• Peter Friederici, associate editor at the Ecological Restoration Institute and Earth Notes editor for KNAU, has had his essay "Fifteen Ways of Looking at the Light" published in the new anthology Best American Spiritual Writing 2004.

  • Mary McGroarty, professor, English Department, delivered an invited plenary presentation on "The opportunities and limitations of mandated meliorism" on Oct. 20 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest for the fourth Annual Hungarian Educational Research conference.

  • Jon Reyhner in the College of Education co-presented with Jeanne Eder, director of Alaska Native Studies at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, a paper titled "The Three R's of Indian School Students: Regimentation, Resistance and Resilience" on Oct. 29 at the annual conference of the National Indian Education Association in Phoenix. He also moderated a panel on language survival at the conference. Reyhner also will be presenting papers on "Rough Rock Demonstration School and Modern American Indian Education: A Reappraisal" and "Progressive Education and the Indian New Deal" at the annual meeting of the History of Education Society Nov. 4-7 in Kansas City.

  • Kathryn Roethel, a senior from Prescott in the Honors Program, has been selected as a Rhodes Scholarship Region Finalist. Her interviews for the next selection level will take place in Phoenix later this month. Roethel merged journalism and political science major, planning to graduate in May 2005.

    She was also a Truman Scholarship Finalist, a Flinn Finalist, a student representative to the Democratic Nominating Convention in Boston this summer and an intern as a speech writer in Gov. Janet Napolitano's office in fall 2003.