February, 1999

Administration

Marc Martin, Financial Aid, presented the paper "On Becoming a More Effective Mediator: The Art of Letting Go" at the Conference of the Academy of Family Mediators held in San Francisco, June 27. Martin presented the paper "Transformative Mediation: What's in It for the Mediator?" as part of a workshop, "An Overview of Conflict Mediation," held at the American Psychological Association convention in San Francisco, Aug. 13.

The Public Affairs Office recently received several awards from the District VII Council for Advancement and Support of Education publications competition: an award of excellence (Photography category), and an award of distinction (other Printed Materials category) for SFSU's "Awareness Ad Campaign," featuring such notable alumni as San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and TV news anchor Dave McElhatton. In addition, the Publications Office and Computing Services jointly received an award of distinction (World Wide Web Sites category) for the redesign of the SFSU web site.

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Betty J. Blecha, Economics, organized and chaired a session on computer-assisted instruction in economics at the 1999 meetings of the American Economic Association held in New York, Jan. 3-5.

Karen O. Bruhns, Anthropology, presented the paper "Ecuador's Second Oldest Textile" at the Institute for Andean Studies' meeting held Jan. 9 in Berkeley.

Bill Issel, History, presented a paper on the history of environmental politics in San Francisco since World War II at the Conference of the American Politics Group of the UK, held Jan. 6-8 at Cambridge University in England.

On Dec. 4, C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, gave an invited lecture, "Human Rights and Humanity: The Case of the Comfort Women," at the University of Pennsylvania. Also on Dec. 4, the Institute for Korean-American Studies invited Soh to present a talk in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania to a Korean-American audience on the concept of human rights for comfort women survivors. She also presented a paper "Human Rights and the Comfort Women" at the American Anthropological Association meetings held in Philadelphia, Dec. 6.

Business

William Perttula, Marketing, presented a paper, "Assessing the Quality of a Business Administration Degree Program" (co-authored with Ronald Beall, Marketing) at the Atlantic Marketing Association Conference in Savannah Georgia on October 9, 1998.

Creative Arts

Recently, Arthur Asa Berger, BECA, had several second editions of his textbooks published: "Media Analysis Techniques" by Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA; "Seeing is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication" by Mayfield Publishing Co., San Francisco; and "Media Research Techniques" by Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. A German translation of Berger's book, "Bloom's Morning: Coffee, Comforters, and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life" was also recently published by Europaische Verlagsanstalt.

In December, Yu-Charn Chen, Design and Industry, appeared as a keynote speaker at the "International Conference on Technology Education," held Dec. 13 in Taipei, Taiwan. While in Taiwan, Chen also made a number of presentations on technology issues at the National Taiwan Normal University including, "Microcomputer Applications in Electronic Circuits Simulation."

Sheila O'Hara, Art, recently created a Christmas ornament that was selected from among a national competition to adorn the White House Blue Room Christmas Tree.

Mills College's Art Museum exhibited the work of Cherie Raciti, Art, in an exhibition titled "Possible Objects: Mixed Media Work" which ran from Nov. 5-Dec. 23.

Education

The winter issue of Multicultural Education included an article, "Cultural Hegemony: The Politics of Bilingual Education," written by Josephine Arce, Elementary Education.

Jack R. Fraenkel, Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, has just had his book, "Visual Statistics: A Conceptual Primer," published by Allyn & Bacon publishers, Boston.

Ethnic Studies

At a National Health Service Corps Fellowship program, "Shortage Area Elective/Preceptorship Program" held in Berkeley, Aug. 10, Jose Cuellar, La Raza Studies, presented "Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Minority Communities." On Nov. 16, Cuellar made a presentation sponsored by the El Centro Chicano at the University of Southern California titled, "Dr. Loco's Brief History of Chicano Music in Today's Global Society." Cuellar made another presentation, "SFSU's Multidimensional La Raza Studies Paradigm," sponsored by Chicano/Latino Studies at CSU Long Beach, also on Nov. 16.

Joely De La Torre, American Indian Studies, moderated a panel, "Tribal Law Enforcement and the Prison Industrial Complex," at the "Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex" conference held on Sept. 27. She also presented a paper, "The Future of Tribal Governance, Sovereignty, and Criminal Procedure in Tribal Communities," at the conference. On Oct. 8, De La Torre made a presentation titled "American Indians Past, Present, and Future" to the Mills College International School of English.

