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| Dean Gary Olsen | In his annual Address from the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences dean Gary Olson announced a number of initiatives designed to support faculty research, staff excellence, and college fundraising efforts. The address was presented on Tuesday, September 7 to an audience of faculty, staff, students, and administrators at the Bone Student Center.
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| Dr. Gardenia Harris | Dr. Gardenia Harris, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work has just learned that she and Dr. Caroline Mallory, Assistant Professor in the Mennonite School of Nursing, are on the National Institute of Aging Director’s funding list.The interdisciplinary research project, titled “Risk for HIV Among Middle-Age African American Women,” will explore risk-taking behavior of and preventive practices for middle-age African American women with respect to potential HIV infection.Pending compliance assurances with federal regulations, the project will be funded by the NIA’s small research grant program for $140,000 over two years.
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| Zach Koutsky and Senator Obama | Politics and Government and Sociology double major Zach Koutsky heard something he liked when he saw a hopeful for the Democratic Party's nomination in the race for the U.S. Senate speak in June 2003. The candidate's name was Barack Obama, a realtively unknown Illinois state senator at the time. Koutsky was inspired and decided to go to work for the struggling Obama campaign. A little over a year later, Koutsky found himself on the floor of the Democratic Convention in Boston, right between the Indiana and Illinois delegations, watching his boss become the Democratic Party's new star.
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