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Satish Bhatnagar (Math) spoke about Hinduism as part of the Dixie Forum "Great Faiths" discussions at Dixie State College in St. George, Utah, in October. The Dixie Forum is a lecture series designed to introduce Dixie students and faculty, as well as the St. George community, to diverse ideas and personalities to widen their world view.

Kathy Lauckner (Harry Reid Center) was an invited speaker at the 14th annual Tri-Regional Lead Program Conference sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 10, in Portland, Ore., in September. She has been involved in the actions to prevent lead poisoning since 1992. She now is promoting a cooperative blending of EPA, U…

Pamela Maher (Education), under the guidance of education professor Janelle Bailey (Teaching and Learning), will present a paper at the international conference of the Association of Science Teacher Education in Charleston, S.C., in January. The paper examines the influence that working with science and math faculty mentors has on beliefs toward…

Louis Kavouras (Dance) and Katherine Duke, a Hawkins dance representative, performed "Early Floating," a modern dance classic choreographed by famed choreographer Erick Hawkins in 1961, at the Modernism Symposium at ÐÔÊӽ紫ý's Judy Bayley Theatre. The duo also spoke onstage with scholars and professors from around the world. They were the only…

A. J. Merlino (Music) has been accepted to play at the International Percussion Festival in Cordoba, Argentina. One of the biggest festivals of its kind in South America, the event includes a large number of diverse artists and has a rigorous application process. He will be performing new and standard repertoire. Those percussion works are…

Joseph Gilbert (Management) is the author of Ethics for Managers: Philosophical Foundations and Business Realities, which was published by Routledge Publishing in July.

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and her co-authors, Reginald Sheehan and Kirk Randazzo, have just published their new book, Judicialization of Politics: The Interplay of Institutional Structure, Legal Doctrine, and Politics on the High Court of Australia.Their findings suggest that high court judges can be constrained by institutional…

Shannon Monnat (Sociology) recently co-authored a paper with a colleague at Georgetown University Medical Center that will be published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the fourth highest ranked journal in the field of public health. The paper, "Is There an Association between Maternal Pap Test Use and Adolescent Human Papillomavirus?"…

Tara Emmers-Sommer (Communication Studies) is the co-author, along with Wittenburg University professor Kathleen Warber, of an article, "The Relationships among Sex, Gender and Attachment," which was published in Language and Communication Quarterly.She also served as the keynote speaker for Alpha Delta Pi's Spirit Week recruitment retreat in…