Notables

Doug Berry, a senior business administration major from Florissant, Mo., was ranked as the top Financial Representative Intern out of 1,100 Northwestern Mutual Financial Network interns. He will be named in an advertising promotion for Northwestern Mutual in the October issue of Time Magazine. Berry completed his internship during the summer and will work full-time at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network upon his graduation in December.

Taner Edis, associate professor of physics, published “Why ‘Intelligent Design’ is More Interesting than Old-fashioned Creationism,” in the Georgia Journal of Science 63:3 190 (2005).

Janet Gooch, associate professor and director of communication disorders, attended the annual meeting of the National Academic Advising Association from Oct. 5-10 in Las Vegas.

Amy Wilson, assistant professor of communication disorders, and Melissa Passe, clinic director, participated in the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk Sept. 25 in Kirksville.

The Communication Disorders faculty and staff and CMDS graduate and undergraduate students screened approximately 350 Head Start Children from the Kirksville and surrounding areas Sept. 29-30. Head Start children were screened for speech-language and hearing problems at the Speech and Hearing Clinic. This model program, in conjunction with Early Head Start screenings provided at Truman, received the 2002 Outstanding Partnership Award from the Missouri Head Start Association.