Valarie Morgan (Wilson Advising Center) has been elected Region 9 chair for the National Academic Advising Association.

Daniel Allen (Psychology) has been elected president of the National Academy of Neuropsychology.

Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) gave a colloquium talk at the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society in February. It was titled "The Galileo Affair and the Berkeley Para-clericals." In 1633, Galileo was tried and condemned by the Inquisition for defending Copernicus' hypothesis of the earth's…

Sue Fawn Chung (History) is the co-producer of More Than a Face in the Crowd, a film that will be part of the Asian American film festival in San Francisco this month. It also will be seen at the Southwest Oral History Association Conference at UNLV in April as part of the keynote address to be delivered by Chung's co-producer Samantha Chan.

Sue Fawn Chung (History) received the Bancroft Honor Award from the Western history department of the Denver Public Library for her book In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West (University of Illinois, 2011).

John Bowers (English) has had his book An Introduction to the "Gawain" Poet (University Press of Florida, 2012) nominated for the Warren-Brooks Award honoring the authors and former Rhodes Scholars Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. Bowers is himself a former Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford -- the same college as J. R. R. Tolkien.

Fatma Marouf and Michael Kagan (Law School) have been named Bellow Scholars for 2013 by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in honor of empirical research projects that promise to improve access to justice for underserved communities. The awards were announced at the AALS annual conference in New Orleans in January. They were honored…

Sue Fawn Chung (History) presented a program, "Preservation 101," about the basic steps in historic preservation at the Asian Pacific Islander Historic Preservation Conference, which she helped establish, in Los Angeles in June. She also helped create the preservation program. At the end of June she participated in the National Park Serice…

Joanne Goodwin (History) has written a chapter for a book, Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West, which will be published next year. The chapter, "Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1980," examines the ways in which the history of the Las Vegas tourism industry and its female workers could not be fully understood without the…

Todd Jones (Philosophy) recently was announced as a winner of the American Philosophical Association's "Best Op-Eds by Philosophers" contest. He won for his article, "Budgetary Hemlock," which appeared in the Boston Review. The article was about the importance of public funding for education in general and for philosophy in particular.

Timothy Erwin (English) was named the Donald and Mary Hyde fellow at Harvard's Houghton library for 2012-13. He is conducting research on an 88-page manuscript drama by Richard Savage for a new book. He also was appointed to the editorial boards of Eighteenth-Century Life, a Duke Press journal, and the Huntington Library Quarterly, from the…

Michelle Tusan (History) has a new book, Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East that just has been published by the University of California Press.