Student Group Organizes Book Drive

The National Student Speech Language Hearing Association, a student group on the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s campus, recently kicked-off a book drive to benefit the Morehouse Parish Library’s Dunbar branch in Bastrop. The drive is focused on expanding the library’s children’s books collection.

New International Study Abroad Program focuses on La Belle Époque; info session Nov. 19

The University of Louisiana at Monroe’s Division of Music and Division Of Theatre and Dance will provide an informational meeting about a new interdisciplinary study abroad program to be held in Paris next year.

Students share Spanish skills with area elementary students

The Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, in partnership with the Monroe City Schools, continued a program this fall to teach basic Spanish to elementary students enrolled in the Monroe City School District.

ULM Art Professor Selected for Sculpture Works

Cliff Tresner, associate professor of art at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, is exhibiting sculpture at both a national and state venue, including the Salmagundi XIII indoor/outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at the Imperial Arts Center at Rosy Mount, N.C.

Annual celebration of the Humanities and Sciences held at ULM

The College of Arts and Sciences hosted 75 high school students and teachers at its annual Celebration of the Humanities and Sciences in October.

Faculty Member Elected to UL System Faculty Advisory Council

Dr. Donna Rhorer, associate professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, was recently elected Chair of the University of Louisiana System Faculty Advisory Council for 2009-10.

Broadcasting director receives commendation

University of Louisiana at Monroe Director of University Broadcasting Joel Willer received a special commendation recognizing his national contributions to student broadcasters from College Broadcasters Inc.

Social Work department receives full accreditation

The Council on Social Work Education recently reaffirmed the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s social work department’s accreditation through 2015. The CSWE sets standards for social work programs around the country.

ULM Institute of Gerontology Receives $30,000 for Medicare Outreach
The Institute of Gerontology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe received a $30,000 grant for a survey project titled “Statewide Outreach Assessment and Survey of Low Income Medicare Recipients.”

Faculty Presents Research to Federal Substance Abuse Administration
University of Louisiana at Monroe faculty member Dr. Robert Hanser, who serves as head of ULM's Criminal Justice Department, presented research findings about a local drug treatment center to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Faculty Member to Direct Publishing House
University of Louisiana at Monroe faculty member Dr. Christian Rubio, assistant professor of Spanish, was selected to plan a new publishing house sponsored by the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

KEDM 90.3 Public Radio names News and Public Affairs Director
KEDM public radio, 90.3 FM, announces the addition of Bob Lenox to its staff as the station’s news and public affairs director. The station broadcasts from the campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Listeners of ULM's public radio get "jazzed" with addition of KEDM2
KEDM 90.3 FM, the public radio station housed at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, is now broadcasting KEDM2 Jazz, a second channel of excellent KEDM programming throughout northeast Louisiana.

Dr. Robert Hanser of the department of criminal justice, along with the co-director Dr. Pamela Saulsberry, head of the department of social work, recently obtained the $299,995 grant through the Department of Justice's Office on Violence against Women.

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