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Items must reflect faculty or staff achievements beyond the campus, e.g., papers/lectures given at professional meetings; appointments to boards; books/articles published; performances, exhibits, readings of works off campus; awards and honors, etc. Please submit items no more than six months old. Items are edited for space. Deadline to submit material for "Insiders" is the 10th of the month preceding publication.


Behavioral and Social Sciences

Ellen Hines, Geography and Human Environmental Studies, taught an intensive training course on "Marine Mammal Research Techniques for Scientists in South and Southeast Asia" for the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, held Feb. 11-20 at the Phuket Marine Biological Center in Phuket, Thailand.

William Bonds, History, gave a lecture titled "Christians, Jews and Muslims During the Era of the Crusades" Feb. 16 at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library.

Christopher Carrington, Sociology/Human Sexuality Studies, presented "Circuit Boys: Ethnographic Reflections on the Gay Dance and Circuit Party Scene" at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association held in December in Washington, D.C.

Bill Issel, History, presented a paper titled "'For Cross and Flag': The Catholic Action Campaign in Northern California during the 1930s" at the spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association held March 16 in Portland, Ore.

Betty Blecha, Economics, presented "Teaching Mathematical Economics Using Web Resources" at a meeting of the Midwest Economic Association held in March in Chicago. Blecha also organized and chaired a session on "Computer-Assisted Instruction in Economics" at the meeting of the American Economic Association held in January in Atlanta.

Anthony D'Agostino, History, presented "Ideology and Power in the Age of Globalization" at the World Association of International Studies conference held July 29 at Stanford University.

Creative Arts

John Leighton, Art, spoke on "Alternatives After School" as part of a panel on alternative careers for glass artists at the California Glass Exchange's 18th annual meeting held March 22-23 at San Jose State University. "First Sight, An Encyclopedia of Childhood," a solo exhibition of photographs by

Dale Kistemaker, Art, was on display March 7-13 at Brian Gross Fine Art in San Francisco. Four faculty members in the Dance Department presented at the annual American College Dance Festival held March 15 in Phoenix. Susan Whipp directed and managed two concerts by the SFSU University Dance Theater, Cathleen McCarthy presented a master class in traditional Jose Limon technique. Albirda Rose and Alicia Pierce presented a lecture/demonstration of the history, philosophy and dance technique of Katherine Dunham.

Joan Arhelger, Theatre Arts, designed the lighting for the Sacramento Opera production of The Tales of Hoffman in February. Arhelger was a design adjudicator for the regional competition of the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival held this February in Hayward.

Jerry Duke, Dance, was dance consultant for the opera Die Fledermaus, presented in February and March by the Bayshore Lyric Opera Company in Capitola.

Ethnic Studies

John-Carlos Perea, American Indian Studies, performed "Jazz in Flight" at a CD release celebration held in his honor Nov. 26 at Yoshi's Jazz House in Oakland.

Kim Shuck, American Indian Studies, was featured in the October 2001 edition of Curriculum Administrator, which focused on her work teaching mathematical principles through origami art.

Health and Human Services

Darlene Yee, Gerontology, presented a preconference workshop on "Preparing Your Gerontology Program for Review: An Interactive Workshop on the Program of Merit Initiative" at the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education's annual meeting held in February in Pittsburgh. Her column "Resource Briefs" is published quarterly in AGHExchange, a publication of the educational unit of the Gerontological Society of America.

Robert Chope, Counseling, presented two papers at the American Counseling Association's annual convention held March 22-26 in New Orleans. The first was titled "How Counselors Can Work with Whistleblowers" and the second addressed "How Family Members Can Help an Agora-phobe." He also signed copies of his new book Shared Confinement at Bookstar in New Orleans.

Robyn Lock, Kinesiology, co-authored "Women Administrators and the Point of Exit: Collision Between the Person and the Institution" for the book Women and School Leadership, International Perspectives, edited by Cecilia Reynolds and published by the State University of New York Press.

Erik Peper, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Advancement of International Biofeedback at the sixth annual meeting of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe held in February in Amsterdam, Holland. Peper also presented a paper titled "Psychophysiology of Voluntary Pain Control with Video of Yogi."

Humanities

Chris Wen-Chao Li, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented "Changing Notions of Standard Chinese: Textbook Standards, De-Facto Standards, and Perceived Standardness" at the spring 2002 workshop of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California held in March at Stanford University.

Martha Klironomos, Modern Greek Studies/Comparative and World Literature, presented "A Reconsideration of Canadian vs. American Multi-culturalism" at Ethnicities Matter: Restoring Agency to "White" Ethnics, a workshop held in March by the Modern Greek Program at Ohio State University.

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, was the keynote speaker for a Women's History Month program held March 7 at Oberlin College. She spoke about her forthcoming book, Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Moallem discussed "Civilizational Thinking and the Question of Muslim Women" for a Women's History Month program held March 11 at San Jose State University. The poem, "This Way," by Sally Croft, English, appears in the anthology Fresh Fruit, published by Harper San Francisco.

Library

Lynn A. Bonfield, Labor Archives/Library, gave a presentation in October at Colonial Williamsburg. Her paper, "Quilts for Civil War Soldiers from Peacham, Vermont: 'Perhaps You Can Send One That Has Shielded Me from the Cold in Days Past,'" was published in Uncoverings 2001 by the American Quilt Study Group. Search Engines Handbook by Ned Fielden, Library, and Lucy Kuntz was published by McFarland and Company Inc. in February.

Science and Engineering

"Some Arithmetical Properties of Eulerian Numbers" by Neville Robbins, Mathematics, and A. Knopfmacher was published in a recent issue of The Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing. Robbins' article "On the Order of a Finite Field" appeared in a recent issue of Mathematical Gazette. "Max-Min Representation of Piecewise Linear Functions" by Sergei Ovchinnikov, Mathematics, was published in a recent issue of Contributions to Algebra and Geometry. Ovchinnikov's article "Boolean Representations of Manifolds and Functions" was published in a recent issue of Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Application.

Neo Martinez, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies/Biology, presented "Natural Interaction Networks: Large Complex Food Webs" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science held Sept. 28 in Phoenix. Martinez presented "Construction and Methodology of Food Webs: Measurement and Meaning of Trophic Interactions" at a Smithsonian Paleobiology Departmental Seminar held Oct. 15.

Sheldon Axler, Mathematics, delivered the keynote address "A Stroll Through Bergman Space" at the conference on Trends in Banach Spaces and Operator Theory held Oct. 5-9 in Memphis, Tenn.

Peter Palmer, Biology, presented "Some Results from Several Case Studies on Contaminated Artifacts and Industrial Hygiene Assessments of Contaminated Areas" at the Western Museums Association Conference held Oct. 13 in Palm Springs.

Palmer and co-authors X. Fan, C. Remigi, B. Nies and W. Funk presented "Analysis of VOCs in Air via Direct Sampling Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry: The Quest for Part-per-Trillion Level Detection Limits" at the Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry: Real-World Challenges and New Developments in Environmental Mass Spectrometric Measurements held Oct. 20 in Pacific Grove.

Wim Kimmerer, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC), presented "How Will Climate Change Affect the Ecosystem of the San Francisco Estuary" at the American Geophysical Union and American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting held in February in Honolulu. At the same meeting, Steve Bollens, RTC, presented "Diversity and Distribution of Midwater Fish and Macrozooplankton in the Arabian Sea" along with co-authors L.P. Madin, E.F. Horgan, J.E. Craddock and P. Kremer.


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