December 3, 2001

Advancement

SFSU Magazine, published by the Publications Office with editorial support from Public Affairs, has received two awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) Awards of Excellence Program. In the category “Magazine Writing,” the magazine received an Award of Excellence, the highest award. In the overall category “Magazines,” it received an Award of Distinction. The magazine is edited by Adrianne Bee; Anne Burke is associate editor. Art direction, graphics and production are provided by Susanne Panasik with assistance from Erin Peirce. Contributing writers include Merrik Bush-Pirkle, Peter Camarda, Ted DeAdwyler, Christina Holmes and Matt Itelson. Editorial assistance is provided by Julie Mowrer and Russell Kilday-Hicks. Janet Wade is executive editor.

The Office of Publications also received an Award of Distinction from CASE for a three-part series it created last year for the John Handy Jazz Festival. The poster, postcard and program were designed by Erin Peirce.

Behavioral and Social Sciences

C. Daniel Vencill, Economics/Criminal Justice, and Zagros Sadjadi, Economics, published “Allocation of the California Drug War Costs: Direct Expenses, Externalities, Collateral Costs and Fiscal Losses” in the inaugural issue of the Justice Policy Institute Journal.

“South Korea” by C. Sarah Soh was recently published in Countries and Their Cultures, Macmillan Publishing. “Prostitutes versus Sex Slaves: The Politics of Representing the ‘Comfort Women’” appeared in The Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II, a book edited by Margaret Stetz and Bonnie Oh and published by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

Angelika von Wahl, Political Science/International Relations, presented “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Towards the Development of the New Policy Field of Equity Policies” at the annual American Political Science Association meeting held in August and September in San Francisco.

JoAnn Aviel, International Relations, presented “NGOs and Human Rights in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)” to members of women’s organizations in Singapore and presented “NGOs and Human Rights Regimes in Central American and Southeast Asia” at the International Studies Association conference held in July in Hong Kong.

Creative Arts

Todd Roehrman, Theatre Arts, designed costumes for a production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Misalliance” performed at the Marin Theatre Co. from Sept. 12-30.

Rhonnie Washington, Theatre Arts, received a Goldie Award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian in its Nov. 14 issue for his work in the play “Joe Louis Blues.” Washington is the first artist to win two Goldies.

“Light,” a large cardwoven piece by Candace Crockett, Art, was featured with a full page reproduction in the fall 2001 issue of Surface Design Journal. “Celebration,” another of Crockett’s cardweavings, received the Handweavers Guild of America Award and was reproduced in Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot magazine.

Education

Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Elementary Education, recently joined the editorial advisory board for a new journal centered on the schooling of Latino children titled Journal of Latinos and Education.

Carol Langbort, Elementary Education, was part of an expert panel that discussed “Collaborations and Connections between Mathematics and Education: Perspectives from Education “ at a joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematicians and Education Reform held Oct. 18-20 at the University of Cincinnati. Langbort also led a breakout session on “Developing Leadership in Mathematics Education through a Master’s Degree Program.”

Health and Human Services

Susan Zieff, Kinesiology, recently received a Young Scholars Award from the Western College Physical Education Society for “Messages in the Movement: Physical Culture in the New China.” The paper will be published in the Monologue Series.

Mi-Sook Kim, Kinesiology, was an expert panelist for the symposium “Sport and Exercise Psychology: Far East Asian Perspective with Scholars in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan” at the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology held in October in Orlando, Fla. Kim and co-author D.S. Chang presented “Identifying Korean Athletes’ Beliefs About the Causes of Success in Sports” at the same meeting.

Allen Abraham and David Anderson, Kinesiology, presented “Do Motor Learning Theories Have Implications for Teaching and Coaching?” at the annual bay district conference of the California Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance held Oct. 6 at San Jose State.

Nancy Rabolt, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, presented “Fashion Consumer Behavior in the Global Marketplace” at the International Costume Culture Conference held Oct. 6 in Seoul, Korea.

