The Graduate College
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Monday 2 November 2009 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation - Candidate:
Richard H. Fowler
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Comparing Indigenous and External Rural Teachers: Beliefs,
Origins of Beliefs, and Expectations
Location: 3306 Sangren Hall
Monday 2 November 2009 4:00 Free
Physics Colloquium - Electret Polymers: Principles, Characterization and Applications by Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan University
For more detailed information visit the department website at http://tesla.physics.wmich.edu/Colloquia.php?PG=1
Location: 1110 Rood Hall with refreshments at 3:30 in 2202 Everett Tower, Bardley Commons
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Tuesday 3 November 2009 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation -Candidate:
Mina Zadeh
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: The Evaluation Center
Title: Evaluating Country, State, and Local Emergency Preparedness
Plans through Conducting Exercises
Location: 4410 Ellsworth Hall
Tuesday 3 November 2009 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation -
Candidate: Breanne K.
Hartley
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: A Molecular Analysis of Training with Multiple versus Single
Manipulations to Establish a Generalized Manipulative Imitation Repertoire
Location: 2734 Wood Hall
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Wednesday 4 November 1 pm Free
CONVOCATION SERIES -
Voice Faculty Recital
A tribute to composer Felix Mendelssohn featuring
voice faculty members Elizabeth Cowan, Alice
Pierce, Ken Prewitt, Carl Ratner, and Karen
Wicklund
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Thursday 5 November 8:15 pm Charge
GOLD COMPANY SNEAK PREVIEW
Feauring Gold Company and GC II in an exciting
preview of their all-new season
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Tickets $10 (Students $5) available from Miller
Auditorium (296/387-2300 or 800/228-9858)
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Friday 6 November 2009 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation -
Candidate: Richard F. Goosen
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Longitudinal Study of Factors Impacting the Implementation
of Notebook Computer Based CAD Instruction
Location: 3008 Beltline Campus - Grand Rapids
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Sunday 8 November 3 pm Free
UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA -
Bruce Uchimura, Conductor
“Two Faces of Music,” featuring Haydn’s “London”
Symphony No. 104 in D major and Dvorak’s
“New World” Symphony No. 9 in e minor
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Monday 9 November 2009 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m
Doctoral Dissertation - Candidate: Kerisa A Myers
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Child Care Centers on Higher Education Campuses: Internal and
External Roles and Director Leadership
Location: 3008 Beltline Campus - Grand Rapids
Monday 9 November 2009 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation - Candidate: Angela P. Hatcher
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: An Evaluation of a Sexual Assault Education Program
Location: 3715 Wood
Hall
Monday 9 November 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation - Candidate: Miki Koyama
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
Title: The Collective Voices of Asian International Doctoral Students in Counseling Psychology in the U.S.: Recom-mendations for Faculty and Training Programs
Location: 3306 Sangren
Hall
Monday 9 November 2009 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m Free
Doctoral Dissertation -
Candidate: Fang Huang
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Mallinson Institute for Science Education
Title: Curriculum Coherence: A Comparative Analysis of Elementary
Science Content Standards in People’s Republic of China and
the USA
Location: 3715 Wood Hall
Monday 9 November 2009 4:00 Free
Physics Colloquium - Detecting Extrasolar Planets as Blemishes in Einstein's Lenses by David Bennett, University of Notre Dame
For more detailed information visit the department website at http://tesla.physics.wmich.edu/Colloquia.php?PG=1
Location: 1110 Rood Hall with refreshments at 3:30 in 2202 Everett Tower, Bardley Commons
Monday 9 November 8:15 pm Charge
BULLOCK SERIES -
Western Brass Quintet
Presenting “Borsch and Brass,” featuring newly
commissioned works by WMU composers Richard
Adams, David Colson, and C. Curtis-Smith
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Tickets $12 (Seniors $10/Students $5) available
from Miller Auditorium (296/387-2300 or
800/228-9858)
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Tuesday 10 November 2009 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation -
Candidate: Jon L. Shaffer
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Role of Residence Hall Staff in Offering Early Warning Academic
Intervention
Location: Ferris State University FLITE 133
Tuesday 10 November 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation -
Candidate: Gretchen Rumohr
Voskuil
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: English
Title: Adoption and Integration of Best Practice Methods in Secondary
English Teaching
Location: 2033 Brown Hall
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Wednesday 11 November 2009 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation -
Candidate: Ronald Pimentel
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Statistics
Title: Kendall’s Tau and Spearman’s Rho for Zero Inflated
Data
Location: 6625 Everett Tower
Wednesday 11 November 2009 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation -Candidate: Wilson Okumu
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Chemistry
Title: The Lipid Acyl-Chain Dynamics in Giant Liposomes and Characterization of Domain 4 of the Wilson Disease Protein
Location: 2734 Wood
Hall
Wednesday 11 November 1 pm Free
CONVOCATION SERIES -
Opus 21: The Music of Frank Zappa
The critically acclaimed new-music ensemble
Opus 21 performs an all Frank Zappa program
that includes many of Zappa’s most inventive,
irreverent, and subversive works
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Wednesday 11 November 2009 3:00 p.m. Free
Panel Discussion - Community College Teaching: How, what, whom, why?
