Reflections Magazine Issue #74 - Spring 2011 | Page 5

Campus News

from the heights
Josiah Kaseman Chosen
for National Academy
SHU’s Josiah Kaseman was
one of 25 students nationwide chosen to attend the
2011 Sigma Beta Delta
Leadership Academy, which
was conducted in January in
San Diego, Calif. Kaseman,
a senior business administration major, was
nominated for the honor by SHU’s Business and
Management Division faculty. He and fellow
attendees explored and designed models that
supported the conference theme of “Developing
and Using the Sigma Beta Delta Network to
Serve Humanity.” Sigma Beta Delta is an international honor society for business, management and administration.

Dr. Jun Tsuji Publishes
Research Article

Donna Baker Appointed Dr. Jeff Lindstrom
to IRS Advisory Council Honored by Adrian
Morning Rotary Club
Associate Professor of Accounting Donna Baker ‘84,
CPA, is one of 10 new members of the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) Advisory
Council. The IRSAC provides
an organized public forum
for IRS officials and the public to discuss key tax
administration issues. Members are selected
to represent the taxpaying public, tax professionals, small and large businesses and the payroll community. The council provides the IRS
leadership with important feedback, observations and suggestions. IRSAC meets periodically and will submit a report to the agency
in November 2011 at a public meeting. IRSAC
members generally serve a three-year term
with a possible one-year extension. The 10 new
participants will join 19 returning members in
2011. Baker, who also owns Donna Baker &
Associates and Tax Pro Filers, is a member of
AICPA, NATP, the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants and the Lenawee
County VITA Coalition.

Professor of Biology Dr. Jun
Tsuji recently published a
research article entitled,
“The frequencies of amino
acids encoded by genomes
that utilize standard and
nonstandard genetic codes”
in the scientific journal BIOS. Twenty-two different genomes were examined, and the results
support the hypothesis that the standard genetic code formed early in the development of
modern life and evolved in different lineages
to form several nonstandard genetic codes.
He also presented March 4 as part of The Year
of the Liberal Arts celebration at St. Catherine
University (St. Paul, Minn.). The presentation
described the life and DNA research of Sister
Miriam Stimson, OP, (below) pioneer of the KBr State Representative
disk method of preparing samples for analysis
Visits Lansing Class
by infrared spectroscopy. Dr. Tsuji’s talk was
Michigan State Representative Joan Bauer
one of 30 events in the humanities, arts, and
visited Christopher Hodshire’s and Marjorie
sciences in celebration of the significance of a
Terry’s Community Service Practice classes at
liberal arts education in today’s global society.
SHU’s Lansing Center (above). Bauer spoke
to the two classes on how government works,
especially in relation to bill proposals. Hodshire
said Bauer taught students how to advoca є