VOL III, No 5 JANUARY 1997

COORDINATOR'S CORNER

Welcome to the New Year! I had announced a January profile on Diane Krantz, but I've pulled a switch on you and will be introducing you instead to Dr. Sue Harley of the Botany Department. Diane's profile will be forthcoming soon.

The first week of the quarter is Welcome Week and W.S.S.A. will be participating and sharing information about the group and Women's Studies. Remember their project to raise funds to supplement the scholarship for traditional-age WS minors. If you have ideas to share about strategies and/or donors, please contact the office (626-7632) and Norma will pass the information along. Also this first week, on 9 January at 5:30 p.m. in Union Ballroom B, DLSU will co-sponsor, with The Anthropology Club, the Native American Council and The Diversity Center, "Two Spirit Traditions in Native American Cultures," a presentation by Lacee Harris, M.S.W., pipe holder and spiritual leader of the Paiute and Ute Nations.

Thanks to those of you who supported the 1 December Candlelight Vigil for World AIDS Day. Despite the very non-cooperative weather, the size and spirit of the group in attendance were memorable.

Services for Women Students will sponsor a series of workshops in winter quarter covering the topics of Relationship Separation, Career Development, and Grieving, in addition to their standard "Turning Point" program. All workshops will begin meeting the second week of the quarter. Contact their office, 152, Student Services, (626-6090) for more information.

The Tenth Annual Conference for Women in Higher Education will be held from 4 - 7 January in Ft. Worth, TX. S. Carol Theisen will attend and has promised to hold a reporting-out session on the activities there.

SIROW will sponsor a summer institute from 8 - 15 June 1997 for faculty and students in Women's Studies and area/international studies. The project focuses on "exploring ways of studying and teaching the implications of global processes for local lives." Contact Sandra Shattuck, SIROW, at (520) 621-7338 (e-mail: Shattuck@u.arizona.edu) for more information.

FACULTY PROFILE

Dr. Suzanne (Sue) Harley is one of the stalwart scientists who participate in team-teaching WS 405, Research Critiques/Methodologies. She is a Professor of Botany, having joined the Weber State faculty in 1989. A native of Illinois transplanted to California at the tender age of four, Sue revisited the Midwest for a few years, attending Creighton University in Omaha, before completing her B.S. in Biochemistry (summa cum laude) at the University of California - Riverside. Her long-term affection for banana slugs comes from her graduate affiliation with U.C. - Santa Cruz, where she received her Ph.D. in 1983, studying the biochemistry of castor beans. Unable to tear her attention and curiosity away from them and their exciting relatives, the peas, she completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Warwick (Coventry, England), U.C.L.A., and the University of Oklahoma (Norman) before coming to Weber. During her graduate and postdoctoral work, she received several scholarships and fellowships from the U.C. system as well as from the National Science Foundation and NATO, was chosen by the Botanical Society of America as Outstanding Young Botanist, and was co-valedictorian of her U.C. - Riverside graduate class.

She continues to work during her quarters off and a recent sabbatical with her colleagues in Norman, where she divides her time strategically between the laboratory and Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Store (widely agreed to provide much more guilty pleasure for Oklahomans than even such "adult" entertainment emporia as Christie's Toy Box.) Sue has received both internal (WSU R.S.& P.G.) and external (N.S.F.) grant support to work with castor beans (and other plants) for both research and designing undergraduate student laboratory exercises in plant physiology, genetics and development. She is active in publishing and presenting research and pedagogical papers at meetings, often involving students in the tedium of day -to-day research as well as the excitement of seeing results in print. Sue continues her professional development by presenting and attending workshops and courses from the local campus to the national level.

Sue's service activities are multitudinous, including membership on the Faculty Senate since 1991, where she has been on the Executive Committee for the last four years and holds the position of Vice-Chair this year. Autumn and winter quarters, she is serving as Acting Chair of the Botany Department, giving her ample opportunity to practice her favorite derogatory expletives on Gene Bozniak who enjoys sabbatical opportunities abroad while Sue initiates a major part of Botany's semester conversion plans. Her other service roles have included membership on the Affirmative Action Advisory Committee, Curriculum Committees (department and college), campus safety committees, Academic Computing, Accreditation Steering Committee, R.S. & P.G., and even working strategically to plan Weber State's athletics program. The Ogden public schools have benefited from her volunteering as a judge for science fairs and as a presenter for the Ogden "Expanding Your Horizons" conferences and the S4 program sponsored by the WSU Center for Science Education. She provides service to her discipline as well by reviewing manuscripts and grant proposals.

Sue also enjoys reading non-academic texts, including, to her sister's disbelief, contemporary authors as well as those that have "gone before." She and her 17-year companion, a 1979 Dodge D-50 truck, have enjoyed touring together through nearly all of the lower 48 states west of the Mississippi, except North Dakota. Although last summer Sue paid a solo visit to the home of premier American botanist, Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the traveling companions will be reunited for Bismarck and Fargo.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!! to June Cannon and Daily Oliver on the new additions to their families. June's son arrived in early November and Daily's daughter, in mid-December.

CALENDAR

6 Jan - Winter Quarter classes begin

9 Jan - Executive Council Meeting, 3:30 p.m., SS 137

- DLSU meeting and presentation, 5:30 p.m., Union Ballroom B.

15 Jan - Thought Continuum Bookstore, Readings by authors from Crossroads Anthology., 7 - 9 p.m.