Joseph T. Collins, herpetologist emeritus at the Natural History Museum and adjunct herpetologist for the Kansas Biological Survey, has been appointed adjunct curator of herpetology at Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History. He will present seminars, advise and assist with curation of the collections. "Unrealistic Reality: Portrayals of Minorities in Cop Docs" by Shannon Campbell, assistant professor of journalism, was selected as the top debut research paper in the Broadcast Education Association multicultural research division. A chapter she wrote for an edited text, "Say It Loud: African American Audiences, Media and Identity," has been accepted for publication by Garland/ Routledge of New York. Stuart Levine, professor emeritus of English, and Susan F. Levine, former assistant dean of the Graduate School, have edited Edgar Allan Poe: Thirty-Two Stories (Hackett Publishing). The general introduction, story headnotes and annotations have been extensively revised from their previous work, The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition. Maggie Childs, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, published a paper, "The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court Literature," in the November 1999 issue of The Journal of Asian Studies. Three members of the film studies faculty have essays in FilmGenre 2000, from the State University of New York Press: Chuck Berg, professor, "Fade-Out in the West: The Western's Last Stand?"; Catherine Lee Preston, assistant professor, "Hanging on a Star: The Resurrections of the Romance Film in the 1990s"; and John C. Tibbetts, assistant professor, "So Much is Lost in Translation: Literary Adaptation in the 1990s."

A paper presented by Vic Cardell, music librarian, at the May 1999 conference of the Mountain-Plains Chapter of the Music Library Association in Albuquerque was selected to be re-presented at the February 2000 Music Library Association meeting in Louisville, Ky. The paper is titled "'Gal With a Horn': Clora Bryant and Los Angeles Jazz." J. Bunker Clark, professor emeritus of music history, had an article, "Creative Continuo: or, Examples of Enlivening a Figured Bass on the Harpsichord," published in the April issue of The Diapason. Harold Orel, distinguished professor emeritus of English, edited Charles Darwin: Interviews and Recollections, published in April by Macmillan Press, England. John Hachmeister, assistant professor of art, had an exhibit, "A Seventeen Year Balancing Act," which included drawings and sculptures in wood, bronze, concrete, cast paper and ceramic, featured in a mid-career retrospective at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Mo. Roger Martin, research writer and editor for the KU Center for Research, presented a lecture, "Advanced Interviewing Techniques," at the 2000 conference of the University Research Magazine Association in Chapel Hill, N.C. Gary L. Hawke, Digital Jayhawk executive director, has been honored with a first-place award in the Broadcast Education Association's annual faculty interactive multimedia competition. Productions underwent blind review, and awards will be presented at the association's April 18 convention in Las Vegas. Fred L. Rush Jr., assistant professor of philosophy, has been awarded a grant from the American Councils of Learned Societies for the academic year 2000-01. He will be a research fellow at the University of Berlin.