In Brief Michael Bitz (Director of The Comic Book Project) will be publishing two articles in March 2004: “The Comic Book Project: The Lives of Urban Youth Through Comic Book Art” in Art Education and “The Comic Book Project: Forging Alternative Pathways to Literacy,” in The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. The first article focuses on the content of the children’s comic books and the latter focuses on the process that children go through during the project. (See article: Lepaing The Communication Gap Between Adults And Kids In A Single Boud: The Comic Book Project at TC) Peter Coleman (Clinical and Counseling Psychology) was named the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Early Career Award for Division 48. The Committee said that it was impressed with his commitment to peace psychology and with the quality of his contributions to theory and practice related to peace, conflict management, social justice, and the prevention and mitigation of violence.