“Pleidooi voor een Middenmanagement” by Erik Peper, Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, and A. Weijman appeared in a recent issue of Management & Bestuur. Peper presented “Breath of Fresh Air: Voluntary Control to Mobilize Health” at the Annual Conference of the Biofeedback Society of California held Nov. 2 in San Diego.

Humanities

Brighde Mullins, Creative Writing, won a 2001 Whiting Writers’ Awards in October for her work as a playwright. The awards, which include a $35,000 cash prize, are given annually to emerging writers by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

Midori McKeon, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented “What Does It Mean to Write in Father’s Language? Ogino Anna’s Anatomy of the Human Body in Half Dead Half Alive,” at the Across Time and Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women’s Texts conference held in August at the University of Alberta, Canada. McKeon’s article, “Ogino Anna’s Gargantuan Play in Tales of Peaches,” appears in The Father/Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father, a book published recently by the University of Hawaii Press.

Martha Klironomos, World and Comparative Literature/Modern Greek Studies presented “Ancient Anamnesis, Nationalist Mneme in the Poetry of Giorgos Seferis” on Oct. 4 at Harvard University.

Anatole Anton, Philosophy, presented “Public Goods As Commonstock: Notes on the Receding Commons” on Oct. 22 at CSU Hayward. He gave the same presentation on Nov. 15 at the University of Oregon.

Charles Egan, Foreign Languages and Literatures, published an article titled “A View from the Magic Mountain: Ying Bao’s ‘Painting of a Rock from Mt. Pan,’” in Art of the Natural World: Resonances of Wild Nature in Chinese Sculptural Art, a book published recently by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Chris Wen-Chao Li, Foreign Languages and Literatures, translated the book Chi Yu: Lifework by Robert Martin and Chi Yu. The translation was published in October by Grandview Publishing, Hong Kong. Li’s articles “Alternative Takes on Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance in Translation” and “Aspects of Oral Interpretation” were published recently in the Higher Education Supplement of the Central Daily News, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism” by Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, was recently reprinted in Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader, edited by Elizabeth A. Castelli and published by St. Martin Press.

Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented “The Development of Narrative in Second Language Acquisition: Frog Stories” along with co-authors Hiromi Nishida and Kaori Shibatani at the third annual conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences held in June in Tokyo. Minami presented “The Role of Maternal Input in Facilitating the Development of Children’s Personal Narrative” at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society held in June in Berkeley.

Laurie Zoloth, Jewish Studies, was recently named chair of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bioethics Advisory Board.

Frances Phillips, Creative Writing/Technical and Professional Writing, co-authored with Stan Hutton the book Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, published in August by Hungry Minds Inc. Phillips and Hutton led a “Starting from Scratch” workshop based on the book at an event at the Foundation Center Library held Oct. 25 in San Francisco.

Marc Martin, Speech and Communication Studies, was an expert panelist for the symposium “Integrating Peace Research and Theory into the Psychology Curriculum,” which was held as part of the Annual American Psychological Association Convention held in August in San Francisco. Martin presented “Teaching an Undergraduate Conflict Resolution Course” at the National Communication Association (NCA) conference held in November in Atlanta. He also co-presented a pre-conference workshop titled “Linking Communication research and K-12 Practice.” Martin was recently elected the vice-chair for the NCA’s Peace and Conflict Communication Commission for 2001-02.

Science and Engineering

Ed Carpenter, Romberg Tiburon Center, received an honorary degree of doctor of philosophy in September from Stockholm University in Sweden.

“Topological Automorphism Groups of Chains” by Sergei Ovchinnikov, Mathematics, appeared in a recent edition of Mathware.

“Optical Properties and Electrochromic Characterization of Sol-gel Deposited Ceria Films” by Nilgun Ozer, Engineering, was published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. Ozer’s papers “Comparison of Optical Properties of Lead Titanate Films Prepared by Sol-gel Process and Pulsed Laser Deposition,” with co-authors L. Tasakalakos, S. Akyuz and T. Sands and “In-situ Spectroscopic Studies of Electrochromic Tungsten Oxide Films,” with co-authors M. Demirbas and S. Ozyurt, appeared in a recent edition of the Proceeding of the International Society for Optical Engineering.

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