MSUM DEANS’ LECTURE FOCUSES ON EDUCTION IN GHANA OCT. 1
MSUM biology professor Mary Shimabukuro will discuss “An Emerging University in Winneba, Ghana” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1 in Bridges Hall 162 as a feature of the university’s Deans’ Lecture Series.

Shimabukuro spent last year in Ghana, West Africa, under a Fulbright grant to study and conduct research in science education.

She was stationed at the University College of Education in Winneba.

A specialist in science education, she joined the MSUM faculty in 1966 and recently served as chair of the university’s biology department.

MSUM PROFS CO-EDIT ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS INSPIRED BY WHITMAN
Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life & Work of Walt Whitman, an anthology of 100 poems by 100 poets inspired by Whitman’s legacy and edited by two Minnesota State University Moorhead professors, was released this week by the University of Iowa Press.

The 256-page anthology ($39.95 cloth, $17.95 paperback) features poems by such notable writers as John Berryman and Robert Bly to Erica Jong, Ezra Pound, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Allen Ginsberg, along with former MSUM English professor David Mason.
Co-editors Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro won a 2001 Minnesota Book Award for their other collection, Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson.

Coghill is an English professor at MSUM who teaches a senior capstone course in Whitman and Dickinson. Tammaro is a professor of Multidisciplinary Studies who teaches in MSUM’s English department and MFA in Creative Writing program. He’s the author of two poetry collections and co-editor of three award-winning anthologies.

As Ed Folsom, editor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song, writes in the foreword to Visiting Walt: “Reading these hundred poems is like looking at a clear night sky: it’s a vast spectrum of varying points of light, coming from different distances and different times, and all, impossibly, drawn through some massive gravitational pull toward Walt Whitman.”

Or as former (2001-03) U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins writes on the back cover of the book: “Visiting Walt is a vivid reminder that poetry is nothing less than the greatest conversation ever held. No poet spoke more ardently to the future than Whitman, and here, he is answered by a democratic chorus of his descendents—a hundred of his children talking back to their looming, inescapable, fathomless father.”

When Walt Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass on or around the fourth day of July in 1855, he believed he was embarking on a personal literary journey of national significance. Setting out to define the American experience, Whitman consciously hoped to answer Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1843 essay, The Poet, which called for a truly original national poet, one who would sing of the new country in a new voice. Whitman today is considered one of the truly great American men of letters.

The anthology is available in local bookstores or directly from University of Iowa Press by calling 800-621-2736.

PARENTS, FAMILIES INVITED TO MSUM FAMILY DAY SEPT. 27
Parents and families of Minnesota State University Moorhead students are invited to attend the annual campus Family Day on Saturday, Sept. 27.

The day’s activities include a welcoming reception at 9:45 a.m., a noon luncheon and tickets to the 1:30 p.m. football game at Nemzek Stadium when the Dragons hill host Concordia St. Paul State.

From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., visitors can choose among three special program options: meeting individual professors, a panel on international and national exchange programs, and a series of one-act plays by MSUM theatre students.

The events are scheduled in the student union.

Family Day gives families an opportunity to acquaint themselves with campus life. For more information, contact the university’s student affairs office, 477-2174.

SEARCH LAUNCHED FOR NEW AD
President Roland Barden has announced the formation of a 13-member search committee for the vacant Athletic Director position at MSUM.

David Crockett, vice president for Administrative Affairs and acting Athletic Director, will chair the committee. Other members include Sylvia Barnier (MSUAASF), Rose Bakke (AFSCME), Bruce Hanson (IFO), Cindy Phillips (IFO), Dorothy Suomala (Dean of Education and Human Services), Ralph Micheli (coach), Karla Nelson (coach), Mary Ann Donnay (Community-at-large), Mark Vanyo (Community-at-large), Travis Maier (Student Senate president), Chad Davison (student-athlete) and Lindsay Hartmann (student-athlete).

“Our committee will initiate its work schedule the week of September 15, and we anticipate reaching a recommendation by the end of December, 2003,” said Crockett. “We welcome recommendations, nominations and ideas which will broaden the pool of applicants for the position.”

$124,335 NSF GRANT HELPS
MSUM PROF'S RESEARCH
IN CROP PHOTOSYNTHESIS
A three-year $124,335 grant from the National Science Foundation has been awarded to Minnesota State University Moorhead biology professor Chris Chastain for his research on a plant enzyme that is part of the process of photosynthesis in such crops as corn and sorghum.

