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Deb Unferth, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a 2007 MacDowell Fellowship to pursue her writing at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H. this November.

Gerald Sousa, professor of English, spoke as editor of the journal Mediterranean Studies at the official opening of the 10th International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association on May 31 at the University of Evora, Portugal. He also chaired a session of "Early Modern English Drama" at the Congress on June 2.

Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, and Mikhail Medvedev, associate professor of physics and astronomy, made a presentation at the April meeting of the American Physical Society.

They discussed their theory of the motion of the solar system exposing Earth to an onslaught of cosmic rays roughly every 60 million years being responsible past mass extinctions.

Paul Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies, spent July and August translating newly acquired Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic texts for the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo.

Elaine B. Sharp, professor and chair of political science, was awarded the Norton Long Career Achievement Award for a profound and lasting impact on the field of urban politics from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

TOPONYMS

In September 1939, Deane W. Malott became the first native Kansan and KU alumnus to be named chancellor. In November 1954, the new physics and chemistry building was named for this dynamic and personable leader. The Malott Gateway at 15th and Iowa streets was given in memory of Malott and his wife, Eleanor, who was instrumental in creating the plantings that distinguish the campus. A courtyard near Malott Hall is named in her honor. Both are buried in Pioneer Cemetery.