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Robert Peterman published "The Effects of As-Cast Depth and Concrete Fluidity on Strand Bond," Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3.
Peterman has been selected for the Charles C. Zollman Award. This award is given to the "best state-of-the-art precast and prestressed concrete paper appearing in the PCI Journal during a single year." He will be presented with the award in October at the PCI National Convention in Phoenix.
English
Elizabeth Dodd published "Canonicity," Southwest Review, Vol. 92, No. 3.
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Dean Hall published "Review of Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2.
Hall presented "Think Like an Outlaw: Radical Environmental-ism in Children's Literature," Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, July 20, Paris.
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Philip Nel published "A is for Art," in "An Abstract Alphabet," new works by Stephen Johnson. Spencer Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, University of Kansas, 2007.
Nel presented "Punching the Clock and Turning Left: Crockett Johnson's Missing Years, 1925-1934," American Literature Association conference, May 24, Boston.
Nel presented "Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats: The Annotated Cat in the Hat," International Reading Association annual convention, May 16, Toronto.
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Susan Jackson Rodgers published "That Reminds Me," Quick Fiction, Issue 11.
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Karin Westman published "Perspective, Memory, and Moral Authority: The Legacy of Jane Austen in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter," Children's Literature, Vol. 35.
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Naomi Wood presented "The Passionate Dust of Mortality: Creative Worldmaking and Moral Agency in C.S. Lewis, Diana Wynne Jones, and Philip Pullman," Expectation and Experiences: Children, Childhood & Children's Literature, Dublin.
Wood presented "Atheism, Deconstruction, and Acts of Faith in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials,'" Theory Faith Culture, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, July 4, Wales.
Wood presented "The Natural History of the Christian Fairy Tale: Charles Kingsley's Anastomosing Narrative," Faith, Myth, and Literary Creation from 1850 to the Present, May 18, Lille, France.
Grain science
Sajid Alavi and colleagues published "Mechanical-Acoustic and Sensory Evaluations of Corn Starch-Whey Protein Isolate Extrudates," Journal of Texture Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4.
Alavi organized the third "Extrusion Processing: Technology and Commercialization," short course, Aug. 7-10, at the International Grains Program facility in Manhattan.
K-State at Salina
Jung Oh, Beverlee Kissick and Alysia Starkey published "New Literacies in Collaboration: How K-State at Salina University faculty and librarians are traveling parallel paths with language, research, and information literacy skills: a model for your school," Kansas Association of Teachers of English Update, Vol. 25, No. 2.
Libraries
Tom Marini published "The Lipper Analytic Services," Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, Fall 2007.
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Elizabeth Turtle and Martin Courtois published "Scholarly Communication: Science Librarians as Advocates for Change," Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, No. 51.
Marketing
Richard G. McFarland joined the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing.
Modern languages
Peter Arnds published "Grenz-gange zwischen den Kulturen im Werk Rafik Schamisund Emine Sevgi Ozdamars Adam," in "Transitraum Deutsch. Literatur und Kultur im transnationalen Zeitalter" which appeared in the series "ORBIS LINGUARUM" from the Dresdner Neisse-Verlag.
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Maria Martinez-Ortiz presented "Transgressing the Mexican Eve: An Analysis of the National Mother in Literature and Film," Gender in Trans-it, 12th annual Swiss Gender History Conference, Sept. 7, Basel, Switzerland.
Physics
Lew Cocke and Pedrag Ranitovic published "Soft X-ray-Driven Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics," Science, Vol. 317, No. 5843.
Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital
Joanna Berg successfully completed course requirements in central service technical training and has been awarded a certificate of achievement by Purdue University and the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management.