Bloomington
David Fenske, music, gave a presentation at the International Workshop of High Performance Multimedia Computing and the Communication Conference at Waseda University in Japan, and spoke at Keio University and at a meeting of IBM Japan.
Robert Campany, religious studies and East Asian languages and cultures, and Steve Bokenkamp, EALC, are new joint editors of the Journal of Chinese Religion. Bokenkamp currently edits Taoist Resources, which he plans to merge with the aforementioned journal. Bokenkamp recently presented a paper at the Symposium on Daoist Culture at Beijing University. Campany's book, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China, has been published by the SUNY Press.
Jean Robinson, EALC, women's studies and political science, has been appointed to the editorial boards of Political Science, Politics and Society and the American Journal of Politics. She has also been appointed chair of the Advanced Placement Development Committee in Government and Politics by the College Board and Educational Testing Service.
David Keenan has been appointed director of the East Asian Summer Language Institute. Keenan has taught Chinese language and literature at Grinnell, Colby, Mount Holyoke, Dartmouth and Harvard.
Margaret Yan and Jennifer Lin, EALC, are co-authors of a textbook, Interactions I: A Constructive Approach to Beginning Chinese, which has been adopted by the EALC Institute.
Diane Henshel, SPEA, gave two invited talks at meetings of the International Association of Great Lakes Research and the Sixth Symposium on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, sponsored by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
Philip Morgan, SPEA, gave a talk on "The Relevance of the Asian Development Experience for Africa" at the National University of Singapore.
Phillip Appleman, Distinguished Professor emeritus of English, is the author of New and Selected Poems 1956-1996, published by the University of Arkansas Press.
E.G. White (pictured), senior development director of the IU Foundation and director of development for the IU Varsity Club, is the new international president (regent) of Sigma Nu Fraternity. White is the fourth member of Sigma Nu from the IUB chapter to rise to its regency. The local chapter has produced more top elected officers than any other campus in the history of the fraternity.
Kokomo
Allen Anderson, SPEA, is author of "A Perspective on China's New Prison Law," which will be published in the next edition of the International Crime Justice Review.
Indianapolis
Frances Dodson Rhome (pictured), professor emeritus of English and former university director of affirmative action, was honored by the IUPUI Women's Studies Program, for which she was a founding member, Oct. 4 at Lilly House. Hosts for the luncheon celebration were Peg Brand, wife of IU President Myles Brand, and Jean Bepko, wife of IUPUI Chancellor Gerald Bepko. Sharon Hamilton, English, was the speaker.
Dwight Burlingame of the IU Center on Philanthropy presented the keynote address, "Philanthropy's Role in Civil Society," at the New Zealand Conference on Fundraising, where he also presented a course on "Developing Leadership for Major Gifts."
Sherree Wilson, associate director of the IUPUI Career Center, is the new coordinator of faculty development for under-represented faculty in the Office of Faculty Development. Mary Beth Riner, who has taught community health nursing, is the new coordinator of part-time faculty affairs in the office, and Ann Kratz of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, has been appointed by the OFD to serve as interim coordinator of the Center for Teaching and Learning in the University Library.
Lorraine C. Blackman, social work, was among the delegates at the Family Re-Union 5 summit hosted by Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, earlier this year in Nashville, Tenn.
James Nehf, law, has been named acting director of the IU Center on Southeast Asia. He will remain in charge while an international search begins this fall. He succeeds Marjorie Lyles, the center's founding director, who has resumed her full-time teaching position with the School of Business. Patricia Biddinger, director of international affairs, is serving as associate director of the center.
Jay L. Grosfeld received the Glenn W. Irwin Jr. Distinguished Faculty Award; Dean Emeritus Walter J. Daly received the first-ever Otis R. Bowen Medallion; and William H. Beeson, received the Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from the IU School of Medicine earlier this year. The Irwin Award recognizes outstanding service to the School of Medicine through dedication to students, colleagues and the medical profession. Grosfeld joined IU in 1972 as the first professor and director of pediatric surgery. He was named chair of the Department of Surgery in 1985 and is currently chair-elect of the American Board of Surgery. The Bowen Medallion, given at the discretion of the Medical Alumni Council, was awarded to Daly for meritorious service to the School of Medicine and a career of distinction. Beeson was honored by the School of Medicine Alumni Council. He is in private practice in Indianapolis and is an assistant clinical professor with the School of Medicine's Department of Dermatology and Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery.
Southeast
Deborah Finkel (pictured), psychology, has been named coordinator of international programs. An article she co-authored, "Cross-sequential analysis of genetic influences on cognitive ability in the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging," was recently published in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition.
Susan Garland Mann, English, is the co-author of "The Publisher William Turner, Female Playwrights, and Pix's The Adventures in Madrid." The article has been included in Oxford University Press' Review of English Studies. Mann also addressed the Sarah Orne Jewett and Her Contemporaries: The Centennial Conference, in Portland, Maine. Her presentation was titled "A House of One's Own: The Subversion of True Womanhood in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Short Fiction."
John Moody, education, was the recipient of the 1996 Hunter Education Volunteer Instructor of the Year Award, presented at the conclusion of the Department of Natural Resources' annual Hunter Education Instructor Academy.
Margarite Lliteras, Spanish, presented a paper at the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University.
IPFW
Jennifer R. Bosk has been named director of alumni relations. An IPFW graduate, Bosk was formerly director of public relations and marketing at Saint Francis College.
Judith E. Blakemore and David M. Young, psychological sciences, participated in the American Psychological Association's meeting in Toronto, Canada in August. Blakemore made a poster presentation, "Gender-roll Socialization and Interest in Babies." Young chaired a session on juror attitudes and presented the paper, "Stress and the Forensic Psychologist: Focus on Child Custody."
Avon G. Crismore, English and linguistics, presented "The Pragmatics of Metadiscourse in Argumentative Writing by American and Finnish University Students" at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Jyvaskyla and Helsinki, Finland.
Carol A. Lawton, psychological sciences, had a paper, "Strategies for Indoor Wayfinding: The Role of Orientation," published in a recent issue of Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Northwest
Joseph Pellicciotti, SPEA, has had the third edition of his manuscript, Title VII Liability for Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, accepted for publication in the International Personnel Management Association's Public Employee Relations Library Series.
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