Orlando Leon, vice president for Information Technology and chief information officer, was named to the new Campus Technology Events Advisory Board. The board is a group of higher education technology leaders from a variety of institutions across the country who will help guide virtual programming.

Venita Blackburn (English faculty) — was nominated for Best of the Net for the story “Smoothies,” previously published in Split Lip Magazine.

Steven Church (English faculty) — won third place in the juried awards for his lyric essay “Understanding the Fox,” as part of the Pandemical virtual exhibition from Fresno State’s Center for Creativity and the Arts. His essay “Memory Yards” was also selected for the exhibition.

J. Ashley Foster (English faculty) — co-authored and published, with scholar Andrew Janco, the article “Challenging a ‘Warist’ Society with Digital Peace Pedagogy” in the journal Radical Teacher.

Jenny Krichevsky (English faculty) — was featured in a new faculty profile on the College of Arts and Humanities news blog.

Alison Mandaville (English faculty) — reviewed the Tian Veasna book “Year of the Rabbit,” a graphic memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, in the journal World Literature Today.

Charles L. Radke (Division of Research and Graduate Studies staff) — published the stories “Alfred’s Feast” in the Mud Season Review, and “Renaissance Man” in the journal HASH.

Brynn Saito (English faculty) — co-authored and published, with poet Traci Brimhall, the poems “Ode to the Bone China Sugar Bowl,” “Shelter Ghazal,” and “Starlight from the Old Century” in the journal Guesthouse. She also co-authored and published, with poet Traci Brimhall, the poems “Distance Ghazal” and “Blood Ghazal” in South Florida Poetry Journal.

Reva E. Sias (English faculty) — published the article “Locating Our Editorial and Intellectual Selves Through and Within the Pages of ‘Reflections’: A Personal Reflection” in the 20th anniversary issue of Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric.