Wimba Wins T E A M G E T S D I S TA N C E AWA R D A FOUR-MEMBER team headed by Sam Slike, who recently retired as professor of exceptionality programs, received the platinum award for distance education during the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Slike GLC) in Long Beach, Calif. The award, the organization’s highest, recognized the team’s success using Wimba, now known as Blackboard Collaborate, for online courses in education of the deaf/hard of hearing and speech pathology. The presentation was titled Wimba @ Work: Improving Access for High-Needs Career Education. A total of 30 finalist teams from 15 countries competed for the awards. Also attending the consortium was John Cavanaugh, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
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Yes to Noh C O L L E G E C R E D I T S AVA I L A B L E FOR FIRST TIME
Chang Shub Roh (left) and James Pomfret
Global Awareness
ANONYMOUS $100,000 GIFT BENEFITS STUDENTS
AN ANONYMOUS $100,000 gift to the Bloomsburg University Foundation will further international education and the mission of the Global Awareness Society International (GASI). GASI, a non-profit academic and professional organization based at BU, promotes peace by fostering understanding and mutual respect through multicultural and global education. The anonymous gift establishes the Dr. and Mrs. Chang Shub Roh and Family Global Awareness Scholarship Fund which will encourage BU students to prepare abstracts and make presentations at GASI’s annual conferences, held at locations worldwide. Roh, a retired BU faculty member, serves as GASI’s chair, assisted by vice chair James Pomfret, a retired faculty member and current member of the BU Foundation Board of Directors.
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PARTICIPANTS IN THIS summer’s
Noh Training Project at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble could, for the first time, earn three academic credits from Bloomsburg University. In its 17th year, the Noh Training Project (NTP) is an intensive, three-week summer program in the dance, chant and instruments of classical Japanese Noh drama, one of the oldest continually performed theatre forms in the world. Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, established in 1978, is a resident professional acting company housed in downtown Bloomsburg’s Alvina Krause Theatre.
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Capitol Research SENIOR PRESENTS POSTER IN D.C. A SENIOR GEOLOGY and planetary geoscience major presented his research,
“Integration of Quickbird Satellite Imagery and GIS to Map Subzones within a Salt Marsh near Wallops Island, Va.,” in Washington, D.C., last spring. Research by Brian Culp, a resident of Danville and native of Grand Island, N.Y., was among 74 presentations chosen from more than 700 reviewed for the Council of Undergraduate Research “Posters on the Hill” event. BU faculty members Cynthia Venn and Michael Shepard of the geography and geosciences department were Culp co-authors of Culp’s research, which also was featured during BU’s Research Day in late April.
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FALL 2011
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