music appreciation text, Music: An Appreciation.

Barbara Bullington (Communica-tion) was selected as one of 52 semi-final-ists out of 260 entries in the Ninth TV Writer.Com Peopleʼs Pilot Competition (www.peoplespilot.com). Her winning entry, “Big Fish,” is a television sitcom proposal.

From among 61 entries, the ECU School of Musicʼs Viewbook was selected as a special merit award recipient in the CASE District II Advancement Awards Program, student recruitment program category.

Work by Mi-Sook Hur (Art), “Measuring Spoon Ring #2” is featured

in a review of the exhibition, Rings, in Metalsmiths Magazine, Winter 2005. Bob Ebendorf (Art) curated the exhibition.

Work by Tim Lazure (Art) and graduate student K. Osgood will appear in the Hand Crafted exhibition at the Rocky Mount Art Gallery.

Cheryl McFadden and Kermit Buckner (Education) and Mary Alice Yarbrough (Pitt County Schools) received the Outstanding Faculty Paper Award at the Southern Regional Council on Educational Administration Conference in November, 2004.

Stephanie Hall Manley-Rook (English) was selected as a member of the Rotary Group Study Exchange group, representing the Greenville Morning and Noon Rotary Clubs. The group provides a cultural and vocational exchange. Par-ticipants travel to study a host countryʼs institutions and way of life, while observ-ing their own vocations as practiced abroad. Manley-Rook traveled to India in January and February 2005.

Michael B. Gross, associate profes-sor of history at East Carolina University, has received the John Gilmary Shea Prize, awarded by the American Catholic Historical Association, for the best book on Catholicism and the history of the Catholic Church in 2004.

Selected from among three dozen books entered into the competition, Grossʼs winning entry was for his book, The War Against Catholicism: Liberal-ism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany, published by the University of Michigan Press.

The award was presented during the American Catholic Historical Associa-tionʼs annual conference, held Jan. 6-9 in Seattle, Wash.

In presenting the award, Rev. Dr. Augustine Thompson of the University of Virginia, one of the committee of judges who selected the winner, described the

book as “a significant contribution not only to church history but also to the broader historical development of Ger-many in the dynamic nineteen century.”

“His presentation is polished and his argumentation is persuasive,” Thomp-son said.

The award, which includes a $750 cash prize, was named in memory of the famous historian of American Catholi-cism, John Gilmary Shea.

Gross holds a BA from the Uni-versity of Chicago, an MA in history from Columbia University, and a PhD in history from Brown University. He also studied modern history at the Free University of Berlin. He is chair of the Honors Program in ECUʼs Department of History. Gross is working on a new book, The Nun in the Dungeon: Sensational-ism, Catholicism, and Popular Culture in Nineteen-Century Germany.

Gross Honored for Best Book

Wiley Nifong (Medicine), on WITN-TV News and Sunrise, on the Webcast of mitral valve surgery, Jan. 17.

Charles Willson (Medicine) in The Charlotte Observer, Jan. 17, and in The Wilmington Star-News, Jan. 31, on Pedi-arix, a new multi-vaccine for children.

Lee Maril (Sociology) was inter-viewed live regarding his book, Patrol-ling Chaos, for the number one news and talk radio station in Phoenix, Ariz., 620 KTAR, Jan. 24.

J. Barry Duvall (Distributed Edu-cation) in Duke Universityʼs Chronicle Online, on personal alert devices to enhance campus security, Feb. 2.

Gerry Prokopowicz (History) in USA Today, discussing Fort Wayne, Indi-ana, where he served for nine years at the cityʼs Lincoln Museum, Jan. 19.

ECU was noted in a Jan. 25 Wall Street Journal article on the SpeechEasy device that uses altered auditory feedback to produce fluency for stutterers. The device was created by ECU researchers Joseph Kalinowski, Michael Rastatter and Andrew Stuart (Allied Health).

M.G.F. Gilliland (Medicine) on WITN-TV, discussing a person pro-nounced dead at an accident scene and found later to be alive, Jan. 28.

Thomas Kerkering (Medicine) in The Daily Reflector, Jan. 30, and on WCTI-TV, Feb. 1, on his tsunami relief trip to Indonesia.

