Several AC professors recently co-sponsored the North Regional Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching at Ferris State University. The AC group consisted of Sheri Bleam, Agnes Caldwell, Fritz Detwiler, Diane Henningfeld, Michael McGrath, Beth Myers, Joanna Schultz and Ann Theis.

Lois Aderholt, switchboard operator and receptionist, retired in January after 32 years of service to the College.

Jeff Ball, instructor of art and design, is the author of an article, "The Missouri Murals: Studies for the State Capital Decorations," in the latest issue of "MUSE: Annual of the Museum of Art and Archeology" from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The Reading Recovery Council of Michigan recently recognized Marcie Brown, assistant professor of teacher education, for her services over the last nine years to Reading and Recovery at both the local and state level.

For her work with service learning, Agnes Caldwell, associate professor in the sociology/criminal justice/human services department, is a 2001 recipient of the Michigan Campus Compact Faculty Staff Community Service Learning Award. It is the highest annual award the MCC bestows on faculty and staff. (see related story, p. 11)

Roger Fechner, professor of history, organized and served as a panelist for the workshop, "Andrew Hook and Scottish-American Literary and Historical Connections," at the Seventh Annual Conference of The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland. He also published an introduction to a new reprinted edition of Samuel Miller's "A Brief Retrospective of the Eighteenth Century" (1804), often regarded as the first history of American intellectual culture.

Todd Hamilton, assistant professor of chemistry, has published an article entitled, "The Internet: Another Teaching Tool or Panacea for Education?" in the January 2002 issue of The Teaching Professor.

Former President Bill Clinton invited political science Professor Muqtedar Khan to participate in a one-day conference called "Islam and America in a Global World" which took place on Jan. 24 at New York University in New York City.

Dick Koch, professor of English, met with other teacher leaders from around the country for a week-long event in California supported by the National Writing Project. The focus of the event was incorporating equity, access and social justice into education. Koch went with a team from the Oakland Writing Project, an organization for which Koch is the associate director.

"Cycles," a solo exhibition by Catherine Royer, assistant professor of art and design, recently showed at Albion College's Bobbitt Visual Arts Center.

Andrew Schiller, part-time music faculty, has been awarded a fellowship by the Rome Festival to travel to Rome this summer and study Italian Renaissance music for classical guitar.

Bill Tregea, associate professor in the sociology/criminal justice/human services department, was awarded a Michigan Campus Compact "Phase II" campus-community dialog grant in August. The funds supported a police-community problem solving deliberation board in Adrian during the 2001-2002 academic year.

Craig Weatherby, biology professor, published an article in a recent edition of Horizon, the magazine for the National Museum of Kenya.