Campus Briefs: June 1, 2007

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    Dean Stevenson retires

    Dean of Student Academic and Advisement Services Ford Stevenson will retire today. Memos of nomination for a new dean can be sent to Associate Academic Vice President K. Newell Dayley at until June 8.

    Faculty member honored

    Richard Heaps has received the Utah Psychological Association’s Distinguished Service Award. He has been an officer, executive board member and president of the association. He has also been the Western United States regional representative of the Disaster Response Network Committee, and has personally responded to disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the World Trade Center.

    Online dictionary in any language

    The information technology company Lingotek (www.lingotek.com), in partnership with BYU, is offering free access to 31 online language dictionaries from English to other languages and 31 from those languages to English.

    Museum program for kids

    The Monte L. Bean Museum is offering a Saturday Safari Program, for children ages 5 to 12, from 9:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday except June 30. Children will learn about animals from around the world. The cost is $12 for the first child and $10 for each additional child in the same family. Also offered is a two-day Wildlife Adventure, for children ages 6 to 12, which will be spent at the museum and on field trips on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The cost is $35 per child for each two-day session.

    Geneaology group meeting

    The Utah Valley PAF group will meet from 9 a.m. to noon on June 9 at the LDS “Red” Chapel at 4000 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo. The main presenter will be Justin Schroepfer, marketing director for FOOTNOTE.com.

    Book awards

    The Mormon History Association gave awards to two books published by Brigham Young University Press at a recent annual meeting. The association’s Best Book Award went to “An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870- 1920,” written by Carol Cornwell Madsen. The Geraldine McBride Woodward Award, for the best publication on the international history of Mormonism, was given to “Taking the Gospel to the Japanese, 1901- 2001,” edited by Reid L. Neilson and Van C. Gessel.

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