Dave Hoing, Rod Library, sold his short story, "Servant of the Stone," to the British magazine Postscripts. It will be published fall 2006 or winter 2007. The British magazine, Interzone, has purchased Hoing's short story, "Tashi's Future Lover," and his novella, "The Purring of Cats."

Dean Kruckeberg, Communication Studies, has published "Public Relations" in Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators, edited by William G. Christ, 281-308. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2006. Kruckeberg co-authored "Global Advertising and Public Relations" in Global Communication, edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour, 271-292. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007. Kruckeberg co-authored This Is PR: The Realities of Public Relations, 9th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2007. He co-authored “The Role and Ethics of Community-Building for Consumer Products and Services: With Some Recommendations for New-Marketplace Economies in Emerging Democracies,” in Public Relations Theory II, edited by Carl H. Botan and Vincent Hazleton, 485-497. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

Jim O'Loughlin, English Language and Literature, published "A Technology of Our Own: the Place of Computers and the Case of the Small Press" in Teaching, Technology, Textuality: Approaches to New Media. Edited by Michael Hanrahan and Deborah L. Madsen (Palgrave MacMillan).

Otto MacLin, Psychology, appeared on Court TV Monday, April 10, testifying in Wisconsin v. Masarik, Bartlett, and Spengler on eyewitness memory and identification issues. He testified about general issues in the eyewitness identification field as well as reported on research that he and his students have conducted. Full coverage of this trial can be found at http://www.courttv.com.

Dean Kruckeberg, Communication Studies, was a visiting faculty member who taught "Special Problems: International Public Relations Ethics" course MC 482.1 Feb. 3 through 5, at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was a guest speaker in World Communications Systems class Feb. 1 at the Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication, Iowa State University, Ames. Kruckeberg co-presented "Toward an 'Organic Model' of Public Relations in Public Diplomacy," March 10, at the 9th Annual International Public Relations Research Conference, Miami, Fla. Kruckeberg co-chaired the meeting of the national Commission on Public Relations Education March 8 at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., attended the meeting of the Commission on International Public Relations March 10 in Miami, Fla., and of the board of the International Public Relations Research Conference March 9 and presided over a research session of the 9th Annual International Public Relations Conference March 11 in Miami. Kruckeberg, co-presented "Conceptualizing Communities in the Globalizing Transnational Multiverse" April 7 at the 18th annual conference of the International Academy of Business Disciplines, San Diego. At the same conference he presented "Healthcare Communitas: Sketching a Community-Centered Model for Crisis Public Relations." Kruckeberg was an external reviewer of the Communication Department of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, March 15 through 17.

Jenni Colsch, Continuing Education, received a silver Addy award for the UNI Museums' A T.rex Named SUE Mixed Media Campaign.

The first-ever Veridian Credit Union Community Engagement Award recipients are: Leslie Wilson, College of Business Administration; Michele Yehieli, HPELS; Gretta Berghammer, Theatre; Alan Czarnetzki, Earth Science; and Richard Allen Hays, Public Policy.

Dave Hoing, Rod Library, had his story "Kivam," nominated for best story of the year by the British Science Fiction Association. The story was published in the magazine, Interzone last year (March/April 2005).

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