This funding continues research initiated by a $42,000 grant he received in 1997 from the United States Department of Agriculture, followed by another two-year $74,350 grant from NSF in 2000.

Chastain is a specialist in a photosynthetic process called C4, a more recently evolved and more efficient form of photosynthesis. It allows plants to produce twice as much biomass as other plants that use the more common form of photosynthesis called C3.

Only two grain crops, corn and sorghum, have the more advanced C4 form of photosynthesis. "This is one of the reasons why farmers often like to grow corn more than other cereal grains such as wheat or soybeans," he said. "Corn yields more per acre than C3 grain crops."

Unfortunately, most problem weeds, such as crabgrass and pigweed, also happen to be C4 plants. As a result, they easily outgrow C3 grasses, such as bluegrass, in residential lawns.

Chastain will investigate how a photosynthetic enzyme, called dikinase, works in tandem with another enzyme, called RP, to control the rate of photosynthesis in C4 plants such as corn.

Another goal of the grant is to investigate what those same enzymes are doing for C3 plants, where the C4 photosynthetic process is absent.

The findings from these studies are expected to contribute to ongoing efforts by other plant scientists for improving the productivity of crop plants.
Part of the funding was awarded in recognition of MSUM's biotechnology program and will provide material support for senior-level MSUbiotechnology student research projects.

An inexpensive, noninvasive approach to excavation…
$38,739 PARK SERVICE GRANT TO HELP
MSUM PROF DEMONSTRATE INVENTION
Rinita Dalan, a Minnesota State University Moorhead Anthropology and Earth Sciences professor, has received a $38,739 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to demonstrate the usefulness of a new instrument developed in concert with Bartington Instruments that will help archaeologists, soil scientists, and geologists identify buried sites and investigate subsurface features.

NCPTT, created by Congress, is a program of the National Park Service to advance the art, craft and science of historic preservation.

Called a down-hole magnetic susceptibility probe, the device measures variations in magnetic properties of subsurface soils to a depth of nine to ten feet. If the soil exhibits increased magnetic susceptibility, Dalan said, it may indicate a former site of human activity or an old land surface. The magnetic properties of soils tend to increase with age and human activity because of resulting chemical and biological changes.

Last year Dalan received a $92,000 National Science Foundation grant to support the commercial development of the instrument, which is being engineered and manufactured by Bartington Instruments in London. A prototype version was built by Dalan under a 1997 technology transfer grant from the NCPTT.

With the current NCPTT grant, Dalan will advance the use of this instrument for locating buried archaeological sites. She will test the device on six sites of varying ages and sedimentary contexts in Minnesota and North Dakota. Soil chemical and soil physical studies on these sites will be conducted by David G. Hopkins from the North Dakota State University soil sciences department, a member of the project team.

Not only is the device portable and lightweight, it allows archaeologists to quickly survey potential sites cheaply and without disturbing the environment.
"Instead of digging or excavating," Dalan said, "you just use a hand-held corer to make a hole in the soil and insert the logger down the hole to test for magnetic susceptibility."

The instrument will also be useful to soil scientists and geologists for investigating subsurface layering.

Bartington Instruments plans to have an instrument ready for the commercial market in January or February 2004.

PANEL ON 9/11 FROM 1 TO 2 P.M.
THURSDAY ON THE CAMPUS MALL
A retrospective panel discussion on “September 11th: the After Effects” will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 in front of the library on the MSUM campus mall.

In case of rain the session will be conducted in the Library Porch.

Topics and speakers include: introductory remarks by Judith Strong, Academic Affairs; “Terrorism and Religion” by philosophy professor David Myers; “The Patriot Act and Human Rights” by political science professor Andrew Conteh; “The Economic Impact of September 11th” by economics professor Vernon Dobis; and “An International Student’s Perspective of September 11” by Haroune Sidatt, North Dakota State University.

For more information contact anthropology professor Bruce Roberts at 477-2043.
The event is sponsored by MSUM’s Global Studies and International Affairs Committee and Office of Academic Affairs.

NEW RIVERS PRESS REVIVES
COMPETITION FOR WRITERS
New Rivers Press, one of the oldest literary nonprofit small presses in the country, has completed its relocation to Minnesota State University Moorhead and is reviving its Minnesota Voices Project competition.

