Computer Information Systems Professor Richard Baldwin holds two spots in the list of top 10 most-read articles on the computer programming website Developer.com. His article “Using JDBC with MySQL, Getting Started” ranks first on the list, while “Processing Image Pixels using Java, Getting Started” ranks sixth.

English Adjunct Professor Amy Wink has authored the book “Tandem Lives: The Texas Frontier Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1854-1888,” published in April by the University of Tennessee Press (448 pages, cloth, $56). “Tandem Lives” is based on the diaries of two Texas pioneer women who were the first and second wives of a Belton physician and slaveholder.

English Adjunct Professor Joseph O'Connell was awarded the 2009 North Texas Book Festival Book Award for adult fiction for his novel “Evacuation Plan” (Dalton Publishing, 192 pages, paperback, $13.95). The novel is loosely inspired by time O'Connell spent at Hospice Austin's Christopher House and weaves tales of the terminally ill and their families, friends, and enemies.
 
Economics Associate Professor Michael Petrowsky is one of 50 community college professors nationwide who were selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities’ “Landmarks of American History and Culture” summer study program. Michael will participate in the workshop “Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age” at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio.

The Water Environment Research Foundation awarded Glynda Mercier, adjunct assistant professor of Environmental Science and Technology, with its Excellence in Water Quality Research Award. The award recognizes Glynda’s service overseeing university-based research in Colorado, Nevada, and Germany that resulted in the publication “Contributions of Household Chemicals to Sewage and their Relevance to Municipal Wastewater Systems and the Environment.” Besides teaching at ACC, Mercier owns a local engineering firm.