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• Kathleen M. McGeever, chair and associate professor of theater, worked as a dramaturge on the new play, War Zones and Wal-Marts, which was a part of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education Playwriting Focus Group for the national meeting in New Orleans. McGeever also presented a workshop, "The Director as Storyteller," and performed in a work for the Re-Actions Group, which uses a performance art approach to education.
• David Patton, a professor emeritus in the School of Forestry, who continues to work on projects in the school such as scholarship development activities, was recently appointed to a part-time position on the National Advisory Committee for the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Russ Gilbert, photo labs coordinator and part-time faculty in the School of Communication, and Gene Balzer, senior photo faculty in the School of Communication, will have 70 of their documentary photographs of ancestral Pueblo sites (Anasazi ruins) on display for four months at the Northern Trust Bank, 2398 E. Camelback Road, in Phoenix. The opening reception will be from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 17.
  
  The show, "Two Perspectives," represents 19 years of photography of well-known national parks and monuments and not so well known sites on the Colorado Plateau.
• Eric V. Meek, associate professor of history, published a new book this month, Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona. Meeks examines how ethno-racial categories and identities such as Indian, Mexican and Anglo crystallized in Arizona's borderlands between 1880 and 1980.
• Thom Alcoze, professor of forestry, served as a moderator for the Kaibab Paiute Tribal Council elections, which took place on Oct. 5. The moderator's role is to ensure that all candidates have an opportunity to present their positions in an atmosphere of fairness and respect during the final phase of the election, which involves a forum open to the whole Kaibab Paiute community. This is the second time that Alcoze has served as the election moderator.