The works of Rui Shima and eight other Japanese women are part of an exhibit titled "An Incomplete History, Women Photographers from Japan," on display in the UNT Art Gallery. Part 1 of the exhibit ran from Nov. 30 through Dec. 12. Part 2 begins Jan. 16 and runs through Feb. 20.

DEBORAH ATKINS, assistant director of Velma E. Schmidt programs, presented "Implementation of Home Learning Kit Resources With Families of Young Children: Implications for Public Health" and "Music Research: Newborn Music Preferences and Temperament Variability and Music Styles" at the American Psychological Society annual conference, June 8-11 in Miami; and "Progress in Music Research: Temperament Variability and Music Styles" and "Newborn Music Preference: Implications for Music Education Practices" at the Music Education Forum, University of Miami School of Music, October in Miami.

ANAT BARNIR, assistant professor of management, presented "An Investigation of Online Revenue Sources for Information Goods" at the Decision Sciences Institute annual meeting, Nov. 18-21 in Orlando.

BRUCE BOND, associate professor of English, published "The Drowning" in the Iowa Review, vol. 30, no. 2; "The Sirens of Los Angeles" in the Ohio Review, vol. 61; "Amnesia" in the Western Humanities Review, vol. 54, no. 1; "Django" in Brilliant Corners, summer 2000; "Coltrane's Teeth" in the Crab Orchard Review, spring/summer 2000; and "Cruor Dei" in Place of Passage, Story Line Press, 2000. His poem "Feast of the Seven Sorrows" was featured in the Texas Poetry Calendar, Flying Cow Productions, 2000. He presented "Mystery and Difficulty: Audience and the Individual Imagination From the Romantics to the Moderns" in July at the Writer's Garret in Dallas.

CHWEE LYE CHNG, professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation, presented "The Impact of Cultural Barriers on HIV Prevention Targeting Asian and Pacific Islanders" at the National Asian and Pacific Islander Conference, Oct. 13-18 in Honolulu.

DENNIS W. ENGELS, Regents Professor of counseling, development and higher education, presented "Career Development" at the Rocky Mountain Association for Counselor Education and Supervision conference, Oct. 4-8 in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

PETE A.Y. GUNTER, Regents Professor of philosophy and religion studies, was elected president of the Society for Process Philosophy of Education at its meeting at Dickinson College, Carlyle, Pa. He presented the R.E. Jackson conservation award to Arthur Temple Jr., retired president and chair of the board for Temple-Inland Inc. and former vice-chair of Time Inc. at the annual meeting of the Big Thicket Association, Oct. 21 in Saratoga. He was re-elected to the board of the Texas Committee for Natural Resources at its annual meeting, Oct. 28 in Lancaster. He delivered a talk, "Reconceiving Nature: The Big Thicket as a Case in Point," in the Life Sciences Symposium Series at Brookhaven College, Nov. 9 in Dallas.

JOHN HIPPLE, associate professor of counseling, development and higher education and senior staff counselor at the Counseling and Testing Center, presented the workshop "Responding to Crises and Disasters in the School Setting" at the Texas Counseling Association annual conference, Nov. 16 in Houston.

JAN S. HODGES, assistant professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation, presented "Services and Supports for Persons with Brain Injuries" at the American Therapeutic Recreation Association annual conference, Sept. 8-10 in Cincinnati.

BONITA JACOBS, vice president for student development, received an award for her "outstanding contributions to the orientation profession" at the National Orientation Directors Association conference, in October in San Diego.

CAROLYN KERN, associate professor of counseling, development and higher education, presented "Developing a Counseling Curriculum for Working With Adolescents" at the Rocky Mountain Association of Counselor Education and Supervision conference, Oct. 5-8 in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

GARRY L. LANDRETH, Regents Professor of counseling, development and higher education and director of the Center for Play Therapy, spoke on child-centered play therapy as the keynote speaker at the Association for Play Therapy International Conference, Oct. 13 in New Orleans.

TOMMIE LAWHON, professor of counseling, development and higher education, was published in the Early Childhood Education Journal, vol. 28, no. 2. The article is titled "Promoting Social Skills in Young Children." She presented "Essential: The Friendship Development of Young Children" at the annual conference of the Texas Association for the Education of Young Children, Oct. 13 in Dallas. She presented "Teacher Preparation: Enhancing the Friendships of Young Children" for the National Association of Early Childhood Educators, Nov. 8 in Atlanta. She also presented "Linking the Social and Emotional Development of Young Children: Encouraging Healthy Emotional Attachments and Social Associations" at the annual conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Nov. 10 in Atlanta.