The press invites emerging writers of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction to submit two copies of their book-length manuscripts between October 1 and November 30, 2003 (postmark). There is no entry fee.

The press will publish three titles, one chosen through a national competition and the other two selected from writers who reside in Minnesota or New York City. All books will receive an honorarium, a standard royalty contract and national distribution by The Consortium.

New Rivers Press is interested in reading works of every character, especially by writers who emerge from under-represented literary communities.

Go to http:// www.newriverspress.com for the required entry form and further details.

MSUM STUDENTS BUILD $200,000
NMR SPECTROMETER FOR $12,000
MSU Moorhead physics professor Ananda Shastri and 13 students built their own nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer for $12,000 and some change.

It was a marriage of theory, practicality and tight budgets.

An NMR spectrometer bought commercially would carry about a $200,000 price tag.

“We focused on the project about one day a week over the past two years,” said Shastri, an experimental physicist who specializes in the use of NMR spectrometers to study matter and its interactions. “It was a special learning experience for the students and it certainly saved us some money. Just as important, the spectrometer will be used for both faculty and student research.”

In much the same way as a hospital magnetic resonance imaging system allows doctors to see organs in the human body, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers allow scientists to study nuclei in molecules. (There is no nuclear radiation in an NMR spectrometer. The term “nuclear” refers to its ability to isolate the nuclei of atoms, which respond like compass needles to an external magnetic field.)

The project wasn’t part of a class. “Some students signed up for research credits, others just volunteered,” he said. “They came from a variety of majors—chemistry, engineering, biology, even one business student.”

It sounds like a daunting task building a device that peers into the center of the basic building blocks of nature, but Shastri followed a plan developed by a colleague at Washington University in St. Louis.

“The spectrometer is based on electronics technology similar to a ham radio station,” Shastri said. “So it wasn’t out of the question for students to build one. We divvied up the work among individuals, who generally focused on single details of the technology and then worked as a team. They learned shop techniques, soldering, coaxial cable making and much more.”

The commercial systems with the strongest magnets available can tune in to nuclear signals up to several hundred megahertz (one million cycles per second). The MSUM spectrometer can go up to 150 MHZ.

An NMR spectrometer consists of a magnet, electronics to detect nuclei in the molecules and a computer to analyze the data.

The students built all the pieces and the electronic circuits and assembled all the wiring and cables. The only commercially built pieces on the spectrometer are an amplifier, a monitor and a synthesizer.

The students will have their names engraved on a plaque that will be permanently attached to the NMR spectrometer.

The technology was developed in the 1940s by physicists. Today these machines are used around the world by theoretical, research and medical scientists to learn the most fundamental information about molecular structures, cellular mechanisms, materials science and chemical processes.

Shastri anticipates that the last few technical problems will be fixed soon and the system will be used for research projects this year.

Shastri has worked on quality assessment of MRI equipment at MeritCare Hospital and his personal research focuses on the physics of molecular magnets, magnetic systems that are yielding insights into magnetic interactions in matter, one of the most mysterious of physical phenomenon.

The only other NMR spectrometer on campus is in the chemistry department. It was bought commercially.

MSUM students who worked on the project: Katie Blocker (business), Ashish Thapa (physics), Brian Meland (physics), Akila Weerasekera (chemistry), Munir Khaderbhai (physics), Moneer Al-Rifai (physics), Sara Pohlman (engineering), Shane Eskelson (engineering), Alan Osterman (physics), Ryan Johnson (physics), Tony Ogello (chemistry), Justine Nohre (biotechnology) and Khalid Subra (chemistry).

An inexpensive, noninvasive approach to excavation…
$38,739 PARK SERVICE GRANT TO HELP
MSUM PROF DEMONSTRATE INVENTION
Rinita Dalan, a Minnesota State University Moorhead Anthropology and Earth Sciences professor, has received a $38,739 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to demonstrate the usefulness of a new instrument developed in concert with Bartington Instruments that will help archaeologists, soil scientists, and geologists identify buried sites and investigate subsurface features.

NCPTT, created by Congress, is a program of the National Park Service to advance the art, craft and science of historic preservation.
Called a down-hole magnetic susceptibility probe, the device measures variations in magnetic properties of subsurface soils to a depth of nine to ten feet. If the soil exhibits increased magnetic susceptibility, Dalan said, it may indicate a former site of human activity or an old land surface. The magnetic properties of soils tend to increase with age and human activity because of resulting chemical and biological changes.

