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Offering a diverse academic curriculum students can choose from majors in the arts, business, education and the sciences as well as our pre-professional programs in medicine, dentistry, engineering, law, pharmacy, physical therapy and others. McMurry's unique academic offerings include the Servant Leadership program and the Honors Program. The Servant Leadership program, an innovative and nationally-respected program promoting the leader as a servant first, prepares students to be strong, effective leaders who place service to the greater good of others before self. The Honors Program, a robust four-year honors track designed to enrich the college experience, guarantees a stimulating intellectual challenge. Honors courses, thesis research, and conference participation help honors students develop the skills, creative independence, and confidence necessary for success in graduate training and professional life as well as creating opportunities for students to present original research and creative work in an academic conference setting. McMurry’s Core Values of Christian Faith as the foundation of life, Personal Relationships as the catalyst for life, Learning as the journey of life, Excellence as the goal of life and Service as the measure of life are the foundation on which the McMurry experience is built. Academic Notables: Drs. Daniel Patten, assistant professor of sociology, and professor of sociology Robert Wallace of the Department of Sociology and Criminology recently presented the following papers at the Southern Sociological Society meetings in New Orleans. Patten paper was “Trumping the NAFTA Conversation: A Brief Analysis on How Donald Trump has Shaped the Coverage of NAFTA;” and Wallace's paper was “Scaling Cross-Class Marriage Sensibilities.” Wallace’s co-author is Cole Baggett ’17 who is currently working on his masters’ degree in sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. ________________________________________ Political Science Professor Dr. Tina Bertrand’s paper on the UN Alliance of Civilizations has been accepted for formal presentation at the International Peace Studies Conference in Vienna, Austria. The conference is part of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS) series. The keynote speaker at this year’s conference will be Dr. Heinz Fischer, the former president of Austria. ________________________________________ History Professor Dr. Don Frazier served as an expert commentator for the third season of Fox News Network 12-episode series Legends and Lies: The Civil War. The series will begin airing on Sundays and will be hosted by Fox News personality, Brian Kilmeade. ________________________________________ Cambridge Scholars Publishing has published Professor of Sociology Dr. Jerry Hollingsworth’s new book, Native America in the 21st Century. The book, which is dedicated to McMurry’s first president Dr. J.W. Hunt, investigates the social problems and the status of Native Americans in the United States in the twenty-first century. It identifies and describes the social problems faced by Native Americans today, and brings up a valuable argument: have the Native Americans really assimilated? Dr. Hollingsworth has spent the past fourteen years travelling to developing countries, researching and observing various social conditions in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He has published two other books as well, Children of the Sun: An Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America, and The Social Problems of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as numerous articles and studies on the social problems of children and their development. His most recent research has involved the social problems of Native Americans. Also, Hollingsworth was recently invited to become a member of the Editorial Advisor Board for Cambridge Scholars Publishing for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His duties include editorial duties, as well as having the opportunity to shape and guide Cambridge’s future publishing direction; reviewing proposals; and getting fast-track decisions on personal book proposals. ________________________________________ Professor of Kinesiology Dr. Pug Parris presented at the annual state convention of the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD). Her activity-based session, geared for elementary PE teachers, was entitled "I Like that Old Time Rock and Roll" and featured nine routines to classic pop songs from the 1950s and 1960s. ________________________________________ Professor of Religion Dr. Philip LeMasters presented “The Eucharistic Context of Pastoral Response to Contemporary Challenges in Marriage, Family, and Sexuality” at a conference sponsored by the Amsterdam Centre for Orthodox Theology in the Netherlands. He also published a book review of Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine in a recent edition of the journal Political Theology. ________________________________________ Beth Lawrence, instructor of developmental English, and Dr. Ann-Marie Lopez, associate professor of English, presented at the College Academic Support Programs (CASP) Conference in Galveston. The title of their presentation was “The Politics of Literacy in FYC: A Curricular Shift for Student Awareness.” ________________________________________ Dr. Bryan Stewart, professor of religion, gave a presentation at the Annual Fall Touchstone Conference in Deerfield, IL. The conference theme was on Christian martyrdom through the ages, and Stewart’s lecture was entitled: “In Accord with the Gospel: A Theology of Martyrdom in the Early Church.” ________________________________________ Associate Professor of Spanish Dr. Jose Gomez has written a review and two practice tests for the Languages Other Than English (LOTE) Spanish teacher certification exam. This test is quite difficult and is very different from any other certification test in that students not only answer questions about the Spanish language, they must also listen to passages spoken in Spanish and complete certain tasks. Questions require students to answer questions about a Spanish dialogue they heard and compose a letter that is dictated to them in Spanish. Dr. Gomez is making this valuable res...