Dorothy Tsuruta, Black Studies, presented two papers at the conference of the Modern Language Association held in San Francisco in December: "Some People Call it Fear of Womanism," and "Evaluation without Assimilation."

At the American Dietetic Association conference held in Kansas City in October, Vijay Ganji, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, presented "Impact of Garlic on Serum Cholesterol and Apolipoproteins of Post-Menopausal Women," "Lecithin, An Emulsifier Replaces the Fat and Energy Contents in Cakes," and "Nutritional Value and Acceptability of Cookies with White Wheat Fiber, Corn Fiber, and Wheat Fiber."

Vicki Legion, Health Education, and Mary Beth Love, Health Education, made a presentation titled, "Yes We Can Manage Asthma: A Comprehensive Response to Asthma in Low Income Communities," at the Centers for Disease Control's "National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control" on Dec. 9. Legion also copresented "A Multi-Pronged Mobilization Against Urban Asthma" at the same CDC conference. Love presented "A Competency Based Training System for Community Health Workers" at the national meeting of the American Public Health Association held in November.

An article by Erik Peper, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies, "Teaching Diaphragmatic Breathing to Children," was published in the most recent issue of Biofeedback.

In November, Susan Stark, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, and Nancy Rabolt, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, made several presentations at the International Textile and Apparel Association conference held in Dallas. Stark presented "Case Studies: International Sourcing for Contractors" and "Comparison of California Manufacturers/Contractors." Rabolt presented "Garment 2000 Research Recommends Made in San Francisco Program," "Comparison of Clothing Attitudes and Purchase Behavior of U.S. and Japanese Female University Students," and copresented with colleagues the paper "Country of Origin of Apparel: A Trend Analysis of Japanese University Women."

Recently, the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging chose Darlene Yee, Gerontology, for its 1998 "Distinguished Service Award."

Humanities

In December, Linda Belau, English, presented her paper, "Encountering Melancholia," at the Modern Language Association conference held in San Francisco.

In September, poems by Cheryl Burket, Creative Writing, won second place in the San Francisco Bay Guardian poetry contest.

Carolyn Chaney, Speech and Communication Studies, presented a paper, "Social Class Does Not Predict Reading Achievement but Language and Metalinguistic Skills Do," at the "Child Language Seminar" held at the University of Sheffield, England, Sept. 5. The paper was also published in the conference proceedings.

A book of poems, "Next Song," by Maxine Chernoff, Creative Writing, has recently been published by Instress Publishers, Saratoga, Calif. Six of Chernoff's poems also appeared over the summer in a Web publication titled "Jacket #4," edited by John Tranter and published by the Australian Literacy Group, Sydney, Australia.

Jensen Chung, Speech and Communication Studies, had a paper, "Naming as Energy Flow and Strategic Position as Organizational Communication Strategies," accepted at the most recent meeting of the American Name Society. Chung also participated in a five-person panel "Meeting with Fong" sponsored by the World Journal in September.

Two articles by Christoper Concolino, Foreign Languages, "Daniele Del Guidice" and "Pier Vittorio Tondelli" appear in the "Dictionary of Literary Biography: Italian Novelists Since World War II, 1965-1990," edited by Augustus Pallotta and published recently by Bruccoli Clark Layman, Detroit. Concolino presented a paper, "Popular Consciousness in Late Twentieth-Century Italy: Leopardi, Lucio Dalla and Vasco Rossi," at a meeting of the Italian Graduate Society, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Oct. 17.

The Lambda Literary Association recently honored the novel "Beyond the Pale" by Elana Dykewomon, English, for best Lesbian novel. She also received the "Ferro-Grumley Award" in October from the Publishers' Triangle (Gay and Lesbian Publishing Association), for best Lesbian fiction. "Beyond the Pale" was also a finalist for the American Library Association's "Best Lesbian Novel" award this year.

In July, "Creek Walk," a collection of short stories by Molly Giles, Creative Writing, won the California Commonwealth Club's "Silver Medal for Fiction" and in the same month she also won the "Small Press Best Fiction/Short Story Award for 1998."

