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• Frances Riemer, director of Women's and Gender Studies and associate professor in Educational Foundations/Educational Leadership, was appointed to serve on the city of Flagstaff’s Commission on Diversity Awareness, which fosters understanding, tolerance, respect and awareness among citizens.

• Eric Yordy, associate dean in The W.A. Franke College of Business, will present the cover model for ethical decision making at the national Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference in Denver in August. Yordy will be presenting as one of four finalists in the Charles M. Hewitt Master Teacher competition at the conference. Applicants for the competition submitted a description of teaching techniques used in the classroom, and finalists were chosen based on the impact on student learning. Yordy also will present a paper titled “To Thine Own Self Be True: Congressional Accountability and the Enumerated Powers Act.”

• Mary Reid, professor of geology, gave one of the keynote talks at the international Goldschmidt Conference in Davos, Switzerland, in June. The conference is the leading venue for presenting geochemical research and was attended by 4,000 people. The talk, titled "Hf and Th isotope considerations for the origin of continental basalts," was the result of work funded by the National Science Foundation. Learn more about the meeting at www.goldschmidt2009.org/.
   
  
• Dennis C. Tanner and William R. Culbertson, professors of health sciences, are having a diagnostic test, “The Quick Assessment of Dysphagia” (Academic Communication Associates, 1999, San Diego), translated in Spanish by researchers at the Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico, to be used in a research project to assess swallowing disorders.

• Physics and Astronomy associate professor Nadine Barlow's book, Mars: An Introduction to its Interior, Surface, and Atmosphere, will be translated into Chinese by the Science Press in China. The book will be the first textbook about Mars to be distributed in China.