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.

Advancement

The Publications Office received an Award for Excellence in Publications for "Teaching - The Art of Taking Risks" from CASE District VII for 2002. The full-color booklet was written by Anne Burke and designed by Susanne Panasik for the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching. The award was given in the category "Books, Booklets, Pamphlets, Flyers, Folders."

The Office of Public Affairs received an award for Exellence in Special Institutional Projects/ Community Relations from CASE District VII on behalf of those who worked on the University's communications response to the campus tensions following the events of May 7.

Business

Ana Valenzuela, International Business, co-chaired with Joydeep Srivastava the special session "Fairness Considerations in Business Interactions" and presented the paper "Fairness Perceptions in Bargaining with One-sided Incomplete Information" at the Association of Consumer Research Conference held Oct. 17-20 in Atlanta.

Ronald Purser, Management, published "Contested Presents: Critical Perspectives on Real-Time Management" in Making Time: Time and Management in Modern Organizations, edited by B. Adam and R. Whipp. In August, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management for his role as officer in the Organization Development and Change division.

The Management Department's entrepreneurship concentration, designed by Connie Marie Gaglio and Rich McCline, recently won the Academy of Management's Entrepeneurship Divsion McGraw-Hill/Irwin Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award.

Allen Appell, Marketing, taught 10-day international marketing seminars in March and October at Mosbach University in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The fifth edition of Managing Diversity: People Skills for a Multicultural Workplace by Norma Carr-Ruffino, Management, was recently published by Pearson Custom Publishing. The book features a new chapter on "Working with Arab Americans."

"Export Assistance Needs of U.S. Wineries" by Richard Cataldi and Murray Silverman, Management, and Sanjit Sengupta, Marketing, was recently published in the International Journal of Wine Marketing.

Robert Nickerson, Information Systems and Business Analysis, presented "An E-commerce Systems Model" at the Americas Conference on Information Systems held Aug. 10 in Dallas.

Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives and Best Practices by Jeff Saperstein, Marketing, and Daniel Rouach was published in August by Prentice Hall.

Creative Arts

Yu-Charn Chen, Design and Industry, presented a paper titled "Computer Interface to Control Industrial Settings" at the 35th National Association of Industrial Technology Conference held Nov. 8 in Panama City, Fla.

Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne performed "Son del Corazón" by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Music and Dance, on Aug. 30 at La Domaine Forget in St. Irénée, Quebec, and on Sept. 18 at Salle Claude-Champagne in Montreal. Asako Arai performed Sanchez-Gutierrez's "Variaciones" on Aug. 18 at the National Flute Associ-ation Conference held in Washington, D.C.

Yukihiro Goto, Theatre Arts, discussed Japanese theater with artist Shinichi Momo Koga on Nov. 9 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Barbara Foster, Art, will exhibit "Contemporary Prints" through December at the National Museum of Belarus in Minsk. Foster's large-scale mixed media digitized print is included in "Extreme Prints," an exhibition at the Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery at Santa Monica College. The exhibition opened Nov. 9.

Ce Ce Iandoli and Shirl Buss, Design and Industry, gave a presentation titled "Terms of Engage-ment in the Design Studio" in October at the California College of Arts and Crafts as part of its conference, Educating the Design Educator.

Susan Whipp, Music and Dance, received the 2002 Educator Honor Award from the California Dance Educator's Association on Oct. 25 at its annual conference at San Jose State University.

Education

The National Education Association selected Gilda M. Bloom, Secondary Education, for leadership training in human and civil rights. She attended the Campaigning to Win training, a component of the Women's Leadership Training Program held Nov. 21-24 in Arlington.

Jamal Cooks, Secondary Education, was recently appointed to the CSU Center for the Advancement of Reading Advisory Council.

Ethnic Studies

Ruth Love, Black Studies/Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, was inducted in the Historymakers, a national archival organization, on Oct. 17 in Chicago.

Wade W. Nobles, Black Studies, served as a keynote presenter for the international conference Reclaiming Excellence and Rebuilding Education for the African Child in the 21st Century, An African Renaissance Summit on Education held Nov. 11-13 in Bamako, Mali, West Africa.

Jose Cuellar, Raza Studies, performed at Ukiah's Sundays in the Park Free Concert Series on June 10. He was a guest performer with Michael Franti and Spearhead at Duvall Training Institution's Juneteenth 2002 Celebration "It's Our Turn" held June 29 in Tracy.

Extended Learning

Teri Cannon, Paralegal Studies, served on a panel discussing "Regulation Trends and Issues" at the American Association for Paralegal Education annual conference held Oct. 2-5 in Orlando. Pat Medina, Paralegal Studies, served on a panel at the same conference. The panel was titled "100 percent Employment Placement and Tracking Techniques."

Pause and Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative, by Mark Meadows, Multimedia Studies, was recently published by New Riders Publishing.

Health and Human Services

Patrick Tierney, Recreation and Leisure Studies/Hospitality Management, presented "United States Protected Natural Areas and Tourism: A Historical Perspective" at the Annual Brazilian Ecotourism Congress held Sept. 25 in Fortaleza, Brazil.

Steve Wallace, Kinesiology, presented the keynote address "Reaching Beyond the Grasp: Issues in Upper Extremity Limb Control, A New Paradigm for Motor Behavior Research" at the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology annual conference held Oct. 19 in Vancouver, Canada. He spoke on "Perceptual-Motor Problems in Upper-Extremity Artificial Limb Control" on Oct. 17 at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia.