Apex Press of New York recently published a book by Ann Fagan Ginger, Philosophy/Global Peace Studies, titled "Nuclear Weapons are Illegal: The Historic Opinion of the World Court and How it Will be Enforced." She gave a talk, "Using International Human Rights Treaties on U.S. Police Practices and Prison Conditions," at the "Critical Resistance Conference" held Sept. 27 at UC Berkeley.

Cathy Glenn, Speech & Communication Studies, presented a paper, "Performing Political Participation as Pedagogical Praxis: Foucault, Habermas, and the Classroom as Public Sphere" in the program "Rhetoric, Publics, and Public Spheres: Beyond the Millennium" at the "Seminar Series" of the National Communication Association conference held in November.

In December, Michael Krasny, English, presented his paper, "The Cultural Significance of Radio," at the Modern Language Association conference held in San Francisco.

Recently, Dana Rochelle Lomax, Creative Writing, produced the experimental collaborative performance project "LINK." Lomax's manuscript "Room &" won the San Francisco Foundation's 1998 "Joseph Jackson Award" and poems from "Room &" were awarded the Academy of American Poets and Ann Fields Poetry prizes.

Lois Lyles, English, presented a paper on "Strengthening the Soul of Diversity" at the "Education as Transformation" conference held Sept. 28 at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

Frances Mayes, Creative Writing, was awarded honorary citizenship by the town of Cortona, Italy, featured in her best-selling book, " Under the Tuscan Sun." Mayes was also awarded the San Marco Prize for Literature in December.

In August, Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages, presented a paper, "Socio-Emotional Development in Preschool Years: A Narrative Study," at the American Psychological Association held in San Francisco. Minami's article, "Cultural Construction of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Mother-Child Conversations About the Past," recently appeared in the book "The Problem of Meaning: Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches," edited by C. Mandell and A. Cabe, and published by North Holland Press, Amsterdam.

On Nov. 7, Anastasia Prentiss, Speech and Communication Studies, presented her "Community Outreach Speaker Workshop" for La Casa De Las Madres (House of the Mothers), a non-profit shelter for women and children survivors of domestic violence.

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, presented a paper, "From the Crooked Timbre of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made," at the World Congress of Philosophy held in Boston in August. Silvers' book, "Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate," was recently published by Routledge, New York. In September, she presented two papers at the "Association for Politics and the Life Sciences" conference held in Boston: "How Impairments Qualify the Quality of Life: Three Forms of Mensuration;" and "Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy."

On Dec. 3 the American Literary Translators Association awarded Carolyn Tipton, World and Comparative Literature, its "National Translation Award" for her translation of "To Painting: Poems by Rafael Alberti" published recently by Northwestern University Press, Chicago.

A book by Pamela Vaughn, Classics, "Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic," cowritten with Robert Knapp, was recently published by Focus Classical Texts, Newburyport, Mass. Her article, "Cicero and Mario: The Scholar as Activist," appeared in the most recent Pacific Coast Philology. Vaughn was also recently appointed to a two-year term as President of the California Classical Association, Northern Section.

In September, Manfred Wolf, English, was nominated for an "Excellence in Teaching Award" sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa at UC Berkeley. During October, Wolf made two presentations on the writer Ursula Hegi at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco. His article, "The Extraordinary Uses of the Ordinary: The Poetry of Judith Herzberg," appeared in the "Yearbook of the Low Countries 1998-1999" edited and published by ONS EDFDEEL publishers. Wolf translated and edited the book, "This Happened Everywhere," published recently by Androgyne Books, San Francisco. His autobiographical article, "The Dance School," appeared in the summer issue of The Literary Review. He presented, "Jamaica Kincaid's `My Brother'-Two Cultures in Black Literature" at the most recent "Biennial Conference in North American Studies" held at the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland, May 14; he also presented "Post-Colonial History in the Caribbean Author Boeli van Leeuwen: White and Black in Recent Caribbean History" at the "Interdisciplinary Netherlandic Conference" held May 29 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Gustavo Yep, Speech and Communication Studies, was recently awarded the 1998-99 University of California-wide AIDS Research Program Grant, "Dialogue in the Frontlines: Exchanging Peer-Designed HIV Curriculum among Young Adults."

Science and Engineering

In November, Zhigang Chen, Physics and Astronomy, received a "Cottrell College Science Award" for his research project, "Soliton Interaction and Associated Pattern Dynamics Based on Incoherent Light Sources."

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