JOHN K.
BETTERSWORTH
LEADERSHIP
LECTURES
2009-10

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Named for John K. Bettersworth, former MSU Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Bettersworth Leadership Lecture Series features more than 40 faculty members and offers lectures on over 100 different topics. The series is geared toward high school and community college classes, and is presented free of charge.
 

To schedule an on-site presentation for your school, give us a call. We simply ask that you contact us two weeks in advance with your preferred topics, three potential dates, and details about audience size. All necessary arrangements will be made by MSU.

For more information, please contact us:
MSU Welcome Center
P.O. Box DS
Mississippi State, MS 39762-6334
662-325-5203 (phone)
662-325-2330 (fax)
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Presenters

Subject Areas

AGRICULTURE, ANIMALS, and ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (AA)

  1. Agricultural Industry: Pathways to Success, Newman
  2. Aquaculture in General, Mischke
  3. Basics of Statistics and Hypothesis Testing for High School Students, Wang
  4. Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Technology: Separating Fact From Fiction, Kent-First
  5. Comparative Anatomy, Rashmir-Raven
  6. Emerging Challenges in Environmental Protection, Emison
  7. Equine Surgery and Medicine, Rashmir-Raven
  8. Fascinating Facts About Reproduction in Birds, McDaniel
  9. Fire Prescribed Burning for Better Wildlife Habitat, Iglay
  10. Forestry and Natural Resources, Ratcliff
  11. How Trees and Forests Impact Your Life Every Day, Ezell
  12. Introduction to Agricultural Engineering Technology, Davis
  13. Managing Hardwood Forests for Today and 100 Years From Now, Ezell
  14. Managing Natural Resources with GIS, Fan
  15. Mississippi's Black Bears, Belant
  16. Mississippi's Top Cat: The Bobcat, Leopold
  17. Plant Biotechnology Tastes Good, Reichert
  18. Pond Fertilization, Mischke
  19. Predators in Mississippi, Leopold
  20. Raising Bobcats in Captivity-A Success Story, Leopold
  21. Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Evaluastions, Evans
  22. Sex Science and Serendipity, Kent-First
  23. Southern Forests—Understanding What You See Today and Knowing Why It is Here, Ezell
  24. Tree Identification, Evans
  25. Understanding Horse Behavior: What it Takes to Become a Horse Whisperer, Kent-First
  26. XY Sex Reversal Syndrome in the Horse: A Unique Model for Mammalian Testis Determination, Kent-First
  27. Zooplankton, Mischke

ARCHITECTURE (A)

  1. Community Leadership Through Creative Professional Service, Perkes
  2. Learning From Rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Perkes
  3. Preserving Historic Wooden Structures, Kitchens

ARTS and LITERATURE (AL)

  1. African Drumming, Dancing, and Singing, Damm
  2. Barry Hannah and Ellen Douglas, Polk
  3. Eudora Welty and William Faulkner, Polk
  4. Living Outside History, Polk
  5. The "Restored" Text of Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men and How It Changes Our Understanding of That Novel, Polk

BUSINESS (B)

  1. Business Enterprise Among Black Americans, Boyd
  2. Business Ethics, Still
  3. Congress—The Legislative Process, Still
  4. Future Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship, Eshee
  5. The Growing Importance of Meaningful Business Ethics With Emphasis on Corporate Accountability, Still
  6. International Business Topics, Still
  7. Intro to Legal Environment of Business, Still
  8. Legal Implications of International Business Contracts, Still

CAREERS (C)

  1. Alternative Career Paths in Veterinary Medicine, Kent-First
  2. Build a Profession in Public Service, Emison
  3. Career Choices in Accounting, Addy
  4. Careers in Agriculture and Life Sciences, Reinschmidt
  5. Careers in Biological Sciences, Diehl
  6. Careers in Broadcast and Media, Brown
  7. Careers in Business, Pearson
  8. Careers in Social Work, Crudden
  9. Careers in Social Work, Vaughn
  10. Careers in Wildlife and Fisheries, Leopold
  11. Communication Careers: Traditional and Emerging, Forde
  12. Communication in Health, Mental Health, and School Settings, Vaughn
  13. DNA Forensics: The Science, the Technology, and the Requirements for a Successful Career Pathway, Kent-First
  14. Forestry as a Career, Gaddis
  15. How to Choose a Career and Not Just a Major, Maynard
  16. Is Nature Calling You to be a Forester? Shepard
  17. So, You Want to be an Engineer? Green
  18. Teamwork in Business, Pearson
  19. Working With People With Disabilities, Crudden
  20. Your Career in Accounting, Addy

COMMUNICATION and HISTORY (CH)

  1. Applied Archaeology: Charting the Future From the Past, Peacock
  2. Customer Relations in the 21st Century, Forde
  3. What is Public Relations? Forde

ENGINEERING (E)

  1. Bridging the Gap: A Path of Excellence for Students of Color in Engineering, Science, Math, and Technology, Stevenson
  2. Change in Organizations, Green
  3. Development of the SR71 Spy Plane, Bridges
  4. Engineering: Art or Science? Green
  5. Engineering Ethics and Professionalism, Green
  6. Environmental Bio/Chemical Analysis: How Civil Engineers Use CSI Technology to Improve Public Health and Environmental Quality, Magbanua
  7. Environmental Management on a Regional Level, Truax
  8. How Can an Electrical Engineer Help You Continuously Monitor Your Glucose Levels to Better Manage Your Diabetes? Topsakal
  9. How to Have a Winning Science Fair Project, Green
  10. The Need for Global Observations of Earth's Natural Resources, King
  11. So You Want to be Green? Truax
  12. Supply Chain and Logistics Management, S. Eksioglu
  13. Technical Communication Skills, Green
  14. Topics in Biomass, Bioenergy and Feedstock Engineering, Davis
  15. Topics in Industrial and Systems Engineering, B. Eksioglu, S. Eksioglu
  16. U.S. Infrastructure: Past, Present, and Will There be a Future? Truax

