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Luke Nichter, Assistant Prof. of History, Texas A&M—Central Texas, and BGSU history PhD, will give a talk about his research on Nixon’s foreign policy in Europe. This talk is part of the Policy History Colloquium series.
Thursday, 17 December 2009, noon, at the History Conference Room (141 Williams)
Mike Leaser, an alum of our History M.A. program, left for Senegal as a volunteer educator for the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH).
“My position will be as a Trainer of Teachers of English at the Teacher Training Institute in Fatick, Senegal. I will be advising, consulting, and teaching (technical assistance in pedagogy, training of in-service teachers to develop innovative classroom management strategies, and building relationships to cooperate with local nonprofit organizations to expand and improve a local Community Resource Center).” To read more about Mike, visit his blog at http://www.ifesh.org/blog/?p=92
Our display at Preview Day attracted perspective students and their parents as well as admiring faculty from other departments. Maureen Mason and Dwayne Beggs, attired in his Civil War army uniform, interacted with several interested passersby and provided them with the new brochures detailing our educational programs.
Don Rowney has published a new book entitled Russian Bureaucracy and the State: Officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin with Palgrave MacMillan, that assembles an international group of specialists to provide an empirically rich and conceptually innovative assessment of the perennial tensions in Russian state administration. Congratulations to Prof. Rowney for continuing to put our department forward in the eyes of the profession.
Seneca Vaught, a Ph.D. alumnus from our department in 2006, was recently announced as the recipient of the Award for Teaching Excellence at Niagra University.
Zachary Williams, a Ph.D. alumnus from our department in 2005, recently published his book, titled Aficana Cultures and Policy Studies (Palgrave MacMillan, May 2009).
Check our photos from the annual faculty gathering at 577 Foundation in the attached powerpoint file.
The BGSU Board of Trustees honored Dr. Gary Hess for his 45 years of service by granting him the title of Emeritus Professor. Congratulations for his retirement and his new title.
Congratulations to Dr. Douglas Forsyth for his article on the Old West End of Toledo in the American Bungalow magazine – current issue — http://www.americanbungalowmagazine.com/AmBungalow/magazine.htm .
