Recent works by Jeanne Brady, Craft Center, and Carol Ventura, Music and Art, have been chosen for inclusion in Fiberarts Design Book 7. The recently published edition includes 550 works selected from nearly 6,000 entries from more than 35 countries.

Rick Cashion, Ronald Franklin, Kay Hume and Joann Longfellow, Information Technology Services, made presentations at SUMMIT 2004, the annual conference of the SCT Education Technology Association, held recently in Philadelphia. At the conference, Cashion won the group's Gunnell Nelson Award for Service (see related story).

Monica Greppin, Public Affairs, and Kristen Pennycuff, Curriculum and Instruction, are among The Tennessean's 2004 "Top 40 Under 40," a tribute to midstate movers and shakers the Nashville newspaper publishes annually. Tennessean readers nominated 120 men and women for the award, and a group of community leaders narrowed the pool down to this year's winners. Greppin, a TTU alumnus and candidate for a master's degree from the University of Memphis, is president of Lazarus House Hospice's board of directors and has helped raise money for the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society. Pennycuff, also a TTU grad, is director of membership development for the Tennessee Reading Association, chairwoman of the advisory board for our Child Development Laboratory, and a cadre member for the Reading First Initiative in Tennessee. Calling them "tomorrow's leaders today," The Tennessean honored the winners in its March 14 edition.

Tom Timmerman, Decision Sciences and Business Managment, presented three papers at the 2004 Spring International Conference of the Allied Academies, held April 9 in New Orleans. The papers were titled "How beneficial are employee benefits?" "When are more heads better than one?" and, co-authored with Bonita Barger, Decision Sciences and Management, "Relationships between communication media and group processes." In addition, an article in the April 3 edition of the New York Daily News by T.J. Quinn, "Color barrier: Dearth of black pitchers & catchers haunts baseball," used data from Timmerman's ongoing research project on the racial composition of major league baseball.