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February 7 , 2003 Vol. 55, No. 31


Kathleen Richardson, LW'02, assistant professor of journalism and mass communication, conducted training on the Iowa open meetings and public records laws at the Iowa State Association of Counties' New Officers School on Jan. 22 in Des Moines.
Geoffrey Wall, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, has published a case report titled "Ethacrynic Acid and the Sulfa-Sensitive Patient" in the Jan. 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Stuart Shulman, assistant professor of environmental science and policy, was quoted in a Jan. 23 article in The Washington Post headlined "U.S. Opens Online Portal to Rulemaking." Shulman was invited to attend the introduction of www.regulations.gov in Washington, D.C. The Web site is designed to enable anyone with a computer and Internet access to find every federal regulation that is open for comment, read it and submit comments. Shulman said it will take more than numbers to measure whether the system will fundamentally change the outcome of rules or the behavior of rulemakers, or, more broadly, democratize the regulatory process.
Birgit Wassmuth, professor of advertising, was acknowledged in the recently published book Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms on 20th Century German Music by Michael Budds (ed.). Wassmuth was instrumental in the planning and staging of an international conference on "Jazz and the Germans," held at the University of Missouri in 1994.
Sally Beisser, assistant professor of education, will present a paper at The Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education conference in Albuquerque on March 25. This research, titled "Gender Differences Persist Yet Females Thrive in a LEGO/LOGO Constructionist Learning Environment," will be presented with two education undergraduates, Molly Finn and Emily Lynch, who assisted with a faculty research grant.
John Hicks, professor emeritus of art, and his son, Marty, FA'82, have an art exhibition titled "Curving Metaphors" at the Clear Lake Arts Center in Clear Lake, Iowa, from Jan. 3 through Feb. 25. Professor Hicks taught a workshop at the Clear Lake Arts Center for high school art students on Feb. 6.
A newly published book from the University of Oklahoma Press is titled Leonard Phelps Good: in a Nut Shell, Vol. 1. The late Leonard Good was an artist, professor and former head of the art department. The book is based on Good's writing and art work. The material was compiled by Good's wife, Yoshie, with the help of Andrew Phelan, director of the School of Art, the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
Corbin Stone, head women's soccer coach, recently was named Coach of the Year for first-year women's soccer programs by
Soccer Buzz magazine.

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