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CAS Student Highlights
EMU Model United Nations Club Wins Best Overall Delegation Recognition
EMU Model United Nations Club Wins Best Overall Delegation Recognition
At the American Model United Nations (AMUN) Conference in Chicago on November 20-23, the EMU team representing Tunisia was honored as the Best Overall Delegation. Only three of the 115 participating teams received this award. The Tunisia team was also recognized as the Outstanding Delegation in Security Council, and the EMU delegations representing Colombia and Tunisia both won awards for their position papers outlining the foreign policies of the two countries.
Congratulations to the Model United Nations Club members and Political Science faculty advisors Richard Stahler-Sholk and Ebrahim Soltani!
Top, left to right: Ryland Lambert, Laila Hamad, Tia Hodroj
Bottom, front row, left to right: Brendan Butler, Dilynn Erngren, Tia Hodroj, Ryland Lambert, Laila Hamad, Areena Basmadjian, David Reyes
Bottom, back row, left to right: Joseph Sculuca, Juliana Lumaj, Jessi Kwek, Edgar Vasquez, Matt Peal, Allison Shearer, Kendall Martinez, Paul Iglesias, Axel Roblero-Morales
Video about the Tiny Earth Project
CAS Undergraduates Co-author Biology Journal Article
CAS Undergraduates Co-author Biology Journal Article
12 CAS undergraduates joined professors Michael Angell, Daniel Clemans, Anne Casper, Paul Price, and Timothy Friebe as authors of a research article in Marine Drugs. The EMU researchers are part of the Tiny Earth Program at EMU, led by Biology Professor Paul Price. The Tiny Earth Program engages undergraduate students in novel research as part of their coursework. Over 550 students in BIO111, BIO112, and BIO328 and 20 researchers at EMU and the University of Michigan collaborated to discover new antimicrobial compounds. The article "Identification of a New Antimicrobial, Desertomycin H, Utilizing a Modified Crowded Plate Technique" is the second publication for the Tiny Earth team. The named EMU student authors are Sadaf Dorandish, Rebecca Lindow, Megan Steltz, Ifrah Shoukat, Maira Shoukat, Hussein Chehade, Sara Baghdadi, Madelaine McAlister-Raeburn, Asad Kamal, Dawit Abebe, Khaled Ali, Chelsey Ivy, and Maria Antonova.
CAS Faculty & Staff Highlights
CAS Faculty & Staff Highlights
TESOL Professor and TESOL Alumna Thrive in Fulbright Programs
TESOL Professor and TESOL Alumna Thrive in Fulbright Programs
Despite the concerning COVID situation and recent lockdown in Slovakia, Dr. Zuzana Tomas, Professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), has been enjoying her Fulbright Scholar experience at the University of Matej Bel in Slovakia. Coming back to her alma mater, she has been teaching two courses on academic writing for future teachers of English in Slovakia and helping with service-learning initiatives. Dr. Tomas strongly recommends that EMU faculty consider the Fulbright Scholar program with a reminder that applications for the 2022/2023 academic year open in February, 2022!
Ms. Adrienne Seo, an EMU TESOL Program alumna, is one of 26 individuals selected for the prestigious English Language Fellows program, which is housed in the Fulbright organization. She is working in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, teaching TESOL undergraduate courses at Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Language. She has found the students passionate and eager to absorb new teaching techniques to become effective English teachers. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Adrienne works closely with the other English Language Fellows, the Fulbright English Teaching Assistants, and the U.S. Embassy to create conferences, teacher training workshops, and cultural exchange programs all around Uzbekistan. She has found this project to be both challenging and rewarding for her professional experience as a global TESOL educator.
Dr. Zuzana Tomas
CAS Events
CAS Events
The nave of the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Détroit
Detroit Theme Year Continues with Bus Tour, Dance Concert, Lecture, and Classes
Detroit Theme Year Continues with Bus Tour, Dance Concert, Lecture, and Classes
The College’s Detroit Theme Year programming will continue on January 13 with a talk on "Unfree Labor in Early Detroit" by Catherine Cangany, Executive Director of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan. On January 21 and 22, the School of Music and Dance/EMU Dance and Company E will present a Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert featuring pieces by Detroit-based choreographers Barbara Selinger, Miryam Johnson, Ronald Ford, and Joori Jung. On January 22, History Professor Ashley Johnson Bavery will guide a bus tour of historical sites in Detroit. Tour stops will include the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Détroit, an underground speakeasy, the starting point of the 1967 Uprising, and the Dr. Ossian Sweet House.
