Jennifer Bellor (Music) wrote a composition, "Noir," which won the 2014 Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra National Composition contest. It will be performed in Seattle on Nov. 4, featuring Grace Kelly on alto saxophone.

Olivia Clare (Black Mountain Institute) has received a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. The awards are given annually to six women who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their writing careers. Each recipient is awarded $30,000. The Rona Jaffe awards program is the only national literary awards program of its kind…

Josh Baker and Cori More (both Educational & Clinical Studies) are heading a project and recently received a personal preparation in special education grant in the amount of more than $1.1 million from the office of special education programs. Baker and More are director and co-director, respectively, of the project, which addresses the…

Ralf Sudowe (Health Physics and Radiochemsitry) led webinars titled "Alpha Spectrometry" and "Applications in Liquid Scintillation Counting" that were presented to people at the U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad field office, the National Analytical Management Program, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More than 450 attendees…

Kishor Shrestha, Pramen Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and Evangelos Yfantis (Computer Science) are co-authors of a book, Framework Development for Construction Safety Visualization, that is based on Kishor Shrestha's thesis.

Michael Nussbaum (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) has written a textbook, Categorical and Nonparametric Statistics: Choosing the Best Statistical Technique, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The book is suitable as a reference text for those conducting research in the social sciences or biostatistics. It presents…

ToanFoeng Tham (Dental Medicine) was an invited speaker and presenter on "Legal and Ethical Issues in Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Elder Abuse." In the presentation he talked about forms of abuse, including neglect, exploitation, and isolation as well as intervention strategies to stop elder abuse, such as reporting, investigating,…

Rebecca Gill and Kenneth Retzl (both Political Science) had a full-length research article, "The JPE Commission," published in the July/August issue of Judicature.The article argues that performance evaluation commissions may be relying too heavily on attorney surveys when they allocate negative judicial retention recommendations. Gill was the…

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Continuing Education) was the OLLI part of the OLLI & Friends team that participated in the Susan G. Komen: Race for the Cure in May. The team was awarded two trophies -- one for the top fundraiser in the College Division and one for having the largest team participating in the Las Vegas walk.