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Mongtomery Students, Faculty & Staff Celebrate Health Professions Week |
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SU Montgomery (Fall 2009) On October 19 - 20, the student break room at South University/Montgomery was transformed into a mad scientist’s laboratory complete with costumes, test tubes, and spooky music. The occasion was a celebration of Health Professions Week.
Linda Reynolds, Program Chair for Medical Assisting; Joanne Rice, Program Director for Physical Therapist Assisting; Faith Berryman, Clinical Coordinator for Physical Therapist Assisting; and Laura Saucer, Program Director for Nursing; decorated the break room and provided students with an opportunity to perform an “autopsy,” view the results of multiple “sense”-ational science experiments, and create their very own “cell.” The science projects were designed to show the students how our senses can be fooled, and cells were made of cookies and candy. The autopsy patient was a model from the PTA lab with multiple toy “causes of death” suspended in old, cold spaghetti, combined with a potion that, when the participating students returned after washing their hands, fluoresced under a black light if any “autopsy” germs remained. This lesson in hand-washing was the perfect introduction for short presentations by physical therapist assistant students who educated attendees about the current and past flu epidemics, including the history of flu, prevention and treatment, as well as presentations related to fitness, stress reduction, and nutrition.
Students and faculty, dressed as mad scientists, crazy nurses, and other spooky health professionals, raced sticky eyeballs and played a match-the-“ologist” game. Do you know what a hoplologist or a cynologist studies? We do!
Dr. Joanne Rice, Laura Saucer, Linda Reynolds, Anna Pearson and Faith Berryman prepare to perform their first autopsy.
Stephanie Winston creates a winning cell and gets to eat it too.
PTA students, Candi Helton, Oona Joseph and Zenita White pose with Faith Berryman and President Biebighauser before presenting at Health Professions Week.
Dr. Half-Cracked and student Jarita Huffman discusses what went wrong during a skullotomy.
Tonika Alexander and Brittney Payne - Medical Assistants “At The Heart of Healthcare”
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CJ and IT Program Presents Career Networking Days |
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 SU Montgomery (Spring 2009) - The Criminal Justice and Information Technology programs at South University-Montgomery collaborated in presenting Career Networking Days on May 27-28 as the key event for CJ-IT Week. During the event, 26 organizations that included local businesses as well as state and federal government agencies came to campus to network with students in all degree programs.
Students gained valuable present and future career information about the participating organizations while visiting with representatives from each organization. The halls and library of the campus were filled with stations set up for organizations because of the overwhelming response of organizations with a presence in the Montgomery area wanting to interact with the students. The participating organizations were as follows:
- State of Alabama Personnel
- Alabama Administrative Office of Courts
- Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC)
- Alabama Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
- Alabama Department of Finance, Information Systems Division
- Alabama Department of Insurance, State Fire Marshall's Office
- Alabama Department of Public Safety
- Alabama Department of Transportation
- Alabama National Guard
- Alabama State Attorney General's Office
- FBI
- Federal Defender's Office
- Go
- vDeals
- Hyundai
- Jackson Hospital
- Montgomery City/County Personnel
- Montgomery County Community Corrections
- Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office
- Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
- Montgomery Police Department
- NCO
- Strategic Placement Services
- U.S. Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
- U.S. Secret Service
- Wilson Price Information Technology
The Criminal Justice and Information Technology programs received special support from the staff of the Career Services, Student Affairs, Library, and Legal Studies as well as Dean Basil Manly. The students of Criminal Justice and Information Technology created information boards about their programs and the event in addition to helping on the event days. Additionally, Los Cabos Cantina provided food for all networkers.
Keith Johnson, Alabama Finance Department, Information System Division speaks with Chris Washington, Information Technology Student
Sgt. Lavender, Montgomery Police Department
Students Cole Wyatt, Criminal Justice Program and Patrick Tatum, Paralegal Studies Program |
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Faculty News: Fred Strickland, Ph.D. publishes book |
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 SU Montgomery (Spring 2009) - Dr. Fred Strickland, an adjunct Information Technology Instructor, earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from Auburn University in August 2008.
He began his doctoral program and the associated research for his dissertation in 2002, the results of which were published earlier this year. The book is titled: Using Different Radio Bands to Provide More Flexibility: Using a Helio Based Protocol in a Battlefield Sensor Network with Directional Antennas and Enhanced Security and is published by VDM Verlag of Germany.
Congratulations to Dr. Strickland.
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SU Montgomery (Spring 2009) - Roger Humber, Program Director for the Criminal Justice program, is playing the part of Cord Elam in the Millbrook Community Players, Inc., production of Oklahoma! The Great American Musical.
The play runs July 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 at 7:30 p.m. and July 11, 12, 18,19 at 2:00 p.m. You are invited! For tickets and details go to http://www.millbrooktheatre.com/. |
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Real CSI: Crime Scene Investigation |
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SU Montgomery (Spring 2009) - On May 11, Crime Scene Investigator, Detective G.R. Timmerman, of the Montgomery Police Department presented to the Criminalistics class at South University concerning the dynamics of the “real” CSI versus what is portrayed on the television show.
"The students were so engaged by Detective Timmerman," said Roger Humber, the Criminal Justice Program Director. "He shared not only his professional expertise but his passion about this demanding and rewarding field."
His presentation focused on crime scene preservation and the subsequent collection of evidence. He discussed basic skills and expectations of the crime scene investigator. His presentation contained a fantastic mixture of foundational information, case study, and real world experiences.
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