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Michael Krueger, associate professor of art, lectured and conducted a printmaking workshop at the University of South Dakota in February. He also lectured, conducted a workshop and juried a student exhibition at the University of Nebraska. In March he served as a juror for the Hamblet Award at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. While at Vanderbilt he lectured on his current research. In April, Krueger will travel to Tulane University in New Orleans for the opening of an exhibition titled “Demo’Graphics,” a collaborative research project that Krueger organized at last year’s Southern Graphics Council Conference. An article about the project also will be published in Contemporary Impression.

In April 2002, Shannon Criss, associate professor of architecture, and Nils Gore, assistant professor of architecture, presented the paper “Okolona Downtown Park: Making Architecture Relevant to Its Place” at the Constructing Place Conference in Bishop Auckland, England. The paper is derived from a collaborative design project, and it explores how the form of an urban park in Okolona, Miss., park grew out of design observations of the city itself.

Donna Luckey, associate professor of architecture, presented the paper “Incorporating Fuzzy Boundaries for Cultural Resource Sustainability in GIS” at the “Borderlands: Contested Terrain,” ACSA West Regional Conference in Bozeman, Mont., in October 2001. In September 2001 Luckey presented “Modeling the Carrying Capacity of Natural and Cultural Systems for Sustainability: A Case Study from the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica” at the “Architecture: Landscape” ACSA West Central Regional Conference in Lawrence. That same month, she presented “Influence of the Banana Company in the Brunca Region in Costa Rica” in the KU Latin American studies series Merienda.

Leonardo Villalon, associate professor of political science, presented “Democratic Experiments in Sahelian Africa: Francophone States and Muslim Societies in Senegal, Mali and Niger” at a conference on “The Challenge of Democracy in the Muslim World,” held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in March. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Syarif Hidayatulla State Institute for Islamic Studies in Indonesia and the Mershon Center of Ohio State University. From March 22 to 28, Villalon also participated in three related conferences on Islam and democracy at regional Indonesian Islamic Institutes in Padang (Sumatra), Yogyakarta (Central Java) and Makassar (Sulawessi).
Eric Rath, assistant professor of history, presented a paper on Japanese noh theater and gave a public lecture to an audience of 200 in Japanese on Japanese cuisine at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan, on March 22 and 23.

Katherine Clark, assistant professor of history and lecturer of human and western civilization, has been awarded a William M. Keck Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon fellowship for research at the Huntington Library, a British Academy Fellowship for research in Great Britain and an New Faculty Graduate Research Fellowship for grant development and research in Great Britain from the KU Center for Research.

Jeffrey Moran, assistant professor of history, recently published The ScopesTrial: A Brief History with Documents, with Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. Moran also served as a documentary panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 2.

Nyla Branscombe, professor of psychology, gave the keynote address “Importance of History and Social Categorization for the Acceptance and Assignment of Collective Guilt” at the Society of Australian Social Psychology in Adelaide, Australia, in April. This address was based on her forthcoming volume, “Collective Guilt: International Perspectives,” published by Cambridge University Press. She also gave an invited presentation, “Coping with Prejudice in Privileged and Disadvantaged Social Groups,” at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, in April.

Joseph T. Collins, adjunct herpetologist for the Kansas Biological Survey, was the keynote speaker at the 134th annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science at Fort Hays State University in April. Collins, who is also adjunct curator of herpetology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, co-wrote the Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America as well as 22 other books and more than 220 articles on wildlife. He retired from the KU Natural History Museum in 1997, where he is now herpetologist emeritus.

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