Fred Schadler (Business) was a guest on “Financially Speaking” with Jim Taunton, discussing mutual fund invest-ing. The show was broadcast live Feb. 3 and rebroadcast later on Cable Channel 7 and local radio.

Kathy Kolasa (Medicine) on WITN-TV News on the benefits of French cuisine, Feb. 15.

Rebecca Dumlao (Communication) on Campus Compactʼs Web site (http://www.compact.org/newscc/news-detail.php?viewstory=3574) on ECUʼs Com-municating Common Ground program, Feb. 10.

ECU Dining Services has been chosen to present at this yearʼs National Association of College and Univer-sity Foodservice (NACUFS) National Conference in New Orleans in July. The five-day conference consists of educa-tional sessions and workshops, a trade show, general membership assembly, officer elections, a culinary challenge, and many volunteer recognition awards. Joyce Sealey, contract manager, and Dana Dawes, senior foodservice director, will represent ECU, presenting a one-hour interest session titled “Cookin ̓Up Hits on Campus.”

ECU Dining has become well-known for its culinary adventures and larger than life events. The presentation

will provide ideas, information, and the how-toʼs of planning and executing culinary special events on a university campus. The presentation will include the Guinness record attempt of the worldʼs largest gingerbread man made by ECU Dining this past October.

This is ECU Diningʼs second year presenting at the national level. The team has also won two consecutive Gold – Loyal E. Horton awards for their special events. ECU Dining competes with other large universities across the nation in the annual Loyal E. Horton awards competi-tion. This annual dining awards contest recognizes excellence in residence hall dining, catering, standard and special events, and retail sales.

ECU Dining To Present in July

Executive Chef Felix Fernandez, of ECU Dining Services, and Robin High, nutrition director for Campus Dining Services, teach a Healthy Cooking class at Todd Dining Hallʼs Sweethearts Cafe. The class included demonstrations, information and samples of different kinds of soups. The popular campus cooking class was televised on ECU-CL-Channel 31 in mid-February. (Photo by Marc J. Kawanishi)

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Publications

PresentationsPresentations by Marina Alexander (Human Ecology) with co-presenters, at the International Textile and Apparel Association Conference in Portland, Ore., “Using 3D Body Scan Data for Body Shape and Build Analysis,” and poster presentation, “Body Shape Assessment Scale.” Alexander also served on a professional deve-lopment panel session, “Taking Flight: From College Graduate to College Professor.”

Poster presentation by Sue Reichelt (Human Eco-logy), developed from a collaborative research project with Elizabeth Carroll (Human Eco-logy), “A Collaborative Undergraduate-Graduate Research Project: What Do You Mean My Gift Card Has Expired?” at the Career and Technology Education Conference in Las Vegas, Nev.

Presentation by John J. Kerbs (Human Ecology), “The Measurement and Prevention of School-Based Victimization in Grades 7 through 10,” at the National Conference of the Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence in Washington, D.C.

Presentation by Joyce Joines Newman (Arts and Sciences) and Nanyoung Kim (Art), “Botanical Illustration with Watercolor,” for the North Caro-lina Art Education Association in Wilmington.

Presentations by Chemistry faculty at the American Chemical Society 56th Southeastern Regional Meeting, Research Triangle Park: by Art Rodriguez with co-presenters, “NMR Studies of the Molecular Dynamics and Interac-tions of C60 with Porphryine Derivatives,” and “Dynamic NMR: Probing host-guest behavior between THF biimidazole and N-Boc-D Ser”; and by Anthony Hayford with co-presenters, “Cyclization of Heterocyclic Enynes with Fischer Carbene Complexes-Simple and General Route to Benzo-fused Heterocyclics”; and “Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Heterocyclic Enynes.” Also at the event, ECU undergraduate D. Hyatt presented work developed from a col-

laboration with Chemistry faculty Andrew Sar-gent and Andrew Morehead. The presentation was entitled, “Calculated Pathway of Rhodium Catalyzed Hydroacylation: Comparison of Com-putational Methods.”

