JMC News:  Madison Award Winners and Year-End Gifts
                          
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Happy Holidays from James Madison College!  Year-End Reminder
Have you made a financial contribution to celebrate James Madison College’s 40th Anniversary? Please consider making your most generous annual gift by visiting the JMC Website at www.jmc.msu.edu and click “Make a gift to Madison” across the top of the home page.  Donations made using MSU’s secure internet site during December or checks mailed with a postmark on or before the 31st will receive 2007 receipts for tax purposes.  If you have not made your gift this year or would like to make an additional gift, please do so today!  We appreciate your support to ensure that the next 40 years bring Madison continued leadership in undergraduate education and academic excellence.
                                                                                                                
Madison Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship
Monica Mukerjee (IR/psychology) will pursue a master's of science degree at Oxford University in Oxford, England, and conduct groundbreaking research on the policies and impacts of forced migration.  Her studies will include developing strategies to prevent sexual exploitation of children by aid workers in refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  The award provides for two years of study in the United Kingdom.  Mukerjee is also a 2007 Truman Scholar, and the recipient of a Spartan Scholarship, among others.  http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/3267/content.htm

Professor Edozie Receives the MSU Lilly Teaching Award
Madison Professor Rita Kiki Edozie is the recipient of an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellowship for 2007-2008.  Her fellowship project is titled:  "Politics & Prose: Reading Across the Curriculum and Teaching in the Public and International Affairs Classroom."  http://fod.msu.edu/lillyFellow/currentfellows.asp

Professor Pegler-Gordon is an MSU Teacher Scholar
Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon has been awarded MSU's Teacher-Scholar Award.  These awards are made to six members of the faculty from the ranks of instructor, assistant professor and associate professor who early in their careers have earned the respect of students and colleagues for their devotion to and skill in teaching. http://jmc.msu.edu/faculty/show.asp?id=47

Madison Students are Truman nominees
Madison students Ted Madsen (IR), from Anchorage AK, and Yvette Efevbera (IR), from Big Rapids MI, have been selected by MSU’s nominating committee as Truman Scholar nominees for the 2008 competition.  The Truman Scholarship Foundation awards scholarships for college students to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or elsewhere in public services.  Finalists will be announced February 19, 2008. http://www.truman.gov/index.htm

Madison Student Recognized for Academic Achievement
Matthew Hasho (PTCD/SRP, senior), of Okemos, was one of six MSU students recognized with an MSU Board of Trustees Award for having the highest scholastic averages at the close of their last semester in attendance.  A member of the Honors College, Hasho has a 3.9805 grade point average: http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/index.php3?article=07Dec2007-12

Events
             
Madison Alumni/Student Career Day
February 2, 2008, afternoon
If you are interested in participating as an alumni panelist, contact Chris Foley at foleych2@msu.edu

First Annual Jack Paynter Memorial Lecture
Featuring Yale Scholar David Blight
"Slaves No More: Newly Discovered Slave Narratives and the Legacies of Emancipation"
March 19, 2008, evening (time TBD)
Big Ten Room C, Kellogg Center
Free admission
David Blight (MSU class of 1954) is Professor of American History and Director,
Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, at Yale University.  He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy: http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/blight_d.html

Watch for Details
Washington DC Alumni and Friends Reception
Spring 2008

Contact Donna Hofmeister at hofmeist@msu.edu or 517-353-9977 to RSVP or for more information on any of these events.  Or, reply to this message.

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