Last year Dalan received a $92,000 National Science Foundation grant to support the commercial development of the instrument, which is being engineered and manufactured by Bartington Instruments in London. A prototype version was built by Dalan under a 1997 technology transfer grant from the NCPTT.

With the current NCPTT grant, Dalan will advance the use of this instrument for locating buried archaeological sites. She will test the device on six sites of varying ages and sedimentary contexts in Minnesota and North Dakota. Soil chemical and soil physical studies on these sites will be conducted by David G. Hopkins from the North Dakota State University soil sciences department, a member of the project team.

Not only is the device portable and lightweight, it allows archaeologists to quickly survey potential sites cheaply and without disturbing the environment.

"Instead of digging or excavating," Dalan said, "you just use a hand-held corer to make a hole in the soil and insert the logger down the hole to test for magnetic susceptibility."

The instrument will also be useful to soil scientists and geologists for investigating subsurface layering.
Bartington Instruments plans to have an instrument ready for the commercial market in January or February 2004.

Why art matters….
FORMER NEW YORK ART MUSEUM
DIRECTOR SPEAKS AT MSUM SEPT. 24
Marcia Tucker, founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, will give a public lecture on "Why Art Matters" at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept, 24. in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s King Hall auditorium.

Tucker, a respected figure in the national and international art world, has also made a name for herself as an articulate defender of the arts and currently serves on the boards of the Jerome Foundation, the International Association of Art Critics, and the Fine Arts Advisory Committee for the ACLU Foundation.

Since retiring from her position at the New Museum in 1999, she has remained active as an independent writer, lecturer, art critic, and yes, a stand up comic (under the name Miss. Mannerist). (For more information on Tucker, refer to her website www.marciatucker.com). Tucker will also be participating in a brown bag seminar on contemporary feminist art at noon Thursday, September 25th in the Women's Center, MacLean Hall 171.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Tucker's visit has been made possible by the MSUM Art and Design department’s Visiting Artist's Fund, Art History Fund, Hotel Donaldson, and the Women's Studies Committee. For more information contact Anna Arnar, tel. 477-4631. or arnar@mnstate.edu.

MSUM HOSTS SIX-WEEK STUDY TOUR
TO MEXICO’S CITY OF ETERNAL SPRING
A six-week study abroad program to Cuernavaca, Mexico will be sponsored next spring by Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Languages and Cultures department

Leaving May 14 and returning June 26, the group will study at the Universidad Internacional in Cuernavaca and stay with local families.

A unique feature of this full immersion program is that all language classes are limited to five students per class. Students may also enroll in cultural, literary or educational courses depending on their interests.

Classes are suited to students of all levels of Spanish language proficiency. In addition to their studies, excursions to nearby cultural attractions, including the ruins of Xochicalco and Tepoztlán, will be available.

World famous for its year round spring-like climate, Cuernavaca was the holiday choice of Aztec kings long before the Spanish conquest. Hernan Cortés followed that tradition and built a palace there, still standing and now housing the Historical Museum.

Cuernavaca, located in the geographic heart of Mexico, is only an hour’s drive from Mexico City and three hours from Acapulco. Both cities are on the tour’s itinerary.

For details, contact Prof. Benjamin Smith at smithbe@mnstate.edu or (218) 477-4267.Smith is organizing and will accompany the tour..

Applications can be filled out
online at: http://web.mnstate.edu/smithbe/cuernavaca/application.htm"

ALL ENROLLMENT NUMBERS ARE UP
After the first day of classes, Registrar John Tandberg reports: Total student headcount is up 1.8% (7553 from 7420) and is expected to reach 7900 once evening, off-campus, and late start courses are added to the mix; total full time equivalent numbers are up 2.4%, a bit above projections; new entering freshmen numbers are up 2.9% (1310/1268) and new entering transfers students are up 0.6% (713/709).

The total head count , as Tandberg is fond of noting, does not include 211 students from NDSU and Concordia who attend MSUM via the Tri-College University.

MSUM CAMPUS SECURITY DIRECTOR MIKE PEHLER RETIRING AFTER 33 YEARS
Mike Pehler, director of MSUM’s Campus Security, will retire Sept. 5 after 33 years with the university. For 30 of those years, he was on-call 24 hours a day.

