By CSC COLLEGE RELATIONS
CHADRON – The first segment of the Spring Graves Lecture Series will be Tuesday featuring Dr. Tawny Tibbits, assistant professor in Mathematical and Natural Sciences.
All Graves Lecture presentations are in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center Chicoine Atrium at 7 p.m. Attendance is free.
Tibbits will discuss her research of Maya archeology in Belize. She will explain how granite played a role in the average Maya household and how the technology of a handheld x-ray florescence unit is changing understanding of production and exchange of stone tools.
Tibbits earned her doctorate in Geoscience from the University of Iowa and joined the CSC faculty in Fall 2019. In addition to her responsibilities at CSC, Tibbits is working with other scientists in Belize and Bolivia as a geo-archeologist.
Two other Graves Lectures will occur in March and April.
On March 29, Joanne Hayes will discuss How I Got Here. Hayes is an assistant professor of Education. Hayes was raised in a small town in California, but moved frequently because her father was in the military. She has lived in numerous states, as well as in England and Ireland. Throughout many moves, Hayes continued to further her education and along the way discovered her passion for teaching.
Hayes earned a bachelor’s from Northeastern University, a master’s from Cambridge College, a master’s from the University of Texas, and is pursuing a doctorate in Education.
Dr. Margaret Crouse will wrap up the series April 12. Crouse will relate her pilgrimage to Israel with a group from Chadron’s St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. She will share sites she visited, including Tiberius, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, the River of Jordan, and Masada.
Crouse is a retired CSC faculty member and Emeritus Dean. During her tenure at CSC, she served as a professor in the Family and Consumer Sciences program, a dean in two academic schools, and was an active participant in the Higher Learning Commission Accreditation process. She has published extensively and has received numerous teaching and leadership awards. Crouse earned a doctorate from Oklahoma State University, a master’s from Oklahoma State University and a bachelor’s from Kansas State University.
For more information about the Graves Lecture Series, contact Shawn Hartman at 308-432-6271 or [email protected]