CAPtions: News for the Cap Family

Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin are expected to speak at a voter-registration drive and rally at Capital University on Monday, Sept. 29.

Capital University’s rich choral tradition continues this year with a host of musical events featuring the celebrated sounds of Chapel Choir, Choral Union, Women’s Chorus and Chordsmen. Following is a list of key concert dates, times and venues:

Elizabeth Kolbert, climate journalist and author of “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change” will be the featured speaker for the fall 2008 Mary Catherine Gerhold Annual Lecture in the Humanities.

The Schumacher Gallery at Capital University has announced its 2008-2009 exhibition schedule, which will carry art enthusiasts from the Western landscape of the 1920s-1950s to carnival season in 12th-century Rome, present-day Europe and the Americas. And it won’t stop there.

Capital University again was ranked among the top 20 Midwest master’s universities by U.S. News & World Report's America’s Best Colleges 2009, released Friday.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will deliver the keynote address for the Law School's Hooding and Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20, at the Ohio Theatre, located at 55 E. State St., downtown.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will deliver the keynote address on Saturday, May 5, as Capital University graduates 460 students at its spring 2007 Commencement.

Pianist Tianshu Wang, an assistant professor in the Conservatory of Music, will give a recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in Huntington Recital Hall.

Central Ohio’s pipe organ renaissance will continue on Friday, March 9, when The Juilliard School’s Paul Jacobs leads a celebration of the sounds of Capital's Paul W. and Ella D. Hugus Memorial Pipe Organ.

On Thursday, Feb. 22, the Capital University Board of Trustees voted to forgo a national search and moved to the final step in naming Interim President Dr. Denvy A. Bowman the 15th president of the university.

The Schumacher Gallery will offer a sampling of Central Ohio’s vast art scene with “Dealers’ Choice,” which will run Monday, March 5, through Saturday, March 31.

National Center for Adoption Law, Policy To Co-Host National Moot Court Competition Feb. 16-17 Law students from across the country will demonstrate their advocacy skills as they present legal arguments at the National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law Friday, Feb. 16, and Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Ohio Statehouse and the Ohio Supreme Court.

The Conservatory of Music will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the NOW MUSIC Festival, a weeklong celebration of contemporary musicians and composers.

Evening classes for Tuesday, Feb. 6, have been canceled on main campus due to severe weather. The University of Dayton also has canceled classes on Bexley's campus tonight.

The Law School will welcome John C. Hueston, a former lead prosecutor for the trial of Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay, to discuss key turning points in the investigation and trial with students and faculty from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2.

Associate Provost Steve Bruning recently announced Stephen Long will serve as interim director of Blackmore Library.

The Provost's Office invites Capital University faculty, staff and administrators to a reception recognizing the contributions of longtime employee Al Maag on from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30.

In a continuing venture to perform new music for low brass, Thomas Zugger, associate professor of trombone and euphonium, will present “A ‘Live’ CD” at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, in Huntington Recital Hall.

Denise St. Clair and Angela Upchurch have been named executive director and academic director, respectively, of the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy (NCALP) at Capital University Law School. The appointments came following law professor and the center’s founding director Kent Markus’ announcement that he would take a leave of absence to serve as chief legal counsel for Gov. Ted Strickland.

The Schumacher Gallery will unveil selected pieces of African art gathered over decades of travel and collecting by central Ohio residents Donald Schreiber and Bonnie Fox during the gallery’s January exhibition, which opens today. The 502-piece Schreiber-Fox Collection of African Art has been donated to The Schumacher Gallery and will be added to its permanent collection at the close of the exhibition.

Read about the latest accomplishments of Capital University faculty, staff and administrators.

The Capital University Conservatory of Music's Faculty Recital Series will continue at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, with a performance by Gail Lehto Zugger, assistant professor of clarinet, in Huntington Recital Hall.

Capital University will present its 16th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Learning on Monday, Jan. 15. The daylong event will begin at 8:15 a.m. with a community gathering in Stegemoeller Room, followed at 8:45 a.m. by a procession through campus to Mees Hall for convocation, which will begin at 9 a.m. The keynote speaker for this year’s celebration of King’s life and legacy is Carlos Muñoz Jr., who will speak on “The Challenge for Multiracial Democracy in America.”

When Katherine Clawson walked the stage of Capital University’s Mees Hall Saturday to receive her bachelor’s degree in criminology, she reflected on the mutual respect that buffered exchanges of opposing views between her and her fellow students. She walked by the faculty members who were unbending in their insistence that she meet their academic challenges, yet showed almost parent-like concern that she successfully complete her degree. Even if most of them were young enough to be her children. But mostly, she prided herself that, even as a 75-year-old retired owner of a title agency and founder of a nonprofit organization that built the retirement community she now lives in, she had a lot to learn; and she learned it. She’s got the honors cords to prove it.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, the minimum-wage increase approved in November by Ohio voters will take effect, making it necessary for the university to adjust its compensation structure for student employees.

Two Capital University professors will lead 35 of their peers in a four-year effort to create and distribute educational materials and to train faculty how to teach computational studies to undergraduate students. Funded by a $480,000 National Science Foundation grant, select faculty members from 14 colleges and universities will combine their expertise to develop educational materials to teach computational studies, which currently is taught almost exclusively at the master’s level, to students at two- and four-year colleges.

Capital University faculty and staff who are eligible for benefits have two extra months to access their 2006 flexible-spending dollars, thanks to an IRS rule change.

Capital University Theatre will present “A Man of No Importance” Thursday, Nov. 16, through Sunday, Nov. 19, in the Cabaret Theatre.

Music Professor Gene Allen, tenor, will perform as part of the Capital University Conservatory of Music Faculty Recital Series at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Huntington Recital Hall.