Sheri Clark (Counseling and Psychological Services Center ) was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Contribution to Counseling Center Work award by the Section for University and College Counseling Centers of the American Psychological Association (APA) at the association’s convention in Boston Aug. 15. Clark is staff psychologist, and coordinator of master’s level training and coordinator of group therapy programs of the Counseling and Psychological Services Center

Eli Bentor (Art) was awarded a Senior Fellowship at the National Museum of African Art and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., for the 2008-09 academic year.  He will conduct research on masquerade festivals in Southeastern Nigeria.

Dan Jones (Counseling and Psychological Services Center) delivered a presentation on the “Pragmatics of Training Interns in Group Therapy” at the American Psychological Association (APA) convention in Boston Aug. 15. Jones is director and chief psychologist of the Counseling and Psychological Services Center.

Mark Malloy (technology) has been invited to speak at a seminar titled “Teaching in the Digital Age” at the 2008 PDN PhotoPlus International Conference and Expo in New York City in October. Sponsored by Nikon and Photo District News, Malloy will speak on the subject of Web-based critiques using LiveBooks and similar other options for the transition from the printed image used in traditional critiques.

Malloy has spent the past two years beta testing an upcoming Web-based critique solution from LiveBooks, which arose out of the desire to re-center focus on the image during critique, rather than the mode of presentation. Malloy has since integrated the Web into his student’s workflow, requiring all photo shoots to end with selected images uploaded the class website.

Ruth Ann Strickland (Government and Justice Studies) published an article titled “The Hierarchy of Ethical Values in Nonprofit Organizations” in Public Integrity, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pages 233-251. The article is co-authored with Shannon K. Vaughan (Government and Justice Studies).

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 (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 (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.