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Dr. Paula Lundberg-Love, professor of psychology, was invited to speak for the Parents’ Services of Tyler about “The ABC’s of EDs (Eating Disorders)” January 18 and at the statewide conference for the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association about “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Alcohol Related Neurodegenerative Disorder” February 25 in Houston, Texas. Dr. Jeffrey R. Mountain, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, presented a poster at the 2005 National Science Foundation Engineering and Computing Education Grantees Meeting held in Washington D.C. February 16 – 18. His poster detailed the second year of progress on his project “Development of a Process Control Breadboard System to Attract and Retain Engineering Students.” Over 370 registered participants attended the meeting, which highlighted multiple breakout sessions with NSF program officers as well as a keynote address entitled "21st Century Engineering: A Roadmap to the Future" by Dr. James Duderstadt, President Emeritus of the University of Michigan. Dr. Duderstadt was chair of the National Academy of Engineering committee that recently drafted the report “Assessing the Capacity of the U.S. Engineering Research Enterprise.” This was Dr. Mountain’s second recent trip to the nation’s capital on National Science Foundation related business. He served as a proposal review panelist for the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program, earlier in the month of February. Debra Stauffer, MSN, RN, College of Nursing Faculty and Coordinator of the Nursing program at the Palestine Campus won an award last week during the Texas Nursing Student Assn. convention in Houston. The award, Touching the Future of Nursing, was created by the Texas Nurses Association (TNA) and Texas Nursing Students Association (TNSA) Image of Nursing committee to recognize outstanding faculty who produce great nurses in Texas. We wanted to highlight the positive influence that faculty have on healthcare. An application was submitted by a student, Tara Patton, and then a committee of TNA representatives chose the final winner. Nominations were sent in from all over the state of Texas. The nominations were judged on characteristics described by National League for Nursing Core Competencies for Nurse Educators, preparing nurses for the future, showing concern for the student as a person and/or concern for the safety of the public nurses serve, displaying behavior befitting the professional nurse in today's society and the student's attention to scholarship, grammar and punctuation. Contact person: Lisa Buchanan, (903) 565-5769
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