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• Jim Wilce, professor of anthropology, presented at the 30th International Congress on Law and Mental Health in June. His paper was titled, "Scientizing Psychiatry: Conjuring Linguistic Fixes for Psychiatry's Magic Complex."
• Steve Hemphill, professor of percussion in the College of Arts and Letters, performed in the percussion section for Orff's Carmina Burana and Szymanowski's Symphony No. 3 in a three-concert series, June 7-9, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Also in June, he served on the faculty of the annual five-day Atlanta Percussion Seminar at Emory University. In July and August, Hemphill will perform in his fourth season as principal percussionist for the Music in the Mountains Orchestra Festival in Durango, Colo., a festival featuring musicians from the Dallas Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Phoenix Symphony, among others.
• Jamie Timmerman, NAU doctoral student in educational psychology and managing editor of The Journal of the International Association of Special Education, along with the journal's editor, Greg Prater, NAU professor of educational specialties, and Gosia Malgorzata Sekulowicz, the journal's associate editor at the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland, presented at the International Association of Special Education's 10th biennial international conference at the University of Hong Kong on June 11.
• Dennis Tanner, professor of health sciences in NAU's College of Health and Human Services, has published "Redefining Wernicke's Area: Receptive Language and Discourse Semantics" in the summer issue of the Journal of Allied Health. In the article, Tanner calls for a more exacting definition of Wernicke's area to reflect an accurate view of brain functioning with regard to decoding discourse semantics. He describes and tracks the levels of semantic decoding and provides a more exacting definition of Wernicke's area as a "cortical conduit" and not the "center" for receptive language.
• Mary I. Dereshiwsky, associate professor of educational leadership, had an article "Study Skills Vital for Successful Online Learning" published in the June/July 2007 issue of LERN Magazine, published by the Learning Resources Network.
• Tim Smith, professor in the School of Music, gave a free lecture at the Oregon Bach Festival on July 6 using his web-based tool that brings music scores to life. In "Structure, Meaning, and Bach's Rosetta Stone of Counterpoint," Smith demonstrated BinAural Collaborative Hypertext (BACH), which integrates musical scores with audio and commentary on the web. The tool helps illustrate key concepts in a fugue from Bach's Well Tempered Clavier; his "Rosetta Stone" canon BWV 1077; excerpts from the St. Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass and many others.
• The 2007 issue of NAU's Horizons magazine was awarded an APEX Grand Award for Publication Excellence in the magazines and journals category. The magazine was produced by NAU's Office of Public Affairs and McMurry marketing communications firm in Phoenix.
  
  One judge commented about the magazine: "This exceptional university magazine is top-drawer. From the elegant contents page to the varied spreads (including some striking photography), design is A+, reinforcing the very well-written, very interesting copy. It would not be out of place on a newsstand full of the best commercial magazines."
  
  APEX Awards are based on "excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence." APEX Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each main category. Horizons was one of 16 magazines awarded the APEX Grand Award out of 871 entries in the magazines and journals category.
  
  Information about the APEX Awards is available online.