Malcolm Gibson, assistant professor of journalism, has received an unrestricted grant for research focusing on African-American war correspondents in World War II. The grant was awarded by the Freedom Forum Professor Publishing Program. Henry W. Buck, physician in Student Health Services, presented HPV Diseases: Current Management at the Florence Nightingale Hospital and Medical School in Istanbul, Turkey, and at Cukurova University Medical School in Adana, Turkey, in January. William Tsutsui, associate professor of history, won the John Whitney Hall Prize from the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on Japan or Korea published in 1998 for his book Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in 20th- Century Japan. John Head, professor of law, had an article, "Global Implications of the Asian Financial Crisis: Banking, Economic Integration, and Crisis Management in the New Century," published in the William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 3. Interactions between Morphology, Syntax and Prosody in Chinese, by Shengli Feng, associate professor of East Asian languages and culture, has been reviewed in an article that appears in Chinese Linguistics in the Past and the Present. Doug Niehaus, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, recently received word that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for the work he and four others did on the ATM reference traffic system, or ARTS. Niehaus is a faculty affiliate of KU's Information and Telecommunication Technology Center in Nichols Hall and the third affiliate to receive a patent since February 1999. Janet Hamburg, professor of dance, was featured as the Certified Laban Movement Analyst for February on the Web site for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies at www.limsonline.org. Cornel Pewewardy, assistant professor of teaching and leadership, was named the 1999 Wordcrafter of the Year by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers during a recent meeting of the national caucus in Albuquerque, N.M. In 1998, Pewewardy coordinated a regional Wordcraft Circle conference at KU with the KU First Nations Student Association and the Haskell Foundation. The conference theme was "Combating the Weapons of Genocide Through Writing and Storytelling."

Karyl B. Leggio, a lecturer in the School of Business, and Da-Hsiang Donald Lien, professor of economics, co-authored two recently published articles. "Derivative Trading by Utility Firms" is the lead article in the spring 2000 issue of the Journal of Economics and Finance. "Mergers in the Electric Utility Industry in a Deregulatory Environment" appears in the February 2000 issue of the Journal of Regulatory Economics. Jama Kolosick, public education specialist for the Natural History Museum, has been invited to represent the Association of Science and Technology Centers at a national conference on the teaching of evolution Oct. 6 to 9, 2000, in Berkeley, Calif. Ronald A. Willis, professor of theatre and film, is this year's recipient of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's Outstanding Educator Award. He will be honored in a ceremony at the ATHE conference Aug. 2 to 5 in Washington, D.C. James K. Gentry, dean of the School of Journalism, will make a presentation on the various components of a dean's job for the Freedom Forum Diversity Leadership Program June 5 in San Francisco. Susanne Shaw, professor of journalism, also will speak at this program, and Shannon B. Campbell, assistant professor of journalism, will be a participant. Gentry also will speak on "Making Change in Academia" for the American Press Institute June 8 in Reston, Va. Don Marquis, professor of philosophy, read his paper, "What's Wrong with Adultery?" at the Pacific division meetings of the American Philosophical Association April 6 to 8 in Albuquerque, N.M. Catherine Preston, assistant professor of theatre and film, has been awarded a graduate research fellowship to begin a long-term study, "The Visual Culture of Adolescent Girls." John Tibbetts, assistant professor of theatre and film, has published eight essays in The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, including "Crime Fiction in the Movies," "Detective Fiction on Television," "The Occult Sleuth" and "The Juvenile Detective in Literature." He published an essay, "Life to Those Shadows: Kevin Brownlow Talks about a Career in Films," in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1999, Vol. XIV, No. 1, 79-94. He also presented a paper titled "The Hard Ride: Imaging the Kansas-Missouri Border Wars and William Clarke Quantrill" at the Southwest Regional Popular Culture/Amer- ican Culture Associations Conference in February in Albuquerque, N.M. Rob Porter, associate professor of law, spoke on "Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Treatises" at a U.S. Department of Agriculture workshop in Oneida Lake, N.Y.; "Decolonizing Federal Indian Law" at Washington University in St. Louis; and "Rethinking Indigenous Education Policy" at the Kansas State Indian Education Conference. His article, "Legalizing, Decolonizing and Modernizing New York State's Indian Law," appeared in Albany Law Review.