mother of two. Bailey will serve a two-year term. Will Flatt of Jackson is executive vice president and chief operating officer for Parkway Properties, Inc. He received a bachelor’s in economics, magna cum laude, in 1997 from Millsaps and a master’s in business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Flatt has served in a number of leadership roles at Parkway Properties including, vice president of investor relations, asset manager, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and executive vice president. Flatt has served on the Else School of Management Advisory Board and the Mississippi Council on Economic Education Board. Flatt’s wife, Grace, also works in the real estate industry. Flatt will serve a four-year term. Dr. Chris Glick
of Jackson is a neonatologist/ perinatologist. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi in 1976 and her medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1980. Glick is a past president of the National Perinatal Association. Glick participated in Leadership Seminars in the Humanities at Millsaps in 1991 and 1992. She is married to Thomas Edward “Eddie” Guillot Jr., vice president for wealth management at Citi Smith Barney, and is the mother of three. Glick will serve a four-year term.
Jeff McDonald
of Birmingham is an owner of a construction equipment and farm implement dealership in Albertville, Ala. He received a bachelor’s in Spanish from Millsaps in 1995 and a master’s in business administration from the University of Alabama. McDonald’s wife, Kerry, works in the venture capital investment industry. McDonald will serve a three-year term. Hal Malchow of Arlington, Va. is a political consultant and president of MSHC Partners in Washington, D.C. A native of Gulfport, he received a bachelor’s in political science from Millsaps in 1973, and a law degree from The University of the Pacific. He is married to Dr. Astrid Weigert, a visiting assistant professor of German at Georgetown University. Malchow will serve a four-year term. Toddy Sanders
of Jackson is a math and science tutor. Sanders received a bachelor’s degree in biology, cum laude, from Millsaps and did graduate work in pharmacology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She is married to David Sanders, a Jackson businessman, and is the mother of three. Sanders will serve a three-year term.
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State-of-the-art equipment arrives for new Keck Center The first piece of equipment to arrive for the newly established $818,000 W.M. Keck Center for Instrumental and BioChemical Comparative Archaeology at Millsaps will allow researchers to determine the chemical fingerprint of prehistoric pottery and other artifacts. The machine known as an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer heats particles to approximately 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit to reveal identification through chemical compositions. “This machine will allow us to look at the elements, the geochemical characterization of artifacts,” said Dr. Timothy Ward, associate dean of sciences. “In 2,000 years contamination is an understatement.” By measuring the elemental composition of an artifact, researchers will be able to analyze pieces of prehistoric pottery based on the kinds and amounts of various elements used to create a chemical signature. “This kind of research is extremely useful when trying to understand ancient trade patterns and interactions between villages,” said Dr. Michael Galaty, associate professor of anthropology. “We might find that one potter in one village was making all the pottery in a region, or conversely, that each village had its own potter.” These types of discoveries are exactly what researchers hope to make as they weave together various underlying factors that led to state formation or hindered state formation in Old World and New World cultures. Such laboratory research will complement Millsaps’ two distinctive archaeological field research programs in Mexico and Albania. By making systematic comparisons of the Old World, which will focus on the Bronze-Iron Age Illyrians in Albania, and
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