John Rybczyk (Environmental Sciences) and former graduate student Pete Kairis (M.S. 2008) recently had their paper "Sea level rise and eelgrass (Zostera marina) production: A spatially explicit relative elevation model for Padilla Bay, WA" published in the journal Ecological Modelling.

Matthew Liao-Troth (Management) had his book "Challenges in Volunteer Management" (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing 2008) reviewed by Yvonne Harrison. The review appears in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 2010, No. 39: pp. 375-378.

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.

Edward Ousselin (Modern and Classical Languages) has received the “Palmes académiques” award from the French Ministry of Education. The Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) is an Order of Chivalry of France to academics and educators. The order was originally created by Napoleon to honour eminent members of the University of Paris. It was re-established on Oct. 4, 1955, by President René Coty, and is one of the world's oldest civil awards.

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.

Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, WCE) presented an invited address titled "Bear Spends Time in Our Dreams Now: Magical Thinking, Ritual, and Spiritual Considerations in Counseling Theory and Practice" at the 27th Annual Teachers College - Columbia University Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education, in February in New York City.

Sean Eisen Murphy (Liberal Studies) gave a two-hour seminar on "Ancient Jewish Law and Medieval Christian Identity, c.1100-c.1250" Feb. 4 to the research fellows at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nantes, France, with the additional participation of researchers from the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guepin in Nantes.