Thomas Smith, Kinesiology research associate, has been invited to present a paper to the First World Conference on E-Learning, in Las Vegas, Nov 17-21, 2008. His paper is titled "Benchmarking Social Cooperation in Web-Based versus Face-to-Face Learning Environments."

In addition, Smith has been appointed Chair of the Professional Standards and Education (PSE) Standing Committee of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), a committee that accredits ergonomist certifying bodies and provides certification guidelines to graduate-level ergonomics/human factors (E/HF) education programs worldwide.

Congratulations, Thomas!