Honora Chapman
(Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) wrote Chapter 41 – on first-century Jewish historian Josepheus in “A Companion to Green and Roman Historiography,” published in January by Blackwell. The two-volume book’s 57 chapters are the work of an international group of expert scholars.

Rose Marie Kuhn
(Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) presented a refereed workshop on Sub-Saharan Africa and interest sessions on the African folktale and African Sub-Saharan literature in French. Her presentations were at the annual conference of the California Language Teachers Association in Irvine.

George B. Kauffman
(Chemistry, Emeritus) published "Education Research: Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research," Chemical & Engineering News (March 10); he also published biographical articles about chemists Melvin Calvin, Carl Dietrich Harries, Werner Kuhn, Willard Frank Libby, Herman Francis Mark, Carl Shipp Marvel, Samuel Shrowder Pickles, and Glenn Theodore Seaborg, all in Encyclopædia Britannica Online (http://search.eb.com).

Randy Perry
(Animal Sciences) was honored by the Fresno-Kings County Cattlemen’s Association as Cattleman of the Year.

Carol Zapata-Whelan
(Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) plans a bilingual motivational speech about raising a special needs child during a presentation at Children’s Hospital Central California’s Care Day on April 19. The topic mirrors a chapter Zapata-Whelan wrote for a soon-to-be-published anthology, “Love You to Pieces,” on the subject.