Presentation by Punam Madhok (Art), “Jinas and their Female Guardian Spirits: The Temples of Mount Abu in Rajasthan,” at the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Stud-ies, Lexington, Ky. Madhok chaired a panel, “From the Silk Road to Korea: East Asian Art History.”

Presentation by Philip Rubens and Sherry Southard (English), “Solving Writing Issues for Non-native Writers,” at the 2004 International Professional Communication Conference spon-sored by the IEEE Professional Communication Society in Minneapolis, Minn.

Presentation by Gay Wilentz (English), “Multi-vocal Spirits: Relocating the Ancestors Through Womenʼs Novels in the Africa Diaspora,” at the Third Caribbean Conference on Hybrid Cultures in the Atlantic – Relations Between Africa, Asia, Brazil and the Carribbean in Goiania, Goias, Brazil.

Presentation by Jane Painter (Allied Health) on Home Safety Evaluation at an Eastern Area Health Education Center program, Maximizing Mobility in Seniors for Improved Independence.

Presentation by Leonard Trujillo and Anne Dickerson (Allied Health) with Tara Jeffs (Education) on panel discussion entitled “Con-siderations and Outcomes of an Online Assistive Technology Certificate Program,” at the Assistive Technology Industry Association Conference in Orlando, Fla. Also, Trujillo and Dickerson pre-sented a poster, “Assessment and Rehabilitation of Older Drivers by Occupational Therapists” at the 57th Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.

Article by Jody Baumgartner (Political Sci-ence) with co-author, “Victims or Rogues? The Impeachment of Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin in Comparative Perspective,” in White House Studies.

Publications by Richard Kearney (Political Science) with co-author A. Bowman, State and Local Government, 6th ed.; and with co-author B. Feldman, “Labor-Management Relations and Collective Bargaining,” in Human Resource Management in Local Government, 2nd ed.

Article by Yong Wang (Geography) with co- author, “Comparison of Light Detection and Ranging and National Elevation Dataset Digital Elevation Model on Floodplains of North Caro-lina,” in Natural Hazards Review.

Article by Craig Becker and Mary Glascoff (Health Education and Promotion), “Linking Lessons and Learning: A Technique to Improve Student Preparation and Engagement with Subject Materials,” in the American Journal of Health Education.

Article by Art Rodriguez (Chemistry) with co-authors, “Analysis of the Spin-Lattice Relaxation Rate and Reorientational Dynamics of Fullerene C70 in Chlorobenzene-d5,” in the Journal of Molecular Liquids.

Book by John J. Schmidt (Education), Coun-seling in Schools, 4th ed., was translated into Chinese Traditional language.

Article by Mark Jones (Human Ecology), “John Augustus Versus La Cosa Nostra: Organized Crime and United States Probation Officers in New York,” in Perspectives: the Journal of the

American Probation and Parole Association.

Essay by Sharon Pruitt (Art), “Collage and Photomontage: Beardenʼs Spiralist Reflections of America and Africa,” in A Century of African American Art.

Article by Kevin Moll (Music), “Folio Format and Musical Organisation in the Liturgical Rep-ertoire of the Ivrea and Apt Codices,” in Early Music History.

By Jennifer M. Valko (Foreign Languages) with co-editor, a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Brújula, entitled “Utopian Passports: Travel and Immigration in Latin America.”

Article by Medicine faculty Charles Kovacs, Ron Allison, Roberta Johnke, and Mark Evans with Mickael Cariveau (Physics) and Gerhard Kalmus (Biology), “The Expression of p21/WAF-1 and Cyclin B1 Mediate Mitotic Delay in X-irradiated Fibroblasts,” in the March 2005 issue of Anticancer Research.

Contributions to two publications by Lesly Tamarin Mega (Medicine): “Effective Men-toring” in Beyond Parity Workbook for Action: Transforming Academic Medicine through Women s̓ Leadership published by University of Illinois at Chicago, Center for Research on Women and Gender, National Center of Excel-lence in Womenʼs Health, in conjunction with the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services and Office on Womenʼs Health, and Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School, published by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

KIDS DAY: ECUʼs professional glass blower Joe Walas, left, instructs Noe Hernandez, 10, on how to shape glass tubes with air pressure. Hernandez was one of about two dozen fifth graders from Belvoir Elementary who participated in Chemistry and Kids Day at ECU Feb. 11. (Photo by Nancy McGillicuddy).

By Erica Plouffe Lazure

Rebecca Dumlao, an ECU profes-sor of communication, was chosen to serve on a nationwide classroom diversity promotion project for the National Com-munication Association.

As part of the 27-member panel known as Communicating Common Ground, Dumlao will initiate local partnerships between the ECU commu-nication department and the Pitt County Alliance for Youth and Communities in Schools organizations. Dumlao will ask ECU students to consider how they could help middle school students become more aware of the influence of media.

“The plan is, they will find a middle school student to interview and find out what they are learning about media, what do they know, what do they watch,” said Dumlao, who helped her students carry out a similar project last semester.

“Later in the semester, they will de-velop a media product, a web site, comic book, or video to address an issue. At this point, they are creating prototypes. Hope-fully, we could come up with funding and

do more professional quality projects and circulate them locally.”

The goal of the project is to help both college students and children em-brace an increasingly diverse society and to foster better ties between universities and public schools. Dumlao said it was also important for communication stu-dents to understand and value the impor-tance of volunteerism as well as execute a project that relates to their professional and academic interests.

“I see a great need in what weʼre trying to do: how students and faculty can address the needs of our community in a practical way and educate students at the same time,” she said. Dumlao works closely with ECUʼs Volunteer and Service Learning Center to coordinate the outreach project.

In addition to the National Com-munication Association, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Asso-ciation for Higher Education and Campus Compact worked to develop the intercam-pus compact. Now in its fourth year, the project has already created more than 70 partnerships across the nation.

Communication Professor to Promote Diversity Projects

Bruce Flye, director of Campus Space Planning for ECU, was one of 11 higher education professionals who were the first to attend all three steps of the So-ciety for College and University Plan-ningʼs (SCUP) Planning Institute. The graduates earned certificates of comple-tion at the institute Feb. 7 in Tempe, Ariz.

Offered throughout the year, the SCUP Planning Institute consists of three seminars that expose its participants to best practices in higher education plan-ning, while building their knowledge of campus-based planning through lectures,

group discussions and exercises, and case studies.

“Colleges and universities under-stand that the complexities of campuses require an integrated approach to plan-ning to assure their success,” said Phyllis Grummon, SCUP director of planning and education. Professionals who attend the institute, she said, “return to their jobs able to guide their campuses in successful integrated planning processes.”

SCUP is an international network of nearly 5,000 higher education profession-als. Visit www.scup.org to learn more.

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Not many students have the op-portunity to demonstrate what theyʼve learned in front of an audience of hun-dreds. But several ECU students will do so when they participate in the School of Communicationʼs third Oratorical Exhibi-tion next month.

Scheduled for March 29 at 6:30 p.m. in Wright Auditorium, the exhibi-tion has the theme, “Speak Up: Change Tomorrow.” Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

According to Pam Hopkins, instruc-tor in the School of Communication, the exhibition not only showcases select students and what theyʼve learned, but also serves as a celebration of oratory that should inspire audience members.

“Students who attend can see what great speaking is all about,” she said, and better understand the relevance of taking public speaking courses. She also noted that ECU professors from many fields can emphasize the importance of outstand-ing communication skills by encouraging attendance at the event.

Chosen by School of Communica-tion faculty, the speakers at the exhibi-tion have been identified as strong public speakers. Often they are selected from among students taking ECUʼs public speaking courses.

Selected speakers are not restricted to communication majors or minors. Because many degree programs at ECU require students to take one of the School of Communicationʼs speech courses, many disciplines from across the univer-sity are represented.

Members of the School of Communicationʼs speech committee, responsible for organizing the exhibition,

look for a variety of skills and attributes during the selection process. Some of the traits that characterize a great speaker, Hopkins said, are confidence, charisma, preparation, knowledge of the subject, and a clear understanding of how best to relate the information to the audience.

“Enthusiasm for the topic and an interest in communicating with the audi-ence will serve as well,” Hopkins said.

Students will have five to seven minutes to deliver a speech on their chosen topic. In addition to an outstand-ing delivery, the committee looks for fresh topics that will educate or promote contemplation on a variety of issues.

