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• Judith Cloud, professor of voice, has composed three vocal pieces that will be performed in spring and summer. "Night of Dreams" will be performed May 17 by soprano Eileen Strempel in the performance Margaret Atwood in Music at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York. "Words from an Artist's Palette" will be performed in July and August at the Brother's, Sing On! performance of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. "Spell Against Sorrow" will also be performed in July and August at the performance There is Sweet Music of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale.
• Danielle Cournoyer, library specialist at Cline Library, is the recipient of the 2007 STARS-Atlas Mentoring Award administered by the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section of the Reference and User Services Association. The award is given to a library practitioner new to the field of interlibrary loan, resource sharing or electronic reserves, and is intended for those interested in a mentoring opportunity. Cournoyer will receive a cash award of $1,000 for travel and related expenses to attend the American Library Association annual conference in Washington, D.C., in June.
  
  "Danielle's clearly articulated goals for attending the ALA annual conference made her an ideal candidate for the award and a wonderful example of the 'nextgen' librarian," said Collette Mak, education and training committee chair.
• Mary I. Dereshiwsky, associate professor of educational leadership, had five tips for engaging online students in their midterm self-assessment published in the March LERN faculty club newsletter published by the Learning Resources Network.
• Librarians John Doherty and Sean Evans of Cline Library led a pre-conference workshop called "Discussing Intellectual Freedom in a USA PATRIOT Act Environment" at the joint meeting of the New Mexicio Library Association/Mountain Plains Library Association conference in Albuquerque on March 14-16.
• Monica Gaylord, a graduate teaching assistant in the School of Forestry, was recently recognized as the 2007 Western Forest Insect Work Conference Graduate Scholarship winner, the highest award given to a graduate student studying forest entomology in all of the western United States, Canada and Mexico. She was recognized for her research on the mechanistic understanding of the impacts of thinning ponderosa pine on pine bark beetles. Gaylord will be presenting a plenary lecture in 2008 at the next meeting of the Western Forest Insect Work Conference describing her research accomplishments.
• Elizabeth Miskell, an undergraduate in political science, recently came in third in a worldwide essay competition on climate change launched by Keele University in England. Miskell won for her argument alerting the public "to the importance of networks and radicalized individuals."
• Brant Short and Dayle Hardy-Short, professors of communication, published "Redemption by Grace: A Rhetorical Analysis of HOOSIERS" in the recent issue of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.
• Jut Wynne, a doctoral candidate in the department of Biological Sciences and cave research scientist, is working with NASA's "Spaceward Bound!" Mojave Desert Expedition, in California this week. The program teaches K-12 science teachers how scientists search for life on other planets. Wynne is demonstrating how to detect caves on Earth and Mars using thermal remote sensing with a thermal imaging camera both on the ground and via hot air balloon.