Daniel Larner (Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies) has had his article "Educating Politicans as Playwrights: Toward a Sustainable World in Creative Conflict" published in the Journal of Educational Controversy, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2010.

The theme of the issue is "Art, Social Imagination and Democratic Education."

Gigi Berardi (Environmental Studies) wrote the cover story for the February 2010 issue of Dance Magazine. The story traces the trials and challenges in the career of Brazilian ballerina Carla Korbes, from New York to Seattle.
 

Sheila Fox (Special Education) recently attended the regional National Association of State Boards of Education conference in Las Vegas, where she represented the State Board of Education on a panel discussing Washington’s perspective on a common core of standards for English/Language Arts and mathematics. The other two members of the panel were from Nevada and Montana.

Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, WCE) recently was selected to serve as a distinguished editorial panelist for behavioral and social science research with the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health. Trimble has served on National Institutes of Health scientific research panels for the past 32 years, representing some 14 different centers and offices in NIH.

Knute Skinner (English, emeritus) had his poems "Something in the Grass," "Today and Tomorrow" and "Routines" published in Ambit Magazine, Vol. 199, pp. 94-95.

William Smith (English) is the subject of a research article in the December 2009 issue of "College Communication and Composition," a peer-reviewed journal. The article, "Close to the Heart: Teacher Authority in a Classroom Community," has another Western connection: It was written by a team of WWU students in an English graduate seminar.

Farrokh Safavi (College of Business and Economics) was a keynote speaker at the First International Conference on Banking Services Marketing that was held in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 12 and 13. Safavi’s presentation was titled “The Impact of Competitive Strategies on the Marketing Success of Banking Services.” Safavi also was a member of the scientific (program) committee of the international conference, which was responsible for the planning and selection of papers and speakers.

Liz Mogford (Sociology) recently was awarded a $5,000 Summer Research Grant from Research and Sponsored Programs to examine the cross-cultural conceptions of health and well being by extending the qualitative health mapping tool developed by WWU's Critical Junctures Institute to a rural Maasai village site in Kenya. Mogford is a fellow with the Center for Service-Learning's International Faculty Fellows Program and will be traveling to Kenya with other WWU faculty members and students this summer.