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Faculty & Department News
New Faculty
We are pleased to welcome several New Faculty members to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prof. Urroz's New Novel Friccion
This link shows a Spanish television interview of Eloy Urroz discussing the June 2008 release of his latest novel Friccion in Spain. Congrats to Eloy!
Humanities Professors Attend Jessie Ball duPont Seminars
English professor Licia Calloway and Psychology professor Michael Politano attended Jessie Ball duPont summer seminars at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC from June 1-22 2008. For more information on the seminars attended, click here.
Recent East Asian History Presentations
This past June, in Beijing, China, Prof. Keith Knapp presented a paper at the fourth international meeting of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. At the conference’s end, the group toured the archaeological sites of China’s earliest dynasties, which are found in Henan province in central China. Professor Knapp presented a lecture at The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California. This lecture was in conjunction with their Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor exhibit. The title of Prof. Knapp's talk was “The First Emperor’s Family Values”: it examined the family policies that the First Emperor’s government promoted and the family life and aspirations of Qin soldiers.
Grant Award
The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures has been awarded a grant of $7,500 from the American Society of the French Legion of Honor to be used toward undergraduate scholarships for its French Summer Study Program in 2009
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Events and Seminars
Donald L. Fowler
John C. West Professor
Political Science Department
Julie Lipovsky
Psychology Department
Project Okurase: A Citadel Professor
September 30, 2008
Tony Lackey
Political Science Department
Victory or Defeat? VietNam
October 14, 2008
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Student News
Political Science Students Attend Internship
Matthew Millard and Justin Strickland interned at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center's Operations Office in Ottawa. The Citadel is the only college with this program at the PPC. The internship is for one month, following the completion of a multinational peacekeeping course at The Citadel.
This article by Prof. Terry Mays has more information about the Pearson Peacekeeping Center and the internship program.
Critical Languages Award
JD Lathers a French [primary] and history major has been admitted to the Master of Arts program at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for Fall 2008 at the Bologna, Italy campus. He also received a CAORC/DoS grant to study intensive Turkish for two months this summer.
Public History Internship
Cadet Parker Chapman of Decatur, Georgia, completed a Public History internship with the Army Heritage and Education Center (AHEC) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania this summer. To read more about Cadet Chapman's experiences or find out more about internships with AHEC, click this link.
White House Fellow
The Citadel just had a White House Fellow selected! He is David Rawlinson who graduated in Political Science. This is a great program. If anyone is interested, click on this link to the White House Fellows website.
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News from Student Groups & Clubs
"Honor Chapter" Selected by the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
On August 2, 2008, The Citadel's Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, was one of only 10 chapters nationwide to be selected as an "Honor Chapter" by the National Executive Committee during its annual meeting in Milwaukee. Chapters are chosen for their outstanding activities realized during the academic year. More....
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