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Boise
State Named Partner in $2 Million FAA Center to Study Cabin Air
Quality and Bio/Chemical Threats
Boise State University will partner with Harvard
University, Auburn University and four other research universities
in a new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) research center to
study cabin air quality and conduct an assessment of chemical and
biological threats in airliners.
The U.S. Department of
Transportation’s FAA has created a new Air Transportation Center of
Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research. The FAA will
contribute at least $1 million to the center the first year and
$500,000 in each of the second and third years. Matching funds will
be provided by the private sector.
“We’ve brought together some of
the brightest minds science has to offer to focus on cabin air
quality and chemical and biological threats to protect passengers
and crew members,” said FAA administrator Marion Blakey. “This
research will be of great benefit to the flying public.”
John Owens, Boise State
University vice president of research, said “the work of this center
could significantly improve conditions for travelers by examining a
variety of issues including air filtration and re-circulation. This
is a problem of international scope that we are trying to attack and
solve. It is a perfect example of the type of issue we want to
address as a metropolitan research university.”
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Boise State
Announces Increase in Fall Enrollment
In keeping with its plan to expand enrollment at a
manageable pace, Boise State University reported a slight
increase in its fall semester enrollment, bringing the total
number of students to 18,456.
Boise State’s numbers mark the eighth consecutive fall in
which the university has set an all-time state enrollment
record. The enrollment is just nine students greater than
last year, but it constitutes a record for an Idaho
university.
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Boise
State University Resurrects Fettuccine Forum with Mayor Dave Bieter
Oct. 7
Boise State University’s Center for Idaho History and
Politics will present a free lecture series on the future
and past of Idaho’s capital city. The Fettuccine Forum will
be held the first Thursday of each month in the elegant Rose
Room in the historic Union Block, 718 W, Idaho Street. Doors
open at 5 p.m. and the 40-minute presentation begins at 5:30
p.m.
The revived forum is cosponsored by the Boise City Office of
the Mayor. The event begins on Oct. 7 with reflections on
growing up in Boise by Mayor Dave Bieter.
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Log Cabin
Center Sponsors 'Fair Use' Performance and Discussion Sept. 16-18
New Heritage Theater
Company will perform “Fair Use,” a play by Sands Hall, on September
16, 17 and 18 at Borah High School as part of Read the Same Book.
The play will be followed by a discussion led by Tara Penry,
associate professor of English at Boise State University. The event
starts at 7 p.m.; tickets are $10 each at the Log Cabin Literary
Center and $25 general, $15 seniors at the door. The play
contemplates what is “fair use” of someone else’s art and life,
focusing on the controversy surrounding Wallace Stegner’s use of
Mary Hallock Foote’s writing for his novel, Angle of Repose. A
limited number of tickets are available from the Log Cabin Literary
Center. For more information, call the Log Cabin at 331-8000.
Word
Works
"From The Vault: Paragraphs"
The latest Word Works
edition, "From the Vault: Paragraphs," is now available online:
Written from a cross-disciplinary perspective by members of the
Writing Center staff and the BSU faculty, Word Works is intended as
a resource for instructors in any discipline who are interested in
using writing to enhance learning. None of the material in Word
Works is copyrighted, so if you find something you would like to
use, feel free to print or download, or to create a link to us. We
welcome questions and comments and would be pleased to know which
issues you have passed on to colleagues. We are also interested in
hearing any suggestions for future topics.
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view WordWorks
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Boise State
"In The News"
Joe Hartman, engineering,
was quoted in a Sept. 10 Newsday story about the university’s
inclusion in a Federal Aviation Administration grant to study
cabin air quality. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury
News.
Heather Hanlon, art education,
was featured in a Sept. 12 Statesman story about how she once
used music to teach fractions to fourth-graders. The article was
part of a series looking at the Meridian School District’s new
arts magnet school.
A guest opinion by Will Rainford, social work, suggesting
that Idaho invest any budget surplus in working families, ran in
the Sept. 13 Idaho Statesman.
Two communication graduate
students and a communication professor have had their papers
accepted for presentation at Looking Back on Marx/Moving Forward
with Marxism: Marxism and Communication Studies in the 21st
Century, a National Communication Association Seminar in
Chicago, Nov. 10. M.A. candidate Monica Hopkins will
present "Reading Identity Politics through Marx: A Proposal."
M.A. candidate Fabiana Woodfin will present "Lost in
Translation: The Distortion of Egemonia." Professor Ed
McLuskie will present "Reconstructing Historical Materialism
on the Ashes of Proclaimed Irrelevance: Reclaiming the Theory of
Communicative Action." Abstracts are on the web by
clicking here.
Greg Raymond, director of the
Honors College, has just published "International
Adjudication and Conflict Management" in a British book titled
Sovereignty and the Global Community: The Quest for Order in the
International System (Ashgate Publishers).
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New Staff Appointments in Boise State Administration
Keith Hasselquist has been named director
of internal audit and advisory services at Boise State
University after serving as the interim director since April
2004. Hasselquist previously worked 13 years as the chief fiscal
officer for the Office of the State Board of Education; 10 years
as the budget officer and five years as internal auditor at
Idaho State University; and four years as a senior accountant
and field
auditor at the University of Wisconsin.
Ross Borden has been selected as assistant budget
director for Boise
State. He previously worked as the principal budget and policy
analyst
in the Legislative Services Office for the Idaho Legislature,
serving the Joint Finance Appropriation Committee for the past
10 years.
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