Michael Parks, professor and chair of the Art Education Department, and John Siskar, senior adviser for educational pipeline initiatives, have published their textbook, Navigating the Teaching of Art (Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Hunan, China).

Lindsey Freeman's new book, Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia, was published by the University of North Carolina Press. Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture.

Michael Johnson, associate professor and interim chair of the Modern and Classical Languages Department, presented the workshop "Using Puzzles in Groups to Provoke Discussion" at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Eastern Great Lakes Division, held in Perrysburg, Ohio, March 12 and 13.

Kesh, by Ralph L. Wahlstrom, has received the 2015 EPIC E-book Award for children's writing from the Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition.

Jeffrey Hirschberg, associate professor and director of the television and film arts program, directed two staged readings for the Writer's Guild of America's (WGA) annual TV Pilot competition on Wednesday, March 25, at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.

Kim Truesdell and Pixita del Prado Hill published their article "Family Literacy and Global Literature: Parents as Partners in the Common Core" in the March edition of the Reading Teacher 68 (6): 430–434, a publication of the International Literacy Association.

Jack Karlis, assistant professor of communication, presented "Miracle Lost: The Framing of the 2014 U.S. Men's Olympic Hockey Team" at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Midwinter Conference (Mass Communication and Society Division), held at Gaylord College in Norman, Oklahoma, March 6 and 7.

Wanda M. Davis, professor of higher education administration, was appointed to the American College Personnel Association Foundation's Board of Trustees. Davis was nominated for her "wisdom and expertise in higher education."

Bruce Sun, assistant professor of mathematics, published his paper "Re-specification of Affine Term Structure Models: The Linkage to Empirical Investigations," coauthored with Ting Huang and Xinfu Chen, in the journal Applied Mathematical Finance 21 (6): 523–554.

Kimberly Hart, associate professor of anthropology, has received a Fulbright to conduct ethnographic research in Istanbul in academic year 2015–2016. Her topic, "Istanbul Street Cats and Expressions of Kindness and Neglect," will explore how humans care for street animals, civil society organizations protecting and representing them, and government policies to manage—and, some claim, eradicate—street animal populations.