-= NMSU PANORAMA - Winter 2006 =- Around Aggieland: Horseshoe Tales

Around Aggieland

This department contains multiple stories. Please make a selection:
› Schickedanz Retires as NMSU Dean
› Pan Am Center to be Modernized
› NMSU Regents Approve Doctoral Program in Nursing
› NMSU Hosts Personal Spaceflight Symposium
› Horseshoe Tales
› NMSU-Alamogordo to Construct Health Sciences Center
› New Black Programs Director Named
› ESPN, ABC News and Others Cover NMSU
› Sautter is N.M. Professor of the Year

Horseshoe Tales

It's Not Your Father's Phys Ed

9 a.m., Tuesday, April 12

Biology major Josh Goodwin demonstrates a hydrostatic weighing technique used in the Rentfrow Gym physiology lab.

Physical education classes tend to conjure up images of gangly adolescents wearing smelly gym socks, but two professors in the NMSU College of Education's Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (PERD) Department demonstrated in April 2005 that today's phys ed is much more high tech.

Joe Berning and Scott Pedersen, both assistant professors who joined the university in 2003, hosted an open house at Rentfrow Gymnasium, which now houses a newly established Exercise Physiology Lab and the Adapted Physical Education (APE) Program.

Demonstrations during the open house included power, strength, isokinetic and aerobic power testing. And NMSU student Josh Goodwin, a senior majoring in biology, enthusiastically jumped into the water tank for a demonstration of hydrostatic weighing.

There also were demonstrations of the APE Lab, which is being used to study response time in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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Celebrating Art

5 p.m., Wednesday, June 15

Herb & Joan Zuhl mingle at a special reception held in their honor.

The D.W. Williams Art Center hosted the second bi-annual Regional Invitational Exhibition in summer 2005, featuring artists from New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. The show included receptions and "Sunday Afternoon Gallery Talks" featuring the artists presenting in the show.

Aggie friends Herb and Joan Zuhl enjoyed a reception at the gallery during the exhibit, which included some of Joan's art. She also presented a talk on abstract painting for the exhibition series in July 2005.

NMSU's Zuhl Library is named for the couple and houses part of a geologic collection they have donated to NMSU. The rest of the collection is located in the Alumni and Visitors Center. The library also exhibits the dynamic, colorful paintings of Joan Talty Zuhl, who has enjoyed a rich career as an abstract painter.

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