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LAS International Programs Newsletters

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LAS International On-line
Vol. 2, No. 9
January 15, 2004
Affirming a Commitment to Global Learning
www.las.iastate.edu/students/international/

LAS International On-Line is the bi-monthly on-line publication of the International Programs of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. LAS International is part of LAS' on-going efforts to coordinate all aspects of international activities within the College including international studies, study abroad, exchange agreements, research and outreach.

News
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE AWARDS - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is seeking nominations for the LAS Distinguished International Service Award. The award recognizes faculty members for outstanding international service in terms of teaching, research or administration, within the United States or abroad. This is the second year for the award. The first recipient last spring was Warren Dolphin, university professor of genetics, development and cell biology.

Nominations are also being sought by LAS for Iowa State's International Service Award. Peter Orazem, university professor of economics, was one of two recipients of the award last year.

Nominations should be submitted to Dave Gieseke, 213 Catt Hall, by 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6.

Additional information on these awards and all LAS and University awards can be found at www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/awardshome.shtml

Research
OLD STORY - A meeting with a Chinese anthropologist four years ago brought back memories of a novel that Shu-min Huang, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology read as a high school student in Taiwan. Now Huang is involved in a two-year study funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation to look at communities in the hill country of Thailand populated by refugee Chinese Nationalist soldiers and the communities' subsequent rapid economic growth.

"These communities have developed social networks that proved useful in the globalization process," Huang said. "Very often you will see that these people will use their connections with other ethnic Chinese and other Chinese refugees to help raise capital and become commercially viable."

Huang will speak about his research at the first Institute of Science and Society seminar on Wednesday, Jan. 28. He will focus his presentation on the refugee communities' ecological adaptation, globalization and changing ethnic identity. The presentation will be held in 302 Catt Hall at noon.

If you can't make Shi-mu Huang’s presentation you can learn more about his research at www.las.iastate.edu/research/news/huang.shtml

LIFE SPAN - First it was Antarctica. Now Carol Vleck, associate professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, is going to Belize in Central America. All to determine why some birds live longer in one location than the same species does elsewhere in the world.

"My research interests span several related areas of physiological ecology," Vleck says. "My general goal is to understand the physiological mechanisms that underlie organismal-level phenomena having to do with reproduction and survival."

To that end, Vleck's current research activities involve exploring the interaction of aging, life span and telomere biology. She uses a combination of field and lab techniques while working on a variety of avian species including penguins.

To learn more about Carol Vleck's research all over the world go online at www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/vleck0112.shtml

Exchanges
CONTINUOUS EXCHANGES - For three weeks in late January and early February, Shan-Hua Chien, chairman of the music department at the National Taiwan National University (NTNU) will be on campus as an artist in residence with Iowa State's Department of Music. Chien's visit is just the latest in a series of exchanges the two music departments have held over the years.

"Each one (NTNU faculty) has performed a recital and master classes while here," said Donald Simonson, associate professor of music. "Plus our students get the opportunity to work one-on-one with the Taiwanese faculty."

The program has worked both ways since the late 1970s. Simonson is one of several Department of Music faculty members who have spent anywhere from two weeks to a full year at NTNU.

"My time in Taipei has allowed me to expose my students to a diverse culture," Simonson said. "The department there has a great appreciation of Western style operatic singing, but they also are experts in Chinese art and folk music."

More information on the Department of Music's exchange program in Taiwan can be found at www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/taiwan0112.shtml

Study Abroad
TONES OF FLORENCE - Applications are currently being accepted for the two-week Tones of Florence study abroad program, directed by Carl Bleyle, emeritus professor of music. The program dates are May 10-25, 2004. For more information on the "Tones of Florence" go on-line at www.music.iastate.edu/Course/471/

OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITIES - Application deadlines for several international study programs have either passed or are looming. Study abroad opportunities offered by LAS departments and program in 2004 include:

• Belize in Central America: March 13-20
• Coral Reefs of the Caribbean: March 13-20 (Spring Break)
• Biomes of Australia: May 10 to June 7
• Tones of Florence: May 11-25
• National Parks of South Africa: May 17 to June 7
• Footsteps of the Inca: May 27 to July 22
• Excavations in Azoria (Greece): May 27 to July 17
• Biological Anthropology Field School in Costa Rica: July 15 to Aug. 10
• Antarctica: December 25 to January 6, 2005