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JAMES BAIRD, associate professor of English, was elected president of the Robinson Jeffers Association, March 2002.

A short story by KEVIN M. CLAY, lecturer in English, was published in Staple, July 2002. The story is titled "The Big Bang."

JOHN PAUL EDDY, Professor Emeritus of counseling, development and higher education, presented "Preventing Bullying and Violence in Schools Via Counselor Leadership" and "Identification, Characteristics and Treatment of Substance Abusers With Psychiatric Disabilities" at the international convention of the American Counseling Association, March 25-26 in New Orleans. He also led a memorial tribute to C. Gilbert Wrenn at the conference and was presented with the "Environmental Educator of the Year Award" for 2002 by the American Association for Wellness Education, Counseling and Research.

JOHN HIPPLE, senior staff counselor in the Counseling and Testing Center, presented a workshop, "Brief Counseling in a University Counseling Center: Supervision and Training Implications," at the annual conference of the American Counseling Association, March 27 in New Orleans. He received an honorable mention for his article "Outreach to Teaching Assistants and Fellows," which appeared in the Visions newsletter of the American College Counseling Association. He presented a workshop on performance anxiety at the South by Southwest Music Conference, March 15 in Austin. He also participated in a panel on the subject of music performance anxiety at the University of Texas-Arlington Department of Music, April 3 in Arlington.

A poem by MARIE C. JONES, lecturer in English, was published in the Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 3, no. 2, March 5. The poem is titled "Cape Cod." She led a workshop, "Making Artist's Books," at the Associated Writing Programs conference, March 9 in New Orleans.

LEON A. KAPPELMAN, professor of business computer information systems and director of the Information Systems Research Center, testified March 13 before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs. The hearing was to review progress made by the Department of Veterans Affairs on several technology initiatives. Kappelman and the ISRC have been assisting the VA in the transformation of how it manages and uses technology.

GAIL LIPPINCOTT, assistant professor of English, received the Distinguished Chapter Service Award for the Lone Star Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, March 14 in Dallas. She presented "Risky Business: Street Cred for Rhetors in Training" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 22 in Chicago. She served as a judge for the International Technical Publications Competition of the Society for Technical Communication, via teleconference, March 26 in Denton.

PAUL MENZER, assistant professor of English, presented "Discovery Spaces: Theatrical Research at the New Globe" at the Shakespeare Association of America conference, March 21 in Minneapolis.

DOMINO PEREZ, assistant professor of English, presented "Caminando con LaFlorona: Traditional and Contemporary Narratives" at the National Organization of Chicana and Chicano Studies conference, March 27-31 in Chicago.

ALEX PETTIT, professor of English, delivered the Laura Crouch plenary lecture, "Terrible Texts and the Mighty Mandate of the Moment," at the annual meeting of the South Central Society for 18th-Century Studies, Feb. 21 at South Padre Island.

JOSEPH ROVAN, assistant professor of music, won first place and 5,000 Euros for his interactive composition seine hohle Form at the 15th annual Transmediale International Media Art Festival, Feb. 9 in Berlin. The work features interactive computer music, a video tracking system and dancers.

ANNE SCHOOLFIELD, lecturer in English, served as a judge for a public relations contest for the Society of Technical Communication, March 9 in Dallas.

RANDALL SCHUMACKER, professor of technology and cognition, was elected president of the Southwest Educational Research Association for 2002-03.

BRENDA SIMS, professor of English, presented "Ethics and the Human Radiation Experiments" at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, March 20 in Chicago.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, presented the keynote address, "The Economic Outlook: Recovery or Double-Dip?" at the annual Economic Forum sponsored by the Wichita Falls Board of Commerce and Industry, April 2 in Wichita Falls.

SHIRLEY WHITE, associate director of the Center for Continuing Education and Conference Management, assumed the duties of regional director for Region 7 (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana) at the annual meeting of the Association for Collegiate Conference Events Directors-International, March 23-27 in Milwaukee.

National

BRENT PHELPS, associate professor of visual arts, is featured in a Jan. 27 Los Angeles Times article that discusses his project to photograph the Lewis and Clark trail as it looks today.

