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July 31, 1995

Recently/soon to be published

.....Steven Abraham, management - co-authored "Bargaining Over New Technology: Possible Effects of Removing Legal Constraints," accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Issues. Also accetped for publication was "The Impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on Industrical Relations," in the American Business Law Journal.

.....Sue A. Joslyn, HPELS - co-authored "Rapid Antigen Detection Testing in Diagnosing Group A B-Hemolytic Streptococcal Pharyngitis" in the May/June 1995 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice.

.....Terry Kottman, educational administration & counseling - a book, Partners in Play: An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy, published by the American Counseling Association.

.....Rick Traw, curriculum & instruction - "Beware! Here There Be Beastier: Responding to the Fundamentalist Censors" in the September issue of New Advocate.

.....Katherine van Wormer, social work - "Codependency: Implications for Women and Therapy" in Challenging Codependency: Feminist Critiques, published by the University of Toronto Press.

Presentations/lectures/exhibitions

.....Edward Amend, philosophy & religion - featured speaker at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Ascension Lutheran Church, Tulsa, Okla., where he was the first pastor. Amend's main address was entitled, "Stars, Stories and Memories."

.....Dennis Clayson and Steve Corbin, marketing - presented a special session workshop at the 19th Annual Western marketing Educator's Conference in San Diego entitled,"From Boom to Bust: What are the Implications for the Downsizing of American Business Schools?"

.....Steve Corbin, marketing - with Waterloo Attorney Harry Zanville, published an article in the Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, that was an outgrowth of a Presidential Scholars Seminar team taught in the spring of 1993. Four of the scholars-John Flint, Jeff Fuhrman, Angela Koos and Colin Brennan-worked a year and a half with Corbin and Zanville researching and writing their faculty-student supported article entitled, "Excessive Fixed Costs and Limited Productivity: The Need for Further Study of the Critical Factors Inhibiting Competition in the United State Railroad Industry." Flint and Koos also presented a paper on their research work at the Ninth National Conference of Undergraduate Research in New York.

.....Roberta Davilla, communication studies - a paper, "An Intersubjective Methodology for Studying Families," at the Southern States Communication Association, New Orleans. This was for an invitational panel sponsored by the SSCA's vice-president and was presented in conjunction with the publication of the forthcoming edited book, Parents, children and communication: Frontiers of theory and research. Davilla's chapter in the edited book is under the same title as the conference paper.

.....Carolyn Hildebrandt, psychology and the Regent's Center for Early Developmental Education - presented "Children's Representations of Pitch and Pitch Relations in Music" at the 25th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society in Berkeley, Calif. The paper was part of a symposium entitled "Hearing, Seeing, and Thinking in Music and the Visual Arts: Issues of Development."

.....Terry Kottman, educational administration & counseling - presented a one-day pre-conference workshop on Adlerian play therapy at the North American Society for Adlerian Psychology conference in Minneapolis.

.....Dean Kruckeberg, communication studies - presented his paper, "1987: Is It Time for a New Look?" and his co-authored paper, "Public Relations Education and Practice in the United Arab Emirates: A Descriptive Case Study," at the annual convention of the International Communication Association in Albuquerque, N.M. At the convention, he also was discussant and chair for the program, "The marriage of Theory and the Practice of Writing in the Professional Arena."

Awards/honors/service

.....The Culture and Intensive English Program, directed by Virginia Hash, has been elected to become a member of UCIEP, a consortium of University and College Intensive English Programs. The purpose of UCIEP is the advancement of professional standards and quality instruction in intensive English programs at universities and colleges in the United States and to ensure that students receive the most advance methods of intensive English instruction from trained, professional instructors.

..... KUNI has won the Sigma Delta Chi bronze medal in the Radio Editorial/Commentary category from the national Society of Professional Journalists for a series by Bob Wolf of rural Lansing. Wolf's six commentaries, on innovative ways to deal with the rural midwest economy, were produced by KUNI News Director Greg Shanley.

.....Marcella Beckwith, assistant professor of theater, has been selected for inclusion in the United Scenic Artists Union. In critiques, her portfolio was cited for its strength, variety of style, use of media and rendering techniques. At UNI, Beckwith has been involved in set design for numerous Theatre UNI productions.

PRobert Krueger, associate professor, Department of Modern Languages, has been selected to receive an appointment at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University for the fall semester. The appointment was based on his work concerning Brazilian slave texts.