Knute Skinner (English, emeritus) had his poem "A Song for Early Autumn" published in "Revival Poetry Journal," Issue 16, July 2010, p. 16.

Oxford University Press has published “Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World,” co-authored and edited by Western Washington University Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Dana C. Jack.

Mart Stewart (History) has had his essay "Swapping Air, Trading Places: Carbon Exchange, Climate Change Policy, and Naturalizing Markets" published in "Radical History Review," Vol. 2010 (2010): pp. 25-43.
 

John Miles, a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University, talks about his book "Koma Kulshan" on the television show "ENW with Deb Slater," aired on KVOS TV-12 in Bellingham.

Maury Schwartz (Geology, retired) and Tom Terich (Environmental Studies) had an entry titled "Washington" published on pages 15 to 31 of "Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms," edited by Eric Bird. Schwartz also has four other entries in this encyclopedia: Virgin Islands, pp. 295-297; St. Martin, pp. 302-304; Libya, pp. 897-898; and Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, pp. 953- 955.

Knute Skinner (English, emeritus) had his poem "Doing Nothing at All" published in "Prairie Fire," Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring 2010, p. 112.

The latest issue of the "EHS Report" from Western Washington University's Environmental Health and Safety Office is available online.

The spring 2010 issue includes an article called "April is Washington’s disaster preparedness month" that focuses on what folks can do both personally and departmentally to prepare for a disaster.

Knute Skinner (English, emeritus) had his poem "Use" published in "The Christian Science Monitor" on March 23.

Troy Abel (Environmental Studies) presented "Coming clean with the TRI" April 7 at the American Petroleum Institute's biannual workshop on the Toxics Release Inventory in New Orleans. This presentation was a preview of Abel's forthcoming MIT Press book with Mike Kraft and Mark Stephan called "Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance" to be published later this year.

Jennifer Seltz (Environmental Studies) has had a book chapter published in an anthology on the comparative history of the United States' northern and southern borders. The book is Benjamin Johnson and Andrew Graybill, eds., "Bridging National Borders in North America" (Duke University Press, 2010), and Seltz' essay is titled "Epidemics, Indians, and Border-Making in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest."

Jongwook Kim (Management) and Joseph Mahoney (University of Illinois) have had their article "A strategic theory of the firm as a nexus of incomplete contracts: A property rights approach" published in the June 2010 issue of the "Journal of Management."

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Joseph Trimble (Psychology, WCE) with Maria Scharron-del Rio (Brooklyn College) and Guillermo Bernal (University of Puerto Rico) recently published a book chapter titled "The itinerant researcher: Ethical and methodological issues in conducting cross-cultural mental health research." The chapter appears in the edited book by Dana Crowley Jack (Fairhaven College) and Alisha Ali (NYU) titled "Cultural perspectives on women's depression: Self-silencing, psychological distress and recovery." The book is published by Oxford University Press.<

William Dietrich (Environmental Studies) has had his new book, "The Barbary Pirates," published by HarperCollins. The book was released on March 30. It's the fourth in a series of historical thrillers featuring American adventurer Ethan Gage in the Napoleonic era, and it includes a hunt for the Mirror of Archimedes and the use of Robert Fulton's pioneering submarine, the Nautilus. Dietrich will have a slide show and reading at 7 p.m.

Knute Skinner (English, emeritus) had his poems "A Mail-Order Bride" and "The Power of Prayer" published in "The SHOp: A Magazine of Poetry," No. 32, Spring 2010, pp. 25 and 36.

Knute Skinner (English, emeritus) has had his memoir "Help Me to a Getaway" published by Salmon Poetry.

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Mark Springer (Decision Sciences), Craig K. Tyran (Decision Sciences) and Steven Ross (Decision Sciences) had their article "Measuring the Quality of E-Business Services" published in the "Encyclopedia of E-business Development and Management in the Global Economy," pp. 125-134, IGI Global, 2010.

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Matthew Liao-Troth (Management) wrote the article "Correlates of Faculty Unionization Voting Behavior," which appears in the current issue of "Journal of Collective Negotiations" (formerly "Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector") 2008, 32 (4): pp. 305-315. The issue was delayed with the journal’s move to a new publisher.

Wayne G. Landis (Institute of Environmental Toxicology/Huxley College) and Peter T. Bryant (Outstanding Senior 2008, Environmental Science Department) had their paper "Using Weight of Evidence Characterization and Modeling to Investigate the Cause of the Changes in Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Population Dynamics in Puget Sound and at Cherry Point, Washington" published in the international journal "Risk Analysis."

Knute Skinner (English, emeritus) had his poems "The Two of Us," "A Great Change" and "Yellow Beer" published in "Staple," No. 72, Winter 2009 and Spring 2010, pp. 146-148.

Edward Ousselin (Modern and Classical Languages) has had a number of works published recently. His article “Jean Renoir, l’Allemagne et la guerre : La Grande Illusion et La Règle du jeu” appeared in "Cincinnati Romance Review 28" (2009) on pages 119-134.

Ousselin also has written a number of recent book reviews: