Beauvais Lyons, professor of art, will receive the George T. Ikeda Award for one of his prints that has been selected for the 20th Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s National Exhibition. Los Angeles critic Peter Frank juried the exhibition.

Karen Hilyard, assistant professor of public relations, was recently quoted in the article “Sorry celebrities: Being famous means sometimes having to apologize” in The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis.

Joshua Fu, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed as an international adviser by the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center. He is assisting the agency to establish an air quality forecasting system to provide hourly and daily status updates during the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China.

Paul Davidson, professor of economics and editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, was mentioned in recent New York Times article about economist John Maynard Keynes and how several new books re-examine the life and theories of the 20th century economist.

An Old Master, Back in Fashion

Chris Cherry, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, recently participated in the Asian Development Bank SUMA (Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia) Summit in New Delhi, India. He presented the results of two studies, “Electric Bikes in the People’s Republic of China: Impact on the Environment and Prospects for Growth” and “Electric Two-Wheelers in India and Viet Nam: Market Analysis and Environmental Impacts.”