Because this yearʼs exhibition will occur during Founders Week, the speech committee decided that all speeches should be ECU-related. Students may speak, for example, on the universityʼs founders or how ECU has influenced the surrounding community.

The first oratorical exhibition was held in the Fall of 2003, after several School of Communication faculty mem-bers noticed that similar events at other universities were successful in providing experience for top student speakers, while enhancing and honing their talent.

Communication instructor and speech committee member Nikki How-ard agrees. Organizing and delivering an excellent speech to a large crowd is an experience that will benefit these students when they leave college, she said.

“They will have more confidence in themselves,” she said, “and the benefit of speaking at a much larger level than many other students will have experienced.”

When faced with opportunities to speak as part of their careers, she added, “these students will be able to reflect back on what they learned as participants in the Oratorical Exhibition.”

By Barbara Bullington

Annual Exhibition Urges Students to ʻSpeak Upʼ

As part of ECUʼs Black History Month celebrations, ECU welcomed Jonathan Tilove, a race and immigra-tion reporter and author of Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America s̓ Main Streets. Tilove spoke about the slain Civil Rights hero Feb. 10 at the Willis Building auditorium.

During the lecture, Tilove read and showed photographs from his book, while answering questions about the increasingly common yet controversial memorials to the historical achievements of African Americans. Also at the event, students from ECUʼs GeoClub unveiled a pamphlet that focuses on the naming of streets and roadways for King.

“The pamphlet presents some in-teresting data on MLK street naming as a

national movement, the politics of getting Kingʼs name on a street, and even a com-parison of Greenvilleʼs street versus the one in New Bern,” said Derek Alderman, an ECU geography professor who studies King street naming. More than 10,000 copies will be distributed locally as well as to national civil rights organizations, the King center, and civil rights museums across the country, Alderman said.

He is the adviser to the GeoClub, which is covering the cost of printing the pamphlet. This is the fourth year the group has produced a map or document of current interest. ECU Geography professor Patrick Pease designed and edited the MLK pamphlet, collaborating with Alderman and graduate student Matt Mitchelson.

A pamphlet that examines the naming of streets and roadways for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was created by ECUʼs GeoClub and distributed during Black History Month celebrations on campus.

MLK Street Naming Addressed

Brody School of Medicine fac-ulty member Lesly Mega has received two national awards recognizing her commitment to supporting and men-toring fellow women in medicine.

Mega, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and chairperson of the Status of Women in Medicine Committee, received the Bertha Van Hoosen Award Jan. 27 during the American Medical Womenʼs Association (AMWA) annual meet-ing in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes exceptional leadership and service. During Megaʼs 30-year service to AMWA, she focused her talents on numerous AMWA activities and willingly took on leadership roles. She served on the AMWA Board as state director and as regional gover-nor, and held two terms as chair of the AMWA Foundation Board. Mega has focused much of her professional life on the development of women leaders in medicine.

The National Library of Medi-cine, in conjunction with AMWA, also has chosen Mega a “local legend” in medicine. Congressional representatives nominate the women for their contributions to the health of their communities; Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. nominated Mega.

Profiles of women selected as local legends become part of the exhibit, Changing the Face of Medi-cine: Celebrating America s̓ Women Physicians, at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md., through May. After May, it will become a traveling exhibit. The Brody School of Medicine has been chosen as one of 60 sites to host the exhibit.

Fellow ECU medical school faculty member Dr. Peggy Goodman recommended Mega to Jones for the nomination. Goodman was recog-nized as a local legend in medicine by the group in 2004 and is included in the local legends exhibit.

Mega Earns National Honors

VC Candidates Visit Campus

sciences. Dr. Marilyn Sheerer, dean of the College of Education, heads the commit-tee for the research position.

Remaining public meetings for the candidates are scheduled for:

Levant, 3-5 p.m. on March 2 in Rivers 105A and 10:15-11:15 a.m. on March 3 in the Brody Auditorium.

Smith, 3-5 p.m. on March 3 in Mendenhall 221 and 10:15-11:15 a.m. on March 4 in the Brody Auditorium.

