Professor of Spanish Ivonne Gordon-Vailakis was one of 15 poets invited to read from their work at the Teatro de la Luna Poetry Marathon in Washington, D.C. on March 31. Teatro de la Luna was founded in 1991 and strives to promote Hispanic culture and foster cross-cultural understanding between the Spanish- and English-speaking communities of our region via Spanish-language theater and bilingual theatrical activities.

Associate Professor Tim Krantz was was featured in an Emmy Award-winning documentary film, “Voices of the Monument," on the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument--the nation’s newest addition to the National Monument system. The film won Emmy’s for best photography, writing, documentary and editing. Krantz was featured in a section of the film on the formation of the Salton Basin and pre-historic Lake Cahuilla; together with fly-over simulations and graphics provided by Analyst/Programmer Nathan Strout and GIS Analyst Lisa Benvenuti of the Redlands Institute.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sawa Kurotani was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Humanities Workshops Program Award. Kurotani's project, entitled "Understanding Asian Culture through Theater" represents an exciting opportunity for the University of Redlands to host a pair of interdisciplinary workshops on integrating Asian theater into college curricula.

Vice President for University Relations Ron Stephany has been named to the Board of Directors of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (IEEP), a non-profit economic development organization. The 180 public and private sector entities that constitute the membership of IEEP are united as a regional partnership, advancing goals and objectives that benefit the entire two-county region in areas such as business, education and government.

Christy Whiddon, assistant professor of chemistry, had her paper “Surfactant Diffusion through Bicontinuous Micellar Networks: A Case Study of the C9G1/C10G1/H2O Mixed Surfactant System,” published in the American Chemical Society’s March issue of Langmuir (Vol. 20, Issue 6). The paper, co-authored with colleagues Johan Reimer and Olle Söderman provides the first concrete evidence, obtained by various novel NMR techniques, of the existence of “living micelles.”