DONNA LEDGERWOOD, associate professor of management, received a $30,000 grant package of HRISPro software from Human Resource Micro-System of California. The grant–in–kind will allow management students to become more familiar with the software and its potential uses.

COREY MARKS, assistant professor of English, published the book Renunciation, University of Illinois, September 2000. His poem "Renunciation" was published in the Paris Review, summer 2000, and his poem "Sparrows" was featured in Poetry Daily (www.poems.com) Sept. 28.

SCOTT MARTIN, assistant professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation, presented "Cognitive Anxiety Association With Gymnastics," "Role Models, Perceived Sport Encouragement, and Sport Expectations of Adolescent Athletes and Their Parents" and "Kinesiology Trained Professionals Working in Applied Sport Psychology"at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology, Oct. 13-23 in Nashville.

GEORGE MORRISON, professor of counseling, development and higher education and Velma E. Schmidt chair, was published in the Public School Montessorian, vol. 13, no. 1. The article is titled "Election 2000 and the Politics of Reading." He was also published in the Sid W. Richardson Foundation 1999 Annual Report. The article is a description of the Success for Life program. He presented "Literacy: Every Child's Civil Right" at the Early Education Curriculum Seminar sponsored by the Brazos Valley Quality Initiatives Child Care Training and the Brazos Valley Association for the Education of Young Children, Sept. 29 in Bryan; "Early Childhood Education: Directions for the Future" at the University of Malaya Faculty of Education International Conference, Sept. 7 in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia; and "What Does the Future Hold for Early Childhood Education?" at St. Francis Episcopal Day School, Aug. 24 in Houston. He received a $78,000 Head Start Educational Component grant in collaboration with Head Start of Greater Dallas and a $121,000 Texas Ready to Read grant in collaboration with the Waco ISD.

DIANE NEGRA, assistant professor of radio, television and film, presented "Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom" and "The New Primitives: Irishness and Recent U.S. Television" at Columbia University in November in New York.

CHARLDEAN NEWELL, Regents Professor of public administration, was published in Home Rule in America, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001. The chapter is titled "Texas."

TIM PARRISH, assistant professor of English, was published in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, fall 2000. The essay is titled "The End of Identity: Philip Roth's American Pastoral."

ALEX PETTIT, associate professor of English, edited Textual Studies and the Common Reader: Essays on Editing Novels and Novelists, University of Georgia Press, 2000.

JAMES L. POIROT, professor of technology and cognition, presented the keynote address "Curriculum Innovation: The Impact of the Internet" at the Information Technology in Education Conference Sept. 26-Oct. 6 in Trinidad, Tobago. He also assisted as executive director of the Caribbean Education Technology Association.

SWAROOP REDDY, assistant professor of public administration, was published in the Journal of Public Administration Education, July 2000. The article is titled "Introducing an Emergency Management Curriculum Into Public Affairs."

ANNE SCHOOLFIELD, lecturer in English, served as host of the University Interscholastic League Spelling and Vocabulary Preparation Session at the 2000 North Texas Student Activities Conference, Sept. 23 in Denton.

PETER SHILLINGSBURG, professor of English, was published in Textual Studies and the Common Reader: Essays on Editing Novels and Novelists, University of Georgia Press, 2000. The article is titled "Editing Thackeray: A History."

DON STAPLES, professor of radio, television and film, presented "WILSON in Technicolor" at the Image of the Presidency in Film and Television conference, sponsored by the Film and History League, Nov. 11 in Westlake, Calif.

UNT won the Program of the Year award for First Flight, a program designed to help incoming freshmen with the transition from high school to college, at the South West Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls regional conference, Nov. 5 in Tulsa, Okla.

ELISABETH WARREN, director of housing, delivered the keynote address, "Creating Civility in the Classroom and on Campus," at Kilgore College's Faculty/Staff Development Day, Aug. 16 in Kilgore.

FRED WATKINS, lecturer in radio, television and film, presented the film Hospodi Pomilui at the Freaky Film Festival, Oct.28 in Champaign, Ill. SAM SAULS, associate professor of radio, television and film, provided the sound design for the film.

