James S. Allen, professor of history, is the invited plenary speaker on "Constructing Sisterhood: The Fraternal World of French Women Freemasons, 17040-1940" at the international conference on Lodges, Chapters and Orders: Fraternal Organizations and the Structuring of Gender Roles in Europe, 1300-2000 at the University of Sheffield, England, July 11-13.

Peter H. Argersinger, professor of history, is the winner of this year's Outstanding Scholar Award from the College of Liberal Arts. His specialty is American political and rural history.

Jonathan J. Bean, associate professor of history, will serve as chair and commentator for the panel "Liberal and Conservative Policy Alternatives in the 1960s and '70s" at the Policy History Conference in St. Louis May 23-26.

Diane C. Davis and H. Pauletta Morse, professors of Information Management Systems-Information Systems Technologies, wrote "Developing and Delivering an Interactive Video Course" in Delta Pi Epsilon's Alternative Classroom Management and Instructional Delivery Systems in Business Education (pages 38-54; 2002).

Larry F. Hughes, research professor in the Alzheimer Center, A. Kyle Perkins, professor and interim provost, Ben D. Wright and Helen Westrick presented "Using a Rasch scale to characterize the clinical features of patients with a diagnosis of uncertain, probable, or possible Alzheimer disease at intake" at the seventh international Geneva/Spring-field Symposium on Advances in Alzheimer Therapy in Geneva April 3-6.

Holly S. Hurlburt, assistant professor of history, presented "La Serenissima Straniera: Foreign Dogaresse and the Construction of Civic Identity" at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., April 11-13. She presented " 'Uppity Women' and 'Superb Portraits of Womanhood:' Historiography of the Dogaresse of Venice" at the International Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2-5.

Steven B. Miles, assistant professor of history, presented "Place, Memory and the Ming-Qing Transition in the Writings of Chen Gongyin" at the Association for Asian Studies meeting in Washington, D.C., April 4-7.

Manjunath Pendakur, dean and professor of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, is co-editor with Roma Harris of the University of Western Ontario of "Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age" (Garamond Press, 442 pages).

"Standing on a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis," published by the SIU Press and written by St. Louis journalist Harper Barnes, won the best book award from the Missouri Historical Society. "James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony," also published by SIU Press, received a certificate of excellence from the Illinois State Historical Society.

The Student Center marketing and graphics department won first place in the Association of College Unions International annual graphics competition, held in Albuquerque, N.M. Graphic designer II Amy Gehner, graphic designer III Michelle Rositch and Rachel Wood designed a full-color poster, a black-and-white flyer, backlit signs and window display for last fall's AIDS Awareness Week.

First-graders at Carbondale's Giant City School created a patriotic quilt after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The finished work was raffled off, and proceeds went to Camp Little Giant, a summer camp for disabled children and adults overseen by Touch of Nature Environmental Center.

Ameren's 2001 annual report "Great Connections" features a two-page layout on the company's relationship with the University with photos of the campus, research and a basketball game.

Theodore R. Weeks, associate professor of history, presented "Us or Them? Belarusians in Late Imperial Russia" at the World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University April 11-13. He will present "Assimilation, Nationalism, Modernization, Antisemitism: Notes on Polish-Jewish Relations, 1855-1905" at the Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland Conference at West Virginia University in June.

S. Jonathan Wiesen, assistant professor of history, received the best book prize in business history from the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference. His winning book is "West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955."

Natasha Zaretsky, a lecturer in history, presented "Middle-Class Suicide: Feminism, Narcissism and Anti-Natalism in the 1970s" at the Feminist Seventies Conference at the University of York, England, April 27.

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May 15, 2002