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Page 4 Wednesday, September 1,2004 University Press
LU receives $100,000 grant
ESL, deaf education award
to enhance advanced
learning activities
Three Lamar University educators have
received a $100,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation to help deaf and non-
English speaking children excel in science.
The grant, which supports a multi-depart-
mental and multi-agency project, will involve
several schools and academic departments at
Lamar, Chris Castillo, marketing specialist, said.
On the Lamar campus, the College of Arts
and Sciences, the Center for Speech, Hearing and
Deafness and the Jack and Linda Gill Advanced
Learning Center will join to develop a curricu-
lum to help educators better teach science to
deaf students and those for whom English is a
Second Language (ESL).
State-mandated testing in science has
prompted the consortium to develop a curricu-
lum this year, implement it and test students to
determine whether the program has been a suc-
cess.
Jean Andrews, professor of communication
disorders and deaf education, and David Cocke,
who holds the Gill Chair in Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, along with Dean Brenda
Nichols, will use bilingual, ESL, and reading com-
prehension strategies presented through digital
technologies to teach science to deaf and bilin-
gual hearing students in kindergarten through
eighth grade.
The Gill Advanced Learning Center will
supply the computer technology and multimedia
venues to expand the role of technology in teach-
ing practices both in and outside the classroom.
The center ties together not only instructor
and student work stations with modern projec-
tion, graphics and networking capabilities but
also includes a supercomputer cluster and net-
work connections to most of the advanced
instrumentation in Lamar’s chemistry building,
he said.
The grant will enable the Lamar team to
break through barriers between bilingual deaf
and bilingual hearing students from non-English
speaking homes while creating an interest in sci-
ence within these students. The project, called
Access Science, will involve students at the Texas
School for the Deaf, the Alabama School for the
Deaf and the Ruben C. Rodriguez Elementary
School in Edcouch, in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
The science component of the state’s man-
dated testing highlights a need for more science
instructions for the deaf and non-English-speak-
ing students, Andrews said. “We’re bringing
teachers together to help educate them on
improving science scores.”
Andrews said the goal is to assist teachers at
the three sites to “better translate this informa-
tion” so students will absorb the science material
and be more interested in science.
University scientists, deaf education teach-
ers, bilingual specialists, graduate students, sci-
ence teachers and students will jointly develop
teaching material that will combine video-con-
ferencing, conventional textbooks, multimedia
on CD and DVD formats, online laboratory
experiments and demonstrations, according to
the grant proposal.
In addition to video conferencing and online
demonstrations, the team will develop material
for teachers to use in the classroom, Andrews
said.
The first step is to develop teaching materi-
al. Then instructors from the three schools will be
educated on how to use the information to best
educate their students.Third, instructors from the
three schools will use what they have learned.
“We will develop our own multi-media tools for
teaching and learning,” she said.
ARTS it ENTERTAINflltfT '
Campus Dishman Art Museum
hosting faculty, alumni exhibition
The Dishman Art Museum of Lamar University is host-
ing a faculty and alumni exhibition with a reception Sept.
10 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.The exhibition closes Nov. 17.
The annual exhibition will showcase works by 12 fac-
ulty. A special exhibition, “Then and Now: An Alumni
Survey 1956-2004," features the work of 28 Lamar art
graduates, including such artists as John Alexander,
Richard Davis, Paul Manes and Lynn Sweat.
The reception and exhibition are open to the public
without charge.
The Dishman Art Museum is located at East Lavaca
and MLK Jr. Parkway on the campus. .
Museum hours are Monday through Friday from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call 880-8141.
Heritage Society opens
Mexican folk art exhibit today
The Beaumont Heritage Society will celebrate the
legacy of folk art that is deeply rooted in Mexican tradi-
tions with the exhibit “El Caballo: The Horse in Mexican
Folk Art,” opening today and continuing though Oct. 13.
“El Caballo” is composed of objects made of metal,
ceramics, paper and wood created by individuals or
communities of artisans. Each object focuses on the
horse, an animal of special prominence in Mexico, Mary
Jane Buttrill, spokesperson, said.
The public is invited to an opening reception Sept.
19 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The exhibit is located at Heritage Hall, adjacent to the
John Jay French House Museum complex at 3026 French
Road and is free to the public with viewing hours Tuesday
though Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information or for group tours, call at 898-
0348.
Reverend Horton Heat to play
Crockett Street
Musician Reverend Horton Heat, also known as Jim
Heath, will perform at Antone’s Live Music Venue on
Crockett Street in Downtown Beaumont on Thursday.
Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets are $15 in advance at
The Guitar and Banjo Studio, Gil Monte’s Tattoomania
and Antone’s Box Office, a Crockett Street spokesperson
said.
Art Studio tenants show
to open Saturday
The annual exhibition of The Art Studio Tenants will
open Saturday with an artists’ reception from 7 p.m. to
10 p.m. The exhibition will be on display at the studio,
located at 720 Franklin St. The show runs through Sept.
25 and is free to the' general public, a spokesperson
said. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10
a.m. to 6, p.m. For more information, call 838-5393.
Congratulations to
Kappa Alpha Order
Spring 2004 Intramural Sports Champions
5 on 5 Basketball
Sharpshooters
Showstoppers
4 on 4 Flag Football
Dirty 3rd
Badminton (Doubles)
Qamer Iqbal
Padmaja Pailom
& Syed Tufail Raza
& Mahesh Mummareddy
9-Ball Tournament
Jason Beard
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Table Tennis
Mahesh Mummareddy
Padmaja Pailom
& Vivek Yadaliapalli
& Mohammed Siddiqui
Poker/Dominoes
Kappa Alpha-Chaz Whitman/
Michele Sundin
Royce Spencer &EIi Clark
& Sofi Nathaniel
Tennis (Doubles)
Colin Mahaffcy
Velvet Knock urn
Velvet Knockum
& Jacob Jones
& Nikki Breed
& Jacob Jones
Softball
Kappa Alpha
Killas & Guerrillas
Triple Play Golf
Brent Causey-Kappa Alpha
Racquetball (Doubles)
Kappa Alpha
Sofi Nathaniel
& Gangaji Laximikanth
Track & Field Meet
Kappa Alpha
Cricket
Misguided Missiles
Misguided Missiles-2
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