University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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DEAN DR. GLENN W HOPKINS Hierc have been vast improvements in the College of Liberal Arts, according to many faculty members and students at Ole Miss. Denis Goulet, the Elector Lab Coordinator for non-major labs, has been working in the Biology de- partment for 1 1 years now. His daily duties include setting up labs, ensuring the teaching assistants are timely and dealing with student issues. He says his favorite thing about this job is being able to interact with the students. The biology department at Ole Miss has accom- plished a lot since I began at Ole Miss. We have doubled our faculty and had huge department expansion, Goulei says. When I was first here, there were i o of us and now there is tenure tract fac- ulty and instructor faculty. With the more faculties comes more grant money. We have had such great improvements. He continues on the biolog) ' department ' s accom- plishments by mentioning its two Fulbright Scholars. Goulet hopes for specific improvements when it comes to nanning his labs including finding ways to improve the labs and updating to more cunent technologies. He also wishes to save on paper and waste and to have better training of TA ' s. Goulet says the awards his department has received in the last year are the Fulbright scholars, a number of Taylor Medal winners and many faculty-awarded grants for research. Kacie Cross, a sophomore fiom Yakima. Wash., is a psychology major with theatre and mass media and communication minors. Cross says psychology is a study of the brain and how individuals and groups interact and react to situations. It also focuses on behavioral disorders and problems. It entails taking a variety of courses that look into the different kinds of psychology such as learning, personality disorders, research and behavioral. Cross chose this major because it is something she is invested in. I want to know what makes people do the things they do, she says. I babysit two little boys over my summer vacation, and the way they interact with each intrigued me. One of the brothers has ADHD, and to see the behavior changes in the younger brother inspired me to what to know more. Cross says her favorite thing about her major is being able to learn about how the brain works, and how people behave in certain manners. After college I am not totally sure what I am going to do with my major, Cross says, I have thought about going to graduate school, but I am not fully decided on that. I would like to be a counselor of some type, most likely with children. Cross works at the Center for Excellence in Teach- ing and Learning as a peer mentor which she enjoys greatly. It is kind of a preview of what a psychologist does, Cross explains, One thing I ' ve learned is that many things that people believe as truths are just myths, but humans believe them because they are repeated so many times. Susan R. Grayzel is the Professor of History and In- terim Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies serves many functions and many constituen- cies on our campus. Grayzel explains. It brings scholars from outside the university to our institution to share new information and perspectives about women and men in our world, past and present, near and far, as well as allowing our faculty to share their own scholarship. Grayzel adds that the Center provides opportuni- ties for students to learn about this field and to share their research and creativity in the annual Isom Student Gender Conference. To accompany this, there was a vibrant student art show. The Center helps support student groups and events on campus in partnership with many entities from academic departments to offices such as Health Promotions in a range of activities from Women ' s Histoi-y Month to Sexual Assault Awareness Month to World AIDS day. As an academic unit, it helps run a minor in Gender Studies for the College of Liberal Arts and a new Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, Grayzel says. Hie implementation of this certificate, which helps graduate students already admitted to an MA or PhD program gain additional knowledge of gender studies and testify to their ability to teach this interdisciplinary field, is one of the major accom- plishments of the center over the past year. The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies aims to be a place where students, faculty and staff- women and men - in concert with the community at large can support the particular needs of women and engage in understanding how social identity shapes individual and society at large. The College of Liberal Arts is extensive with wide subject ranges. But through all the vast majors the College encompasses, all the departments have their individual successes including numerous awards. T is is why as a whole the College of Liberal Arts is successful and highly esteemed. STORY MACKENZIE METCALFE PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED BY THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

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