NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

3/25/2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- Students and faculty at Northwestern State University will share their latest work with the university community at the 15th Annual Research Day Wednesday, April 10. Research Day is sponsored by the Council for University Research Incentive Administrators (CURIA) at Northwestern. All events are open to the public.

Sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. in Russell Hall and the A.A. Fredericks Center for Creative and Performing Arts.

As part of Research Day, a faculty member will be presented with the Mildred Hart Bailey Research Award. The Bailey Award is given annually to a Northwestern faculty member for outstanding research and/or distinguished artistic performance or creative work substantially completed during the past three years. Criteria for the award include: scholarly or creative significance; national, regional or local impact; originality and ingenuity of project design and critical recognition by experts in the field.

The featured speaker will be William Sisler, director of the Harvard University Press. Sisler will speak at 2 p.m. in Kyser Hall, Room 142

Sisler is a member of the board of directors and treasurer of the American Association of Publishers. He is also president of the Association of American University Presses. His topic will be "Publishers Perish? Perish the Thought! Observations on a Changing World."

In 1973, Sisler began his publishing career at The Johns Hopkins University Press where he served as assistant, associate and senior editor. Sisler joined Oxford University Press (USA) in 1983 as executive editor for the humanities and social sciences. He became a vice president of Oxford in 1987.

Sisler was appointed director of Harvard University Press in 1990. Harvard University Press is one of the largest university presses with sales of $19 million. He holds a master's degree in administrative science and a Ph.D. in classics from Johns Hopkins.

For more information on Research Day, call (318) 357-5851.

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