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April, 1999

Items must reflect faculty or staff achievements beyond the campus, e.g., papers/lectures given at professional meetings; appointments to boards; books/articles published; performanc es, exhibits, readings of works off-campus; awards and honors, etc. Please submit items no more than six months old. Items are edited for space.


Behavioral and Social Sciences

A book published by the National Research Council of the Institute of Medicine contains a chapter by Rosemarie Bowler, Psychology. The chapter "Prevention, Assessment and Treatment of Psychological Effects" appears in "Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response."

Richard DeLeon, Political Science, published an article (with Steven Hill and Lisel Blash) on "The Campaign for Proposition H and Preference Voting in San Francisco" in the Winter 1998 issue of the British journal Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy.

Albert Vetere Lannon, Labor Studies, is the author of a book published by Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield: "Second String Red: The Life of Al Lannon, American Communist." The book is a biography of Lannon’s father and a study of his activities as a major figure in the founding of the National Maritime Union.

Donald Mar, Economics, presented a paper "Regional Differences in Self–Employment among Chinese, Japenese, and Filipino Americans" at the Western Regional Science Association convention held Feb. 21–24 in Ojai. Dan Vencill, Economics, and Jack Osman, Economics, presented their paper "Budgeting by Ballot: Regional Variations in Recent California Statewide Referenda" at the same meeting. Osman also presented a paper co-written with Olli Kultalahti of the University of Tampere, Finland, titled "Finnish Economic Depression: Unemployment, Regional Migration, and Job Search."

James Quesada, Anthropology, presented as an invited speaker "Continuums of Violence: From Natural Disasters to Structural Violence" at the U.C. San Francisco medical anthropology program seminar series, "Tension between Ethnography, Theory, and Practice," held in San Francisco on Feb. 24.

In November, Mike Rustigan, Sociology, was asked to hold a workshop for the San Jose Police Department’s Crime Prevention Unit and the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force. The workshop was on "Kids Without a Conscience."

Sally Scully, History, presented a paper "Policing Desire: Food Consumption and Its Constraints in Early Modern Venice" at the "Medieval and Renaissance Text Society" conference held Feb. 19 at the University of Arizona.

Sanjoy Banerjee and Raymond Miller, International Relations, each presented a paper at the annual conference of the International Relations Association in Washington D.C., Feb. 16-20. Banerjee presented "Narrative and Historical Structures"; Miller presented "Environmental Policy Implications of Clashing IPE Paradigms."


Business

Allen L. Appell, Marketing, co-wrote an article that appeared in the winter issue of the Society for Advancement of Management Journal: "Are Joint Ventures Losing Their Appeal in China?"

In December, Hailin Qu, Hospitality Management, had two articles published: "The Service Quality Gap in China’s Hotel Industry—A Study of Tourists’ Perceptions and Expectations" in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research; and, with Vincent Hung, "Tourism Shopping and its Contributions to Hong Kong" in Tourism Management.


Creative Arts

"The Sign in the Window: A Semiotic Analysis of Advertising" by Arthur Asa Berger, BECA, appears in Roberta Kevelson’s book "High Fives" published by Peter Lang. His article "Instantaneas: sobre gurus de los medios de communicacion" appeared in the winter issue of Talon published in Santiago, Chile.

Jerry Duke, Dance, presented a paper "Gypsy Rhythms, Through the Caribbean to the Foxtrot" at the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Forum, March 6.


Education

The journal Education Psychology recently appointed Inés Goméz, Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, to its advisory board.

Kate Kinsella, Secondary Education, conducted a pre–convention institute "Participation Scaffolds for Active, Inclusive ESL/EFL Classrooms" and a seminar on "Strategies for Self–Directed Academic Language Development" at the "Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages" held March 9–13 in New York City. On March 17, Kinsella conducted an institute on "Strategies to Support Academic Literacy Development for College Success" for participants in U.C. Irvine’s "Pathways Project."

Lois M. Meyer, Elementary Education, recently received a Fulbright researcher-lecturer award for 1999–2000, to spend a year in Oaxaca, Mexico, participating in and documenting the preparation of Mexican teachers for linguistically and culturally diverse indigenous communities in the state of Oaxaca.


Health and Human Services

The "Outstanding Service Award" in the field of Public Health Social Work was given to Marvin Feit, Social Work, at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association held last November.

The Association for Community Organizing and Social Administration presented its "Career Achievement Award" to Timothy Sampson, Social Work, at the Council on Social Work Education special program meeting held in San Francisco, March 10–13.

Erik Peper, Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, presented the invited lecture and workshop "Healthy Computing with Biofeedback" at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe held in Groningen, The Netherlands, March 1–4.

Susan Higgins, Kinesiology, served as Program Coordinator for the CSU Kinesiology Assessment Conference, March 4–6, at CalPoly Pomona.

Allen Abraham and David Anderson, Kinesiology, presented the paper "The Traditional vs. Contemporary Models of Motor Learning with Implications for Teaching and Coaching" at the annual California Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance held in Monterey on March 13.


Humanities

Lois Lyles, English, gave an invited lecture at the Fromm Institute of the University of San Francisco on Jan. 28, 1999. Her presentation was titled "The Impact of African-American Oral Tradition on the Fiction of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin."

Pamela Vaughn, Classics, presented a paper, "Translation as a Vehicle for Improving English Composition," as part of "A Roundtable on Teaching," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, held at Claremont Colleges in November. She also translated a text into Latin for a Goth Ritual staged near the Golden Gate Bridge in the Feb. 12 episode of "Nash Bridges."

Ellen Peel, English/World & Comparative Literature, recently had two pieces published in essay collections: "I baci PC di ‘Star Trek’: polticamente corretti o piuttosto conservatori?" (Star Trek’s PC Kisses: Politically Correct or Pretty Conservative?") translated by Michele Fadda in "Star Trek: Il cielo è il limite" published by Lindau, Torino, Italy; and with Nanora Sweet "‘Corinne’ and the Woman as Poet in England: Hemans, Jewsbury, and Barrett Browning" in "The Novel’s Seductions: Staël’s ‘Corinne’ in Critical Inquiry" published by Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Gerianne Merrigan Johnson, Speech and Communication Studies, presented a paper, "Ethnographic practices in group communication research," with N. Dollar, in February at the Western States Communication Association meeting. Merrigan also served in the roles of panel chair and respondent for the Organizational Communication Interest Group of that convention.

In December, Rachelle Waksler, English, presented the paper "Underspecification and Priming in Cross-Modal Lexical Decision" at the Conference on Lexical Representations in Language Comprehension, Konstanz, Germany.


Library

Eloise McQuown, Library, had the article "Looking Back: The Rutgers Class of ‘68" published in the October issue of American Libraries.


Science and Engineering

Sheldon Axler, Mathematics, was an invited main speaker at the "International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics," held in New Orleans in Nov. 1998. His article "Compact Operators via the Berezin Transform" was published in the Indiana University Mathematics Journal, No. 47.

Lisa White, Geosciences, co-wrote an article with A.S. Chang and K.A. Grimm that appeared in the journal Palaios, published by the Society for Sedimentary Geology. The article was titled "Diatomaceous sediments from the Miocene Monterey Formation: A lamina-scale Investigation of Biological, Ecological, and Sedimentary Processes."

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