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Combined with those who advanced to the musical theatre auditions in October, a total of fourteen students represented NGU in the regional auditions at Liberty University on March 16, 2018.


Te Cline School of Music and Kroc Center Greenville have started enrollment for their String Project, a unique program that introduces playing stringed instruments to school-aged children and affords music majors at NGU the opportunity for hands-on classroom teaching expe- riences. Classes are slated to begin on Sept. 4, 2018, and to meet after school on Tuesdays and Tursdays at the Kroc Center in Greenville, SC.


Te Cline School of Music was represented at the South Carolina Music Educators Association’s (SCMEA) annual conference in Columbia, SC, in February 2018. Several NGU faculty and alumni presented at the conference, such as Erik Hines (’04) and Brandon Graves (’09), who teach music at Sumter County Schools, and NGU music professors Dr. Chris Davis and Dr. Darian Washington. Dr. Jackie Griffin, Dr. David Cudd, Dr. Cheryl Greene, Phil McIntyre, and Liz Boehm also attended. At the conference, the association named Dr. Michael Weaver its higher education president.


In the conference opening session, Kelsey McIntyre Gunter (MMEd, expected ’18) received the Outstanding Young Music Educator Award — NGU’s third music education major to receive it. Four current NGU students participated in the Intercollegiate Honor Band performance: Ashlyn Campbell (expected ’20); Paul Dill (expected ’20); Francesa Scott (expected ’19); and Jeanene Smith (expected ’19). Ten, nearly 30 alumni attended the NGU Alumni Reception, sponsored by the Music Alumni and Friends Association.


COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES


Dr. Ben Coates (Modern Languages and Linguistics Department) delivered his presentation “Old and New Technology to Show Life in Franco’s Spain” at the annual conference of the South Carolina For- eign Language Teachers Association on Feb. 3, 2018.


During the presentation, he shared activities that would help students understand the drastic changes that took place in daily life in Spain during the reign of dictator Francisco Franco. Coates placed special emphasis on the perceptible differences in one of the national symbols of Spain, the bullfight, as seen in author Camilo José Cela’s short story “El Gallego y su Cuadrilla.”


Phi Alpha Teta, NGU’s chapter of the honor society for students and professors of history, sponsored a panel discussion titled “May I See Your License, Please? A Conversation About Race and the Criminal Justice System” on Feb. 28 in observance of Black History Month. Faculty members Dr. Feliccia Smith (Business Administration Department), Dr. Joshua Styles (Christian Studies and Political Science and Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Departments) and Dr. Paul Yandle (History Department), together with biology major Valentina Ruiz Puyo (’18), served as panelists for the event.


History majors Tyler Horrocks (’18) and Sarah Scism (expected ’19) opened the discussion, and interdisciplinary studies major Joseph Bulsa (’18) served as moderator. History major Andrew Tranum (’18) designed the fliers advertising the discussion. Other organizers for the event included history majors Jackson Branch (’18) and Zachary Hutton (ex-


pected ’19) and social studies education major Aaron Gravely (expected ’19).


Tis year also marked the first time that students in NGU’s Phi Alpha Teta chapter have participated on panels at a national conference. Branch, Bulsa, Horrocks, Scism, and Tranum all presented scholarly papers at Phi Alpha Teta’s 2018 Biennial Convention in New Orleans, LA, in January 2018.


Dr. Hiewon Shin (English Department) presented a paper titled “Te Story of Hamlet and the Voice of ‘Bugin’ in Korean Drama ‘Tamra, the Island’” at an International Shakespeare Conference held at Chungbuk National University in South Korea from Oct. 27 to Oct. 29, 2017.


Garry Smith (Political Science and Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Department) was invited to participate in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 at a Leaders in Technology program for federal and state policymakers. Smith attended as the chairman of the Communications and Technolo- gy Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council at the invitation of the Consumer Technol- ogy Association. He participated in panel and informal discussions on technology policy with other state and federal elected officials. Tis was the second year he has been invited to participate.


Dr. H. Paul Tompson, Jr., (History Department) gave the keynote ad- dress at the two-day Lee-Maryville Symposium on Faith and the Liberal Arts held on the campus of Lee University in Cleveland, TN, in Octo- ber 2017. Te theme of the symposium was “Having the Conversation About Race: People of Faith in College and Church,” and Tompson’s talk was titled “What Can the Liberal Arts in Church-Related Schools Contribute to Our National Conversation About Race and Racism?” Te annual symposium is attended by liberal arts faculty from church-re- lated colleges in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.


Dr. Liliane Toss (Modern Languages and Linguistics Department) attended the annual French and Comparative Literature Conference organized by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina in February 2018. Te topic of the conference was “1968 in Global Perspectives.” Toss presented a paper at the conference, titled “1968 in French Novels: A Year of Refusal and Rupture.”


COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS


Te College of Science and Mathematics announced at a press conference in February a new affiliation with the Mary Black School of Nursing at the Uni- versity of South Carolina (USC) Upstate. Trough this partnership, NGU biology majors will have the opportunity to prepare specifically for the field of nursing


and earn two bachelor’s degrees in five years: a Bachelor of Science in Biology from NGU and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from USC Upstate. Te first group of NGU students is slated to enter the nursing program at USC Upstate in Spring 2019. (See story on page 34.)


Dr. Shannon Dobson (Psychology Department) completed an on- line course in the fall semester from Roberts Wesleyan College, titled Integration of Old and New Testament Scripture into the Teaching of


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