Murphy, 3-5 p.m. on March 7 in Mendenhall 221 and 10:15-11:15 a.m. on March 8 in Brody 2N86.

Ferguson, 3-5 p.m. on March 9 in Rivers 105A and 10:15-11:15 a.m. on March 10 in Warren Life Sciences 202.

Allen, 3-5 p.m. on Feb. 28 in Science and Technology 309 and 10:15-11:15 a.m. on March 1 in Brody Auditorium.

Links to more information, includ-ing candidate resumes, can be found on the ECU home page, www.ecu.edu.





Campus Calendar

Exhibitions

FEBRUARY

THURSDAY 24

ECU/Loessin Playhouse, My Three Angels, McGinnis Theatre, through March 1, performances nightly at 8 p.m. except Sunday performance at 2 p.m.

FRIDAY 25

Promotion and Tenure Workshop, Menden-hall Room 221, 1 - 4:30 p.m.

Womenʼs Chorale and University Chorale, Love is in the Air: Choral Music from the Heart, Wright Auditorium, 8 p.m.

Contra Dance, Willis Building, lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 – 10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 26

S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series (SRAPAS), Love Letters, Wright Auditorium, 8 p.m.

MARCH

TUESDAY 1

ECU Symphony Orchestra, Wright Audito-rium, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 2

NewMusic@ECU Festival, New music from China and Taiwan by C. Gustafson, Fletcher Recital Hall, 8 p.m.

ECU Concert Series, NewMusic@ECU Festival, WTEB Radio, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY 3

Russian Film Series, Stalin: The Red God, Bate 2011, 6:30 p.m.

NewMusic@ECU Festival, New Sounds From Young American Composers, Fletcher, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 4

Journalist Bev Smith, Murphy Center, 6:30 p.m.

NewMusic@ECU Festival, Premier Readings for Choir, Fletcher, 1 p.m.

NewMusic@ECU Festival Concert, Michael Lowenstern, Fletcher, 8 p.m.

Jazz at Night, Mendenhall, 8 p.m.

For additional information on calendar events, visit http://www.ecu.edu/cs-ecu/calendar.cfm.

SATURDAY 5

Family Fare Series, Ramona Quimby, Wright Auditorium, 2 p.m.

NewMusic@ECU Festival, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Fletcher Recital Hall, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY 6

Travel-Adventure Film, Hawaii, Hendrix Theatre, 3 p.m.

Robert L. Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor Concert, Dan Grabois, horn; Fletcher Recital Hall, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 8

Founders Day Jarvis Memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery, 10 a.m.

WEDNESDAY 9

ECU Concert Series, Combined Choirs and Orchestra, WTEB Radio, 7 p.m.

Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Fletcher, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 10

SRAPAS, National Symphony Orchestra, Wright Auditorium, 8 p.m.

ECU Opera Theatre, Dialogues of the Carmelites, St. Paulʼs Episcopal Church; through March 12, performances nightly at 7 p.m., except 2 p.m. on Saturday.

SATURDAY 12

Eastern Youth Orchestra, Fletcher Recital Hall, 7 p.m.

Contra Dance, Willis Building. Potluck dinner, 6 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m.; lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 – 10:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 13

Spring Break (through March 20)

WEDNESDAY 16

ECU Concert Ser ies, Gustafson, Mikkelsen, and OʼBrien, WTEB, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 18

Salsa Dance, Willis Building, lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 – 11 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 23

ECU Concert Series, Jarvis and Gilliam, WTEB Radio, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY 24

Russian Film Series, Repentence, Bate 2011, 6:30 p.m.

2005 School of Art Undergraduate Exhibi-tion (March 9 - April 9) Gray Gallery. Awards, March 9, Speight Aud., 5 p.m.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Photography Exhibit, Ledonia Wright Cultural Center (through March 30)

In Memoriam

Ashley Futrell, former chair of the ECU Board of Trustees and longtime supporter of the medical school, died Feb. 11.

Dr. William Laupus, founding ECU medical dean, died Feb. 15.

them to think about things, what they read, more critically.”

Oesterreich said he grows as a writer and teacher with every class, and tries to provide opportunities for his stu-dents to publish their work as well.

