Paul Dolan, professor, physics, served on the organizing committee for the Topical Conference on Advanced Labs in July in Ann Arbor, Mich. At the meeting he presented two posters: "Intermediate Lab at NEIU" and "To Be or Not to Be OHMIC: A Warm-up Exercise for Advanced Labs."

Marian Gidea, professor, mathematics, edited a volume titled "Research Conducted in Dynamical Systems" in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-S, which was published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, as well as a special section on "Celestial Mechanics and Astronomy" in Communications in Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulations, Vol. 14, Issue 12, 2009. He co-authored a paper titled "Obstruction Argument for Transition Chains of Tori Interspersed with Gaps" in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-S, Vol. 2, 2009. In May he presented a lecture titled "Detection of Diffusing Orbits in Hamiltonian Systems" at the SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, and in June he presented "A Shadowing Lemma for Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds and Applications to the Arnold Diffusion Problem" at the Dynamics, Topology and Computations conference in Bedlewo, Poland. Gidea also was nominated as an associate editor of the journal Communication to Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations.

Richard Hallett, professor, linguistics, gave a presentation titled "(Socio)Linguistic Research Methodology: A Focus on Tourism Websites" at Delhi University in India in August.

Richard Hallett, professor, linguistics; Judith Kaplan-Weinger, professor and coordinator, linguistics; and Russell Zanca, associate professor, anthropology, co-authored "Who Owns this Dish?," a multi-modal discourse analysis of food and identity for the textbook Food and Language.

Theresa Segura-Herrera, community counseling adviser, counseling, received the 2009 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award in Psychology from the American Psychological Association at the group?s annual convention, which was held in Toronto in August.