Douglas Fuchs, professor of special education, has recently been appointed by the National Center for Educational Statistics to a Technical Review Panel for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. He has also been asked to serve as a technical research advisor to SRI International/U.S. Department of Education’s Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study.

Erwin Hargrove, professor of political science, spoke on presidential character during a recent symposium on “The Character Issue: Personal Ethics and Political Leadership” at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The program, which focused on character, personal ethics and political life, was held April 15 and sponsored by the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Program and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs.

Harold G. Maier, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law, presented a paper titled “The Trade Embargo as an International Political Instrument” for the symposium “Competing Competition Laws: Do We Need a Global Standard” at the New England School of Law in Boston, Mass., March 19-20. The New England Law Review will publish the papers from the conference this summer.

Beverly G. Mellen, assistant professor of biostatistics in the Department of Preventive Medicine, presented an invited talk and chaired a session on new areas for research in statistics and infectious diseases at the annual meeting of the International Biometric Society (Eastern North American Region), held in Atlanta March 28-31. Her presentation, titled “Assessing DNA Evidence,” was part of a series of sessions on biostatistics and law.

Roland Rust, Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Management and director of the Center for Service Marketing, gave a featured address, “Getting Return on Quality,” at the April 15 founding of MAXX, The Maastricht Service Research Center at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands). The Maastricht center is largely after Vanderbilt’s Center for Service Marketing, which Rust founded in 1990.

John Vasquez, professor of political science, gave the keynote address at a conference on “Ethics and the Making of Foreign Policy: The Challenge for South Africa,” held March 25 in Cape Town, South Africa. Marie T. Henehan, assistant professor of political science, presented a talk at the same conference on “Democracy and Constitutionalism in the Making of Foreign Policy.” While in South	John Vasquez
Africa, they also gave seminars on various aspects of international relations at the Foreign Service Institute (of South Africa) in Pretoria, the Rand Afrikans University in Johannesburg and the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.