KUDOS
Val Smith, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, received a Big XII faculty fellowship to work with colleagues at the University of Texas during the upcoming year, assembling publications on plankton food webs.
Lori Davidson, project coordinator with the KU School of Social Welfare/Office of Mental Health Research and Training, received the Chamberlain-Rapp Exemplary Leadership Award at the Kansas Recovery Conference on June 21. The award is presented to an individual who has made major contributions on behalf of the mental health consumer movement in Kansas.
Gregory Thomas, chair of the Department of Design, appeared July 30 on radio station KMBZ's "Living Large" program. The program is dedicated to the enhancement and enjoyment of one's home, as well as the celebration of "the good life." It was Thomas' second appearance on "Living Large."
Michael Bleich, associate dean of clinical and community affairs for the KU School of Nursing and executive director/CEO for KU HealthPartners Inc., was part of a national team that co-authored the report "Wisdom at Work: The Importance of the Older and Experienced Nurse in the Workplace," a study supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Allan H. Pasco, Hall Professor of 19th Century Literature, has recently published an edited anthology of 19th century French short stories titled "Nouvelles françaises du dix-neuvième siècle." The anthology includes an introduction and an analysis accompanying a critical edition of the manuscripts of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," titled "Crazy Writing and Reliable Text."
Albert Burgstahler, professor emeritus of chemistry and editor of the journal FLUoRIDE, co-presented a paper on the fluoride poisoning of horses in Colorado by fluoridated drinking water at the Fluoride Action Network 2nd Citizens' Conference on Fluoride, July 28 through Aug.1 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. He also gave a Powerpoint lecture on who contemporaries said "Shakespeare" really was, a topic he has been investigating since his retirement in 1998.
Keith McMahon gave a lecture series in June in Taiwan on "Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity." The first lecture was in Chinese at Tsinghua University on "The Male Consort of the Remarkable Woman and the Ontology of the Feminine." The second was in English at the National Central University on "The Structure of Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity." The third was in Chinese at Jiatong University on "Lacan's Theory of Sexual Difference in Late Imperial China."
Christopher Haufler and Thomas Taylor, professors in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-Plant Biology Research Program, and Daniel Crawford, adjunct research associate, were recognized for their extensive contributions to botanical research and their mission to the society at the occasion of the100th anniversary of the Botanical Society of America. Haufler is the 2006-07 president of the Botanical Society of America.
John Edgar Tidwell, associate professor of English, presented his story "From Heartland to Honolulu: The Odyessy of Frank Marshall Davis" at Kansas State University on Aug. 18.
Deb Olin Unferth, assistant professor of English, gave a reading of her stories for The Believer Magazine at The Backyard Garden in Brooklyn, N.Y. She also gave a workshop titled "The Short Short Story: Poetics and Practice" at the Northwestern University Summer Writers Conference on July 27.
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