Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Students studying and working hard . . .


. . . Seniors Nicole Clammer and Sean Ohl presented a biology research poster at the 2010 Life Science Alley Conference and Expo at the Minneapolis Convention Center. They reported on work done last summer as student research fellows.


. . . The Concert Band and Wind Ensemble hosted Florida composer Dr. Paul Richards for our sixth Kaplan Foundation Commissioning Project. Dr. Richards worked with students for several days and conducted them in a world-premiere performance of his composition, “If You Could Only See the Frog,” based on a Bulgarian children’s song sung by exiled Jews.


. . . Chinese students in our international student body volunteered to act as tutors during a six-week class of a free, non-credit introduction to basic conversational Chinese (Mandarin). The class was taught by Lynn Chao, a Taiwan native who is a student in SMU’s Master of Arts in International Business.


. . . Theatre majors staged the challenging docu-drama “God’s Country” in October at TARA Studio in London, and in late November at Smock Alley Studio Theatre in Ireland.

The emotionally gripping play takes an unflinching look at the history of the white supremacist movement in the USA. (Check out our Theatre blog.)

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