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Anita Herzfeld, associate professor of Latin American Studies, has had the following articles published recently: “Lenguas en contacto: el criollo limonense y el español de Costa Rica” in Signo y Seña, Revista del Instituto de Lingüística de la Univerisad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, No. 11, October 2000; “Los criollos de base inglesa en Centro América: investigaciones recientes” in Quinto Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Nororeste, Mexico, Universidad de Sonora 2000; “Limonese Creole” in Intercontinental Dictionary Series, C.D. general editor, Mary Ritchie Key; “Aproximación a la historia de las lenguas criollas de base inglesa en Centroamérica” in Rutas de esclavitud en Africa y América Latina, Universidad de Costa Rica, with support of the Ford Foundation and UNESCO.

Don Deshler, professor of special education, received the School of Education’s first “Making a Difference Award” on Dec. 7. The award recognizes distinguished leadership and contributions to the school, KU and the Lawrence community.

Mary Dusenbury, acting curator of Asian art, has been elected to membership in the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, an international organization based in Lyon, France.

Marilu Goodyear, vice chancellor for information services, and Beth Warner, director of digital library initiatives, presented “A Model for Academic IT Policy Development” at the annual EDUCAUSE conference Oct. 29 in Indianapolis. Access the presentation at www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=EDU0162.

Jerry Niebaum, assistant vice chancellor for information services, presented on compression algorithm alternatives to JPEG for Web images at the annual EDUCAUSE conference Oct. 30 in Indianapolis. It is available at www.people.ku.edu/~niebaum/ EDUCAUSE2001/.

Sergei Shandarin, professor of physics and astronomy, was elected an American Physical Society fellow. Each year only 0.5 percent of the membership can be so elected. He has been recognized for seminal work in the theory of gravitational instability, particularly formation of superclusters in the universe.

James Beach, assistant director of the Natural History Museum, was elected to serve as chair of the BIOSIS board of trustees. BIOSIS is the Philadelphia-based nonprofit publisher of Biological Abstracts, Zoological Record and other abstracting and indexing products.

Yaroslava Tsiovkh, visiting assistant professor of Ukrainian, has published “Modern Ukrainian with a Focus on Civilization (Language Manual)” in Lviv, Ukraine. This is the first Ukrainian language textbook for English-speaking students to include a large cultural-orientation component.

Michael H. Crawford, professor of biological anthropology, was appointed panelist to the 2002 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program. He will serve on the anthropology, sociology and linguistics panel, which meets Feb. 9-12 in Arlington, Va.

Hossein Saiedian, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, co-wrote “Understanding and Reducing WWW Delays” in the IEEE Computer (December 2001). He also co-wrote a book chapter, “Pre-Requirements Traceability,” in the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, January 2002.

Keith McMahon, associate professor of Chinese, presented a paper, “Strange Women and Foolish Men in Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi,” at the “Emotions and Historical Sources in China” conference in Cortona, Italy, in November. He will be a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, this spring.

Roger Shimomura, distinguished professor of art, had an exhibition of paintings at the Bellevue (Wash.) Art Museum Dec. 8 to Jan. 6. “An American Diary” was based upon the diaries kept by Shimomura’s grandmother Toku Shimomura while she was interned in Camp Minidoka, Idaho, during World War II.

Sherrie Tucker, assistant professor of American studies, presented a paper, “Improvising Womanhood, or a Conundrum Is a Woman: Performances of Gender and Race by African American Women Jazz Musicians, 1920-50,” at the American Historical Association conference in San Francisco, Jan. 4. At the same conference, she served as commentator for a panel titled “Modernity and Leisure Culture in the United States.”

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