Randi Hacker, outreach coordinator for the Center for East Asian Studies, was nominated for an Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Boston/New England chapter for program writing for her work on Windy Acres, a TV show produced by Kingdom County Productions in Vermont and broadcast last fall on Vermont Public Television. The show received an Emmy May 7 for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Programming.

Keith McMahon, professor and chair of East Asian languages and cultures, gave a talk at the yearly conference for the Association for Asian Studies titled “Pu Songling and the Male Consort of the Remarkable Woman.” He will give another talk in May at Harvard University titled “The Polygynous Politics of the Modern Chinese Man in Nine-Times Cuckold.” In addition, his article “Opium Smoking and Modern Subjectivity” has been accepted for publication in Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, published by the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, Australia.

Lauren M. Grieb, graphics coordinator for KU Memorial Unions, received four awards from the Association of College Unions International’s 12th annual “Steal This Idea” competition.

Edith W. Clowes, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, received a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend for work on the contemporary Russian novelist Victor Pelevin.

Philip Schrodt and Deborah Gerner, professors of political science, and Ömür Yilmaz, graduate teaching assistant in political science, published a study in the latest issue of International Studies Perspectives describing how cheap and quick technology can lead to real-time global conflict management.

Fred Rodriguez, interim dean of education, has been elected president of the board for United Way of Douglas County. Martin Dickinson, distinguished professor of law, was elected treasurer.