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• Judith Everett, professor of merchandising, and Kristen Swanson, associate professor of merchandising, have had the second edition of Promotion in the Merchandising Environment published by Fairchild Publications.
• Richard A. Rogers, associate professor of speech communication, recently had two articles published in peer-reviewed journals: "Deciphering Kokopelli: Masculinity in Commodified Appropriations of Native American Imagery," in the September 2007 journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies; and "From Hunting Magic to Shamanism: Interpretations of Native American Rock Art and the Contemporary Crisis in Masculinity," in the Spring 2007 journal Women's Studies in Communication. Both essays focus on contemporary interpretations and uses of indigenous rock art imagery.
• Betty Brown, health sciences instructor, received her doctorate in sociology from Arizona State University.
• Two NAU students were among 15 Arizona students to receive scholarships from the Arizona Higher Education Loan Authority based on their academic achievement, financial need, community involvement, actual program of study and written essays. Education major Jamie Dingemans received $1,000 and Casey Downes, an undeclared major, received $2,000.
• Two College of Education professors have contributed entries to the just published ABC-CLIO Press four-volume Encyclopedia of American Indian History.
  
  Don Trent Jacobs (Four Arrows), associate professor of teaching and learning, contributed entries on education and social control, myth of the noble savage, and worldviews and values.
  
  Jon Reyhner, professor of educational specialties, wrote entries on assimilation, language and language renewal, the "Long Walk," Henry Chee Dodge and Peter MacDonald.
  
  Reyhner also was one of five invited Scholars in Residence at the University of British Columbia where he taught a course on Indigenous Education: Yesterday and Today, and participated in a symposium on "Indigeneity Today and How to Make it Matter in Education."
• Eric Yordy, assistant professor of practice in The W.A. Franke College of Business, presented a paper, "Snowmaking and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Navajo Nation v. U.S. Forest Service," at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business meeting in Indianapolis on Aug. 14.