Campus News Network — April 19, 1999

Page	Title	Summary
1	UNI is going to MEMFIS	UNI's human resources, payroll, budget, purchasing, general ledger, and accounts payable systems will be converted to the MEMFIS project, Modern Executive Management and Financial Information Systems, over period of five to seven years.
1	New Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award presented	Jane Wong received the new annual award, which was established to recognize outstanding instructors of graduate students.
1	43rd Annual Heritage Honors Awards presented	Lyn Countryman, Kent Sandstrom, Katherine van Wormer, Sandra Cassady, David Brush, James Handorf, Robert Bettle, and Mildred Middleton received awards at the April 17 event.
3	Profile: Pilkington	Profile of Randy Pilkington, from the Institute for Decision Making; photo.
	Yury Lerner	Presented paper on bronze casting at Casting Congress.
	Staff in the UNI Office of Public Relations	Received awards from Northeast Iowa Chapter of Women in Communication.
	Ron Bengston, Mary Akers, Randall Neal, Deanne Ubben, and Rose Kading	Received awards for various promotional posters done for UNI.
	Sharlene Morgan, Bev Schomaker, Erin Wignall, and Sue Smith	Received gold award for printing of Iowa Science Teachers Fall Conference program and silver award for 1998 NU High Commencement program.
	Paul Siddens	Elected vice-chair of States Advisory Committee of Central States Communication Association.
	Staff in the UNI Office of Public Relations	Received awards for various publications at CASE District Six conference.
	Chris Ogbondah and Paul Siddens	Presented their research paper on communication in Nigerian cultures. Siddens presented paper on virtual reality and the communications classroom and chaired a workshop and panel.
	Liz Yagla	Received Jessica Hey Award from YWCA.
	Ann Vernon	Appointed to Albert Ellis Board of Trustees and presented Passport program at ACA conference.
	Christopher Denison	Appointed chair of National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association Aquatics Committee.
	Jim Langel	Appointed director of National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association.
	Tom Riedmiller	Conducted workshops on online job searching.
	Victoria Robinson	Presented lecture on North Africa.
	Linda Walsh	Presented lecture on using an online syllabus.
	Charline Barnes	Presented lecture on language arts teaching.
	Kamyar Enshayan	Presented seminar "A Tale of Two Chickens" in Nebraska. Presented paper on mass production of food, gave the keynote address, and led a workshop at food project conference in Ohio.
	Randal Hayes	Presented a lecture on telecommunications.
	Ronald Johnson	Spent time in Hungary at a music school.
	Annette Lynch	Presented "Transforming Gender through Critical Research" at meeting.
	Fred Behroozi, Paul Shand, and Ali Badakhshan	Made presentations on physics.
	Lawrence Escalada	Presented lecture on using technology to teach science and physics instruction in secondary classrooms.
	Mary Bozik	Presented paper on teaching listening at a language arts conference.
	Jeffery Byrd	Exhibition of videos and objects at Waterloo Museum of Art and presented performance there as well.
	Christopher Denison, Jim Langel, and Andy Martin	Will be making presentations at a recreational sports symposium.
	Anthony Gabriele and Elana Joram, Paul Trafton, Diane Thiessen, Edward Rathmell, and Larry Leutzinger	Will present mathematics lecture at conference.
	Jennie Wang	Published an introduction and two chapters of translation of novel "Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts".
	Taifa Yu	Authored article on Taiwan/China relations in South Pacific.
	Donna Thompson, Susan Hudson, and Mick Mack	Co-authored article on children's playground equipment.
	Sue Joslyn	Authored article on breast cancer.
	Yury Lerner	Co-authored articles on casting of aluminum and ductile irons.
	Pita Agbese and Chris Ogbondah	Published article on environmental justice.
	Penny Beed	Published article on workshops and struggling readers.
	Karlene Kischer-Browne	Published article on the role of interpreters and aids in public schools.
	Richard Utz	Edited book "Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman" and wrote two essays in that collection.