M. Dolores Cimini, Ph.D., Thomas Gebhardt, and Catherine Herman gave a presentation July 22 at the National Social Norms Conference in Chicago, Ill.
Cimini is director of the Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program at the University Counseling Center. Gebhardt is director of Personal Safety and Off-Campus Affairs. Herman is associate vice president for Media and Marketing.
The title of the presentation was Takin� It to the Streets: Developing and Implementing a Successful Social Norms Campaign Targeting Long-Term Neighbors in the Community. Social norms media campaign materials developed for this project earned first prize for Excellence in Community Relations among nominations submitted from across the 64-campus State University of New York system.

Professor of Mathematics R. Michael Range was one of four mathematicians to win the distinguished Lester R. Ford award this summer in Providence, R.I. The awards are presented by the Mathematical Society of America for articles of expository excellence published in the American Mathematical Monthly. Range won for �Complex Analysis: A Brief Tour into Higher Dimensions,� published February 2003, pp. 89-108. Born in Germany and raised in Italy, Range first came to the U.S. on a Fulbright Exchange Fellowship. He earned a Ph.D. from UCLA and has published many research articles in multidimensional complex analysis. A frequent visitor abroad, he is fluent in five languages. He is the author of Holomorphic Functions and Integral Representations in Several Complex Variables (Springer-Verlag, 1986), which was recently reprinted and was reproduced in the People�s Republic of China.

Professor of Philosophy Bonnie Steinbock gave a presentation on Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos September 10 at a conference at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C. The conference was the Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship on Defining the Beginning and the End of Human Life: Implications for Ethics, Policy, and Law. Steinbock�s books and articles range broadly in bioethics, with emphasis on ethical problems around early development and the time of death.

Wander Falette, a junior, and Dennis Sullivan, an adjunct professor in the School of Criminal Justice, were named recipients of the first American Society of Criminology Minority Scholar/Mentor Research Grants. Falette and Sullivan will use the grant to examine the unique model of restorative justice that has been practiced in Northern Ireland, and assess whether the model is applicable to countries in Latin America, especially the Dominican Republic, Falette�s country of origin. Restorative justice is a systematic response to wrongdoing that emphasizes healing the wounds of victims, offenders, and communities caused by criminal behavior. The grant provides Falette with a $5,000 stipend his junior year, $5,000 his senior year, and up to $1,500 in travel expenses in order to make a presentation of the findings at the society�s 2005 annual meeting in Toronto. Three other minority scholar/mentor teams were named.