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Advancement
Matt Itelson, Public Affairs and Publications, was recently named treasurer
of the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club.
Creative Arts
Roger Woodward, Music and Dance, was recently awarded the Chevalier des
Arts et Lettres by the French Government.
Richard
Festinger, Music and Dance, recently won an American Academy of
Arts and Letters' Academy Award in Music. The award is $7,500 for the composition
of a work with another $7,500 toward the recording of one work.
Education
"Immigrant Experience: Choosing Rules and Procedures" by Penelope
Flores,
Secondary Education, was published in a recent issue of the Journal
of Interdisciplinary Education.
Gilda
M. Bloom, Secondary Education, was presented with a certificate
of achievement for completing the National Education Association's Higher
Education Emerging Leader Academy held March 6 in San Antonio.
Ethnic Studies
Somewhere Else, a collection of poems by Matthew Shenoda, American
Indian Studies, was recently published by Coffee House Press.
Health and Human Services
Erik Peper, Health Education/Holistic Healing Studies, presented "Death
and Dying: Holistic and Energetic Perspectives" on Oct. 28 at the
Institut fur Sterbebegleitung in Vienna. Peper co-authored the chapter "De
Klinische Toepassing van Biofeedback Binnen de Fysiotherapie" for
the recently published Jaarboek Fysiotherapie/Kinesitherapie. He also co-authored
the paper "Mind-Body Medicine, Biofeedback, and Common Health Disorders" for
the International Symposium of Noo-Logotherapy in Centenary of Viktor Frankl's
Birth held in December at Catholic University in Lubin, Poland.
Humanities
"Progeny," a short story by Nona Caspers, Creative Writing, was recently
published in Blithe House Quarterly. Her story "Heavier Than Air" was
published in Literal Latte and her manuscript of stories titled "Heavier
Than Air" was chosen as a finalist for the 2005 Bakeless Literary
Award.
Maxine
Chernoff, Creative Writing, kicked off the spring semester's visiting
writer program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, with a reading
in February.
"How to Raise Early-Stage Private Equity Financing," a
book by Joel Margulis, English Language and Literature, and Gerald A.
Benjamin,
was recently published by John C. Wiley and Sons.
Nitzhia
Shaked,
Jewish Studies, presented a talk on "Human Rights
in Jewish Law" on Feb. 1 at the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center.
"Digging," a
memoir piece by Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, appears in AutoBioDiversity,
an anthology of true stories from Zyzzyva magazine published recently by HeyDay Books.
San Francisco Urban Institute
Sharen Hewitt, San Francisco Urban Institute, recently received a certificate
of recognition from Assemblyman Mark Leno as one of four "Remarkable
Women Making a Difference."
Student Affairs
The Career Center recently received the California Career Education Association
2005 Presidential Award for Region 2.
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