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• Yellowcake, a new novel by Ann Cummins, professor of English, has received two early starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. Kirkus editors assign stars to books of "unusual merit." Reviewers call Yellowcake a "complex, unusually mature debut novel" which "avoids distracting polemics, interweaving the personal and political with quiet authority."
• Tara Green, assistant professor of English, presented a paper, "Suffering from the Sins of The Father: Fathers and Sons in Richard Wright's Short Stories," at the International Arts and Humanities conference on Jan. 13 in Oahu, Hawaii.
• Coconino Community College is exhibiting the photography of English professor Greg Larkin, along with ceramics by Paula Larkin, a ceramics major.
• The Western Society of Criminology has announced that two faculty members in the Criminal Justice Department are among this year's award recipients: Raymond Michalowski received the W.E.B. DuBois Award for significant contributions to the field of racial and ethnic issues in criminology. Nancy Wonders received the June Morrison-Tom Gitchoff Founders Award for significant improvement of the quality of justice.
• Cindy Payne, coordinator for Enrollment Services, was awarded the 2006 National Orientation Directors Association Outstanding Contributions to the Orientation Profession Award at the organization's annual conference in October.
  
  Payne has chaired several positions on both regional and national conference committees, is a past president of the association, and is a faculty member for the Orientation Professionals Institute. She received the honor for her "dedication to NAU's orientation and transition programs and her contributions to the orientation profession."
• Shawn Skabelund, a lecturer in the School of Art, has his art exhibit, Burrowing Into the Earth, at the Central School Project Gallery in Bisbee, Ariz., from Feb. 10-March 4, with an opening reception from 7-9 p.m. Feb. 10. For information call (520) 255-3008.
• Fredricka Stoller, professor in English, was invited by the U.S. State Department to serve as an English language specialist in Thailand and Burma/Myanmar. While in Thailand, Stoller will be the keynote speaker at the Pan-Asia TESOL convention, hosted by Thai TESOL. In Burma, she will conduct a weeklong formal and comprehensive review of the English language teaching program at the American Center in Rangoon.
• Eric D. Yordy, assistant professor of Practice in Business Law, will be presenting his paper titled, "Using Student Development Theory to Inform Our Curriculum and Pedagogy: A Response to the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education," at the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business annual conference in Palm Springs, Calif., Feb. 22-24. The paper details three major student development theories and how knowledge of those theories can inform the development of curriculum and teaching strategies in business law courses.