Office of University Communications
Missouri State professor appointed to two security councils
Additional faculty and staff accomplishments noted
Date: June 18, 2008
OSAC was created in 1985 to promote security cooperation between the State Department and the American private/public sectors that are involved in overseas activities. As a constituent member, McCarthy, professor of sociology, anthropology and criminology, will provide Missouri State with access to numerous non-public security notices and updates on safety overseas.
“This is particularly important to have since many of our faculty and students travel overseas,” McCarthy said. “The constituent members also serve as a sounding board for the State Department when they want to gauge reaction to foreign policy or foreign events.”
TISD is located in Washington D.C. As a non-profit and non-partisan organization, the mission of the TISD is to contribute innovative democratic solutions for security problems in the world by combining practical experiences and academic studies on global security, educating people on terrorism and developing cooperation among security institutions. McCarthy has been involved with the Turkish National Police (TNP), where he hosted four senior police officers while living in Florida.
“The TNP sends 200 senior police officers overseas each year to build bridges with their counterparts in criminal justice systems throughout the world,” McCarthy said. “A byproduct of their association is to build bridges with the moderate Islamic communities and the western world.”
McCarthy traveled to Istanbul and presented his research on criminal justice/terrorism-related topics in the past and will do so again next year.
Dr. David Lutz, professor of psychology; and Kimberly Stagner, academic adviser for the College of Business Advisement Center, each recently received an Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Lutz and Stagner will be recognized at a special awards ceremony Oct. 1 during the NACADA annual conference in Chicago.
“Advising keeps me on my toes,” Stagner said. “I learn something new every day which gives me the opportunity to encourage and assist each student with their own unique needs.”
NACADA was chartered in 1979 and now has more than 10,000 members, including faculty members, professional advisers, administrators and counselors from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and several other countries.
Dr. Elizabeth Walker,assistant professor of agriculture, received a $74,836 grant from Whole Foods for her project, Variation in Tannin Levels of Fodder Grazed by Small Ruminant Livestock in the Ozarks Plateau Region of the Central United States and Roles in Meat Goat Management.
The grant will primarily be used for consumable goods such as laboratory equipment, supplies and analysis of plants and tissue. It will also fund the purchase of research animals and feed costs for the animals, as well as provide travel and publication money. The research conducted by Walker and her collaborators examines theinternal parasite infection as a leading contributor to health-related losses in small ruminant profitability and animal performance and a leading cause of small ruminant mortality.
“The research is exciting and I think the partners on this grant are some of the best in the nation related to their specific area of expertise,” Walker said. “I have already learned so much from them and I really appreciate their efforts already. I really look forward to our continued partnership with these people and institutions and I think our research will have some real meaning to the livestock producers in this area.”
The grant writing was a collaborative effort between Walker and her colleagues:Dr. Charles T. MacKown, Mark Kennedy, Dr. Ann Wells, Dr. Michael A. Brown, Dr. Kasey Maddock Carlin,Dr. Duane H. Keisler and Sam Nusz.