• Andy Bartlett, associate director of communications and marketing, presented “Building a News-Clip Tracking Database Using Off-the-Shelf Software” at the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District V conference, Sept. 24 in Bloomington, Minn.

• Margie Giauque and Nancy Haugen from Career Services attended the Noel Academy for Strengths-Based Leadership, Oct. 22-26 in Pasadena, Calif., entitled “Thriving in College: Developing Students Strengths to Succeed.”

Both attended the pre-conference training and received certificates in strengths approaches in higher education leadership and student success from Azuza Pacific University.

• Kelli Steggall, director of TRiO / Student Support Services, presented “Striving to Achieve: Helping Native American Students Succeed Through TRiO” at the Council for Opportunity in Education’s national conference, Sept. 8-11 in Chicago. Steggall presented with A.Keith Hovis from Nothern Arizona University and Aaron Poor Bear from the Univeristy of South Dakota.

• Dr. Anton Treuer, executive director of the American Indian Resource Center, will have a  new book, “Atlas of Indian Nations,” published by National Geographic later this year. Organized by region, this encyclopedic reference details Indian tribes in these areas: beliefs, sustenance, shelter, alliances and animosities, key historical events, and more. See the linguistic groupings and understand the constantly shifting, overlapping boundaries of the tribes.