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David Perlmutter, associate dean and professor of journalism, recently published two articles. The first, titled "If I Break A Rule, What Do I Do, Fire Myself? Ethics Codes of Independent Blogs," co-authored with Mary Schoen, appeared in the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. A second, "Your 50-Year Career Plan," appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education April 26.
Ola Faucher, director of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity, attended the Midwest Region College and University Professional Association for Human Resources conference in Wisconsin last month. Faucher and KU were the recipients of a 2007 CUPA Midwest Region Best Practices Award for the project to remove KU support employees from under the state civil service system and the creation of the university support staff classification.
Keith Russell, librarian and member of the KU Libraries' science and technology council, presented a workshop titled "Facilitation and Experiential Techniques for Changing the Behavior of Library Work Teams" during the 13th national conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries March 29-April 1 in Baltimore, Md.
Information Services hosted the Big 12 spring meeting on April 22 and 23 on the Lawrence campus. Denise Stephens, vice provost for information services, chaired the event. Among the issues discussed were IT's role in emergency management, promoting technology innovation and inter-institutional IT collaboration.
Richard W. Clement, head of special collections for the KU Libraries, was invited to present a lecture titled "The Future of the Book and Academic Libraries" on April 27 at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy.
Rhonda Houser, KU Libraries' GIS specialist, contributed mapping expertise to a recent Journal of Ecology article on disease and predation in the forest sedge, Carex blanda. Other authors include Helen Alexander, Sarah Price, Debra Finch and Michial Tourtellot of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Mark Mort, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, received the 2006-07 J. Michael Young Academic Award in the Natural Sciences Division.
Charles L. Stansifer, professor emeritus of history, presented a paper at the meeting of the Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies in San Jose, Costa Rica. The paper, delivered April 20, was titled "E. George Squire's Mysterious Book Waikna." At the end of the conference he gave a walking tour of "Old San Jose."
Forrest Pierce, assistant professor of music composition, recently received a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts/. Pierce will be among approximately 20 fellows who will focus on their own creative projects at this working retreat for visual artists, writers and composers.
Carsten Timm, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, attended the American Physical Society March meeting in Denver and gave a talk titled "Spin-dependent electronic transport through magnetic molecules." He also chaired a focus session on spin transport. Timm also presented a colloquium at Technical University in Aachen, Germany, titled "Transport in magnetic systems: Semiconductors and molecules." He also presented a colloquium at the University of Missouri-Columbia on "Tunneling through magnetic molecules."
Paul D'Anieri, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recently took part in a "Humanities Day on the Hill" in Washington, D.C., and met with the Kansas congressional delegation to encourage them to sign a letter recommending a $36 million increase in research funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Anne Cudd, professor of philosophy and director of the women's studies program, received the 2007 Byron Caldwell Smith Award for an outstanding book published by an author living or working in Kansas. She published "Analyzing Oppression" in 2006. Cudd is the first philosopher to receive this award and the second women's studies director.
New research initiatives into "U.S. Security Governance" by Holly T. Goerdel, assistant professor of public administration, have led to an invitation to the Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pa. this month. Goerdel will join academic, government and community leaders to discuss the current state of affairs of national security efforts, as well as future innovations. This research is grant-supported through KUCR and will compete for National Science Foundation funding in the coming year.
Susan Craig, art and architecture librarian, recently won the Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources, presented by the Art Worldwide Society of North America. The award recognizes her decade-long effort in creating the "Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists active before 1945," a KU Scholarworks e-book featuring 1,700 Kansas artists.
William Carswell, associate professor of architecture, presented the paper "The Nature of the Comedic in Strarchitectural Design" at the annual meeting of the American Culture Association, April 4-7 in Boston. He also chaired the session "Architecture and Visual Culture."
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