Assistant Professor Carol Ann Bassett received grants from the Oregon Humanities Center and the Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources to help with the production of her book, A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World. The book is due out in September.

Associate Professor Carl Bybee has been involved in building two new media literacy organizations and has conducted close to a dozen media literacy presentations around the Eugene community. He has been profiled in the Register Guard and the Oregon Quarterly. His guest lecture for Professor Anita Weiss' course about Sept. 11 has aired on local cable access and is available to cable access stations nationally.

Adjunct assistant professor Kathy Campbell completed her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May.

Professor Charles Frazer attended the American Academy of Adverting Conference in Jacksonville, Fla., in March. Frazer was invited to present a paper on a panel devoted to theories of advertising creative strategy. He also presented a research paper, coauthored with Prof. Kim Sheehan, comparing characteristics of U.S. television commercials receiving gold awards for effectiveness in the New York American Marketing Association's EFFIE awards with those winning Gold Lions in the International Advertising Festival at Cannes.

Visiting Assistant Professor Tom Hagley had two articles published in The Public Relations Strategist: "Why CEOs Must Be Visible Leaders," in the Winter issue 2002, and "Does Your Company Have the Write Stuff?," in the Spring issue 2002.

Professor Lauren Kessler recently spoke to groups of writers and readers at the Tigard Public Library, Benton County Library, Lincoln City Library, three local book clubs, the Eugene chapter of the National Writers' Union and an area middle school. Her latest book, The Happy Bottom Riding Club, is now out in paperback (Random House).

The documentary "Dream to Fly: A History of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat," executive produced by Assistant Professor Daniel Miller and narrated by former Senator Mark Hatfield premiered at the First Anniversary Celebration of the opening of the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville on June 6, 2002.

Associate Professor Julianne Newton was awarded tenure effective Sept. 16, 2002. Newton and Adjunct Assistant Professor Rick Williams were selected as two of 23 scholars and professionals from eight countries attending a meeting on visual learning in higher education. The meeting was sponsored by SIGGRAPH and Eurographics and was held at Snowbird, Utah, June 1-4. Although they focused attention on visual learning in technical areas, they also explored ways to enhance visual learning across curricula in higher education. Professor Kenneth O'Connell of UO fine arts also attended the meeting.

Associate Professor John Russial attended the American Copy Editors Society national conference in Louisville, Ky., in April and appeared on a panel discussing newspaper internships and the economy. He also conducted the Summer Journalism Workshop for high school minority students, which will bring 20 students to campus June 22-29.

Assistant Professor Kim Sheehan was selected as editor of the American Academy of Advertising newsletter. Her paper "Of Searching, Surfing and Newshounds" will be published later this year in the Journal of Advertising Research. Sheehan's book, Using Qualitative Research in Advertising (Sage) came out early in April.

Professor Leslie Steeves has joined the editorial board of MICA Communications Review, a new journal to be published by the Mudra Institute of Communication in India, the premier institute of communication in India.

Professor Jim Upshaw and Associate Professor Al Stavitsky received an ASJMC/Knight Foundation Broadcasters-in-Residence Program grant for in 2002-2003. The grant will bring broadcast news journalists from KGW-TV to campus during the next academic year.

Janet Wasko and friends visit the Great Wall of China

Professor Janet Wasko was invited to present her paper, "Global Hollywood: What's New and What's Not So New?" at the International Conference on International Relations & Cultural Communication, Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China, on April 13, 2002. She also presented papers on "The Future of Moving Image Distribution and Exhibition," and "Studying Global Disney Audiences," at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference in Denver, Colorado, May 25-26, 2002. She presented an invited paper, "Show me the Money: New Sources of Revenue for Hollywood" at Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-first Century Conference, London, England, June 13, 2002.

In March, instructor Kellee Weinhold led a workshop for journalism faculty at Ball State University on teaching Grammar and Information Gathering. She also taught a writing workshop to students in Crater High School's School of Business in Central Point. Weinhold served with Rich Read of The Oregonian and Elisa Williams of Forbes as a judge for the Society of Business Editors and Writers annual national business writing competition. Weinhold's essay "Get Off My Log" placed among the top ten finalists for Oregon Quarterly's "Northwest Perspectives" essay contest.

Associate Professor Tom Wheeler's new book, Phototruth or Photofiction: Ethics and Media Imagery in the Digital Age has been released.