Like many women, Janine Gasco is obsessed with chocolate. Her obsession however, centers less around eating it, and more around finding ways to bring fair trade practices to its production. Having spent more than 25 years researching forest crops such as cacao and vanilla in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico, the associate professor of anthropology was able to provide a single source of chocolate to Askinosie Chocolate in Springfield, MO.

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C. Augustus (Gus) Martin, assistant vice president, Faculty Affairs, has been invited
to serve as a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for Critical Studies on Terrorism, a new journal on research and policy in the fields of terrorism, counter-terrorism, and state terror. Directed to an audience of practitioners and scholars in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia,
the publication will be launched in 2008.