EMU to celebrate its best during "Salute to Excellence" Week

Eastern Michigan University honors its best and brightest during its annual "Salute to Excellence" Week, March 26-April 3. The celebration showcases EMU's outstanding faculty, staff and students.

A schedule of the Week of Excellence events follows.

REDEEMING RESEARCH: Graduate student Pransanthi Geda made a poster presentation at the 2005 Graduate Research Fair. This year's Graduate Research Fair is scheduled Monday, March 26, in the Student Center.

The Graduate Research Fair kicks off EMU's annual Week of Excellence Monday, March 26. The Graduate Research Fair, now in its ninth year, showcases outstanding research and creative projects by EMU's graduate students. The fair will include oral presentations or poster/display sessions of: dissertation research, thesis research, independent study projects, capstone experiences or special projects, examples of art and music, and outcomes from practicum and internship experience.

"We are thrilled that more than 150 students sponsored by 90 dedicated faculty members have joined forces to expand the body of knowledge and then found the courage to share their work with the EMU community. This is a learning opportunity for them and the campus," said Deb deLaski-Smith, interim dean of the Graduate School. "Many students take their presentations to local, state, national and international conferences. They represent EMU proudly. We support and applaud their effort to ask new questions, dig deeper, generate new findings, explore the unexplored and share the work so others can build upon it. This is the research and scholarly process for which academia is noted."

Oral presentations begin at 9:30 a.m. and will take place throughout the Student Center. Poster presentations will be shown in Room 310B of the Student Center from 10-11:15 a.m., 2-3:15 p.m. and 3:45-5 p.m. In addition, there will be three morning workshops and a raffle in which one graduate student and one undergraduate student will win nine credits of free tuition.

William S. Harris, senior scientist and director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Disease Research Institute at Sanford Research, University of South Dakota, is the Sixth Annual Sigma Xi keynote speaker. Harris will present "The Cardio-protective Effects of Fish Oils: Consensus and Controversies," at 6 p.m., in the Student Center Auditorium. For more information, call deLaski-Smith at 487-0042.

The Employee Service Recognition Breakfast is set for Tuesday, March 27, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Student Center Ballroom. The program begins at 8:30 a.m. with a breakfast. The program recognizes retirees and employees with 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years of service to EMU. Employees will receive a brochure from which to order their own individual gift. For more information, call Jeanette Hassan at 487-3195.

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