BERNARD L. WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, and TERRY L. CLOWER, assistant professor of applied economics and associate director of the center, were published in the Economic Development Quarterly, November 2000. Their article is titled "Filmed Entertainment and Local Economic Development: Texas as a Case Study."

DICK WHITE, associate professor of management, received a grant in kind from Oracle Corp. valued at $2.1 million through his work with the Oracle Academic Initiative, a program helping to advance technology in educational programs.. The grant includes software worth $1.8 million and technical support valued at more than $300,000.

BARBARA WILHITE, professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation, presented "In-Home Therapeutic Recreation: Trends, Issues and Programs That Work." She also represented the recreation and leisure studies program at its reaccreditation hearing and participated in exhibiting and recruiting activities at the National Recreation and Park Association Congress, Oct. 7-14 in Phoenix.

JERRY YERIC, associate professor of political science, published Mass Media and the Politics of Change, F.E. Peacock Publisher Inc., 2001.

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DIANA YORK BLAINE, assistant professor of English, is featured in an Oct. 30 Newsweek article that includes information about UNT's women's studies program.

A solution that will help cut flowers last longer, developed by KENT CHAPMAN, associate professor of biological sciences, is the focus of a Nov. 15 Denton Record-Chronicle article.

Changes in the economy, including fewer manufacturing jobs in the Fort Worth area, are discussed by TERRY CLOWER, assistant professor of applied economics and associate director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, in the Dec. 6 Forth Worth Star-Telegram.

JEROME DUGGAN, professor of physics, is featured in a Nov. 9 Dallas Morning News article on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry Conference that was held at UNT.

The use of counseling to help bands deal with the stress of touring is discussed by JOHN HIPPLE, associate professor of counseling, development and higher education and senior staff counselor at the Counseling and Testing Center, in the Oct. 10 edition of Fox News online (www.foxnews.com).

The new UNT recreation center is discussed by BONITA JACOBS, vice president for student development, in the Oct. 7 Denton Record-Chronicle.

KIMI KING, assistant professor of political science, and JOHN TODD, associate professor of political science, discuss the impact of the presidential election on their classrooms in the Nov. 14 Denton Record-Chronicle.

The topic for this year's UNT play therapy conference, "Play Therapy With Traumatized Children," is discussed by GARRY LANDRETH, Regents Professor of counseling, development and higher education and director of the Center for Play Therapy, in the Oct. 17 Denton Record-Chronicle.

BEN LEVIN, associate professor of radio, television and film, discusses his documentary Verso Negro: Black Verse Poetry of the Spanish Caribbean in the Oct. 21 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

An article in the Sept. 25 Tacoma News Tribune on women composers mentions CINDY McTEE, Regents Professor of music, and her recent work Timepiece.

GEORGE MORRISON, professor of counseling, development and higher education and Velma E. Schmidt chair, discusses child care companies and their targeting of dual-income families in the Aug. 26 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He also comments about research on the learning rates of very young children in the Aug. 11 Rockland Journal News (West Nyack, N.Y.). He participated in a panel discussion, "Facing Changes in Early Childhood," on the talk show Global for Radio and Television Malaysia, Sept. 3 in Angkasapuri, Kuala Lumpur.

The architectural and acoustical quality of the MURCHISON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER is the subject of articles in the April issue of the Structural Engineer, the Sept. 10 Texas Architect and the Denton Record Chronicle's Oct. 12 Entertainment Chronicle.

CHARLDEAN NEWELL, Regents Professor of public administration, discusses the issue of redistricting in the Nov. 26 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

A book in progress by BRENT PHELPS, associate professor of visual arts, featuring photographs he has taken along the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition, is the focus of a Nov. 3 Chronicle of Higher Education article.

Reactions to political campaign commercials and debates are discussed in the Oct. 19 Denton Record-Chronicle by TOM REICHERT and JAMES MUELLER, assistant professors of journalism who are doing research on the communications aspect of the political process.

A proposal for a culinary college in Grapevine to help deal with the shortage of restaurant and hospitality workers is discussed by JOHNNY SUE REYNOLDS, associate professor and interim associate dean of merchandising and hospitality management, in the Dec. 12 Dallas Morning News.

