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David Larwin, Department of Psychology, K.H. Larwin, presented the paper “The Value of Meta-analytic Research When Formulating an Evaluation Plan: Implications for Return on Investment in a Federally-Funded Wellness Initiative” at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association in Anaheim, Calif., November 2011.

Steven Brown, Department of Political Science, read Systematic Appraisal of Perspective in Policy-oriented Jurisprudence at the meeting of the Annual Institute for Policy Sciences at Yale University School of Law in New Haven, Conn., on Oct. 15, 2011. Brown also chaired the panel “Subjectivity in Law and Society” at the meeting.

Santokh Tandon, Department of Chemistry, was presented an award of honor by the Post Graduate Department of Chemistry, Khalsa College, Amritsar, India, where he was invited as a guest speaker at the International Year of Chemistry Conference, November 2011.

Bob Batchelor, Journalism and Mass Communication, edited Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, 3 Volumes, (Santa Barbara, Calif.:Praeger), (2011). www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?isbn=9780313357800. Cult Pop Culture enables readers to focus on a given topic or compare different subjects across cult phenomenon. Volume One covers film and television topics, Volume Two examines music and literature, and Volume Three explores sports, clubs and the cult industry. Through this investigation of sublime, transcendent and idiosyncratic trends, readers will learn more about iconic individuals, topics and subjects that form the vast underbelly of American culture. By revealing how tightly interwoven cult topics are with the public's broader notion of popular culture, the collection underscores the blurry line between normal and abnormal, grandiose and degradation.

David Larwin, Department of Psychology, K.H. Larwin, J. Gorman, recently co-authored, “Mnemonic aids during tests: Worthless frivolity or effective tool in statistics education?” Journal of Instructional Pedagogies. 8,(2012):1-16.

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, authored the essay “Richard Wright’s Haiku, Zen, and the African ‘Primal Outlook upon Life’” (reproduce from Modern Philology 2007) in The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku, (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi), Jianqing Zheng, (2011): 3-24.

Barrett Beer, Department of History, Andrea Manchester, ’07, authored the online journal article “Writing and Rewriting Early Modern History: Five Sixteenth-Century Chroniclers,” Quidditas, 32 (2011): 138-171. http://humanities.byu.edu/rmmra.

Kiersten Latham, School of Library and Information Science, authored the journal, “Museum Object as Document: Using Buckland's Information Concepts to Understand Museum Experiences.” Journal of Documentation. 68.1 (2012): 45-71.

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• Additional Comments: The purpose of this article is to understand the meaning of museum objects from an information perspective. Links are made from Buckland's conceptual information framework as a semiotic to museum object as “document” and finally to user experience of these museum “documents.” The aim is to provide a new lens through which museum studies’ researchers can understand museum objects and for library and information sciences researchers to accept museum objects as another form of document to be studied.