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DIANA TREVINO BENET, assistant professor of English, presented "The Protean Self" at the Conference on John Milton at Middle Tennessee State University, Oct. 18-20 in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

BRUCE BOND, professor of English, was named a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize, sponsored by the journal Nimrod, for his poem "Polyphony." The poem was published in Nimrod, vol. 45, no. 1. He read his poetry at the Writer's Garret, Oct. 28 in Dallas.

An article by JAMES H. COX, visiting assistant professor of English, was published in ATQ: American Transcendental Quarterly, September. The article is titled "The Power of Sympathy: Nineteenth-Century Women Authors Imagine Indigenous Absence." He presented "Tashtego and the Bird of Heaven: Moby Dick in Contemporary Native American Novels," at the Moby Dick 2001 conference at Hofstra University, Oct. 18 in Hempstead, N.Y.

PATRICIA CUKOR-AVILA, associate professor of English, presented "The Effects of Topic and Setting on Sociolinguistic Fieldwork" at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference, Oct. 10-14 in Raleigh, N.C. Her article "Co-existing Grammars: The Relationship Between the Evolution of African American and White Vernacular English in the South" was published in Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English, 2001.

DUNCAN ENGLER, director of the Center for Media Production, presented "Streaming Media Services at UNT" for the Emerging Technologies Interest Group during the Consortium for College and University Media Centers conference, Nov. 1-5 in New Orleans.

COREY MARKS, assistant professor of English, gave a poetry reading at the Writer's Garret, Oct. 28 in Dallas.

ALICE MATHEWS, lecturer in English, presented "Regenerated? Not Quite: The Value of Forgiveness in Samson Agonistes" at the Conference on John Milton at Middle Tennessee State University, Oct. 18-20 in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

PAUL MENZER, assistant professor of English, presented "The Old Saw: Early Modern Acting and the Infinite Regress" at the 2001 Blackfriars Conference, Oct. 12 in Staunton, Va.

A book by TIMOTHY PARRISH, associate professor of English, titled Walking Blues: Making Americans From Emerson to Elvis was published by the University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. His essay "Creation's Covenant: The Art of Cynthia Ozick" was published in Texas Studies of Literature & Language, vol. 43, no. 4, and his article "To Kingdom Come: Jesus' Son" was published in Critique, vol. 43, no. 1.

Three volumes edited by ALEXANDER PETTIT, professor of English, titled Selected Works of Eliza Haywood were published by Pickering and Chatto, 2001.

A book by RICHARD ROGERS, professor of psychology, titled Handbook of Diagnostic and Structured Interviewing, was published by Guilford Publications Inc., 2001.

JEANNE TUNKS, assistant professor of teacher education and administration, presented "The Integrated Curriculum: A University Approach" and "NCATE (National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education) Standards and PDS (Professional Development School) Experiences" at the Southeast Regional Association of Teacher Educators conference, Oct. 12-14 in Corpus Christi.

LAURA VALERIUS, associate professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation, attended an editorial board meeting as an associate editor of Scholé: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, was the contact person at the annual Graduate Recruitment Reception and represented the department at its booth in the exhibit hall at the National Recreation and Park Association Congress and Exposition, Oct. 3-6 in Denver.

State

TED FARRIS, assistant professor of marketing, and RON HASTY, professor of marketing and director of the Texas Logistics Education Foundation Center for Logistics Education and Research, comment on the local hiring of North Texas logistics graduates in the Oct. 26 Fort Worth Business Press.

CHARLES GUARNACCIA, associate professor of psychology, discusses the use of humor to deal with the Sept. 11 attacks in the Nov. 3 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

MAURICE LEATHERBURY, senior director of academic computing, discusses UNT's policy regarding Internet piracy in the Nov. 12-18 Dallas-Fort Worth Tech Biz.

ROBERT TAYLOR, professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, talks about the history of terrorism in the Nov. 10 Dallas Morning News.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, discusses the impact of problems in technology and the telecommunications industry on the unemployment rate in the Nov. 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

BRENDA P. WELLS, associate professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law and director of the Financial Services Center, writes about the cost of the Sept. 11 attacks for the financial services industry in the Nov. 9 Fort Worth Business Press.

30 years

• Sandra Jean Burke, Computing Center
• Linda K. Terry, Telecommunications

15 years

• Daniel Anthony Kunz, Biological Sciences

10 years

• Joel A. Daboub, Admissions
• W. Nevin Ellis, Computing Center

5 years

• A. Lynne Williams Bell, School of Community Service
• Brent E. Davison, Development
• Matthew Duane Duncan, Computer Sciences
• Steven C. Humphreys, Coliseum
• Pamela D. Johnson, Student Accounting and University Cashiering Services
• Barbara S. Jones, Intensive English Language Institute

ESTELLE I. STEVENS, 90, of Valley View died Oct. 23 at the Renaissance Care Center in Gainesville. She worked at North Texas from 1964 to 1978 and from 1979 to 1983 as secretary to the Board of Regents and administrative assistant to the president. She was born Jan. 20, 1911, in Valley View and was married to Cecil Curtis Stevens.

Survivors include her sister, Nancy Bentley of Valley View.

Graveside services were held Oct. 25 at Fairview Cemetery.

See a full listing of events at www.unt.edu/events

UNT Holiday Party. 3-5 p.m. Dec. 10, Gateway Center Ballroom.

Service Recognition Awards and Reception. 2-4 p.m. Dec. 13, Gateway Center.

Winter Break. Dec. 24-Jan. 1. University closed.

Other featured articles in this issue:

• UNT to square off with Colorado State in inaugural New Orleans Bowl Dec. 18
• Dallas deeds land to UNT
• TI use planning to start soon
• Regents approve science space construction
• UNT Health Science Center president to speak at fall commencement
• School of Visual Arts faculty member to participate in Leadership Texas program
• UNT employees raise more than $141,000 for SECC
• Future engineering school, TI plant purchase topics of November Faculty Senate meeting
• Severe winter weather closing information
• Holiday contribution drives in full swing
• UNT experts prove to be useful media resources