Carolyn Nielsen (Journalism) presented her manuscript "From Demography to Demonstrations to Diversity: Three Iconic Events Show Latino/a Newspapers’ Counternarrative to General-Market Newspaper Coverage" on Aug. 16 at the Identity and Media: New Agendas in Communication Conference at the University of Texas at Austin. The working conference featured scholars whose work has been selected for possible inclusion in a book on media and Social Identity Theory.

Carolyn Nielsen (Journalism) presented papers Aug. 4 and 6 at the national Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Denver. Her sole-authored papers included "Community Conversation or 'The New Bathroom Wall?' Anonymous Online Comments and the Journalist's Role" and "Wise Latina: The Framing of Sonia Sotomayor in The New York Times and El Diario-La Prensa."

Dr. Roland L. “Larry” De Lorme, a former Western Washington University administrator and faculty member, died on Sunday, Aug. 1, at the age of 73.

A celebration of Larry’s life will be held in Aberdeen, his hometown, at 2 p.m. Aug. 21 at The Aberdeen Museum of History.

Jeffrey King (Psychology) has been involved in a number of activities this summer. He gave the invited presentation “Integrating Evidence and Practice: Practice-Based Evidence” at the Integrating Evidence and Practice invitational forum sponsored by the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch (CAFB), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, held in Washington, DC., May 11 and 12.