Katherine van Wormer, Social Work has published "Working with Male Batterers: A Restorative-Strengths Approach" (co-authored with Susan Bednar). Published in Families in Society, 83 (5/6) pp.557-565.

Sue Joslyn, HPELS, published with Leslie Bernstein, Cayla Teal, and Dr. Jerome Wilson:
"Ethnicity-Related Variation in Breast Cancer Risk Factors." Published in
the journal Cancer, January 2003.

Sue Joslyn, HPELS, published with Badrinath Konety and Michael O'Donnell: "Extent of Pelvic Lymphadenectomy and its impact on Outcome in Patients with Primary
Bladder Cancer: Analysis of data from the National Surveillance,
Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database," published in Journal of Urology (in
press) 2003; "Racial differences in treatment of early stage breast
carcinoma," in the journal Cancer, October 2002;" Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer: Distribution and Survival by Sex and Race," the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2002.

Grant Tracey, English Language & Literature, has published his first collection of short stories, “Parallel Lines and the Hockey Universe,” in Pocol Press.

William Clohesy, Philosophy & Religion, has published an article, “Fund-raising and the Articulation of Common Goods,” in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 32:1 (March 2003).

Jim O’Loughlin, English Language & Literature, contributed a chapter, “Teaching Genre Through ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’” to the recently published collection, The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper.”

Jeffery Byrd, Art, wrote entries on performance art and fluxus as well as on six individual artists for Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, edited by Kristine Burns.

Sue Joslyn, HPELS, had the following abstracts accepted for presentation:
( with Badrinath Konety): "Impact of Hospital Volume on Outcomes from
Radical Cystectomy: Data from the Health Care Utilization Project
(HCUP)," American Urological Association 2003 annual meeting, Chicago,
April 2003; with Joe Sirintraupun: Impact of Lymphadenectomy and Nodal Burden
in "Renal Cell Cancer: Analysis of Population Data from the Surveillance,
Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program," American Urological
Association 2003 Annual meeting, Chicago, April 2003.

Chris Merz, School of Music, is the featured artist at the James Madison University Jazz Festival, March 21 and 22. The JMU jazz band will perform Merz’s compositions and arrangements and feature him as a soloist.

Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, English Language & Literature, presented three papers in Houston, in February. During the National Association of African American Studies convention, Mvuyekure presented "Women in Pre-Colonial Rwandan Poetry of UBWIRU: UMUGABEKAZI (Queen Mother), ABAGENI (Brides), IMPENEBERE (Women without Breasts), and AMASUGI (Virgins)."
The second paper was presented at the International Association of Asian Studies meeting, and was titled, "Re/Writing American Orientalism: Latent and Manifest Orientalism, Glossing and the Metonymic Function of Japanese Language in Ishmael Reed’s, 'Japanese By Spring'."
Finally, Mvuyekure presented, “Colonial Education and the Consumption of Colonial Discourse in Luther Standing Bear’s, ‘My People, The Sioux’ and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s, ‘Weep Not Child’,” with Kelly McLean at the National Association of Native American Studies meeting.

Mary Bozik, Communication Studies, was a member of a panel at the Association of Teacher Educators meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., in February. Her presentation was, "Teacher and Student Communication Skills: Standards, Skills and Expectations."

Christine Streed, Art, is exhibiting a 12-part drawing installation from her NUMBSKULL series at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, Feb. 6 - March 8.

Roy Behrens, Art, gave a lecture at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in February on “The ABCs of Constructivism: The Birth of Kindergarten and Its Influence on Geometric Abstract Art.”

JoAnn Schnabel, Art, will have her ceramic sculpture included in the 59th Scripps Ceramic Annual, at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., Jan. 25 - April 6.

Vince Gotera and Grant Tracey, English Language and Literature, were invited to take part in the "Iowa Authors Showcase" as part of the inaugural proceedings in Des Moines, Jan. 17.

Carol Colburn, Theatre, and Tisch Jones, presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Jan. 13. Their poster session presentation was, "Teaching to Produce and Producing to Teach."

Jim O’Loughlin, English Language & Literature, presented a paper, "Technology of Our Own: Computer Literacy and the Small Press," at the Modern Language Association Conference in New York, Dec. 27-30.

Jonathan Schwabe, School of Music, premiered a composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., on Dec. 13. The work is, "Duo Sonatine for Trumpet and Piano."

Richard Utz, English Language & Literature, presented a paper, “Remembering Ritual Murder: The Anti-Semitic Blood Accusation in Medieval and Modern Memory,” at the International Conference on the History of Ritual, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.

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, Canada, November.

Juergen Koppensteiner, Modern Languages, presented a paper at the 36th annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Nov. 23, 2002. His paper was titled, "Coping with the Holocaust: Bernhard Schlink’s Bestselling Novel, The Reader."

Richard Utz, English, has been invited to serve as editor of the subsection on "Medievalism" for the journal, Perspicuitas (University of Essen, Germany).

Cynthia Goatley, Theatre, received a meritorious achievement certificate for directing Theatre UNI’s production of The Laramie Project in October. She was recognized for her work at the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival on the UNI campus in January.

Charles Adelman and Richard Colburn, Art; Victoria DeFrancisco, Communication Studies; Barbara Lounsberry, English Language and Literature; Bill Shepherd, School of Music; Robert Krueger, Modern Languages; and Jay Edelnant, Theatre received CHFA Faculty Development Major Grant awards.

Carlin Hageman, Communicative Disorders, was recognized as the National Student Speech-Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) Chapter Adviser of the Year. Hageman has been UNI’s NSSLHA chapter adviser for more than 20 years.

Robert Washut, School of Music, conducted the Wyoming All-State Jazz Ensemble in Casper, Wyo., Feb. 18-21 and served as adjudicator for the Casper College Jazz Festival.

Cate Palczewski, Communication Studies, won the American Forensics Rohrer Research Award for 2001 at the National Communication Convention in November. Her essay, “Contesting Pornography: Terministic Catharsis and Definitional Argument,” was chosen as the outstanding research monograph published in argumentation research.

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