April 3, 2000

Behavioral & Social Sciences

"The Effectiveness of McFadden's Nested Logit Model in Valuing Amenity Improvement," a research article written by Sudip Chattopadhyay, Economics, appeared in the January issue of Regional Science and Urban Economics.

C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, presented "The Subjection of the Comfort Women Survivors" at the University of San Francisco on Feb. 3. Soh presented "Symbolic Representations of the Comfort Women" at the International Round Table on the "Comfort Women" held Feb. 24-25 in Tokyo, Japan.

Business

Social Creativity, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, both of which were edited by Ronald E. Purser, Management, were recently published by Hampton Press. Purser was also appointed to the Business Discipline Group that represents the CSU system in the multi-state On-Line Learning Exchange project. The group met at the National Learning Infrastructure Conference Jan. 18 in New Orleans, La.

Creative Arts

Jerry Duke, Dance, was selected in March as a panelist for the California Endowment for the Arts.

An exhibition of new work by Julia Turner, Art, opened on March 24 at the Velvet Da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibit, which runs until April 22, features jewelry that combines precious metals (silver and gold) with steel, wood, and other non-precious materials.

Todd Roehrman, Theatre Arts, designed costumes for the world premiere of "Bront'," a play written by John O'Keefe and directed by Barbara Damashek. The play ran from Feb. 11 to March 5 at the Magic Theatre, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

Education

Kate Kinsella, Secondary Education, conducted two pre-convention institutes at the annual International Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages convention held this March in Vancouver, Canada. Kinsella's institutes were titled "Structures to Animate Second Language Classroom Participation and Learning" and "Strategies to Support Underprepared ESL Readers in Content Classrooms." Kinsella also presented "Questioning Strategies for Democratic Construction of Knowledge."

Ethnic Studies

Angela A. Gonzales, American Indian Studies, presented the paper "American Indian Gender and Community" at the American Philosophical Association meeting held Dec. 28 in Boston, Mass.

Alejandro Murguia, La Raza Studies, presented "Josefa of Downieville: The Obscure Life and Notable Death of a Chicana in Gold Rush California" at the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies conference held March 23 in Portland, Ore. tate University on Oct. 22 on "The History of Chicano Music in Our Global Society."

Health & Human Services

Roma Guy, Health Education, was elected as president of the seven-member board of the San Francisco Health Commission.

Erik Peper, Holistic Healing Studies, presented "Effortless Breathing to Mobilize Health and Performance" and "Preventing RSI at the Computer" at the annual meeting of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe held Feb. 17-21 in Eilat, Israel.

Vicki Legion, Health Education, gave a presentation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention national conference "Public Health Responds to Asthma" held in February in Atlanta, Ga. Legion spoke about "Community Health Workers and Urban Asthma."

Steven Wallace and David Anderson, Kinesiology, presented "Weight Discrimination Using a Simulated Extremity Prosthesis" at the Motor Control and Human Skill Research Workshop held Jan. 27-30 in Surfers Paradise, Australia. Anderson also presented "The Ontogeny of Postural Responsiveness to Peripheral Optic Flow: Experimental Manipulation of a Developmental Process." Anderson's "Complex Motor Skill Acquisition and the One-Trial-Learning Phenomenon" was published in a recent i ssue of The Journal of Human Movement Studies.

Darlene Yee, Gerontology, co-authored and presented three sessions at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, which was held Nov. 19-23 in San Francisco: "Employee Survey and Job Satisfaction in Long-Term Care"; "Can We Talk? A Study of Caregiver Communication Style and Job Satisfaction"; and "The Summative Evaluation of Administrators-In-Training Interns in Long-Term Care."

Humanities

John Burks, Journalism, presented the paper "21st Century Journalism: The New Curriculum" at the Second Journalism Academic Annual Conference held Dec. 11-12 in Bangkok, Thailand.

H. Douglas Brown, English, gave the keynote address, "Models of Teacher Collaboration in the New Millennium," at the annual Seminar for English Teachers, Uniao Cultural, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Brown also taught a week-long course on Language Assessment at the seminar.

Archaeological Method and Theory: an Encyclopedia by Linda Ellis, Museum Studies/Classics, has just been published by Garland Publishing.

Robert Gluck, Creative Writing, has an article, "The Mouse's Tail," about the artist Jess in the March issue of the journal Artforum. Gluck is one of the editors of Narrativity, a new Web site on narrative theory housed by the Poetry Center at

An essay on firearms by Jonathan Middlebrook, English, appears in the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, in which he focus on the iconography of the M-1 Garand rifle, the AK-47, the M-16, and several sidearms.

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, presented "Citizens in Extended Medical Dependency: Virtue, Obligation and Federal Law" at the American Philosophical Association meeting held Dec. 28 in Boston, Mass.

M. J. Lunine, Humanities, gave a series of lectures in India last December on the theory and practice of Gandhian non-violence. In New Delhi, he lectured at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, the Gandhi National Museum, and Delhi University. In Varanasi, he lectured at Banaras Hindu University and the Gandhian Institute of Studies, where he delivered the 24th Annual Gandhi Memorial Lecture.

Library

"Accessing the Old and the New: Outreach via Web Exhibits and Archive Collections at the University of Arizona Library" by Jeff Rosen, Library, with co-author Micaela Morales, was published in a recent issue of The Reference Librarian.

Science & Engineering

Toby Garfield, Romberg Tiburon Center, was co-author of two papers presented at the American Geophysical Union/American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting held Jan. 24-28 in San Antonio, Texas: "Lagrangian View of the California Undercurrent--Observations and Models" with M. Multrud, C. Collins, T. Rago, and P. Paquette; and "Optimizing SeaSonde Algorithms for High-Resolution Mapping of Circulation Near Harbors for Assimilation into Models" with D. Barrick, P. Lilleboe, and J. Gartner.

Student Affairs

Last October and November, Nina Jo Smith, S.A.F.E. Place, showcased her one woman show at The Marsh, "a breeding ground for new theatre," in San Francisco's Mission District.

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