Amanda Bigelow, Illinois Valley Community College
Kevin Dockerty, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Timothy Farrow, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Gary Roberts, Lake Michigan College
Presented by The Institute of Government and Politics.
As community colleges gain visibility as part of the U.S. higher education system and qualifications for working in them increasingly resemble those required by liberal arts colleges, more WMU graduate students in the sciences, social sciences and humanities may be considering this career option. A panel of full-time community college faculty will discuss how to get jobs in community colleges, what community college teaching is like, what the students are like, why one may want to teach at community college, and related topics. For more information regarding this event, please contact Susan Hoffmann, Director, Institute of Government and Politics, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University at 269-387-5692 or susan.hoffmann@wmich.edu. For a campus map and parking information, please consult www.pp.wmich.edu/maps.
Location: Friedmann 3301 (psci library)
Wednesday 11 November 8:15 pm Free
WESTERN WINDS -
Robert Spradling, Conductor
Performing Franz Krommer’s “Partita,” Op. 69,
and Herbert Haufrecht’s “Symphony for Brass
and Timpani,” and featuring a performance by
TubaCor (Lin Foulk, horn; Deanna Swoboda, tuba;
Yu-Lien The, piano)
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Thursday 12 November 8:15 pm Free
TUBA/EUPHONIUM ENSEMBLE -
Deanna Swoboda, Director
Featuring music being prepared for January’s
Army Band Tuba Euphonium Conference in
Washington, D.C.
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Thursday 12 November 8 pm Charge
MUSICAL -
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”
Presented in collaboration with the University
Theatre, this classic American musical combines
passion and danger to tell a story of redemption
and the power of love
Laura V. Shaw Theatre
Tickets $20, Seniors and WMU Faculty/Staff $15,
Students $5 available from the Gilmore Theatre
Complex (269/387-6222)
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Friday, November 13, 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Free
Doctoral Dissertation - Candidate: Chaoli Cai
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Computer Science
Title: Anomaly Detection Techniques for Ad Hoc Networks
Location:
D210 Parkview Campus
Friday 13 November 8 pm Charge
MUSICAL -
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”
Presented in collaboration with the University
Theatre, this classic American musical combines
passion and danger to tell a story of redemption
and the power of love
Laura V. Shaw Theatre
Tickets $20, Seniors and WMU Faculty/Staff $15,
Students $5 available from the Gilmore Theatre
Complex (269/387-6222)
Friday 13 November 8:15 pm Charge
BULLOCK SERIES -
Tenor John Duykers and Birds on a Wire
Performing “Eight Songs for a Mad King,” a
monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Tickets $12 (Seniors $10/Students $5) available
from Miller Auditorium (296/387-2300 or
800/228-9858)
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Saturday 14 November 1 pm Free
ALUMNI INFORMANCE -
Chris VanHof, Trombone
Dalton Center Room 1116
Saturday 14 November 8 pm Charge
MUSICAL -
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”
Presented in collaboration with the University
Theatre, this classic American musical combines
passion and danger to tell a story of redemption
and the power of love
Laura V. Shaw Theatre
Tickets $20, Seniors and WMU Faculty/Staff $15,
Students $5 available from the Gilmore Theatre
Complex (269/387-6222)
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Sunday 15 November 2 pm Charge
MUSICAL -
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”
Presented in collaboration with the University
Theatre, this classic American musical combines
passion and danger to tell a story of redemption
and the power of love
Laura V. Shaw Theatre
Tickets $20, Seniors and WMU Faculty/Staff $15,
Students $5 available from the Gilmore Theatre
Complex (269/387-6222)
Sunday 15 November 3 pm Charge
BRONCO MARCHING BAND IN CONCERT -
David W. Mongtomery, Director
The 290-member “Sound of Western” performs
highlights from its 2009 season
Miller Auditorium
Tickets $10 (Seniors/Students $7); Group (10 or
more) $5 each; available from Miller Auditorium
(269/387-2300 or 800/228-9858)
Sunday 15 November 5 pm Free
STUDENT RECITAL -
Jennifer Williams, Soprano
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Monday 16 November 8:15 pm Free
