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Minette Church, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, recently was selected as the Cotsen Fellow in Archaeology at the School of Advance Research, Santa Fe, N.M. Church will spend two months in Santa Fe this summer. ...Marguerite Cantu, senior instructor of communication at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, recently was awarded a scholarship from the Council on International Educational Exchange and was accepted into the International Faculty Development Seminar. In June, she will travel to Tibet and China. ... Donna Langston, professor and chair of the department of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Denver, is the 2010 recipient of the UC Denver Rosa Parks Faculty Diversity Award. The luncheon honoring Langston will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday, March 12, at St. Cajetan's. ...Stephen John Hartnett, professor and chair of the department of communication at the University of Colorado Denver, delivered the annual Emil C. Weis Lecture at Southeastern Missouri State University. Titled "Sweet Freedom's Song: Musical Democracy and the Politics of Dissent," the lecture incorporated materials from "Sweet Freedom's Song: 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' & Democracy in America," a book Hartnett co-authored with the late Robert James Branham.