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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.

November 4, 2001

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.

Academic Affairs

Karen Kingsbury, Advising Center, presented a workshop showcasing SFSU's virtual orientations for freshmen and transfer students at the National Orientation Directors Association Conference held in November in Toronto.

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Christopher Carrington, Sociology/Human Sexuality Studies, gave an invited special session address titled "Queer Kinwork: Reflections on Kith and Kin among Lesbians and Gay Men" to the National Council on Family Relations Conference held in November in Rochester, N.Y.

"Centering the Korean 'Comfort Women' Survivors" by C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, was published in the December edition of Critical Asian Studies. Soh presented "Gender and Migration in Asia" and "Sexual Enslavement and Reproductive Health Among Comfort Women Survivors" at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association held Nov. 28-Dec. 2 in Washington, D.C.

Creative Arts

Work by Julia Turner, Art, was featured in a solo exhibition in October at the Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. "Rock Paper Scissors" by Turner was exhibited as part of the Velvet Da Vinci Gallery 10th Anniversary Exhibition held in September in San Francisco.

Yu-Charn Chen, Design and Industry, presented "Trends of Industrial Technology and Technology Education Programs in the United States" at the International Conference on Technology Education held Oct. 30 in Daejon, South Korea. Chen presented "Using AutoCAD in Multi-layers Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design" at National Association of International Technology Annual Conference held Nov. 3 in Dearborn, Mich.

Joan Arhelger, Theatre Arts, designed the lighting for Sacramento Opera's performance of "Rigoletto" which opened in November.

Work by Robert Bechtle, Art, is featured in a group show at the San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art titled "Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art." The show opened on Nov. 17 and runs through June 9.

Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology by Stephen Wilson, Art, was recently published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

Education

Diane Garfield, Elementary Education, recently received board certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Extended Learning

Managing Your E-Commerce Business, by Brenda Kienan, Multimedia Studies, was recently published by Microsoft Press.

The second edition of Webmastering For Dummies, by Daniel A. Tauber and Brenda Kienan, Multimedia Studies, was published last year.

Rudy Lemcke, Multimedia Studies, recently exhibited recent video projection works at Gallery Lux in San Francisco. Lemcke's video "Origin of Light" was featured in the winter issue of

Pat Medina, Paralegal Studies/Legal Nurse Consultant, won the Excellence in Teaching Award competition at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Paralegal Education held Oct. 13 -16 in San Antonio, Texas.

Therese A. Cannon presented "Cutting Edge and Innovative Training Techniques" at the Annual Conference of the Legal Assistant Management Association held Nov. 1-3 in Washington, D.C. Cannon received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Paralegal Association at its annual meeting held in October.

Mark Schaeffer, Multimedia Studies/Oakland Multimedia Center, co-authored the recently released book Revolutionary Premiere 6 which was published by friends of ED.

Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places by Derek Powazek, Oakland Multimedia Center, was recently published by New Riders Publishing.

LucyAnn Geiselman delivered the keynote address on "Leading a Continuing Education Fund-raising Program" at a special seminar for deans and senior officers of the University Continuing Education Association held Dec. 5-7 in Washington, D.C.

Health and Human Services

Robert Chope, Counseling, was the keynote speaker at the Mid Atlantic Career Counseling Association held Oct. 24-26 in Lancaster, Pa. He also addressed the Metropolitan D.C. Area Career and Life Planning Network at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

Erik Peper, Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, was the invited presenter at the celebration of the book The Theses of Mitsumasa Kawakami I: The Subliminal Psychology held Dec. 2 in Tokyo. Peper contributed two chapters to the book titled "The Physiological Correlates of Kundalini Yoga Medication: A Study of a Yoga Master" and "Preliminiary Observations of Voluntary Pain and Bleeding Control." "RSI, Psychosomatiek op Kantoor," by Peper and A. Weijman, was recently published in Nederlands Tijkschrift voor Fysiotherapie.

Darlene Yee, Gerontology, received a plaque in appreciation for her contributions as a member of the Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health from the National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women's Health on Nov. 2 in Bethesda, Md. Yee co-authored and presented four sessions at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America held Nov. 15-18 in Chicago.

Humanities

Charles Egan, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a workshop titled "Words and Pictures: Teaching Chinese Culture," at the Fall Conference of the Foreign Languages Association of Northern California held Nov. 10 in San Francisco.

Martha Klironomos, Modern Greek Studies/World and Comparative Literature, presented "Memory in the Work of Giorgos Seferis" at the Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium held Oct. 25-28 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Yvonne Daley, Journalism, published "Mr. Jeffords: A Quiet Man From Shrewsbury Does a Star Turn in The National Spotlight" in the October 2001 issue of Vermont Magazine. Daley published "The Persistence of the Ugly American" in the Dec. 3 issue of the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. The cover story profiles William Lederer, the co-author of The Ugly American, and the relevance of the best-selling book to events in the Mideast following Sept. 11.

Ellen Peel, English/World and Comparative Literature, wrote a chapter, "Galatea: Rewritten and Rewriting," in He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male Text, edited by Mica Howe and Sarah Aguiar and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Peel spoke on "Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness" at the Working Group on Science Fiction in Literature, Film, and Culture held in September at UC Berkeley.

"Styles of Parent-Child Book Reading in Japanese families" by Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, was recently published in Research on Child Language Acquisition: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language.

"Valiant Outsiders in Japan: Stories and Textile Art" by Minami, Midori McKeon, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Lois Lyles, English, is on exhibit through Feb. 28 at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library.

Pamela Vaughn, Classics/World and Comparative Literature, received the Excellence in Teaching award from the American Philological Association on Jan. 5 at its annual meeting in Philadelphia.

Library

"From Workbook to Web: Building an Information Literacy Oasis," by Jeff Rosen and Gina Castro, was published in the January issue of Computers in Libraries.


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