H. W. Brands (Texas A&M) has been named Distinguished Professor.

Michael L. Krenn has taken the job as chair of the Department of History at Appalachian State University.

Allan R. Millett, Mason Professor of Military History, Ohio State University, presented the George C. Marshall Lecture at the Society for Military History's Annual Conference at the University of Calgary on May 26.

Sharon Ritenour Stevens (Marshall Foundation), Associate Editor of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, served as a judge at the National History Day 2001 competition in mid-June at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Lawrence S. Wittner (SUNY-Albany) has been awarded a senior fellowship for 2002 by the United States Institute for Peace for work on his final volume in the trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, to be published by Stanford U. Press.