Faculty/Staff in the News Deborah Maltby, adjunct instructor of English, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in nineteenth-century British literature and history in December at UMKC. The dissertation is entitled "Reading ‘Hodge’: Nineteenth-Century English Rural Workers." CFRE International has awarded Kimberly Hinkle the professional designation of Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). Hinkle, Director of Development for the Harriman-Jewell Series joins over 4,700 professionals around the world who hold the CFRE designation. Individuals granted the CFRE credential have met a series of standards set by CFRE International which include tenure in the profession, education, professional achievements and a commitment to service to not-for-profit organizations. They have agreed to uphold Accountability Standards and the Donor Bill of Rights. Additionally, candidates must pass a rigorous written examination testing the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a fundraising executive. Mary Sallee was one of the tri-presidents of the 2006 Harvest Ball. The Ball, held at the Hyatt Regency Kansas City (Mo.) on November 18, raised a record $605,000 for Kansas City Northland charities and was attended by over 950 people. Dr. Rychetta Watkins, assistant professor of English, has had an article, "Translating Fanon: African American and Asian American appropriations of colonialism" accepted for publication in a forthcoming collection, Post-Colonial Theory in Asian-American Literature, ed. Kathryn Sugg. Professor of English Dr. Ian Munro’s "Mapping the Postcolonial Metropolis: Lagos as setting and subject in four Nigerian novels" has just come out in Representing Minorities: Studies in Literature and Criticism, a collection edited by Larbi Touaf and Soumia Boutkhil, Cambridge Scholars Press, October 2006. Two of Dr. Munro’s reviews were also published recently: a review of Zakaria Lahlou’s "The Opposite Program" appears in the current issue of World Literature in Review, and a review of two republished works, Edith Wharton’s In Morocco and Richard Harding Davis’s The Exiles, appears in the current issue of The Journal for Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies. STUDENTS IN THE NEWS Alexander Williams, a junior political science, psychology and history major at William Jewell College and a resident of Liberty, Mo., has co-authored an article selected for a professional publication. Williams is the co-author of “In Pursuit of Peace: Attitudinal and Behavioral Change with Simulations and Multiple Identification Theory” that has been accepted for publication in Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research. The following students and faculty members have received research grants from the BBB Research Foundation. Lea Hogsett and Tara Allen. $800. The Effects of Saturated Versus Mono-unsaturated Fatty Acids on Apoptotic Death in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Matt Kastner and Scott Falke. $700. Effect of a C-terminal tail truncation in GroEL on protein folding. Jenny Morrison and Dan Heruth. $750. Characterization of Apoptotic Mechanisms Involved in R Body Induced Death in Paramecia tetraurelia. Ashley Popejoy and Lori Wetmore. $500. Investigation of abnormal cell cycle progression and expression of cyclins A and B1 in human U138 glial cells. Scarlett Savage and Dan Heruth. $750. Phylogenetic Characterization of Endosymbiotic Bacteria in Paramecium aurelia. Collegiate Vocal Music Contest Winners Brittany Williams, soprano and Joshua Lawlor, baritone, will perform songs by Mozart, Menotti and Vaughn Williams with the Liberty Symphony Orchestra during their Classical Concert at 7:30 p.m., February 17 at the Liberty Performing Arts Theater. For tickets, contact the Liberty Performing Arts Theater Box Office at 816-792-6130 or www.libertysymphony.org