STUDENT RECITAL -
Graduate Wind Quintet
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Tuesday 17 November 8:15 pm Free
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM -
Matthew Steel, Director
Presenting “Mostly Monteverdi: Musical Gems of
the Italian Baroque,” a concert of madrigals and
ballets of Monteverdi, concerti by Vivaldi, and
sonatas by Torelli, Locatelli, and Fontana
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Wednesday 18 November 1 pm Free
CONVOCATION SERIES -
Pushkin University Choir of Russia
Featuring guest soprano soloist Victoria Evtodieva
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Wednesday 18 November 8:15 pm Free
GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
- Victoria Evtodieva, Soprano -
Dmitry Chasovitin, Piano
Faculty members at the St. Petersburg
Conservatory of Music in Russia
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Thursday 19 November 8 pm Free
Gwen Frostic Reading Series - Stuart Dybek
WMU Bernhard Center 208
Thursday 19 November 8 pm Charge
MUSICAL -
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”
Presented in collaboration with the University
Theatre, this classic American musical combines
passion and danger to tell a story of redemption
and the power of love
Laura V. Shaw Theatre
Tickets $20, Seniors and WMU Faculty/Staff $15,
Students $5 available from the Gilmore Theatre
Complex (269/387-6222)
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Friday 20 November 6 pm Free
STUDENT RECITAL -
Erik Johnson, Clarinet
Dalton Center Lecture Hall
Friday 20 November 8 pm Charge
MUSICAL -
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”
Presented in collaboration with the University
Theatre, this classic American musical combines
passion and danger to tell a story of redemption
and the power of love
Laura V. Shaw Theatre
Tickets $20, Seniors and WMU Faculty/Staff $15,
Students $5 available from the Gilmore Theatre
Complex (269/387-6222)
Friday 20 November 8:15 pm Charge
27th ANNUAL
TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT SWING BANDS
Featuring the University Jazz Orchestra, directed
by Scott Cowan, and the University Jazz Lab Band,
directed by Tom Knific
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Tickets $10 (Students $5) available from Miller
Auditorium (296/387-2300 or 800/228-9858)
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Saturday 21 November 2 pm Free
STUDENT RECITAL -
Graduate Brass Quintet
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Saturday 21 November 8 pm Charge
MUSICAL -
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”
Presented in collaboration with the University
Theatre, this classic American musical combines
passion and danger to tell a story of redemption
and the power of love
Laura V. Shaw Theatre
Tickets $20, Seniors and WMU Faculty/Staff $15,
Students $5 available from the Gilmore Theatre
Complex (269/387-6222)
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Sunday 22 November 1 pm Free
STUDENT RECITAL -
Hana Beloglavec, Trombone
Dalton Center Recital Hall
Sunday 22 November 3 pm Free
UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC BAND -
Robert Spradling, Conductor
UNIVERSITY CONCERT BAND -
John Lychner, Conductor
Works by Purcell, Chance, and Vaughn Williams,
and featuring the Western Brass Quintet
performing Eric Ewazen’s “Shadowcatcher” with
the Symphonic Band
Miller Auditorium
Sunday 22 November 6 pm Free
STUDENT RECITAL -
Brent Decker, Woodwinds
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Monday 23 November 2009 4:00 Free
Physics Colloquium - Milton Meets Einstein: Inquiring minds Want to Know by Gordon Berry, University of Notre Dame
For more detailed information visit the department website at http://tesla.physics.wmich.edu/Colloquia.php?PG=1
Location: 1110 Rood Hall with refreshments at 3:30 in 2202 Everett Tower, Bardley Commons
Monday, November 23, 2009 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m
Doctoral Dissertation -
Candidate: Daniel M. Huber
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
Title: The Scholarly Activity Predictor Model among Counseling Psychology
Doctoral Students: A Modification and Extension
Location: 3306 Sangren Hall
Monday 23 November 8:15 pm Free
STUDENT RECITAL -
Nichole Frazer, Mezzo-Soprano
Meredith Mancuso, Mezzo-Soprano
Dalton Center Lecture Hall
Monday 23 November 8:15 pm Free
WESTERN HORN CHOIR -
Lin Foulk, Director
Dalton Center Recital Hall
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Monday 30 November 8:15 pm Free
GRADUATE RECITAL -
Shijiao Zhang, Double Bass
Dalton Center Lecture Hall