A new web site (www.school-library.org) created by a graduate class in the SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES is featured in the Nov. 8 Dallas Morning News and quotes BARBARA STEIN, professor of library and information sciences. The site catalogs thousands of reviews of recently released children's books.

PAM SYBERT, director of the Educational Consortium on Volunteerism, discusses the Volunteer Center in the Oct. 13 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The TEXAS ACADEMY OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE is featured in a Dec. 11 Newsweek article exploring alternatives to high school's senior year.

The impact of the invention of the microchip in Dallas by Nobel Prize winner Jack Kilby is discussed by BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, in the Oct. 11 Dallas Morning News.

A UNT policy rewarding faculty members for teaching distance learning courses is discussed in the Nov. 8 Chronicle of Higher Education. JON I. YOUNG, professor and chair of technology and cognition; PHIL TURNER, associate vice president for academic affairs for distance education and dean of the School of Library and Information Sciences; CAROL SIMPSON, assistant professor of library and information sciences; and SIGRID GLENN, professor and chair of behavior analysis, are featured in the article.

Anniversaries of 15 years or more are listed in the print version of InHouse@UNT, and photos, if available, are included for those celebrating 30 years or more. See a full listing at www.unt.edu/inhouse/bulletinboard.htm.

35 years

• William Deering, Physics
• Clovis Morrisson, Political Science
• Charldean Newell, Public Administration
• Donald Pickens, History
• J.B. Smallwood, History
• James Tanner, English
  

30 years

• Peggy Richardson, Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation
• Lloyd Campbell, Teacher Education and Administration
• Jerry Yeric, Political Science
• Jim Nicklas, University Union

20 years

• Andrew Schoolmaster, Chancellor's Office
• Teddy Coe, Accounting
• Eva Bowman, Intensive English Language Institute
• Joseph Kung, Mathematics
• Mary Karen Clardy, Music
• Fred Kern, Music

15 years

• Jeff Sager, Marketing
• Jim Laney, Teacher Education and Administration
• John Baen, Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law
• Gene Bilney, Libraries
• Richard Tas, Merchandising and Hospitality Management

10 years

• Velma Brock, Dining Services
• Scott Burnett, Center for Media Production
• Jana Crews, Computing Center
• Hilton Fritsch, University Union
• Gerald Wayne Morris, Grounds Services
• Mary Robinson, Financial Aid
• Gail Simpkins, Community Service
• Becky Starr, Admissions

5 years

• Clyde Dwight Bishop, Housing Maintenance
• Elizabeth Colbert, Chancellor's Office
• Mary Ann Crisp, Physics
• Bobby Junior Hare, Dining Services
• Gary Michael Parker, Custodial Services
• William Smith, Chemistry
• Laura Elena Whitney, Custodial Services

FRANK PARKS, 72, former director of internal audit at UNT, died Sept. 4 at his residence in Denton. He worked at the university from 1964 until his retirement in 1990. He was born July 11, 1928, in Dallas and married Dorothy Geeslin in Stephenville in 1951.

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

Lady Eagles Basketball, vs. Middle Tennessee Jan. 6, vs. Louisiana Tech Jan. 11. Both games 7 p.m., UNT Coliseum.

Israel in Egypt by Handel, featuring Canticum Novum, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15, Winspear Hall. For tickets, call 565-3805.

Kayla Hendricks Photography Exhibit, Jan. 15-Feb. 2, Union Gallery.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 15, no classes.

First Class Day, Jan. 16.

An Incomplete History, Women Photographers From Japan (1864-1997) — Part 2, Jan. 16-Feb. 20, UNT Art Gallery.

Womanist Wednesday, Noon-1 p.m. Jan. 17, Women's Center, University Union, Room 430.

Faculty Senate Meeting, 2 p.m. Jan. 17, Wooten Hall, Room 322.

Visiting Artist Lecture by Wenda Gu, 9:30-10:50 a.m. Jan. 18, Art Building, Room 223.

GLBT Ally Training, Noon-6 p.m. Jan. 19, University Union, Golden Eagle C.

Other featured articles in this issue:

• Retired football coach Gene Stallings joins UNT as athletics consultant
• Updates from the president
• Campus construction continues
• Physics professor works to improve accuracy
• Weather closing information
• New state rep speaks at Fall 2000 commencement
• Two TAMS students have promising year ahead
• UNT beats SECC $100,000-goal by $28,172
• Network set to accommodate students

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