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Michael Roberts, director of clinical child psychology, received a citation from American Psychology Association President Alan Kazdin of Yale University at the association's meeting March 28.

David Vertacnik, associate professor of ceramics, had his sculptures featured in "Paralleled: The Earthly and the Ethereal" May 23 at the Philip J. Steele Gallery in Denver, Colo. The series was sponsored by the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.

Hume Feldman, associate professor of physics and astronomy, gave an invited talk March 23 on "Cosmic Flows of 100 Mpc/h Scales" at the 43rd Recontres de Moriond in La Thuile, Val d'Aosta, Italy. He also organized a workshop on "Present and Future of Peculiar Velocity Analysis" March 28 at the University College of London.

Holly T. Goerdel and Kelly M. Leroux, assistant professors of public administration, have been invited to the historic Minnowbrook conference addressing how public administration, public management and public service can better respond to the turbulence and critical problems of society. They are among only 40 emerging scholars across the United States invited to participate.

Maria Carlson, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, was invited by Vice President for Academic Affairs Kenneth W. Rea to address several hundred faculty and students of Louisiana Tech University on the topic of "Russia's Search for Identity after the Fall" on March 18. Rea had read Carlson's Hall Lecture on the Web and invited her to be the opening keynote speaker of the university's series, "Into the 21st Century: Russia." She was also invited by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to be the featured speaker for the Piedmont Slavic Colloquium March 24. She spoke on "The New Russian Paganism as a Post-Collapse Phenomenon."

Audra Boone, assistant professor of finance, received the School of Business' best paper award for "How are Firms Sold?" (with J. Harold Mulherin) in the April edition of the Journal of Finance.

Koleman Strumpf, Koch Professor of Economics, received the School of Business' best paper award for "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis," (with Felix Oberholzer-Gee) in the Journal of Political Economy.

Deb A. Deering, senior administrative assistant for the accounting and information services area within the School of Business, won the school's Beth Bovee Staff Excellence Award.

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The steam-tunnel repairs on the front lawn of Watson Library overlap the site of the first Snow Hall, the natural history building that opened in 1886. By the 1920s, the classroom and lab facility had deteriorated so badly that its stone walls had "quivering tendencies" in high winds, among other failings. New Snow Hall opened in 1930, and the old building was demolished. Its stone was saved and recycled to face the Military Science Building, completed in 1943. For more, visit www.buildings.ku.edu.