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JOHANNA BARDDAL, visiting assistant professor of English, presented "Revising Talmy's Typological Classification of Complex Events" at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 4 in San Francisco; "The Quirks of Icelandic" and "Language Contact in Scandinavia" at the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, University of Texas at San Antonio, Jan. 24 in San Antonio; and "The Impersonal Construction and Syntactic Functions: A Radical Construction Grammar Approach" at the Linguistics Circle Meeting, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Jan. 25 in Austin.

A book chapter by DENNIS ENGELS, Regents Professor of counseling, development and higher education, and MARTIN GIEDA, staff psychologist at the Counseling and Testing Center and assistant professor of counseling, development and higher education, was published in The Career Counseling Casebook: A Resource for Practitioners, Students, and Counselor Educators, National Career Development Association, 2002. The book chapter is titled "Response to Pedro: The Case of the Music Man."

JAN HOLDEN, professor of counseling, development and higher education and counseling program coordinator, received the 2001 Outstanding Counselor Supervisor award from the Texas Association for Counselor Education and Supervision at the Texas Counseling Association annual conference, Nov. 15 in Dallas. An article by Holden, recent graduate KUEI-AN KAN and graduate student ANDRE MARQUIS was published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vol. 41, no. 4. The article is titled "Effects of Experimental Focusing Oriented Dream Interpretation."

JAMES R. MORROW, professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation, received the David K. Brace Award from the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD) during the association's conference Nov. 28-Dec. 1.

A review by JOHN PETERS, assistant professor of English, was published in Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 47. He reviewed Peter Edgerly Firchow's Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. His review of Pericles Lewis' Modernism, Nationalism and the Novel was published in Studies in the Novel, vol. 33, and his translations of the poems of Takamura Kotaro titled "To Someone" and "Frightening Emptiness" were published in Japanophile, vol. 25. He was elected to the board of trustees for the Joseph Conrad Society of America at its annual meeting in December.

An article by JACQUELINE VANHOUTTE, assistant professor of English, was published in Philological Quarterly, vol. 59. The article is titled "Antony's ‘Secret House of Death': Suicide and Sovereignty in Antony and Cleopatra."

ROBERT WALLACE, professor of materials science, was recently awarded a $100,000 renewal grant from the Semiconductor Research Corp. — the chip industry's long-term research consortium — for his work to improve transistors.

International

DAVID HARTMAN, professor of anthropology and dean of the School of Community Service, discusses his online course World Cultures Through Film in the Feb. 22 Chronicle of Higher Education. Hartman began teaching the course online after his additional duties as dean demanded that he frequently be off campus.

State

RANDALL GUTTERY, associate professor of finance, is quoted in a Feb. 16 Dallas Morning News article about figure skating judging at the recent Winter Olympics. Guttery wrote a paper in 1996 that focused on judging trends in figure skating at the 1982 World Championships and the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics.

LEE HUGHES, lecturer in biological sciences, discusses laboratory science and the tendency to overlook its importance in the Feb. 24 Dallas Morning News. Hughes also comments on UNT's cytotechnology program.

ALFRED F. HURLEY, UNT System chancellor, and JEAN KELLER, professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation and dean of the College of Education, discuss an $8 million donation from former UNT System Regent E. Bruce Street and his wife, Virginia Owens Street, in the Feb. 22 Dallas Morning News. The money will benefit the elementary education program in the College of Education.

RICHARD LUSKY, associate professor and chair of the Department of Applied Gerontology, discusses the difficulties faced by nursing home administrators in the Feb. 25 Dallas Morning News.

LEWIS A. TAYLOR, professor of management and director of UNT's Murphy Enterprise Center, talks about the Shirley Murphy Entrepreneur Contest, sponsored by the center, for Texas college entrepreneurs to develop innovative business ideas for viable enterprises in the Feb. 15 Dallas Business Journal. The contest awards $50,000 in seed money, which will be divided among the top three teams.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, comments on the expected decline in construction of warehouses, offices, stores and hotels in the Metroplex for 2002 in the Feb. 23 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In a separate article appearing in the Feb. 23 Dallas Morning News, Weinstein discusses the state unemployment rate.

Local

ALFRED F. HURLEY, UNT System Chancellor, and NORVAL POHL, UNT president, discuss the proposal to open a college of engineering at UNT in the Feb. 22 Denton Record-Chronicle. The proposed college would include new bachelor's and master's programs in engineering.

WILLIAM JAMES BELL, 82, of Denton died Feb. 1 at the Denton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. He worked at UNT as a building inspector from 1974 until his retirement in 1999.

He was born June 10, 1919, in Brazil, Ind., and married Opal Pogue in Denton in 1944. He served in the Army during World War II and was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. He was a member of the American Legion.

Survivors include his wife of Denton; one son, Larry Bell of Denton; three grandsons; one great-grandson; and three great-granddaughters.

Services were held Feb. 4 in the chapel of DeBerry Funeral Directors. Burial was at Roselawn Memorial Park.

ETHEL P. BRYANT, 74, of Denton died Feb. 11 at Denton Community Hospital. She worked in the UNT libraries from 1967 to 1976 and again in 1982.

She was born Aug. 24, 1927, in Pleasanton and married Elda M. Bryant in Tyler in 1943. She graduated from Kilgore High School and UNT. She attended Welch Street Church of Christ.

Survivors include her husband of Denton; one daughter, Deborah Bryant-Witt of Denton; one son, Philip Bryant of Houston; and four grandchildren.

Services were held Feb. 13 in the chapel of DeBerry Funeral Directors. Burial was at Roselawn Memorial Park.

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

Baroque Orchestra and Singers. 7:30 p.m. March 11, Winspear Hall. For tickets, call 369-7802.

Readings by Poet Cate Marvin. 7:30 p.m. March 13, University Union, Golden Eagle Suite.

Spring Break. March 18-22, university closed.

Lab Band Madness 2002. 7 p.m. March 26, Winspear Hall. For tickets, call 369-7802.

Geo-Logic. Lecture by Robert Frodeman. 7:30-9 p.m. March 28, EESAT, Room 130.

Science and the Public Self. Lecture by Robert Frodeman. 3 p.m. March 29, EESAT, Room 130.

Other featured articles in this issue:

• Regents approve engineering college, property purchase resolutions
• Governor appoints UNT alumni Beatty, Smith as new regents
• Dialing all UNT alumni
• Chancellor search advisory committee formed
• UNT students named Rotary Scholarship winners
• Women's History Month lecture to focus on women, United Nations
• Regents appoint Shrader VP for development
• Staff awards presented at president's sack lunch
• And the Academy Award goes to ...

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