Today's Stories:
Faculty, Students Report from Guadalcanal Journey
RCPT Professor Publishes Book on Teaching with Movies
School of Nursing Celebrates 25 Years in Roanoke
Kudos: Thomas Coleman Undergraduate Writing Contest Winners
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Faculty and Students Write From Guadalcanal About Their Experiences During Search for WWII Marine Remains
From July 6 - July 20, a team of Radford University faculty and students are attempting to locate the remains of members of the U.S. Marine Goettge Patrol killed during the August 1942 Battle for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

RU anthropologists Cliff and Donna Boyd, physicist Rhett Herman and RU students will use archaeological techniques and geophysical equipment to survey the ground where the patrol could be buried in mass graves. This trip is a part of RU's Forensic Science Institute field school in archaeology and geophysical survey at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. To prepare for the trip, the group surveyed the grounds and cemeteries of Virginia Tech's RJ Reynolds Homestead in Critz, Va.

Watch and listen to the students describe their experiences while training on the technology and techniques they are using in the Solomon Islands. Read about what the students are finding in Guadalcanal through their online journal.

For more information about the field school, see the RU News Release.

Campus News

RCPT Professor Publishes Book on Teaching with Movies
Teresa O'Bannon, assistant professor in the RU department of recreation, parks and tourism, recently co-wrote Teaching with Movies: Recreation, Sports, Tourism, and Physical Education. The book focuses on utilizing more than 75 popular culture and documentary films as teaching tools in recreation, leisure, tourism, sport management and physical education courses.

Concepts highlighted in the book include environmental issues, leadership, diversity and commercial recreation. The work also includes surveys from instructors who have used the highlighted films in their classes. Movies included in the book are Ali, The Hudsucker Proxy and Super Size Me. To learn more, visit Human Kinetics.

School of Nursing Celebrates 25 Years in Roanoke
In June, the RU School of Nursing Class of 1983 held its first reunion to celebrate 25 years of educating nursing students in Roanoke. Plans are being made now for the next reunion in the spring of 2010. Contact Lisa Goodhart at goodharts3@msn.com for more information.



Photo caption (front left to right): Cynthia Trail Green, Cindy Charles, Lisa Larsen Goodhart, Beth Carson McGuire, Beth Curran Warren, Teresa Drewry Tolin and Elizabeth Foster Stanziale. Back left to right: Charlotte Beamer Shockley, Linda Cahoon Tavares, Janet Madison Edwards, Nancy Brown Tighe and Bonnie Huffman Clark.

Kudos

Thomas Coleman Undergraduate Writing Contest Winners
The recipients of the Thomas Coleman Undergraduate Writing Contest for poetry and fiction were recently announced. The contest is sponsored by the English department. The award winners were as follows:

Coleman Fiction:
Christine Schirr, first place
Tosha Rachelle Taylor, second place
Meredith Jones, third place

Coleman Poetry:
Tosha Rachelle Taylor, first place
Molly Black, second place
Tosha Rachelle Taylor, third place

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