CAROL ANN BASSETT'S article “The Culture Thieves,” which originally appeared in Science 86, was recently published in Archaeology, Relics and the Law, a law textbook by professor Richard Cunningham of University of California Hastings College of the Law. In addition, Bassett’s article exploring the fate of the Bio-Bio river in Southern Chile was chosen to appear in American Nature Writing 2000, which will be out in March.

BRETT CAMPBELL is teaching Magazine I and exulting in the latest notices of Associated College Press Association awards for Flux magazine (for which he served as faculty advisor for the past three years). In November, he moderated a panel discussion at the UO School of Music titled “Investing in Community Arts,” featuring panelists from the city council, city of Eugene, and Music School Dean Ann Dhu McLucas.

CHARLIE FRAZER recently had a paper with Ann Maxwell and Wayne Wanta accepted by AEJMC. “Does Good Work Pay-off?” explores the financial growth of agencies that are successful in the Communication Arts advertising awards versus those that are not. The study showed that during a 5-year period among small and medium sized ad agencies award success was strongly related to financial growth. Frazer is currently developing a professional master’s program in account planning and doing a research project involving content analysis of advertising job ads in Advertising Age. He ia also completing an outline for a book on social aspects of advertising that he will write during sabbatical leave in 2001.

Professor and former dean ARNOLD ISMACH contributed a chapter on journalism education in the United States for a new book, L’Arsenal de la Democratie, by Claude-Jean Bertrand, published in French by Economica. Ismach also stepped down in November after two terms as president of Planned Parenthood Health Services of Southwestern Oregon. He will retire in June after teaching a reporting class in the spring term.

LAUREN KESSLER'S most recent work includes “For the Bad Times,” an essay published in Salon magazine in October, “Writing with Children,” in the November issue of Writer’s Digest, and “On the Home Front,” the cover story in the the fall issue of Reed magazine. Her ninth book, The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes is due out from Random House in May. She is hard at work on an oral history project, a new book and, along with several creative nonfiction students, a major website for literary nonfiction. Most recently, Kessler was asked to interview Gore Vidal in front of a sell-out crowd in Portland, as part of the 1999 Oregon Arts and Lectures series.

In addition to his role as a new assistant professor, JOHN KNOWLTON is the editor of www.gohome.com, rated by Yahoo! Intenet Life, CNET and Snap! Online as the top website serving the work-from-home market. He made a presentation in October to the Federal Reserve Bank meeting in Portland about the growing work-from-home market in the Pacific Northwest. Also, as part of the statewide Oregon Remodeler’s Association convention, he led three panel discussions on “The Short Commute: Home Office Options.”

“Roll On, Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Administration,” directed and produced by DENISE MATTHEWS and Michael Majdic, Knight Library Media Services, will premiere February 10, at the Knight Library Browsing Room. The hour-long video explores the convergence of a unique American poetic genius and a great public works project. The program is currently under consideration for national distribution by PBS.

ANN MAXWELL has been focusing her energies on teaching a course on Women in Advertising. Over the course of the term, her students compiled biographical information for oral and written presentations on Bernice Fitz- Gibbon, Jane Trahey, Helen Resor, Shirley Polykoff, Mary Wells Lawrence, Caroline Jones, Carol Williams, and Charlotte Beers. Last March she collected an oral history on Phyliss Robinson, who was hired as the first copy chief of Doyle Dane Bernbach.

DUNCAN McDONALD has completed the new edition of Exercises for When Words Collide, as a supplement to the Kessler-McDonald 5th edition of WWC; he has also been appointed as the public member of the Accrediting Council on Graduate Medical Education, which reviews and certifies more than 8,000 medical residency programs in the United States.

DEBRA MERSKIN'S work on biracial identity and Native American stereotypes will be featured as part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian traveling exhibit, coordinated by Museum Dahlem in Berlin. She has recently signed a book contract with Wadsworth Publishing for an introductory mass media and society textbook. In addition, Merskin is the author of a chapter in the recently released Growing Up Girls (ed. Mazzarella and Pecora, published by Peter Lang) on adolescent girls, menstruation, and advertising.

In October, STEVE PONDER served as the moderator of two panel discussions at the annual convention of the American Journalism Historians Association, which met this year in Portland. The School sponsored the main reception for the approximately 100 delegates from universities in the United States and Canada. In November, Ponder taught an off-campus short course in “Presidents and the Press,” for OASIS, a national educational organization for mature adults. He has also agreed to co-author one volume of a book series on the history of journalism in the United States. The volume, tentatively entitled The Public Press, 1900-1945, will be published in 2001 by Greenwood Press.

DEANNA ROBINSON'S article, “A Noble Idea Bites the Dust” about a failed effort to institute a graduate distance education program in telematics will be published in the next issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication.

JOHN RUSSIAL assembled and moderated a panel discussion on “Pagination and Copy Desk Issues” at the American Copy Editors Society annual convention in Dallas in September. He spent three days in Klamath Falls working with editors and reporters at the Herald and News. A manuscript, “Digital Imaging and the Photojournalist: Work and Workload Issues,” will be published in the Spring issue of Newspaper Research Journal.

This fall, BILL RYAN finished the art direction, editing and design of Breaking 100: Eugene Country Club’s First Century, 1899-1999. The book has been nominated for a number of awards for its design and art direction. In addition, he received four awards from ONPA for creativity, copywriting and design; Ryan created the advertising for The Flower Market chain. He lectured and conducted a design workshop at the OSU Fall Press Day, covering the creative use of grids and conventional design principles in newspaper page layout. Ryan has also recently reviewed a number of art, design and photography books for Independent Publisher. Currently, Ryan is reviewing new titles for Visual Communication Quarterly and the National Press Photographers’ Assn. magazine, News Photographer.

AL STAVITSKY presented his research on ‘Yesterday’s Microradio: The Demise of Class D FM’ at the annual conference of the American Journalism Historians Association in Portland in October. He moderated a panel on local news in commercial radio at the Oregon Association of Broadcasters conference in Portland in October. Stavitsky was invited to speak on administrative issues in distance education at the annual conference of the National Communication Association in Chicago in November. With Wes Wilson of the UO Department of Economics, Stavitsky is developing a pilot program to help freshmen understand the interdisciplinary linkages between journalism and economics. The program is funded through a grant from the UO’s Rippey Innovative Teaching Awards.

JIM UPSHAW began his term as chair of the Education Task Force of the Radio-Television News Directors Association; he’s meeting regularly with RTNDA’s national board on broadcast-education issues. Jim has also signed to do a textbook on the broadcast industry.

JANET WASKO has recently published “The Political Economy of Film,” in Toby Miller and Robert Stam, eds., A Companion to Film Theory. In October, she was an invited speaker at Media and Communication in the New Global Economy: A Conference in Honor of Herbert I. Schiller, in San Diego. Her address was titled “Thinking About Convergence and Analyzing Disney.” Wasko was also co-chair of the Union for Democratic Communication conference, Oct. 14-16, at UO, where she chaired a panel on Global Disney Audiences Project.