Beach Museum
The following K-State faculty members presented at Mountain Plains Museums Association conference, Sept. 10-14, Fargo, N.D.:
Lorne Render, "Checking it Out: What Museums can Learn from Libraries about Getting Federal Funds."
Kathrine Schlageck, "Are Museum Educators Necessary? The Changing Role of the Museum Education Department" and "Navigating Sensitive Issues in Museums."
Clinical sciences
Brad White presented on veterinary cooperatives, Montgomery County Veterinary Association, Aug. 28, Independence, Kan.
Human nutrition
Weiqun Wang published "Effects of Dietary Calorie Restriction or Exercise on the PI3K and Ras Signaling Pathways in the Skin of Mice," The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 282, Issue 38.
Modern languages
Peter Arnds presented "Fuer alle, die in diesem Lande sind und leiden so wie ich gelitten: W.G. Sebald's Representations of German Wartime Suffering," Germans as Victims conference, August, Leeds University, England.
Arnds presented "World Historical Visions in the Work of Guenter Grass and the Tradition of Magic Realism," Cambridge Companion to Guenter Grass conference, August, Leeds University, England.
Arnds presented "Dwelling and Wandering in Grass, Rushdie, and Sebald," Changing the Nation: Guenter Grass in International Perspective conference, September, Germany. This conference will be featured in the German newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Salvador Oropesa published "La construccion del afro-espanol: Se buscan fulmontis de Alex Calvo-Sotelo" in "Memoria colonial e inmigracion: La negritud en la Espana posfranquista," edited by Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego.
Nonviolence education
Susan Allen presented a poster session, "Extremism is SO last Millennium -- or Why Nonviolence?" at the East-West Center 1970s Reunion Conference, August, Honolulu.
Psychology
Richard Harris and colleagues published "Remembering Gay/Lesbian Media Characters: Can Ellen and Will Improve Attitudes Toward Homosexuals?" Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 53, No. 3.
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Matthew Palmatier and colleagues published "Conditioned Reinforcement in Rats Established with Self-administered Nicotine and Enhanced by Non-contingent Nicotine," Psychopharmacology, Aug. 6.
Palmatier presented "Characterizing the Complex Reinforcing Properties of Nicotine Using a Novel Model of Self-administration," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and American Psychological Association's Divisions 28 and 50, Aug. 17-20, San Francisco.
Sociology, anthropology and social work
The following K-State faculty members presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Aug. 2-5, Santa Clara, Calif.:
Gerad Middendorf and a student presented "The Tallgrass Prairie of the Kansas Flint Hills: Resilience and Threats."
Theresa Selfa presented on biofuels in a panel session.
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Middendorf also published "Challenges and Information Needs of Organic Growers and Retailers," Journal of Extension, Vol. 45, No. 4.
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Laszlo Kulcsar presented "Higher education and civil society in the United States," International Symposium of the Eastern European NGO sector, Aug. 30, Hungary.
Speech, communication, theater and dance
R. Michael Gros was elected conference planner-elect for the Directing Focus Group at the national conference of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, New Orleans. This is a five-year commitment culminating in a two-year term as chair of the Directing Focus Group. Gros was also admitted into the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers in August.