Donald Revell (English) has been chosen as this year's Phi Beta Kappa Poet for the annual Literary Exercises at Harvard University's commencement. Poets so honored in the past include Robert Creely, Allen Ginsburg, and Seamus Heany. Revell currently is writing a poem specifically for the occasion. Its over-arching theme will be the reason of…

Starr Wharton (Student Wellness) has been selected by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing as a national task force member to review and revise the Standards of Practice for Health Education.

Jamie Davidson (Student Wellness) was elected to the board of the American College Health Association and was named to the newly formed National College Athletic Association Mental Health Task Force.

Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences ) and Mark Buttner (Community Health Sciences) received a 14-month, $106,098 award from the Clark County School District to establish an airborne pollen monitoring program in Las Vegas.

Ruben Garcia (Law) last month began his two-year term as co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers, a national organization dedicated to the improvement of legal education by emphasizing the values of justice, diversity, and academic excellence.

David Fott (Political Science) recently had a book published by Cornell University Press. The press published his translations of Cicero's "On the Republic" and "On the Laws."

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Architecture) has been invited as an expert speaker to address two workshops in China. The first, organized by China's National Energy Administration and funded by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat, is titled "Low Carbon Model Town Development Index System." The second workshop, "New Skins of Green…

Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) was one of the authors of a recently published study, "An International Comparison of the Ohio Department of Aging-Resident Satisfaction Survey: Applicability in a U.S. And Canadian Sample." Coauthors were Heather Cooke of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, J. Scott Brown and Jane…

Eunja Kim (Physics) and Ken Czerwinski (Chemistry) collaborated with Philippe Weck of Sandia National Laboratories on a research project that was selected as the Nov. 21, 2013, cover of the prestigious journal Dalton Transactions, which is the international journal for inorganic, organometallic, and bioinorganic chemistry. The article is "…