Katherine van Wormer, Social Work, has published "Our Social Work Imagination: How Social Work Has Not Abandoned Its Mission," in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work,22(3/4),21-37.

Jim O'Loughlin, English Language and Literature, had a short story, "Adventures in Marketing," featured in Utne Reader's Webwatch column at http://www.utne.com/webwatch/archive.tpl?d=11/13/2002.  O'Loughlin also published the story "At Least" in the Australian online magazine, dotlit.  That can be found at http://www.dotlit.qut.edu.au/200202/atleast.html.

Richard Utz, English Language and Literature, and graduate student, Aneta Dygon, published, "Medievalism and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography," in the journal, Perspicuitas. Utz also is the author of, "Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1792-1948."

Jürgen Koppensteiner, Modern Languages, recently published, " 'I Would Have Liked to Be Peter Handke's First Publisher.' A Conversation with Maximilian Droschl." The article appeared in the 2001 issue of Literature, Film, and the Culture Industry in Contemporary Austria.

Kenneth Atkinson, Philosophy & Religion, presented a paper, "The Mysterious 'Black Man' of the Treatise of Shem: A Jewish Astrological Reflection on the Roman Civil Wars of the Second Century C.E." to the national meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Toronto, in November.

Jeffery Byrd, Department of Art, will have a solo exhibition at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Ill., and will present a performance there as well. Byrd will lecture and offer a workshop at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts and will perform at 2 Gyrlz Performance Art Space in Portland, Ore.

Gerri Perreault, Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Postsecondary Education, presented a paper, "Educating for Ethical Dissent as a Civic Responsibility: Some Concepts for Followers/Citizens," at the Annual International Conference of the Association for Moral Education
on Nov. 7, 2002.

Dean Kruckeberg, Communication Studies, served as a guest speaker at the Ph.D. seminar of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Oct. 16 in Iowa City. Their speech was titled, “Public Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility.”Kruckeberg also served as a guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Greater Fort Worth Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America on Oct. 9, in Fort Worth, Texas. He discussed, public relations ethics.

Jim O'Loughlin, English Language and Literature, presented a paper, "The Small Press and the Crisis of the Humanities" at the Midwest Modern Association Conference in November.

Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, English Language and Literature, presented a paper, “Chaucer in Post-Colonial Africa: ‘Creative-Kicking Tongue’ on the Canterbury Tales in Karen King-Aribisala's Kicking Tongues," at the Seventeenth Annual International Meeting of the Conference on Medievalism at UNI, Oct. 19-20. Mvuyekure also is serving as the editor for, "Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Bookcase," a novel by Ishmael Reed.

Roy Behrens, Department of Art, has been invited to contribute to an upcoming exhibition on camouflage at Estorick Gallery in London.

Susan Rochette-Crawley, English Language and Literature, moderated a section on the short story, "Centuries of Sexualities: The Erotic in Short Fiction," at the Midwest Modern Language Association conference in Minneapolis, Nov. 8 -10. She also presented a paper, "Too Serious Ladies: Erotics in Jane Bowles' Short Fiction."

Mary Herring, Educational Technology Division, recently attended the Association for Educational Communications and Technology's International Conference in Dallas. She co-presented two workshops and two general sessions: Institutional Preparation for AECT/NCATE Reviews, Teaching Tomorrow’s Teachers to Integrate Technology, ECIT: The Process, the Product, and their Effect on a University Program and Institutional Preparation for AECT/NCATE Reviews. At the conference she served as President of the Teacher Education Division, Chair of the Ad Hoc Distance Education Standards Committee and  was elected Vice Chairman of the Standards and Accreditation Committee.

Allan Stamberg, the Career Center, has been selected to serve on the Midwest Cooperative Education & Internship Association's (MCEIA) Board of Governors. Stamberg will chair the Professional Development Committee for this regional experiential learning organization.

Melissa Beall, Communication Studies, was elected to a four-year term on the Western States Communication Association Executive Council. Beall also was elected to membership in the Institute for the Study of Intrapersonal Processes.

Harvey Hess, English Language and Literature, has received an Iowa Arts Council award in support of his sonnet sequence, "Th’Autumnal Sequence: Sonnets of the Fall," to be published next summer. Hess also is among the seven winners of this year's Harold G. Henderson Competition sponsored by the Haiku Society of America.

Mary Bozik, Communication Studies, had a competitive paper selected as one of the 'Top Four' papers in the Basic Course Division of the National Communication Association.

Tom Schellhardt, vice president, Administration and Finance, has been appointed to the Current Issues Workshop Committee of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers (CACUBO).

Mary Herring, Educational Technology Division, served as President of the Teacher Education Division, Chair of the Ad Hoc Distance Education Standards Committee and  was elected Vice Chairman of the Standards and Accreditation Committee while at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology's International Conference in Dallas.

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