Newswise — Experts from Central Michigan University are available to comment on a variety of summer-related topics, including:
"¢ Fashion trends for the season"¢ Summer movies and television shows"¢ Summertime volunteerism"¢ Summer reading for children"¢ Health tips for summer"¢ Water quality, fisheries and aquatic diversity"¢ Michigan's summer wildlife"¢ Dangers of beach sand
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TOPIC: Summer fashion trendsMaureen MacGillivray, professor of apparel merchandising and design
http://www.ehs.cmich.edu/amd/Macgillivray.htm---Tanya Domina, associate professor of apparel merchandising and design
http://www.ehs.cmich.edu/amd/TanyaDomina.htm
Maureen MacGillivray and Tanya Domina can discuss fashion trends for summer 2007.
MacGillivray has written journal articles on functional apparel design, clothing comfort, adolescents and clothing, body image and self-esteem, appearance and dress, home economics, consumer habits, and workplace clothing. She also has supervised students' research on the rise and influence of hip-hop culture on clothing. Her most recent research is on nanotechnology in functional apparel design and the use of body scanners to help design fabrics that act as thermal barriers.
Domina, who has expertise in the business aspects of the apparel industry — including finance, retailing and merchandising — teaches courses in computer-aided design, visual merchandising and portfolio-building techniques. She also is an internship coordinator. Among Domina's areas of interest are textile recycling, body-scanning technology and retail trends.
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TOPIC: Summer movies and television showsPatty Williamson, instructor of broadcast and cinematic arts
http://www.bca.cmich.edu/alumni/UBCAsite/facultyDetail.asp?employeeID=14
Patty Williamson can discuss the highly anticipated movies and television shows on tap for summer 2007, as well as summer hits (and misses) from past years.
Williamson has expertise in movie-going motivation, audience research, and film and television ratings, as well as reality television and other pop-culture topics. She specializes in film criticism and theory. Williamson also is knowledgeable regarding on-air media performance.
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TOPIC: Summertime volunteerismShawna Ross, Volunteer Center coordinator
http://www.cmich.edu/volunteer
Shawna Ross can speak about volunteering during the summer months.
Ross coordinates CMU's nationally recognized Volunteer Center. More than 4,000 students — 20 percent of the student body — participate in Volunteer Center programs and services in any given year. In fall 2006, the university was named one of nine nationwide recipients of the Katrina Compassion Award for Excellence in Hurricane Relief Service as part of the first-ever President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll Awards presented by the Corporation for National and Community Service. CMU also landed on the organization's President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for Hurricane Relief Service and President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for General Community Service. Most recently, the center's Alternative Breaks program, which sends students on volunteer trips during breaks in the academic year, was named the first recipient of the Break Away national Program of the Year Award since 1998.
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TOPIC: Summer reading for childrenSusan Stan, professor of English
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/Susan_Stan
Susan Stan can discuss the importance of summer reading for children.
Stan specializes in children's books from other countries and children's book publishing. A member of the United States Board on Books for Young People and the International Board of Books for Young People, Stan is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to research international literature for young adults.
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TOPIC: Summer health tipsDr. Ahmad Hakemi, director of CMU's physician assistant program
http://www.chp.cmich.edu/pa/faculty/ahmad-hakemi.htm
Dr. Ahmad Hakemi can discuss summer health tips on dealing with sun protection, allergies, insect bites and skin care.
Hakemi is an internist who was in private practice in clinic settings for many years. He currently teaches courses regarding clinical and diagnostic procedures. Hakemi is a competent clinical source to speak about common ailments seen in walk-in clinics, as well as a variety of other general and internal medicine concerns.
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TOPIC: Water quality, fisheries and aquatic diversityScott McNaught, associate professor of biology and director of CMU's Michigan Water Research Center
http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/mcnau1as
Scott McNaught can speak about issues related to water quality and its impact on fisheries, etc.
McNaught is an aquatic ecologist who is studying the decline in the yellow perch population in Lake Michigan. His areas of expertise include fresh water food webs, zooplankton ecology, aquatic biodiversity and larval fish recruitment. He directs the Michigan Water Research Center, a collaboration of researchers who evaluate surface water in lakes, streams and wetlands. The center also addresses such local concerns as nuisance algae, bacteria, contaminants, drinking water safety and recreational water degradation. Researchers in the center also can assess lake nutrients and acidity, test for toxins and evaluate fish populations.
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TOPIC: Michigan's summer wildlifeJames Gillingham, director of CMU's Biological Station on Beaver Island
http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/gilli1jc
James Gillingham can speak on a wide variety of wildlife found in Michigan forests and wetlands during the spring and summer months.
Gillingham is the author of more than 50 research papers on the behavior of reptiles, snakes, amphibians and birds. He is a leading authority on the tuatara, a primitive, lizardlike New Zealand reptile that scientists say is the closest thing to a living dinosaur in existence today. He also is an authority on cormorant behavior in the Great Lakes region.
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TOPIC: Dangers of beach sandElizabeth Alm, professor of microbiology
http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/alm1ew/index.html
Elizabeth Alm can speak about some of the microbial dangers of playing in beach sand.
A large focus of Alm's research concerns the microbial quality of Great Lakes beaches, with a particular emphasis on beach sand. At beaches she has been investigating the sources and fates of fecal indicator bacteria, bacterial pathogens, avian influenza viruses and the microbial ecology of sand communities of microorganisms.
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