Notables

Royce Kallerud, English and linguistics department chair, and Paul Yoder, associate professor of education, both successfully completed the 118th Boston Marathon April 19. Kallerud finished with a time of 3:02:38 and Yoder finished with a time of 3:39:23.

Russell Nelson, art department chair, had his design published as the cover of “In Short, A Memory of the Other on a Good Day,” a collection of poems co-authored by alumnus Allison Cundiff. There will be a reading from the authors 5:30-8 p.m. May 3 at the Wooden Nickel.

Sally West, professor of history, was invited to give the plenary address March 29 at the Central Association of Russian Teachers of America conference in Columbia, Mo. Her talk, entitled “Selling Russia: Advertising’s Appropriation of Russian Culture in the Late Tsarist Era,” was based upon her book, “I Shop in Moscow: Advertising and the Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Tsarist Russia.”