• Dr. Mahmoud Al-Odeh, assistant professor of technology, art and design, has been named president of the Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering‘s Distance Learning Division. Al-Odeh will serve as president until 2015. The organization announced Al-Odeh’s appointment in the January edition of its newsletter, IT Insider.

• Dr. Anton Treuer, executive director of the American Indian Resource Center, and Anna Gibbs, Red Lake tribal elder, have recorded several public service announcements for the Affordable Care Act in the Ojibwe language.

Treuer; Dr. Pat Welle, professor of economics; and Tessa Reed, assistant professor of Indian studies supervised the BSU Hawaiian Field Program in January. They are pictured below with BSU students at the Waipeo Valley overlook on the Big Island.