“I show them the first draft, the e-mail, the interviews…they see the whole process and then we critique it,” he said. “It helps them because hereʼs a person whoʼs doing it.”

While the time heʼs spent in the classroom has broadened his perspective,

From Highway to Higher Edc o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 7 Oesterreich said, he learned the most ba-

sic lesson out on the road, all those years ago: get the job done.

“If you pick up some steel in Gary, Indiana, and you have to drive all the way to Boston, in rain or snow…by hook or by crook, you have to start what you fin-ish. You donʼt ever leave a job,” he said.

And his life on the road, the bad back, the opportunity that came from it leaves him all the more convinced that anything is possible.

“Is there a second time around? Well, there was for me. You learn more by watching and you got to want to do it.”

Center to Draw on ECU Talentc o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 4

As part of the Pirates Sports TV Network, ECU-TV will rebroadcast ECU Pirates home games in football, basket-ball and volleyball. Pirate fans can also tune in for broadcasts of Pirate Magazine and the Bill Herrion Show.

A variety of new programming is planned this spring, so viewers are urged to check the Web site periodically for updates.

A daily schedule of programs is

ECU-TV Debuts ʻHealth Leadersʼc o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 4 available in PDF format at http://www.

ecu.edu/ecutv/.Directed by Bryan Edge, ECU-TV

is supported by the Center for Health Sci-ences Communication (CHSC) including the efforts of CHSC Video, directed by Mike Myles and Norm Collins; CHSC Multimedia, with media specialist Doug Barnum; and CHSC Photo, with photog-raphers Elbert Kennard and Lamont Low-ery. For more information, contact Bryan Edge at 744-1951 or e-mail [email protected].

Gregory Funaro (far right), assistant professor in the School of Theatre and Dance, along with Theatre and Dance students Rob Bradford (left) and Vance Daniels (center) prepare for the production of My Three Angels, running Feb. 24 through March 1 at ECUʼs McGinnis Theatre. Also appearing in the performance are Robert Alpers, Theatre and Dance faculty member known for his set designs, and Theatre and Dance Director John Shearin. Performances are nightly at 8 p.m., except the Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. For information, visit http://www.theatre-dance.ecu.edu/Productions/ Box_Office/index.htm.

that are home to strong regional univer-sities with information technology and computer science degrees.

Rick Niswander, dean of the ECU College of Business, applauded the “cooperative venture that will provide long-term economic and educational benefits to our students, the university, the community and the region.

“We are especially pleased,” he said, “that our faculty and students will be an important component of Rural Sourcingʼs development center.”

“We look forward to having Rural Sourcing as part of our corporate com-

munity,” said John Chaffee, executive director of the Pitt County Development Commission. “RSI holds the promise of quality jobs and enhances our growing group of technology-based companies,” he said. “Whether life science or informa-tion technology, those companies provide the jobs of the future for our residents. I applaud UNC system President Molly Broad for encouraging our universities to become more engaged in the economic development process and Chancellor Steve Ballard for making this type of activity a high priority at ECU.”

RSI is a full-service IT provider, including development, application and maintenance, and consulting.

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On Campus


Breaking Records East Carolina University leisure

studies students will soon launch a host of fund raisers for the victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami.

The students have a goal of raising $2,000, and have already contributed more than $800 from their own pockets to provide toys for children suffering from the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami.All proceeds will go to the Mitra Mandiri Foundation, an affiliation of the United Way International of Indonesia.

Planning for the fund raiser ac-tivities are still in the works, said ECU Leisure Studies professor Carmen Rus-soniello. They are part of a class assign-ment to help his students make a personal connection to the tragedy and to appreci-ate the therapeutic aspects of recreation.

“Weʼve been exposed to leisure and its importance in society. And we can see from this, there is a need, especially when all your things have been taken away by a disaster,” he said.

“Theyʼre also learning how recre-ation has the ability to bring communities together, and also to create communities. Iʼve been moved by these students. I think, in the end, this will bring our class together, outside the realm of the class-room.”

Plans are in the works for a pig pickinʼ, a Kidʼs Night Out babysitting event, and a basketball tournament.

For more information or to donate to the relief effort, contact Russoniello at 328-0024 or at russonielloc@mail. ecu.edu.

