Albertsons Library
Albertsons Library Likes Ike
The 2008 presidential campaign is in full swing, but it’s not the first time candidates have made a stop in Idaho. Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower stopped by in 1952. A new Web site created by Special Collections in the Albertsons Library commemorates that visit, which resulted in the largest political rally in Idaho history. The site includes a photo of “Ike” and Governor Len B. Jordan taken at the rally, autographed by both of them. Take a look at http://library.boisestate.edu/Special/Ike.htm.
Honors College
Honors Students Spend Day Helping Community
Students from the Honors College volunteered for four service projects last Saturday as part of the inaugural Honors College Service Day.
At the Boise Zoo, the students helped build bird huts for condors, trucked dirt in the porcupine exhibit and raked around the park. Another group served lunch to the homeless at the Boise Rescue Mission, while a third group worked with the Discovery Center at the Engineering Building to help staff a high school engineering competition. The students reconvened to pick up garbage along both sides of the Boise River from Broadway to the Friendship Bridge, collecting about 40 pounds.
Twenty students were invited onto the court at halftime during the men's basketball game to receive an award for outstanding community service to the city of Boise. The students were featured on Channel 6 that night.
Communications
Student to Travel to Cannes Film Festival for Internship about Movie Industry
Saandra Steinfelt, a senior and filmmaker in the Department of Communication, will head out this spring for an internship at a film student’s dream workplace: the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Steinfelt is one of 150 students who are participating in the American Pavilion Worldwide Student Program, and she is the only student from Idaho to do so this year. Walter Harris, the director of the program, said that Steinfelt will work in the pavilion helping filmgoers, but that students will be able to participate in roundtable discussions with actors, producers and directors who will be able to give them insight and tips for working in the film industry.
Steinfelt also will have an opportunity to show a short of the documentary she is working on, “We Can Change the World,” which focuses on the Idaho students who met the Dalai Lama during his visit in 2005. She followed the students, documenting how the visit affected their lives and how they decided to practice acts of compassion. Steinfelt plans for this film to be shown internationally as a humanitarian documentary and in classrooms globally to help teach compassion.
HUMAN RESOURCE SERVICES
Reeder to Offer Session on ‘GenderSpeak’
Human Resource Services Employee Learning and Development is offering a free workshop for faculty and staff led by communication professor Heidi Reeder titled “GenderSpeak.” The workshop will be held from 9-11 a.m. March 5 in the Student Union Building’s Lookout Room. Gender communication is often complicated and unpredictable. However, men and women communicate more effectively when they understand the cultural differences unique to each gender. Using the most up-to-date information on male-female communication, GenderSpeak teaches how to:
- Identify and avoid common pitfalls in male-female interaction
- Understand gender-based differences in communication
- Effectively listen to the other sex
- Make small adjustments to maximize success
Register online at cedar.boisestate.edu/hrs/workshops/login.asp or by e-mail at HRTrainingDevelopment@boisestate.edu.
TIAA-CREF On-campus Appointments
Boise State's TIAA-CREF consultant David Penrose, CFP, will be on campus the following dates to conduct one-on-one counseling sessions in Albertsons Library. Sessions will be held in the Reference Department Room L-110 on the first floor:
- Tuesday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
- Wednesday, Feb. 27, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
- Thursday, Feb. 28, 8 a.m.–2 p.m.
If you would like to schedule a counseling session, contact TIAA-CREF at 1-800-732-8353, Monday–Friday between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Photo services
Book Early, or Else...
With numerous events coming up later this semester, university event planners are reminded of the policies and procedures regarding coverage by Photographic Services. Requests are required in advance, and those who plan to ask Photo Services for coverage of their events are encouraged to plan ahead, consult the Photo Services Web site [http://news.boisestate.edu/photo/planning.shtml] and follow the appropriate steps.
Boise State employees are required to adhere to the policies in regard to requesting photo shoots, the procurement of photographs and other images, payment and prices of services, Web use, copyright laws and ownership of images taken and held by Photographic Services.
IN MEMORIAM
Motorcycle Safety Leader Shepard Passes Away
Ron Shepard, director of the Idaho STAR Motorcycle Safety Program, which is affiliated with the Selland College of Applied Technology, passed away earlier this week of natural causes. Shepard built the Idaho STAR (Skills Training Advantage for Riders) program from the ground up and has led the program for 12 years. His 37 years in motorcycle safety includes work for the worldwide Air Force Motorcycle Safety Program, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, and as former chair of the National Association of State Motorcycle Safety Administrators. Shepard became a motorcycle safety instructor in 1974 and an instructor trainer in 1985. “His service has made a real difference in thousands of lives across the country and around the world,” said Stacey Axmaker, Idaho STAR program training manager. “His work, his accomplishments, and his legacy will not be forgotten.” Boise State extends its condolences to the family and friends of Ron Shepard.
Gayle
Wienberg (far left) of the Angora Ridge Foundation presents a $25,000 matching
grant check to Greg Hampikian (far right), Director of the Idaho
Innocence Project and professor of biology and criminal justice. Pictured with
them are Nikki Gerhard and Ginny Hatch, graduate students in criminal justice
and volunteers with the Innocence Project who won travel awards funded by the
grant to attend the annual Innocence Network Meeting. The Innocence Project,
a volunteer organization that works to free the wrongly imprisoned, is trying
to raise the remaining $45,000 to match the Angora Ridge matching pledge.