Pehler, originally from Rochester, Minn., earned undergraduate degrees in secondary education and social work at MSUM along with a master’s degree in guidance and counseling and an educational specialists degree.

He began working on campus soon after graduating, as an assistant to the dean of students. Later he became director of the university’s joint Security and Housing Office, two positions he held from 1983-97.

During that time he developed the university’s Night Watch program, which uses students as part-time security staff. It was recognized as an outstanding innovative program by Security World Magazine.

In 1997 the university created an autonomous campus security unit with Pehler as director. The move was in tune with a national emphasis on improving safety standards at colleges and university.

Campus Security is staffed with 50 students and three full-time officers besides the director..
Pehler, 59, intends to remain living in Moorhead and travel during his retirement.

EARL STRINDEN NAMED CONSULTANT
TO ALUMNI FOUNDATION; GROVER LEAVES
Susan Grover resigned as executive director of the MSUM Alumni Foundation earlier this month. She and her husband have returned to their native Maine, where they will be the owners and operators of a well-known restaurant, the Village Inn at Belgrade Lakes.

Last week the executive committee of the foundation board of directors hired Earl Strinden to serve as a consultant for the organization, while the search is underway for a new executive director. Strinden, who spent 30 years as leader of the University of North Dakota’s development efforts, will help the MSUM Alumni Foundation build support from alumni and friends.

He was a North Dakota legislator for more than 20 years and was the longest-serving house majority leader in state history from 1975 to 1987.

During his tenure as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the UND Alumni Association and Foundation, UND assets grew from $1,000,000 in 1978 to more than $130,000,000.

Strinden is a 1953 graduate of Concordia College and he received its outstanding alumni leadership award in 2001. He earned his master’s degrees in history and political science from UND in 1957.

MSUM PRESENTS ‘PRAIRIE SONG’ AT BUFFALO RIVER SITE SEPT. 13
The MSUM Regional Science Center will present “Prairie Song,” a day of music and science at the Buffalo River site Saturday, Sept. 13 from noon to 5 p.m.

Live music from local performers include Deb Jenkins, Glenn and Lisa Ginn, Connie Hill, Sarah Morrau, Susie Nickell, Alison Wallace with Burr Oak Trio, and Sotto Voce.

Indoor musical events will be interspersed with special prairie programs throughout the day. Programs include a trail walk among the prairie grasses, buffalo bone exploration, the sights and sounds of area birds, and telescope viewing of the sun.

Concessions will be on sale all day. Admission to “Prairie Song” is $2 for students, children and senior citizens; $3 for adults; $8 for a family pass; and free to children under six. Tickets are available at all local Hornbacher’s stores and at the Buffalo River site.

The Buffalo River site is located 15 miles east of Moorhead, off Highway 10, adjacent to Buffalo River State Park.

For more information about this event, contact Susie Nickell at 233.6469 or susienickell@cableone.net, or Deb Lien at 477.2904 or lien@mnstate.edu

Prairie Song Schedule of Events
Noon Burr Oak Trio
12:20 Welcome/Exhibits
12:30 “Making Tracks”, animal investigations by the river
1:00 Sarah Morrau/Connie Hill
1:30 “The Buffalo”, bones, hides and the rubbing rock
2:00 Deb Jenkins Trio
2:30 “Birds in Their Habitat”, listening activities/bird banding presentation
3:00 Sotto Voce
3:30 “The Sun Above Us”, telescope viewing of the sun
4:00 Glenn & Lisa Ginn with Susie Nickell
4:30 Closing/Exhibits
Trail walks through the prairie grasses will be offered on the half hour.

The trio has given similar performances at the Rourke Art Museum, Plains Art Museum, Detroit Lakes Public Library, Moorhead Public Library, Fergus Falls Arts Program, and the annual Blue Cloud Abbey Literary Festival in South Dakota.

Vinz is the author of several books of poems, most recently LATE NIGHT CALLS and AFFINITIES, in collaboration with photographer Wayne Gudmundson. He has taught in the English department of Minnesota State University Moorhead since 1968.

Ferreira is a music professor at MSUM, where he has been teaching since 1974. He’s an active singer, conductor, published composer-arranger and pianist, has conducted the Cathedral Choir at First Lutheran for over 20years, and is a member of the Fargo-Moorhead Jazz Arts Group.

