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Air quality improves, but more work needed

Lexington (Ky.) Courier Journal
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Music festival to raise awareness about renewable energy

Asheville Citizen-Times
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Insuring Coastal Property

WUNC-FM
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Energy Center helps draft wind-energy policy for state

Watauga Democrat
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http://www.wataugademocrat.com/2008/0728/0801energycenter.php

Welcome and Orientation for New Faculty and Student Development Staff:

New faculty and new student development staff are invited to attend a welcome and orientation at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center Monday, Aug. 18. The event is sponsored by the Hubbard Center for Faculty Development, Office of Academic Affairs, Office of Student Development and the Faculty Senate. The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and features campus speakers and concurrent sessions. New faculty and new student development staff who have not received an invitation should contact the Hubbard Center at 262-6150.

Matthew Robinson

Matthew Robinson (government and justice studies) has published his book ‘Crime Mapping and Spatial Aspects of Crime’ (2nd Edition) with Allyn & Bacon. The book, the first ever text on crime mapping, is co-authored with Derek Paulsen of Eastern Kentucky University.

Maggie McFadden

Maggie McFadden (women’s studies) presented “Boundaries, Feminist Biography, and Reflexivity: International Women Activists and the Shadow Narrative” at the Berkshire
Conference on the History of Women at the University of Minnesota, June 15. She presented
“Boundary Dwellers, Language, and the Reflexive Turn: Transatlantic Peace Activists and Me” at the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Madrid, Spain, July 6. Her presentation at the Auto/Biography Conference at the University of Leicester, England, July 12, was titled “Boundaries, Secrets, and the Reflexive Turn: Transatlantic Interwar Activists and the Shadow Narrative.”

Kim Q. Hall

Kim Q. Hall (p&r) presented her paper “The Biological Turn in the Humanities: Disability, Gender, and Evolutionary Narratives” at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) conference in Melbourne, Australia, June 30-July 6.