MATH and SCIENCE (MS)

  1. Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Technology: Separating Fact From Fiction, Kent-First
  2. Genetics of Reproduction and Testis Failure, Kent-First
  3. Men from Stone Age to Clone Age: What it Takes to Make a Male a Man, Kent-First
  4. Pathways to Achieving Fertility Through Assisted Reproduction, Kent-First
  5. Planets, Stars and Explosions-Oh My! Lestrade
  6. Sex Science and Serendipity, Kent-First
  7. Testis Differentiation and Tumorogenesis—The Evolution of the Germ Cell Tumor and Cancer, Kent-First
  8. Why Biology Should Be Common Knowledge, Diehl
  9. Women in Science, Beard

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (PD)

  1. Creating Good Luck in Your Life and Career, Emison
  2. Outside the Books: Skills and Abilities Needed for Success, Maynard
  3. Reading as a Hobby, Verhoek-Miller
  4. Seven Habits of Highly Effective College Students, Stevenson
  5. Transfer Advising and Articulation, Singleton
  6. Be a Master Student: What to Expect During Your Freshman Year, Singleton

TECHNOLOGY (T)

  1. Integrating Technology into the Classroom While Maintaining a Personal Touch, Forde
  2. The Joys and Challenges of Podcasting, Forde

PRESENTERS

Addy, Noel [C 3, 20]
Associate Professor of Accounting

Beard, Debbie [MS 9]
Assistant Research Professor, Chemistry

Belant, Jerry [AA 15]
Assistant Professor, Wildlife

Boyd, Robert [B 1]
Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

Bridges, David [E 3]
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Brown, Karyn [C 6]
Instructor, Communication

Crudden, Adele [C 8, 19]
Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

Damm, Robert [AL 1]
Professor, Music

Davis, Jeremiah [AA 12; E 14]
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Diehl, Walter [C 5; MS 8]
Professor, Biological Sciences

Eksioglu, Burak [E 15]
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Eksioglu, Sandra [E 12]
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Emison, Jerry [AA 6; C 2; PD 1]
Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Administration

Eshee, William [B 4]
Professor, Marketing, Quantitative Analysis and Business Law

Evans, David [AA 21, 24]
Professor, Forestry

Ezell, Andy [AA 11, 13, 23]
Professor, Forestry

Fan, Joseph [AA 14]
Assistant Professor, Forestry

Forde, John [C 11; CH 2, 3; T 1, 2]
Associate Professor and Head, Communication

Gaddis, Debbie [C 14]
Associate Extension Professor

Green, Robert [C 17; E 2, 4, 5, 9, 13]
Undergraduate Coordinator, Engineering

Iglay, Ray [AA 9]
Research Associate, Wildlife and Fisheries

Kent-First, Marijo [AA 4, 22, 25, 26; C 1, 13; MS 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7]
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

King, Roger [E 10]
William L. Giles Distinguished Professor
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate studies

Kitchens, Shane [A 3]
Assistant Professor, Forest Products

Leopold, Bruce [AA 16, 19, 20; C 10]
Professor and Head, Wildlife and Fisheries

Lestrade, J. Patrick [MS 5]
Professor, Astronomy

Magbanua, Benjamin [E 6]
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Maynard, Scott [C 15; PD 2]
Director, The Career Center

McDaniel, Chris [AA 8]
Professor, Poultry Science

Mischke, Charles [AA 2, 18, 27]
Associate Research Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries

Newman, Michael [AA 1]
Associate Professor, Agricultural Education and Experimental Statistics

Peacock, Evan [CH 1]
Associate Professor, Anthropology

Pearson, Allison [C 7, 18]
Professor, Management and Information Systems

Perkes, David [A 1, 2]
Associate Professor and Director, School Of Architecture

Polk, Noel [AL 2, 3, 4, 5]
Professor, English and Editor of The Mississippi Quarterly

Rashmir-Raven, Ann [AA 5, 7]
Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine

Ratcliff, Tedrick [AA 10]
Admissions Coordinator and Director, Forest and Wildlife Research Center

Reichert, Nancy [AA 17]
Professor and Head, Biological Sciences

Reinschmidt, Lynn [C 4]
Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Shepard, Jim [C 16]
Head, Department of Forestry

Singleton, Rachel [PD 5, 6]
Student Services Coordinator, College of Forestry Resources

Stevenson, Tommy [E 1; PD 4]
Assistant Dean, Diversity Programs and Student Development
Bagley College of Engineering

Still, Richard [B 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Assistant Professor, Business

Topsakal, Erdem [E 8]
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Truax, Dennis [E 7, 11, 16]
Professor and Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Vaughn, Sandra [C 9, 12]
Associate Professor, Social Work

Verhoek-Miller, Nancy [PD 3]
Professor, Curriculum and Instruction

Wang, Guiming [AA 3]
Assistant Professor, Forestry