This winter the College will offer two classes that examine the historic development and future direction of Detroit: Urban Planning (URP) 479/592: Gentrification: Decline, Revitalization, and Social Justice, taught by Professor RJ Koscielniak, and History (HIST) 440/540: The History of Detroit, with Professor Ashley Johnson Bavery.
McAndless Chair Kevin Boyle to Examine Civil Rights Films
McAndless Chair Kevin Boyle to Examine Civil Rights Films
Kevin Boyle will conclude his McAndless residency with a lecture and workshop on the Civil Rights film genre. In his January 27 talk on "Civil Rights History on Film," Boyle will assess the ways that Hollywood and smaller studios have captured iconic episodes in the Black freedom movement. Some of these films have been historically accurate, while others have promoted false narratives. Boyle will discuss three recent films that examine racial violence, interracial marriage, and the Black Power movement: 4 Little Girls (1997), Loving (2016), and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). On January 28, Boyle will discuss the challenges of presenting history on the big screen in a workshop on "Translating History into Cinema." Boyle’s presentations will draw on his experience as the historical consultant for a Netflix project for a film based in his award-winning book, Arc of Justice. In anticipation of Boyle’s visit, the College, History, and Campus Life will show Judas and the Black Messiah on January 17 at 3:30 pm in the Student Center Auditorium.
McAndless Professor Kevin Boyle
Tamar Manasseh
Tamar Manasseh to Speak on Repairing Our Communities
Tamar Manasseh to Speak on Repairing Our Communities
Rabbi Tamar Manasseh will deliver the Third Annual Art and Mary Schuman Lecture, "An African-American Jewish Mother Repairing Cracks in Our Communities," on Monday, January 24, at 7:00 PM in Ballroom B of the EMU Student Center and on Zoom. (Register at tinyurl.com/tamaremu.)
In 2015, Manasseh, an African-American Jewish mother of two teenagers, heard that another young mother from her Chicago neighborhood had been murdered while attempting to break up a fight. In response, Manasseh decided to sit vigil at the scene of the killing—maintaining a constant presence to de-escalate gun violence in her community. Within days, others joined her, and the organization that grew from her efforts, Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings (MASK), continues to fight gun violence and has been the subject of features by NBC News, the PBS Newshour, the New York Times, the Forward, and a full-length documentary, They Ain’t Ready for Me. She is also, in what Rabbi Capers Funnye has described as a watershed moment for the Israelite community, the first woman ordained to the rabbinate at Chicago’s Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.
EMU Symphony Orchestra to Host Honors High School Orchestra Festival
EMU Symphony Orchestra to Host Honors High School Orchestra Festival
The EMU Symphony Orchestra will host its reimagined High School Honor String Orchestra on Friday, January 14. 85 of the finest high school orchestral musicians in the area will join us for a great day of music making on the campus of EMU. This one-day event will feature rehearsals conducted by Dr. Chad Hutchinson, string masterclasses and sectionals with EMU Applied String Faculty, and a finale performance at 7:00 pm in Pease Auditorium.
Submissions Are Open for the Undergraduate Symposium
Submissions Are Open for the Undergraduate Symposium
CAS faculty are urged to encourage their students engaged in research or creative activities to submit abstracts for the 2022 Undergraduate Symposium by January 21, 2022.
Please make your students aware that all Undergraduate Symposium presenters are available to apply for Symposium scholarships.
CAS Program News
CAS Program News
Introducing the Director's Circle for the School of Music & Dance
Introducing the Director's Circle for the School of Music & Dance
The School of Music & Dance is proud to announce its annual giving campaign, the Director’s Circle. More than just a campaign, the Director’s Circle is a society of supporters for the School of Music & Dance. Their gifts help to support:
Scholarships for EMU music and dance students
Travel assistance for students to perform and compete
Equipment and instruments to be used in the classroom by EMU music and dance students
Faculty performances and research presentations that share what they are discovering and creating at EMU with the greater academic community
Future opportunities in the EMU School of Music & Dance
Director’s Circle member receive exclusive updates and invitations to unique events from the School of Music & Dance.
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