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Spring 2004 Edition Front Cover Learning Support Services Celebrates 25 Years Hagi - Living the Dream A Gift of Love Ana Rosales Campus News Distinguised Alumni Faculty News Ferris New Athletic Director Baseball Athletics :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: past issues: Fall 2003 Scene June 2003 Scene	Click for faculty profiles >

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	Professor of English Dr. David Breeden will present “The Primitive Sophisticate: Aesthetics in the Twenty- First Century” at the second international conference on “New Directions in the Humanities” at Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy, this July. Breeden presented a fiction reading at the Eighth Annual Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton last February at Angelo State University and gave a poetry reading at the Popular Culture Association Annual Conference in April. He has had several works published, including a novel “Chucking the Cliffs Notes” and a book of poetry, “Ice Cream and Suicide.”
	Instructor of English and Director of the Honors Program Jacqueline Burton presented “We Cannot Be Different All By Ourselves” during the 38th annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council last November in Chicago. The session was designed to heighten awareness of differences among a seemingly homogenous Honors group.
	Instructor of Mathematics Meg Huddleston received the “Outstanding Graduate Student Award” from the mathematics faculty at Incarnate Word University last April. Huddleston will finish her course work for a Ph.D. in mathematics education this summer.
	John Jones, dean of the Cailloux School of Professional Studies and associate professor of accounting, was named the 2004 recipient of Schreiner’s Margaret Hosler Award for Excellence in Teaching. Schreiner students select the winner of this annual award based on the valuable and lasting impression their professors have had on them. A stipend of $5,000 also goes to the award winner. The award was created and funded by Richard Hosler in honor of his late wife.
	Schreiner’s Excellence in Scholarship Award was established in 2001 to honor a Schreiner faculty member who excelled in scholarship or creative activity in their discipline during the current academic year. This year the award went to Dr. Lydia Kualapai, assistant professor of English, for her work in establishing a fiction series, an online student journal, a writing center, and for helping her students become excellent scholars.
	The Elmore Whitehurst Award for Creative Teaching was presented to Dr. William Sliva, professor of mathematics. This award is presented annually to a Schreiner faculty member selected by a panel of high school teachers, and comes with a stipend of $2,000 to be used for a special university teaching project. The Hatton W. Sumners Foundation funds this award.
	Dr. Fred Stevens, professor of biology, was named 2004 Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. See story, page 8. Stevens also was named Schreiner’s Advisor of the Year. He and Provost Michael Looney were named Fellows by the Texas Academy of Science this spring at a conference held on campus.
	Associate Professor of English and Communication Dr. William Woods received the Harriet Garrett Award for Teaching Excellence. The award was established in honor of a long time friend of Schreiner, Harriet Garrett. All Schreiner students are eligible to vote for one faculty member who will lead the graduating seniors’ procession at commencement ceremonies. Woods also studied for a week at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, for an upcoming article on the Book of Kells. He published a short story, “Detox Mountain,” in this year’s “New Texas: A Literary Journal” and a book review, “What Becomes a Legend Most?" in “The Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas.” He also read from his fiction and poetry at the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers meeting in Fredericksburg and the Popular Culture Association meeting in San Antonio.