Mi-Sook Kim, Kinesiology, gave the following presentations at the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology conference Oct. 30 - Nov. 3 in Tucson: "Stress and Coping Strategies in Sport: Com-parison Between Individualistic and Collectivistic Culture" and (with M. Boyd) "The Relationship of Goal Orientations and Thrill-Seeking to Psychological Variation and Self-Perceptions of Fitness Among Skateboarders."

Erik Peper, Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, presented "Clinical Applications of Biofeedback" Oct. 17 and 18 at the National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. He presented "Update on Biofeedback Applications in Hospital Settings," Oct. 21 at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong. Peper presented the paper "A Breath of Relief or a Breath of Fresh Air" on Nov. 9 at the 28th Annual Conference of the Biofeedback Society of California.

Humanities

Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and recent SFSU graduate Hiroshi Imase presented "Interactive Second Language Learning: Bilingualism in the Computer Age" at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California Conference held Nov. 9 at University of California, Berkeley.

Martha Klironomos, Comparative Literature/Modern Greek Studies, published the article "Ancient 'anamnesis,' National 'mneme' in the Poetry of Giorgos Seferis" in the October issue of Journal of Modern Greek Studies.

In November, Marc Dollinger, Jewish Studies, delivered the keynote address, "A Heartbeat Away: Exceptionalism and the American Jewish Experience," at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage's "Jews of the West" Public Symposium held in Los Angeles.

Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, wrote "The Nutria," which appeared in the fall edition of Santa Monica Review. Two of her poems, "Siberia" and "Calling Card," appeared in the September issue of Malahat Review.

"Mandarin" and "Classical Chinese" by Chris Wen-Chao Li, Foreign Languages and Literatures, were published in the Encyclopedia of Asia in October. His language features "A Field Guide to Choosing Dictionaries" and "How to Translate 'Thank You' and 'Please' - Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Considerations" were published in the Central Daily News Literary Supplement in Taipei. "The Essence of Translation" and "Alternative Takes on Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance in Translation" were reprinted in the May Advanced English Digest.

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, gave lectures in Sweden during the first week of October, including "Transnational Migrations and Gender Relations: Iranian Diaspora in Europe and North America" at the Center for Women's Studies, Stockholm University; "Gender and Fundamentalism" at the Kvinnovetenskapligt Forum, Umeå Universitet; and "Political and Cultural Citizenship: The Doing and Undoing of the Nation," for the Sociology Department of Umeå Universitet.

Library

Eloise McQuown has been appointed to a three-year term on the Government Relations Committee of the American Association of University Professors. The committee oversees the work of the national government relations office, which lobbies on higher education issues at the federal level.

Science and Engineering

Zhigang Chen, Physics and Astronomy, and student K. McCarthy published "Spatial Soliton Pixels from Partially Coherent Light" in the November issue of Optics Letters.

Dennis Desjardin, Biology, G. Mueller and others presented "Global Diversity and Distribution of Macrofungi" in August, at the seventh International Mycological Congress, in Oslo, Norway. Desjardin also published, with A. Verbeken and E. Horak, "Agaricales of Indonesia: Three New Records of the Genus Lactarius (Basidiomycota, Russulaceae) from Java," in the July issue of Sydowia, and, with R.L. Gilbertson and others, published "Annotated Checklist of Wood-Rotting Basidiomycetes of Hawaii." in the June issue of Mycotaxon.

Megumi Fuse, Biology, student C. Harris and others presented "Preliminary Characterization of a Brain-Gut Peptide Family in the Moth, Manduca Sexta" and "Examination of Receptor-ligand Interactions of ETH," with student C. Wells, in November at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.

Maarten Golterman, Physics and Astronomy, and E. Pallante presented "On Systematic Errors Due to Quenching in Epsilon-prime Over Epsilon," and "Non-perturbative BRST Invariance and What It Might Be Good for" (with Y. Shamir) at the 20th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory held in June in Boston.

Jeff Greensite, Physics and Astronomy, and S. Olejnik presented "Center Vortices At N Greater Than Four Colors" at the 20th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory held in June in Boston. Greensite and S. Olejnik published "K String Tensions and Center Vortices at Large N" in the September issue of Journal of High Energy Physics.

Zheng-Hui He, Biology, and J. Verica published "The Cell Wall-Associated Kinase (WAK) and WAK-like Kinase Gene Family" in the June issue of Plant Physiology.

Neo Martinez, Biology, R. Williams and J. Dunne presented "Exploring Ecological Networks: Interdependency, Robustness and the Complexity of Nature" at the UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Colloquium held in September in Berkeley. Martinez presented "Ecological Networks and Beyond" at the National Science Foundation Meeting held in October in Arlington.

Thomas Parker, Biology, published "The Concept of the Ecological Community and a Clash of Perspectives: A Reply to Looijen and van Andel" in the October issue of Perspectives of Plant Ecological Evolutionary Systems.

Wenshen Pong, Engineering, C.S. Tsai and others published "Parametric Study for Buildings with Combined Velocity-dependent and Displacement-dependent Energy Dissipation Devices" in the July issue of International Journal of Structural Engineering and Mechanics. Pong and D. Nesbet presented "Verifying the Necessity of Dynamic Analysis in Irregular Building Designs" at the Seventh U.S. National Conference of Earthquake Engineering: Urban Earthquake Hazard held in July in Boston.

Janet Randall, Biology, SFSU student E.R. Hekkala and others recently published "Familiarity and Flexible Mating Strategies of a Solitary Rodent, Dipodomys Ingens," in the July issue of Animal Behaviour.

Ceramic sculptures by Nina Hagiwara, Center for Biomedical Laboratory Science/Library, were on exhibit Oct. 9-31 at the Honolulu Academy of Arts' Academy Arts Center at Linekona in Honolulu.

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