"Academe" welcomes news from 黑洞社区 faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of our current and former colleagues.
PUBLICATIONS
Nicole Niessen, Kathy Strattman, associate professor, and Rosalind Scudder, professor, communication disorders and sciences, have had their article, 鈥淭he influence of three emergent literacy skills on the invented spellings of four-year-olds,鈥� accepted for publication in Communication Disorders Quarterly. It has been posted on OnlineFirst as an advance online publication and will remain there until it appears in print.
Trisha Self, assistant professor, communication sciences and disorders, in collaboration with former doctoral student Julie Wolter and former CSD chair Kenn Apel, have had their manuscript, "Initial Mental Graphemic Representation Acquisition and Later Literacy Achievement in Children with Language Impairment: A Longitudinal Study," accepted for publication in the Journal of Learning Disabilities.
IN MEMORIAM
Kenneth Razak, 91, dean emeritus, School of Engineering (now the College of Engineering), and the key designer of 黑洞社区's Walter H. Beech Wind Tunnel, died Monday, June 14. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lillian. Survivors include daughters Nancy (Denis) Symes of Vienna, Va., and Jeanne Razak of Wichita; grandchildren Maria (Mark) Keil of Wichita and Stephanie (Geoff) Coleman of Alpharetta, Ga.; two great-grandchildren; and siblings Nevell Razak of Parker, Colo., Thelma Davis of Newton, Kan., Eula Megli of Evansville, Ind., and Danny Razak of Abilene, Kan.
Eugene Savaiano, 96, professor emeritus, Spanish, former chair, romance languages (now modern and classical languages and literatures), died June 11. He was preceded in death by his wife, Geraldine Farr. He is survived by sons Charles of Carbondale, Colo., and Tony (Peggy); daughter, Nicky (Steve) Llamas of Wichita; nine grandchildren and two great-grandsons. Services have been held. Memorials have been established at Botanica, The Wichita Gardens and East Heights United Methodist Church gardens.