Chinese New Year Festival!

 

 

 

Students from our Chinese classes will introduce Chinese legends and traditions about the festival with song and poetry, and members of St. Joseph's Chinese community will play folk music using traditional instruments. 

Participate in the following activities at different stations in Blum 218:

--- paper cutting

--- Chinese calligraphy with brushes and writing your name in Chinese

--- lantern riddles (Taboos T or F ) and participating in making paper lanterns

--- using chopsticks

--- Dumpling making

--- Tea culture (Different culture in serving Green tea and Black tea)

--- puppetry

--- folk art

Come and enjoy our celebration!

Graduate Students to Present Research

Graduate students in the Integrated Media program--Heather Heater, Jeremy Lyons, Brad Beckwith, Anita Ford, and Kris Miller--have had their joint paper been accepted to the 14th International Symposium on Online Journalism that will be held in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas at Austin on April 19-20.  

In addition to the presentation, the paper has also been accepted for publication in the next Volume and Issue of The Official Research Journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism.

The research project was conducted in Dr. Bergland's graduate convergent media theory and practice course.  Using a 35-item matrix, the students analyzed the websites of the top 100 circulation U.S. newspapers, looking for features of Multimedia (video, audio, etc), Interactivity (comments, polls, Flash graphics, etc.) and distribution (PDF, RSS feeds, FB and Twitter, etc).

The International Symposium on Online Journalism, the most prestigious conference in this field, has an acceptance rate of 25-30%.

Congratulations to them for this impressive accomplishment!

Dr. Melody Smith to Retire as SJSD Superintendent

Dr. Melody Smith (BSE, English 1987) will retire from her position as Superintendent of the St. Joseph School District on June 30, 2013. As reported by the St. Joseph News-Press, "Dr. Smith started with the school district in 1988. She first served as a language arts teacher and coordinator before becoming an assistant principal at Benton High School." Melody began her work as Superintendent in March of 2006, and helped the district earn Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education “Distinction in Performance” award six of the last seven years.

We wish Melody a wonderful last spring in her position, and a well-earned, stress-free summer for the first time in years!

Mary Dockery Publishes Chapbook

Alumna and instructor Mary Stone Dockery has just published a chapbook of her poetry from Dancing Girl Press. The book's title is Aching Buttons, which is a collection of poems that she assembled before the publication of her first published book, Mythology of Touch.

Mary leads our reading series--That Poetry Reading Series--which will next meet at Foster's Martini Bar on Thursday, February 7 at 6 PM (hosted by our own Castle look-alike, Dana Andrews). Mary's work has appeared in many journals, and she continues to co-edit Stone Highway Review.

Congratulations, Mary!

Dr. Bausset-Page Publishes Essay

Dr. Ana Bausset-Page has published her essay "La mujer en busca de su inmortalidad en algunas obras de Marcela del Río y Victoria Ocampo" in the journal ALBA DE AMERICA (volume 32).

Congratulations on your accomplishment, Ana!