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JAMES BAIRD, associate professor of English, published an encyclopedia article titled "Bob Dylan" in Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, Marshall Cavendish, 2002.

JOHANNA BARDDAL, visiting assistant professor of English, presented "Changes in Case and Argument Structure From Old to Modern Icelandic" at the eighth Germanic Linguistics annual conference, April 26-28 in Bloomington, Ind.

TENA BURLEY, service learning coordinator, and UNT's American Humanics Nonprofit Management Certification program are highlighted in the spring 2002 American Humanics newsletter Connections for participation in the Denton County Homeless Count.

DOMINO PEREZ, assistant professor of English, presented "For Those of You Who Need a Theory or We Have Always Known How to Talk About Ourselves" at the Native American Literature Symposium annual conference, April 10-13 in Minneapolis.

JOHN PETERS, assistant professor of English, published a book review of Conrad and Women by Susan Jones in Studies in the Novel, vol. 34, spring 2002.

JOHN "HAJ" ROSS, professor of English, presented "Siamese Sentences: A First Look at a Parallel Construction" at the Chicago Linguistic Society's annual meeting, University of Chicago, April 26 in Chicago.

An article by SAM SAULS, associate professor of radio, television and film, was published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, vol. 78, no. 4, winter 2001. The article is a book review of Odyssey in Prime Time: A Life in Twentieth Century Media by Robert Lewis Shayon.

ANNE SCHOOLFIELD, lecturer in English, was the spelling and vocabulary contest director and coordinator for English events for the UIL competition at UNT, April 20 in Denton.

JACQUELINE VANHOUTTE, assistant professor of English, presented "Gender and Nation in Shakespeare's History Plays" at the Shakespeare Association of America conference, March 23 in Minneapolis.

EUGENE WRIGHT, professor of English, was invited to speak about his novel Run, Run as Fast as You Can and about writing in general at the Afternoon With the Arts, Tarrant County College-Northwest, April 3 in Fort Worth.

International

GARRY LANDRETH, Regents Professor of counseling, development and higher education and director of the Center for Play Therapy, talks about the use of play therapy to help children work through life events in the May 13 Record of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

State

BOB BLAND, professor and chair of the Department of Public Administration, discusses a tax on food for Texas schools in an opinion column appearing in the May 19 Dallas Morning News.

REATA BUSBY, associate vice provost for research, comments on the alliance between UNT and Techpiphany, a business consulting company, as a way to commercialize UNT's technology in the April 29 Dallas-Fort Worth Techbiz.

TERRY CLOWER, assistant professor of applied economics and associate director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, talks about the impact of Arlington's General Motors assembly plant on the local economy in the May 19 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, comments on the current jobless rate in the May 17 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Local

PHIL DIEBEL, vice president for finance and business affairs, and FRED POLE, vice president for administrative affairs, discuss plans by the Board of Regents to increase UNT's budget in the May 17 Denton Record-Chronicle.

FRANK FEIGERT, Regents Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, comments on his teaching career and being awarded the Minnie Stevens Piper teaching award in the May 13 Denton Record-Chronicle.

ERIC GORMLY, assistant professor of journalism, and MITCH LAND, associate professor of journalism and director of the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, discuss a new journalism program at UNT focused on media and coverage of religion in the May 24 Denton Record-Chronicle.

SAM MATTESON, professor and chair of the Department of Physics, talks about the risk of children in the United States becoming "intellectual couch potatoes" and "scientific spectators," and the need to empower teachers to effectively teach math and science in a May 10 guest column in the Denton Record-Chronicle.

FRED WATKINS, lecturer in radio, television and film, discusses the film projects of his advanced film production class in the May 23 Denton Record-Chronicle. The films were screened in May at a student film festival.

20 years

• Doyle Eads, Printing Services
• Erwin L. Upshaw, Structural Services

15 years

• Aileen E. Keylon, Payroll Office
• Peggy Joyce McFerrin, Microcomputer Maintenance Shop
• Susan Diane Sims, Student Accounting and University Cashiering Services

10 years

• David W. Hartman, School of Community Service
• Magali Elizabeth Monterroso, Libraries

5 years

• Shelia Ann Bourns, Research Services
• Nola J. Campbell, Computing Center
• Annabelle Gorman, Registrar
• Qazi N. Islam, Parking
• Glenda D. Kirby, Purchasing

SARAH LAW KENNERLY, 92, Professor Emeritus of library and information sciences, died April 19 at Denton Good Samaritan Village nursing center. She taught at North Texas for 26 years, retiring in 1977. She was born in Winnsboro, S.C., and was a graduate of Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C. She earned a master of library science degree from Emory University and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.

In 1989 she received the first Distinguished Faculty Award from the School of Library and Information Sciences.

A memorial service was held May 8 at the Goolsby Chapel on campus.

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

John Hedlund's North Texas Soccer Camp. June 9-13, June 23-27. Call 565-3669 for information.

Summer Institute on Parent Education. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. June 11-13. Call 565-3481 for information.

UNT System Forum. 2 p.m. June 12, UNT System Center at Dallas, 8915 S. Hampton Road, Room 224. A special forum for neighbors, potential students and interested citizens to discuss the current status of the UNT System's plans to build a new university in southern Dallas.

Emmitt Smith/Dexter Coakley Football Camp. June 13-16. Call 565-3484 for information.

World History Institute. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. June 17-21. Call 565-3484 for information.

Other featured articles in this issue:

• Pohl named to lead the Sun Belt Conference for two-year term
• Regents don't change admissions policy
• UNT, NCTC enter concurrent admission agreement
• UNT alum David Layton named executive director of North Texas Exes
• UNT alumnus honored with 2002-03 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship
• Staff Council reps elected
• Faculty Senate elects officers for 2002-03
• UNT community members earn grants for international education programs
• Staff awards presented at President's Staff Sack Lunch
• Neeley nets UNT Honorary Alumnus Award

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