Roberto Clemente, Angela Clark-Hanify, and Brooke Collison, Counseling, have published an article "Bosnian Refugees in the United States: Implications for the Counseling Profession," in Dimensions of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice, January 2001.

Rex Karsten, assistant professor of Management, had a manuscript entitled "An Analysis of IS Professional and End User Causal Attributions for User-System Outcomes" accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Journal of End User Computing.

Richard Utz, English, has published an essay, "The Medieval Myth of Jewish Ritual Murder: Towards a History of Literary Reception," in The Years Work in Medievalism 14 (2000), 23-36.

Bif Williams,HPELS, published an article "Muscle Cramps 101" in Training & Conditioning, Vol. X:9, pp. 23-28.

Joseph Grzywacz, HPELS, published an article "The Social Ecology of Health: Leverage Points and Linkages" in Behavioral Medicine, Vol. 26:3, pp. 101-115.

Melanie Hart, HPELS, along with C.A. Lane, M.G. Fischman and T.G. Reeve had their article "Manipulations of Sensory Information: A Test of the Hypothesis of Redundancy of Knowledge of Results" published in Perceptual and Motor Skills 91, pp. 1106-1112.

Ron Roberts, Professor of Sociology has just published a second edition of his book, Ordinaray Ghosts. The new edition has a foreward by Senator Tom Harkin and a Preface by Meridel Le Sueur.

Dr. Deborah Tidwell, Curriculum and Instruction, and Dr. Andrea DeBruin-Parecki, Educational Psychology and Foundations, Co-Directors of TEAMS (Teacher Education Addressing Minority-Language Speakers) Project, will present at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 35th Annual Convention & Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, on Friday, March 2, 2001. The title of the presentation is: "Preparing minority-language paraprofessionals to become classroom teachers."

Barbara O'Donnell, Curriculum and Instruction, presented a half-day inservice to teachers of St. Katherine's St. Mark's Independent College Prep School in Bettendorf, Iowa. The January 15th inservice focused on methods for developing curriculum that is differentiated to meet the needs of all learners.

Barbara O'Donnell, Curriculum and Instruction, served as a guest speaker for the Iowa Talented and Gifted Network on January 25th. Topics presented included higher education's role in the preparation of teachers of the gifted and talented as well as effective methods of curriculum differentiation.

Roberto Clemente, Counseling, presented a lecture titled "Reparations: Vieques, Puerto Rico and the Latino(a)Bicultural Identity in the United States of America," at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as part of the Scholarship IN Society Speaker Series, January 2001.

Robert Anderson, Associate Athletic Media Relations Director, was recently named the top Soccer Sports Information Director nationally for first-year soccer programs by Soccerbuzz.com. Anderson was also named second best Soccer SID in the Great Lakes Region and eighth nationally.

Leonard Upham, PLS, received the Philip Sehmann - High School Award for excellence in high school instrumental music education at a luncheon in December.

Martin Agran, Special Ed, was one of three outstanding Iowa scholars named to the Iowa Academy of Education, a four -year-old organization founded by the FINE (First In the Nation in Education) Foundation. The mission of the Academy is to inform educational policies and practices in Iowa through scholarly works and analysis of significant educational issues and trends.

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