State

JOHN BAEN, professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law, discusses the conflict between Ross Perot Jr. and the Dallas City Council concerning Victory, a proposed mega-development near the American Airlines Center, in the March 24 Dallas Morning News.

DAVID C. TAM, associate professor of biological sciences, is featured in the "Denton County Snapshot" in the March 27 Dallas Morning News. Tam's community activities are highlighted.

A restaurant review of THE CLUB AT GATEWAY CENTER, run by students in the hospitality management program, appears in the April 5 Dallas Morning News.

ROBERT WALLACE, professor of materials science, discusses his microchip research, which involves the regulation of the passage of electrical current through a microchip, in the April 3 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Local

A March 28 Denton Record-Chronicle article on career women features profiles on LEA DOPSON, JULIET GETTY and YOUN-KYUNG KIM, associate professors of merchandising and hospitality management, and LISA RACINA, adjunct professor in the Department of Dance and Theatre Arts.

JOHN MURPHY, ensemble director, discusses the UNT Jazz Repertory Ensemble and its upcoming performance with Sam Rivers in the March 31 Denton Record-Chronicle.

A.C. GREENE, 78, longtime Dallas Morning News columnist and Director Emeritus of the Center for Texas Studies, died April 5 at his home in Salado.

He was born Nov. 4, 1923, in Abilene and graduated from Abilene High School and Abilene Christian College. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and began writing for the Abilene Reporter-News in 1948.

From 1986 to 1991, he was resident professor of Texas studies at UNT and coordinating director of the Center for Texas Studies. He was a fellow of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas State Historical Association and the author of more than 20 books, six of them published by the UNT Press.

His weekly "Texas Sketches" column for the Dallas Morning News began in 1983, and he served as the historical editor for the paper's 100th anniversary edition in 1985-86.

He is survived by his wife, Judy Dalton Hyland, whom he married in 1994 after the 1989 death of his wife of 39 years, Betty Dozier Greene; four children, Geoffrey C. Greene of Los Angeles, Mark C. Greene of Corsicana, Eliot Greene of Dallas and Meredith Elizabeth Greene Megaw of New York; two stepdaughters, Julie Ambler of Conroe and Leslie Hyland of Austin; and two step-grandchildren.

He was buried in Shackelford County.

MARK E. RORVIG, 51, associate professor of library and information sciences, died April 10 at Denton Regional Medical Center.

Rorvig joined the School of Library and Information Sciences faculty full time in 1995.

He was nationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of information retrieval. His research benefited NASA and Intel Corp.

During his time at UNT as an adjunct professor from 1990 to 1995, he also served as a computer engineer for NASA at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. His research focused on deciphering large amounts of information and finding new ways to piece it together. He also produced four U.S. patents on information retrieval algorithms.

He led the UNT master's program in information systems.

Rorvig earned a bachelor's degree in English at Seattle University in 1972, a master's in library service from Columbia University in 1974, and a doctorate in information studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985.

A memorial service was held April 17 at the Goolsby Chapel on campus.

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U.S. Army Field Band. 7:30 p.m. April 21, Winspear Hall. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Call 369-7802.

UNT Support Staff Reception. 3:30-4:30 p.m. April 24, Golden Eagle Suite, University Union.

Senior Choreography Concert. 8 p.m. April 25-27, 2 p.m. April 28, University Theatre. For tickets, call 565-2428.

National Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi Induction. 3 p.m. April 29, Silver Eagle Suite.

Annual African Heritage Banquet. 6 p.m. April 30, Silver Eagle Suite. For tickets, call 565-3424.

UNT Retirement Reception. 2-3 p.m. April 30, Diamond Eagle Suite.

Other featured articles in this issue:

• Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approves UNT College of Engineering
• UNT VP for administrative affairs to retire
• Faculty, staff recognized at Honors Day celebration
• UNT study says gaps in baseball players' salaries may lead to losing seasons
• Spring commencement ceremonies May 11
• UNT professor on a 3-D mission
• Summer National Youth Sports Program at UNT
• UNT entrepreneurship student wins prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship
• UNT leads Texas in number of students winning Goldwater Scholarships

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