Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) presented "The Disneyfication of Brideland" at the annual convention of the National Communication Association in Orlando, Fla., in November. Her presentation was part of a day-long seminar on teaching and researching Disney as popular culture and communication.

James Deacon (Environmental and Public Affairs) received the first E.O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation. The award is given by the Center for Biological Diversity. Over the course of a 52-year career, he has focused on conservation of desert fish and other freshwater species and on sustainable water-use advocacy…

Satish Sharma (Social Work) has written a new book, Gandhi's Teachers: Henry David Thoreau (2012). His earlier books written for the series are Gandhi's Teachers: Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta (2005), Gandhi's Teachers: Leo Tolstoy (2009), and Gandhi's Teachers: John Ruskin (2011). All were published by Gujarat Viidyapith, Ahmedabad, India.

Elizabeth MacDowell (Law) and Emily Troshynski (Criminal Justice) 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…

Christopher Stream (Environmental and Public Affairs) and Robert Tekniepe (Environmental and Public Affairs) recently had an article published in the American Review of Public Administration. The article, "You're Fired," focuses on factors that affect county manager turnover in large U.S. counties during an 18-year period. The analysis reveals…

Gregory Borchard (Journalism and Media Studies) received the 2012 Annual Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Journalism History at the 20th annual meeting of the Symposium on 19th Century Press, The Civil War, and Free Expression at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (UTC) in November. Renowned historian David Sachsman, head of the…

Tara Emmers-Sommer (Communication Studies) is the co-author, along with Wittenburg University professor Kathleen Warber, of an article, "The Relationships among Sex, Gender and Attachment," which was published in Language and Communication Quarterly.She also served as the keynote speaker for Alpha Delta Pi's Spirit Week recruitment retreat in…

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) made two presentations at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Chicago in August. The first was a refereed paper titled "What Happens to the 'Cream of the Crop'?: The Representative Anecdote in AMC's Mad Men." The second was a panel presentation…

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) published a peer-reviewed article, "Helping Homeless Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders: The Four Components," in Social Work, a premium journal in the social work field. She also wrote a chapter, "Gender, Substance Use, and Substance Use Disorders," for Chemical Dependency: A Systems Approach (2012). Additionally…

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), Chih-Hsiang Ho (Math), and Larry Ashley (Educational and Clinical Studies) wrote an article, "Addiction and Substance Abuse among Nevada Youth," which appeared in The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State (2012, Edited by Dmitri N. Shalin of Sociology). Sun and Ashley also…