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| Insiders is published in First Monday for the faculty and staff at SFSU on the first Monday of the month in October, November, December, February, March, April and May by the Office of Public Affairs and the Office of Publications, Diag Center. 415/338-1665.
E-mail: pubcom@sfsu.edu Deadline for submissions to "Insiders" is the 10th of the month preceding publication. Send submissions to: pubcom@sfsu.edu. Please include a contact name and extension. |
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.
Sarah Soh, Anthropology, presented "The Politics of the ‘Comfort Women’ Movement" paper at the Social Science Research Seminar Series "The Memory, Reconciliation and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Japan-U.S. Relations" held Jan. 3–Feb. 1 at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Soh presented "Reflections on the ‘Comfort Women’ Movement" at the International Workshop on "Comfort Women" and the Activities of the Asian Women’s Fund held in January in Hakone, Japan.
Karen Bruhns, Anthropology, published "Smuggled Artifacts Returned to El Salvador" in the August and "Jaguar Face Sculptures Found in El Salvador" in the October edition of Mexicon. Bruhns also wrote a chapter titled "Social and Cultural Development in the Ecuadorian Highlands and Eastern Lowlands During Formative" for Archaeology of Formative Ecuador.
Bernard Wong, Anthropology, presented a paper titled "Globalization and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley" at the Annual Meeting of the Society For Applied Anthropology held recently in Portland, Ore. Wong also chaired a session on "Immigrant Experience" for the same meeting.
Jeffrey Bury, Geography and Human Environmental Studies, presented "Mining Mountains: Neoliberalism, Development and New Peruvian Mining Industry" at the Association of American Geographers Conference held March 6 in New Orleans.
Rufus Browning, Public Research Institute, David Tabb,
Political Science, and Dale Marshall wrote three chapters and edited 10 others
for the third edition of Racial Politics in American Cities, published
recently by Longman Publishers.
Jerry C. Duke, Music and Dance, gave a lecture titled “Remnants of Ancient Belief: European Folk Dance” at the Pantheacon Conference held in February in San Jose. Duke presented “Remnants of Bear Worship Rituals in Europe” at the International Folklore Council Conference held in March in Nigrita, Greece.
Sylvia Walters, Art, published “L’Art Mutant,” an illustrated feature story about Stephen Wilson’s interactive installations, in the most recent issue of L’Officiel.
Jo Tomalin, Theatre Arts, presented “Spotlight: Focused Learning for Theatre Artists’ Audition Workshop”, on Jan. 18 at the Marsh in San Francisco.
Robert Bechtle, Art, received a $7,500 award as part of Omi International Art Center’s Francis J. Greenburger Awards 2002.
A drawing by Paul Mullins, Art, was included in the “Drawing Conclusions” exhibition held at the Miami Design District in January and February. Mullins’ work is also included in “Exhibition Game” held through May 10 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
A video and installation work by Paula Levine, Art, was recently
displayed at the “Aesthetics and Visualization in Chemistry” virtual
art exhibit. In March Levine’s “Being and Belonging:
Reflections on Jewish Space” was displayed at the Gotthelf Art Gallery
in La Jolla. Levine’s work is also part of the “Women of the Book”
exhibit at the Purdue University Gallery and the “Words on Fire”
exhibit at the Star Gallery in Boston.
An article by Sanjit Sengupta, Marketing, titled “Managing the Paradox of Inter-Firm Learning: The Role of Government Mechanisms,” was selected as the "Most Outstanding Paper" in a 2002 volume of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing.
Gerardo Ungson, International Business, published “Reassessing
the Limits of Structural Empowerment: Organizational Constitution and Trust
As Controls” in a recent issue of Academy of Management Review. Ungson’s
article “Timing of Entry in International Markets: An Empirical Study
of U.S. Fortune 500 Firms in China” appeared in a recent issue of the
Journal of International Business Studies.
Penelope V. Flores, Secondary Education, presented the paper “Contexts and Actors, Transitions and Transformation: Understanding International Education in a Global Society” at the First Biennial International Education Conference, held April 2-5 in San Diego.
“Reinvent Yourself: 10 Principles of Change,” written by Stan
Goldberg, Special Education, was the lead article in the November issue
of Psychology Today. In December he conducted a workshop for disabled
adults at the San Bruno Senior Center and made a presentation on the principles
of change at the American Reading Forum’s Annual Convention.
Fred Astren, Jewish Studies, presented “Jews and Islamisation in Early Islam” on March 27 at University of Manchester Center for Jewish Studies in England.
Anita Silvers, Philosophy, presented a paper titled "Group
Identity and the Civil Rights Paradigm: The Cultural Idealization of Protected
Classifications" to the Law, Culture, and Humanities Working Group at Cardozo
Law School and New York University Law School.
Edward J. Carpenter, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, and others published “A Revised Estimate of the Iron Use Efficiency of Nitrogen Fixation, with Special Reference to the Marine Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium spp. (Cyanophyta)” in February issue of Journal of Phycology.
Scott Gronert, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and others published “Gas Phase Reactions of Trimethyl Borate with Phosphates and their Non-Covalent Complexes” in the January issue of International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.
Clifford Berkman, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and others published “HPLC Method for Detecting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Activity” in the November issue of Analytical Biochemistry.
Zhigang Chen, Physics and Astronomy, and others published “Photonic Lattices Induced by Partially Coherent Light” in the December issue of Optics and Photonics News.
Dennis Desjardin, Biology, and E. Horak published “Agaricales of Indonesia.4. Mycena sect. Longisetae with Comments on Allied Species” in the November issue of Sydowia. Desjardin also presented “Insights on the Adaptive Fitness of Marasmioid and Mycenoid Fungi from Southeast Asia and the Pacific” at the Asia-Pacific Mycological Conference held in November in Kunming, China.
Jozo Dujmovic, Computer Science, and F. Pan published “QNAS—a Queuing Network Animation System” in the Proceeding of the 28th International Conference for the Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems, held in December in Reno, Nev.
Megumi Fuse, Biology, and others presented “Identifying Players in the Regulation of Ecdysis in the Moth, Manduca sexta” at the Invertebrate Neuropeptide Conference held in February in Port Stephens, Australia.
Edward Lank, Computer Science, presented “Designing
a Perceptive Smart Room Interface” at the UbiComp Workshop on Collaboration
with Interactive Walls and Tables, held in October in Gothenberg, Sweden.
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