Published October 01, 2024
Dear Alumni and Friends of the College of Arts & Sciences,
Please enjoy the September 2024 edition of the College of Arts & Sciences Monthly Newsletter. The academic year is in full swing, and everyone is enjoying the beautiful fall weather here in Laramie.
In this issue of the newsletter, you'll learn about UW Giving Day, an upcoming event honoring late UW creative writing professor Brad Watson, Outstanding Alumni and Former Faculty nominations, the West Between World Wars History Symposium, and much more.
Thank you for all you do for the College of Arts & Sciences. Go Pokes!
Sincerely,
J. Scott Turpen
Register for the UW Humanities Summit!
Join the nation's leading humanities minds! This landmark summit, hosted by the College
of Arts & Sciences, will showcase humanities trends, initiatives, partnerships, and
impacts on both national and regional levels. Scholars, educators, students, and humanities
advocates are all welcome.
Learn more about this event and register here. Contact akelly13@uwyo.edu for more information.
Outstanding Alumni and Former Faculty Nominations are Open!
The College of Arts and Sciences is now accepting nominations for its annual Outstanding Alumni Award and Outstanding Former Faculty Award. These awards recognize alumni who have made significant, positive contributions with their degrees from UW and faculty members who were inspirational to both students and colleagues. The nomination forms and criteria for both awards can be found here. The deadline for nominations is Friday, Nov. 8. All members of the UW community are encouraged to nominate deserving individuals.
Giving Day is Oct. 23-24
UW Giving Day is returning this year on Oct. 23-24 from noon to noon. This year, we're celebrating former Dean of the College of A&S Oliver Walter's legacy on campus by encouraging donors to give to the Oliver Walter Dean's Excellence Fund! Your gift will help support a wide range of ventures such as research projects, travel opportunities, and experiential learning, among others. You can prepare for this year's Giving Day by becoming an advocate at uwyo.edu/givingday.
Music Professor Selected for Performing Arts Fellowship
Beth Vanderborgh was recently awarded with a Performing Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council. She is a distinguished cellist, celebrated for her extensive and diverse career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral performer, and educator. She is currently professor of cello at UW, the principal cellist of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and serves on the Artist-Faculty at the Eastern Music Festival.
Communications and Journalism Faculty Travel to Kazakh National University
Emeritus Professor of Journalism, Mike Brown, spoke to a class of international journalism students at Kazakh National University in Almaty in early September. Associate Professor Cindy Price Schultz discussed opportunities at UW. Brown and Price Schultz met with the dean of the School of Journalism along with longtime KazNU faculty member and COJO partner, Karlyga Myssayeva. The two met later in the week with staff at the US embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The Ben Markley Quintet Records on KUVO Jazz Denver and Rocky Mountain PBS
In late August, The Ben Markley Quintet recorded a set of music and an interview for KUVO Jazz (Denver) and Rocky Mountain PBS. Band members include Ben Markley (piano), Steve Kovalcheck (guitar), Wil Swindler (saxophone), Domi Edson (bass), and UW music faculty member Andy Wheelock (drums). Markley, department head for music at UW, is a pianist, composer, arranger, author, and educator. Watch the full recording here.
Clinical Psychology Student Publishes Review on Food and Alcohol Disturbance
Katie Berry, MS, a doctoral student in clinical psychology, recently published a systematic review titled “Unification of the food and alcohol disturbance literature: A systematic review.” This review paper was published alongside her mentor, Dr. Alison Looby, and external collaborators in a top-tier journal in clinical psychology, Clinical Psychology Review. This review provides important clinical and empirical recommendations for the conceptualization of food and alcohol disturbance, which refers to the functional relationship between disordered eating and alcohol use. Read the review here.
Public Lecture: Donald Robertson (Stoicism & Self-Help Strategies)
“Stoicism and Self-Help Strategies” is the topic of a UW Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies lecture from Donald Robertson, a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, trainer and writer, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, in the UW College of Business auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Learn more here.
The West Between World Wars History Symposium
The Department of History will host a two-part symposium titled “The U.S. West Between World Wars” Thursday, Oct. 10. The first part, which will be held in Room 506 of Coe Library, is slated to take place from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. The symposium’s scholars will explore changes and challenges that emerged in the U.S. West between the two World Wars, from roughly 1917-1941. Part two of the symposium begins at 5:30 p.m. in the College of Arts and Sciences auditorium and will feature a keynote presentation by John Barry, award-winning author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Learn more here.
Opening Night: UW Symphony
The UW Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Griffith, will perform Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center Concert Hall. The concert will feature guest harp soloist Courtney Hershey Bress, performing music by Mozart and Borodin, plus a new work, "Harp of Ages" by Michael Daugherty.
There is Happiness: Celebrating the Life of Brad Watson
UW will host an event titled “There is Happiness: Celebrating the Life of Brad Watson” Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. in Coe Library, room 506. This event will also be broadcast via WyoCast here. The event, which honors late UW creative writing professor Brad Watson, will feature Watson’s former students Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Caleb Johnson and Jenny Tinghui Zhang, as well as his friend, Joy Williams, who will read from his book “There is Happiness,” a posthumous collection of new and selected stories, published in July.
