Scott Walter, assistant dean of libraries, presented the paper “Instructional Improvement in Academic Libraries: Professional Practices and Opportunities for Collaboration” Oct. 23 at the inaugural meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Bloomington, Ind.

Kate Saunders, senior scientist with the Bureau of Child Research, has been appointed by the Association for Behavior Analysis International as its delegate to the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences.  

Tami Albin, reference librarian, and Bayliss Harsh, reference and instruction assistant, presented “It’s a Mad Mad Library: Wacky Ways to Share What’s Cookin’ at KU Libraries” during the College and University Libraries Section of the Kansas Library Association Oct. 14-15 in Emporia.

Genna Hurd, co-director for the Kansas Center for Community Economic Development at the Policy Research Institute, was elected to the board of directors for the University Economic Development Association at their annual conference, Nov. 7-9 in Orlando, Fla.

Bruce Lieberman, associate professor of geology, presented “Did a Gamma-Ray Burst Initiate the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction?” and “Biogeography and the Nature and Timing of the Cambrian radiation” at the Pardee Keynote Symposium of the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver.

Kissan Joseph, associate professor of business, presented “E-Marketing: The New Face of Marketing” to the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Kansas City, Mo., Chapter on Jan. 20.

Morris Faiman, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, will speak to the sixth-grade alcohol and drug prevention club at Sunset Hill Elementary School Feb. 15.

Joann Keyton, professor of communication studies, will present “Creating a Productive Organizational Culture” to the Emporia Rotary Club Feb. 15.

David Darwin, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, presented “Improving Development and Splice Design: What We Know and How to Use It” at the 54th annual Concrete Conference at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Dec. 2.

James Gentry, professor of journalism, had his article “Stock Options Go Local” selected to lead BusinessJournal.org, the business reporting Web site of the American Press Institute.

Keith McMahon, professor and chair of East Asian languages and cultures, presented in Chinese, “A Late Qing Revision of the Warrior Woman,” at a conference on “Narrative and Canonization” at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 18-19.

Beverly Mack, associate professor of African and African-American studies, published the book Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song through Indiana University Press. She also presented “Ownership of Oral Sources: Sufi Women Scholars” at the 47th annual meeting of the African Studies Association Nov. 11.

James Beach, assistant director of KU’s Biodiversity Research Center, has been elected vice chair for informatics to the board of directors of the Organization for Tropical Studies.

Theresa Klinkenburg, chief financial officer at KU, has been reappointed as an at-large board member of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers.

Nyla Branscombe, professor of psychology, presented “Collective Guilt and Prejudice Reduction” at an international conference Nov. 7 in Canberra, Australia.

Michael Engel, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has published the book Evolution of the Insects. He co-wrote the book with David Grimaldi at the American Museum of Natural History.

Larry Martin, senior curator at the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, co-wrote “Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison” in the Nov. 26 issue of Science.

Richard W. Clement, special collections librarian at the Spencer Research Library, has been selected as an advisory editor for Book History, the juried journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.