Fund Raisers Planned for Tsunami Victims

Harju Enriched Through Appointment at Hiroshima University

people approach goals versus how they approach failure. It will be interest-ing to see the results,” she said.

Harju said she was also able to treat her time away as a sabbatical, writing her own scholarly papers, and laying the foundation for a book that offers a per-spective about helping others. One of the most substantial challenges she encoun-tered in Asia was the language barrier. Having only a six-month window to learn Japanese, Harju said she found even the most simple of conversations outside of the university to be a challenge.

“In Japan, everything is written in the characters. There are very few words or signs in English. I had the experience of being illiterate much of the time,” she said.

Still, she was able to ride a bicycle practically anywhere she wanted to go, survived a half-dozen typhoons and made friends with other international academ-ics. One of her most memorable mo-ments, she said, was climbing to the top

of Japanʼs highest peak.“Mount Fuji was relatively easy,

despite its high altitude. It is basically a mile of climbing up,” she said. Harju said Mt. Fuji stands out from the rest of the Japanese landscape. “Japan is very moun-tainous to begin with, and all of a sudden, you can see this one mountain that is twice as tall as the rest,” she said.

ECU has had a longstanding relationship with Hiroshima University. Several years ago, ECU hosted a profes-sor from Hiroshima and the Ministry of Education of Japan reciprocated with an invitation to Harju.

Harjuʼs experience is emblematic of an initiative now being discussed at both faculty and administrative levels at ECU. At a recent meeting of the Faculty Senate, ECU English professor Seodial Deena, representing the senateʼs Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee for Interna-tional Affairs, asked senators to support a document that outlined a set of goals that would encourage more international ex-change and exposure among faculty and students by 2009. The measures would

also provide increased support for inter-national students to study at ECU and to encourage ECU faculty and students to study and teach abroad.

“The world is moving rapidly toward the concepts we are trying to implement,” Deena said. “I am pretty sure most of us can think of some kind of international experience weʼve had and the effects those experiences have had on us and on our students.”

Harju, who re-launched North Carolinaʼs Fulbright Chapter in 2002, and is now the organizationʼs past president, said the best way for faculty to begin to make those international connections is to research and contact professors in regions or subjects theyʼd like to study. She is also a member of the Faculty Senate ad hoc committee.

“I looked up several professors in Finland to see if their interests would match mine. I inquired about doing an exchange and went to Finland,” she said. “The professor and I got along and he supported my Fulbright application.

“Itʼs important to have a person on

the other side who wants you to be there and who believes youʼd make a good ad-dition to the department.”

Harju said she was excited to see the different parts of Asia, amazed by the difference in infrastructure and technol-ogy from one region to the next.

“I was really glad I was able to get to Vietnam, China and Tibet. Tibet especially, it is really an ancient city,” she said. “And going from there to Japan, itʼs very futuristic, like the Switzerland of Asia.”

ECUʼs Office of Interna-tional Affairs has just created an International Conference Fund, with help from Academic Af-fairs, enabling faculty to apply for grants up to $500 to help with travel costs. Visit http://www.ecu.edu/intlaffairs/facul/conference.html for more information.

Finding Funds

ECU freshman LaShawn Merritt is setting world records in track and field. He won the 400 meters in a new collegiate indoor record time of 44.93 seconds at the Powered by Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., Feb. 11.

The performance also set a new indoor world junior record and is the third-fastest indoor 400 meter time in world history. Merritt became the second-fastest man ever to run the indoor 400 meters, trailing only the legendary Michael Johnsonʼs world record of 44.63, set in 1995, and Johnsonʼs 1996 time of 44.66. However, it was the fastest time ever run by a junior (19-and-under) athlete indoors and also established a new NCAA, Conference USA and East Carolina record.

He followed by winning the 200-meter sprint in a time of 20.40 at the Randal Tyson Track Complex, which rates as the second-fastest clip in the world so far in 2005 and marked a World Junior Indoor record.

For two weeks in a row, Merritt was named the United States Track Coaches Association Male Athlete of the Week for NCAA Division I track and field. (Photo courtesy of RazorbackPhotos.com)


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