Law, has been active as a recording musician and has played in a variety of pop, rock and jazz groups since the early 1970's. He is the bassist with the Jazz Arts Group Big Band, taught at MSUM from 1987 to 1998, and is now the executive director of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony.

COMEDIAN ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY
Comedian Elvira Kurt from Comedy Central will be on stage at 8 p.m. in MSUM’s student union ballroom Wednesday, Sept. 3. General admission is $3, for MSUM students it’s free. A Toronto native and alumna of Second City, Kurt is an accomplished comedian who hosts her own TV program in Canada. A Campus Activities Board event.

DRAGON FEST NEXT WEEK
DragonFest ’03, celebrating the opening of a new school year, features potato sack races, parachutes, bocce ball and more from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the mall Wednesday, Sept. 10. The event will also feature music by several local bands, including Craig Heitkamp, formally of Fade 2 Shade and Bad Mojo (he’ll be on stage from 1 to 2:30 p.m. that day). A Campus Activities Board event.

CHECK OUT A BANNED BOOK HERE
DURING BANNED BOOK WEEK
Help the MSUM library celebrate Banned Books Week 2003 by coming to the library and checking out and reading a banned book. During September, the library will feature a display of banned books and will have a large selection of “banned and challenged” books available to check out of the library. Do something radical and check out and read a banned book!

Banned Books Week is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Library of Congress Center for the Book.

Each year, the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom receives hundreds of reports on books and other materials that were "challenged" or asked to be removed from school or library shelves. The ALA estimates the number represents only about a quarter of the actual challenges. "Most Challenged" titles include the popular "Harry Potter" series of fantasy books for children by J.K. Rowling. The series drew complaints from parents and others who believe the books promote witchcraft to children.

The challenges reported reflect a continuing concern with a wide variety of themes. Other "Most Challenged" titles include "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, for its use of language, particularly references to race; "It's Perfectly Normal," a sex education book by Robie Harris, for being too explicit, especially for children; and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, for the description of rape she suffered as a child.

The date for Banned Books Week 2003 is September 20-27. The theme is "Open Books for Open Minds".

OXFORD PROF LECTURES ON SIR
WALTER RALEIGH HERE SEPT. 25
Allan Chapman, a professor at Oxford University’s Wadham College, will deliver a lecture on "Sir Walter Raleigh: Explorer, Scholar, and Renaissance Man" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25 in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s King Hall auditorium.

Chapman, a social historian and member of the Royal Astronomical Society Club, frequently appears on BBC television specials about the history of astronomy. A specialist in the history of early medicine, he’s been a Hastings Memorial Lecturer at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
While visiting the campus, Chapman will also speak to students interested in next year's Eurospring study tour. On Wednesday, he’ll lecture at Meritcare on "The Medical Researches of Dr. Robert Hoake (1635-1703)."

Chapman’s latest book, “Gods in the Sky,” was released last year by Channel 4 Books of London. Also made into a three-part British television series, it traces the history of astronomy from the ancients to the Renaissance.

INFORMATION MEETING ON SPRING CHINA TOUR
MSUM will offer a 20-day study tour to China May 15-June 3, 2003, led by languages professor Jenny Lin. An information meeting about the tour will be held Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. in MacLean Hall 261.

Lin has traveled extensively in China and led study tours there in 2000 and 2002. Scheduled stops include 10 United Nations UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites: the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, and Summer Palace in Beijing, the Terra Cotta Museums in Xi’an, Nine-Village Gully, Leshan Giant Buddha, Mount Huangshan, Xidi Village, and Suzhou gardens. Lin, a native speaker of Chinese, has taught Chinese language and culture at MSUM since 1985.

The tour is open to students, faculty, staff and the general public on a space available basis. Approximate tour cost is $3,995, which includes an international programs fee, roundtrip airfare from Fargo, all airfare and ground transportation in China, entrance fees, local tour guides, airport taxes, accommodations in 4-star hotels and meals.

Credit is available for Chinese 390 during spring semester, 2003. Students can apply for financial aid for the tour.

For more information, contact Lin at 477-2913 or linjj@mnstate.edu; or Jill Holsen, international programs, 477-2956 or holsenj@mnstate.edu; or visit the Web site, web.mnstate.edu/chinese