More names in the news. . .
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Sandy Procter and Mary Meck Higgins. . . travel to Kenya this spring as part of an Extension group headed by Bill Hargrove. The group will visit an orphanage near Nairobi and meet with representatives of Jomo Kenyatta University. The orphanage has its own farm and needs assistance in production technologies, especially improved water management, integrated pest management, composting and waste recycling.
A vocational school connected to orphanage needs a training program in agriculture, small business management and a variety of life skills such as personal hygiene, nutrition and preventative medicine. The group will explore possibilities for organizing 4-H clubs at the orphanage as an after school activity.
Higgins and Procter are Extension Specialists in Human Nutrition at K-State. Higgins’s trip is supported by K-State Research and Extension. K-State’s Africa Studies Center provided Procter’s funding.
Sherry Haar …travels to France this summer to attend the International Shibori Symposium. A Faculty Development Award will partially fund the trip. The awards were highly competitive. Shibori is a Japanese term that refers to shaped-resistant dying. The symposium is sponsored by the World Shibori Newtwork whose main objective is to unite artisans, artists, designers, scholars, business people, and scientists in a productive exchange of information and inspiration; by doing so, the WSN hopes to preserve and to promote creative processes centered around shibori. Harr is an associate professor in apparel and textiles.
Joy Kozar . . . earned a Highly Commended Award for an article published in “The Learning Organization: An International Journal.” The title is entitled “Leading with relationships: A small firm example.” The article was nominated by the journal’s editorial team for the award of excellence presented by the Emerald Literati Network, one of the world’s leading publishers of management research. Kozar is an assistant professor in apparel and textiles.
Three professors . . . Chihyung OK , assistant professor in HRIMD; Joy Kozar, assistant professor in apparel and textiles; and Shawna Jordan, assistant professor in Human Nutrition, have been selected to attend the James R. Coffman Leadership Institute, at Rock Springs Ranch in Kansas in August.
Katie Hamm . . . makes more news. The senior in dietetics has been selected for membership in the Blue Key Senior Honor Society based on leadership in student life, high scholastic achievement, service to others and citizenship. She is a member of Chi Omega sorority, the K-State Student Foundation and Up ‘Til Dawn. She has served as president of K-State’s Student Dietetic Association. She also has been elected to the Student Advisory Committee of the American Dietetic Association and is an alternate student representative on the association’s Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education.
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