Kevin Enns-Rempel, archivist, served on the board that oversaw Architecture, Ethnicity and Historic Landscapes of California's San Joaquin Valley. The City of Fresno's Planning and Development Department received a 2009 Governor's Historic Preservation Award for the 2008 publication and Enns-Rempel attended the January 20 ceremony at the Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento. The book's 29 essays by 22 authors are the first published collection to examine the vernacular architecture and cultural heritage of the region. The publication also won a 2008 California Preservation Foundation Award. Copies have been distributed to libraries and archives throughout California and are for sale from the planning and development department.

A book by Duane Ruth-Heffelbower, director of academic programs at the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies and business faculty, What happens after we're gone? Estate and life planning for families in which a dependent member has a disability or mental illness has been republished online in a slightly revised third edition dated 2009. It is in the process of revision for a fourth edition due out in 2010. The third edition is available through the Anabaptist Disabilities Network online at www.adnetonline.org. The first edition was published in 1986 and the second in 1996.

Pam Johnston, history and classics faculty, presented a paper at Oikos-Familia: the Family in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, November 5-7 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference was organized by the University of Gothenburg and the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. The focus was on family structures and relationships from about 500 BCE to 500 CE. Johnston looked at the role of women in family advisory councils (consilia) of the Roman Republican period. This is the next step in her research on the consilium she began in The Military Consilium in Republican Rome.

Tim Neufeld, biblical and religious studies faculty, has given presentations including "Missional Church Leadership" at the MB Biblical Seminary Roundtable, November 3, and "Teaching U2: The Classroom as Theological Learning Space," at the Academic Conference on the Work and Influence of U2, Durham, North Carolina, October 4-6. Among his recent articles is "Leading Through Listening: Discerning How God's Spirit is Moving among Your Students" in the summer 2009 issue of The Journal of Student Ministries.

Bruce Boeckel, English faculty, and Dieter Wulfhorst, music faculty, participated in a regional lecture day for Academic Decathlon, whose theme this year is the French Revolution. Charles Dickens met Gene Roddenberry in Boeckel's presentation, "A Tale of Two Cities: Do the Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few?" Boeckel argued, along with Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Dickens's Dr. Manette, that "those who lose sight of the 'one' soon lost sight of all that is most noble in the human spirit." Wulfhorst gave three presentations about music on the French Revolution. Nearly 300 students from Alameda County to Kings County attended the September 30
County to Kings County attended the September 30 event at the Madera 6 Movie Theater, organized by the Madera County Department of Education.