KUDOS
Edward K. Morris, professor and chair of applied behavioral science, presented "Back to the future: B. F. Skinner, third variables, and the concept of context," at the meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis May 29 in San Diego, Calif. At the meeting, he was awarded fellow status in the association. Morris also presented "Childrearing as the behaviorist views it: John B. Watson's advice in perspective," at the meeting of the International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Science on June 26 in Dublin, Ireland.
William Carswell, associate professor of architecture, presented the paper "Re-Ideal Cities: Refreshed Urbanism through Baby-Boomer Retirement Environments" at the 45th International Making Cities Livable Conference, held June 10-14 in Portland, Ore.
Jim Peters, director of marketing for Continuing Education, attended the inaugural meeting of the International Affairs Commission of the University Continuing Education Association in Washington, D.C., in June. The commission is charged with identifying continuing education opportunities that prepare U.S. organizations, communities and residents for effective participation in a global society.
Continuing Education received three national marketing and publication awards from the University Continuing Education Association at its international conference in Vancouver in April. Silver Awards were presented for the fall 2006 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute catalog (in the category of one- or two-color print publications), a table tent titled "Be a Road Scholar" promoting KU Independent Study (miscellaneous print piece) and the KUCE Web site: www.ContinuingEd.ku.edu (electronic marketing). Continuing Education staff who contributed to the projects include Eric Buselt, Jackie Christy, Susan Elkins, Clinton Everhart, Marvin Hunt, Steve Kinder, Roger Kugler, Malcolm Neelley, Jim Peters, Jean Redeker and Shala Stevenson.
Neil A. Iles, project coordinator in the School of Social Welfare, received the "Unity Award" at the Recovery Conference in June. Iles received the award for successfully uniting the mental health community and enhancing recovery from mental illness in a cooperative manner, as well as for developing the innovative Anti-Stigma campaign in the state of Kansas.
Sarah Kanning, instructional outreach coordinator, published an article titled "How visiting an academic library could get you published" in the July issue of The Writer magazine.
Whitney Baker, libraries conservator, contributed a chapter to the Priscilla Shontz and Richard A. Murray book "A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science," which was published by Libraries Unlimited this year.
Bill Myers, director of assessment and outreach for Information Services, was invited to speak on "Ethics and Fundraising: Challenges and Opportunities" for the Association of College and Research Libraries' Ethics Committee program at the American Library Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C., in June.
Susanne Clement, collection development librarian, and Gaele Gillespie, serials librarian in Watson Library, presented a tactics session called "Collaboration and Organization for Successful Serials Cancellation" on June 1 and 2 during the North American Serials Interest Group annual conference in Louisville, Ky.
Erin Ellis and Nikhat Ghouse, social sciences librarians, co-presented a poster titled "A Tale of Two Graduate Orientations" at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 23.
Fran Devlin, interim reference coordinator, John Stratton, business librarian and Lea Currie, education librarian, co-presented a poster titled "RU There? Looking for those teaching moments in chat transcripts" at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 24.
Deborah Dandridge, field archivist in African-American Collections for Spencer Research Library's Kansas Collection, gave a talk titled "African-American Migration and Community Settlement in Kansas" at the Symphony in the Flint Hills 2007 on June 16 in Wade Pasture in Wabaunsee County.
Katherine Rose-Mockry, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, attended the National Women's Studies Association's annual conference, June 28-July 1 in St. Charles, Ill. She was a panelist for discussions called "Women's Centers Face Facebook: A Tool for Online Organizing?" and "The Educational Environment of Women's Centers in Research Institutions" She also presented "So What Does Feminism Have to Do With Me? Learning About Gender in a Learning Communities Format."
Anita Herzfeld, professor of Latin American studies, had her article "Respuesta estudiantil peruana a la educaci—n bilingźe:un estudio preliminary" published in Lingź•stica, the Journal of the Asociaci—n de Lingź•stica y Filolog’a de la AmŽrica Latina, Vol. 17, 2005 (delayed publication).
Holly Mercer, interim coordinator for scholar services, gave a talk on "Open Access and Responsible Research: Preparing Future Faculty at the University of Kansas" during the 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Uppsala, Sweden, on June 16. Mercer also presented a poster called "Out of Storage and into the Classroom: Revealing the Spencer Museum of Art Collection through the KU Libraries Information Gateway" at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 23.
Allan H. Pasco, Hall Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, recently published "Balzac's 'L'Illustre Gaudissart' and Nascent Capitalism" in Symposium. In addition, the Southeast American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies recently awarded his "Revolutionary Divorce and the Marriage of History and Literature" an honorable mention in the Percy G. Adams competition for the best article.
Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, published "'The Land Belongs to Everyone: The Unstable Dynamic of Unrestricted Cognatic Descent in Rapa, French Polynesia," in the March issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society. The article was co-authored with Christian Ghasarian.
Mikhail V. Medvedev, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and Adrian L. Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, published "Do Extragalactic Cosmic Rays Induce Cycles in Fossil Diversity?" in the Aug. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
Bruce Lieberman, professor of geology and senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute, recently received funding for a three-year National Science Foundation grant through their RevSys program in systematic biology. The grant will fund research on the evolution of trilobites and is the first paleontology research project to be funded through this program.
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