American Council on Education's gain
SPSU president Dr. Lisa A. Rossbacher has been selected to serve as a member of the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Commission on Women in Higher Education. As a commission member, Dr. Rossbacher will act as an advisor to ACE on issues regarding equal opportunity and expanded roles for women in academic leadership. She will also collaborate with leaders from all sectors of higher education, provide assistance with evaluations of current programs and suggest new initiatives and priorities. Her appointment will begin on July 1, 2008 and end on June 30, 2011. ACE, the major coordinating body for all of the nation's higher education institutions, seeks to provide leadership and a unifying voice on higher education issues and to influence public policy through advocacy, research and program initiatives. ACE’s areas of focus include access, success, equity and diversity, institutional effectiveness, lifelong learning and internationalization.

SPSU has one of the 25 best for 2008
When InfoWorld magazine, the leading publication for IT decision makers, announced their top 25 Chief Technology Officers for 2008, SPSU's own Bill Gruszka, chief information officer, was at the top of the list. Since 2001, InfoWorld has honored senior IT executives who have demonstrated leadership within their companies and in the IT community.

Gruszka was selected because he faces an ever-changing, complex, mobile end-user base. As CIO, he takes a different tack to assure information security. He shares InfoWorld’s Top 25 Chief Technology Officers for 2008 with IT executives from UPS, the Georgia Aquarium, AFLAC, MasterCard Worldwide and others.

The InfoWorld CTO 25 feature appears online at http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/02/23FE-cto25-gruszka_1.html

New paper published for Dr. Siddiqi
The article Recycling Stormwater in Commercial Buildings was published and presented at the Proceedings of Solid Waste Management – Focusing on Sustainability Leadership through Sustainable Innovation conference last month in San Francisco. The article was authored jointly by James Glenn, a graduate student in the Construction Management program and Dr. Khalid Siddiqi, chair of the Construction Management department. Glenn currently works for Lockheed Martin as a pilot simulator instructor on the C-130H aircraft and is expected to complete his master's degree in fall 2008.

The motivation for the publication came from the authors' interest in sustainable construction and the draught conditions faced by the people and industry in Georgia.  

Mini grant awarded to ECET
Prof. Darren Wilcox of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) has been awarded $1,000 to support a senior honors project to develop a prototype autonomous robot that will seek out and mark the location of land mines and unexploded military ordinances. The plan is to develop the robot using inexpensive components so that it can support humanitarian de-mining efforts in under-developed nations where funds are limited. Prof. Wilcox will be working with honor student Joshua Galloway on this project. Full details of the project can be viewed on the Engineering Technology Division webpage at http://www.engtech.org/.

A major contribution to Apparel Textile Technology
Gerber Technologies has generously contributed over $330,000 of software for the product development lab of the Apparel Textile Technology program. "For more than 20 years, Gerber has been a supporter of SPSU and is currently one of the Industrial Engineering Technology department’s Industrial Advisor Board companies," explains Tom Ball, department chair for Industrial Engineering Technology, Quality Assurance, Apparel Textile Technology. "Gerber's software contribution will be used for technical design and product development for any sewn product, including clothing, backpacks, boat and car interiors and camping gear," he said.

Congratulations to SPSU's newest licensed professional
Jamal Murray of the Career and Counseling Center recently passed the National Counselor’s Exam known as the NCE. He is now a Licensed Associate Professional Counselor (LAPC) which allows him to practice professional counseling under direction and supervision while obtaining the post-master's experience for licensure as a Professional Counselor (LPC). Congratulations Jamal on your accomplishment!

SPSU alum shares joys, techniques of parenting in a large family
Current vice president of the SPSU Athletic Association, Brian Adams, was featured on the front page of the Lifestyle section in the Marietta Daily Journal on Father's Day, Sun., June 15. Adams and his wife Melanie are the proud parents of 11 children and their creedal is "the more the merrier." To read the article and see the entire Adams brood, visit the link below. http://www.mdjonline.com/content/index/
showcontentitem/area/3/section/18/item/113024.htm.

News to share
If your department has an upcoming event or news to share with the campus community, please send an e-mail with all the pertinent information to pr@spsu.edu for it to appear in a future issue of the Hornet’s Nest.

Volume 1, Issue 10
June 25, 2008