Harold Story of the Department of Physics participated recently in The Discovery Channel Online’s week-long discussion about missions to Mars. Visitors to the site posted questions and Story wrote back with answers that were posted the Channel’s Web page.

Estela M. Rivero, director of the University Counseling Center, has been reappointed by the New York State Board of Regents to a five-year term on the New York State Board for Psychology. Dr. Rivero is one of 12 licensed psychologists from throughout New York who serve on the board, which advises and assists the Board of Regents in the licensure, discipline and development of standards for the practice of psychology.

Lillian S. Williams, associate professor of history in the Department of Women’s Studies delivered her findings from a research study titled “A Bridge to the Future: The History of Diversity in Girl Scouting” at the triennium National Council Session of the Girl Scouts of USA that met last month in Fort Worth. More than 5,000 Girl Scouts — adult and girl members — gathered to elect national board members, to review the past triennium’s activities and to plan the future direction of the Girl Scout movement in the U.S. The theme for the four-day event was “Girl Scouts: Partners for Tomorrow.”

Lilian Brannon, the director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, was recently elected as an Executive Committee member by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). The Executive Committee supervises the work of the CCCC, and oversees convention programs, professional development work, journals, bibliographies and book series for the CCCC.

Brannon will serve as an Executive Committee member for a three-year term. “One of the goals I wish to achieve is to help students to think about the relation between academic disclosure and public disclosure, and to learn how to write not just for academic purposes but also for the general public,” she said.

David Blustein of the Department of Counseling Psychology has been elected to the status of Fellow of the American Psychological Association effective January 1997. Fellow status is in part awarded on the basis of unusual and outstanding contributions in the field of psychology.

Blustein joins fellow department members Myrna Friedlander and Susan Phillips, who hold similar status.