Rosemary G. Feal, professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, has been elected by the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association to a two-year term on the MLA's Nominating Committee, which presents a slate of candidates for the major offices of the association. She also has been appointed to the Advisory Committee of the association's journal, PMLA. Feal is chair of the MLA's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and co-author of a report published in Profession 2000 on the conditions of academic employment as they impact on women in departments of English and foreign languages.

George D'Elia, professor; Corinne Jorgensen, associate professor, and Joseph Woelfel, professor, all in the School of Information Studies, received the Bohdan Wynar Research Paper of the Year Award at the 2001 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. The paper, "Impacts of the Internet on Public Library Use," reported the results of a national survey on the current consumer market for Internet services and public library services.

Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel Capen Chair in the Humanities in the Department of English, has been appointed a member of the Council of Directors of the International Arctic Institute in Tatihu, Normandy. Jackson also has been appointed by Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello to the board of directors of the new not-for-profit corporation established to determine policy and programming for the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, where Jackson and Diane Christian, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English, have run the Buffalo Film Seminars for two years.