March 6, 2000

Advancement

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education District 7 Awards were announced December 2. Public Affairs won the award of excellence for the special institutional projects category with the "One Hundred Years: One Student at a Time" Centennial ad campaign. Development won the award of excellence for most improved fund-raising program category with its annual fund. Publications won awards of distinction for the Centennial bookmarks, the Centennial Website, and for introducing a new logo and visual identity for the University.

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Bill Issel, History, wrote an essay on the San Francisco freeway revolt for the November issue of Pacific Historical Review. On Oct. 28, Issel presented the lecture "Jews and Catholics Against Prejudice: the Interracial Campaign for Civil Rights in San Francisco, 1940-1960" at the Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco.

Karen Olsen Bruhns, Anthropology, presented the paper "Cinnabar in the Andean World" at the annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies held Jan. 8 in Berkeley. No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men by Christopher Carrington, Sociology/Human Sexuality Studies, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press.

Diane Harris, Psychology, presented the paper "Eating Disturbances in Women of Color" at the International Congress on Women's Work, Health, and Quality of Life held Jan. 26-29 at UCSF.

Betty Blecha, Economics, organized and chaired a session on computer-assisted instruction in economics at the American Economics Association meeting held Jan. 7 in Boston, Mass.

"Regional Difference in Asian American Earnings Discrimination: Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American Earnings in California and Hawaii," an article by Don Mar, Economics, was recently published in the Amerasia Journal.

Business

On Jan. 25, Ken Hunter, Business Analysis & Computing Systems, received U.S. Patent No. 6,018,735 for "Non-literal Textual Search Using Finite-state Linear Non-deterministic Automata."

Creative Arts

Arthur Asa Berger, BECA, presented the paper "Arthur's Computer (Narrative) Adventure" at the International Conference on Global Media Narratives for Children held Dec. 7-8 in Munich, Germany. He also gave a lecture, "What's in a Joke: Deconstruction without Destruction" on Dec. 14 at the University of Dusseldorf.

Education

Mary Hamm, Elementary Education, co-authored a book (with Dennis Adams) entitled Literacy Today: New Standards Across the Curriculum, Falmer Press.

Adriana Schuler, Special Education, was a featured speaker at a conference held in the Philippines Nov. 26-28. She spoke on "The Provision of Education Services to Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Related Severe Communication and Behavior Disorders."

Ethnic Studies

Jose Cuellar, La Raza Studies, presented "The Substance of Alcohol Abuse Among Latinos" at the Santa Clara Valley Alcohol & Drug Resource Alliance meeting held Sept. 10 in San Jose. Cuellar gave a Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture at Portland State University on Oct. 22 on "The History of Chicano Music in Our Global Society."

Health & Human Services

Bill Michaelis, Recreation and Leisure Studies, gave the keynote speech "Laugh and Level with Me: The Power of Play and Humor in Our Leadership Lives" at the Annual Conference of the Michigan Recreation and Park Association held Jan. 30-Feb. 2 in Lansing.

In February, Anabel Pelham, Gerontology, provided expert testimony to the members of the California Senate Subcommittee on Aging and Long-term Care and the Senate Committee on Education. The hearing was held in the State Capitol in Sacramento.

Humanities

In November, Louise Rehling, Technical and Professional Writing, received an "Excellence in Writing Award" (for Technical Publications Department Review) from the Association of Professional Communication Consultants. Rehling gave a talk, "What a Difference the Digs Make! Teaching in a High-Tech Conference Room," at the Association for Business Communications' 64th Annual Convention in November in Los Angeles.

Last October, Anita Silvers, Philosophy, gave a paper entitled, "From the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made," at a meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, in Washington, D.C. Also in October, Silvers gave three papers at a meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in Philadelphia: "Two Conceptualizations of Disability: The World Health Organization and the U.S. Supreme Court;" "Super Villanous or Mild-Mannered? Does Singer's Position Threat en Real People or Only Philosophically Constructed Ones?" and "Self-Determination and Social Roles: Revising the Ethical Framework of Allocating Rehabilitative Care."

Elizabeth Sommers, English, was highlighted as December's featured faculty member on the MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Repository for Learning and On-Line Teaching) website for the California State University. Sommers recently contributed a chapter titled "Can Anybody Play? Using the World Wide Web to Develop Multidisciplinary Research and Writing Skills"to Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies, Sibylle Gruber editor, National Council of Teachers of E nglish.

Library

"Four Generations of Quilters in One Nineteenth-Century Rural New England Family" by Lynn Bonfield, Library, appeared in What's New England about New England Quilts? Proceedings of a Symposium at Old Sturbridge Village, June 13, 1998. The proceedings were published this past December.

Science & Engineering

Scott Gronert, Chemistry, had two articles printed in the Journal of the American Chemical Scoiety last year: "The Lithium and Sodium Ion Binding Energies of N-Acetyl and N-Glycyl Amino Acids" with co-authors W.Y. Feng and C. Lebrilla; "The Gas Phase Reactions of Dianions with Alkyl Bromides: Direct Identification of SN2 and E2 Products" with co-author A. Flores.

C++ Toolkit for Engineers and Scientists, a book by James T. Smith, Math, was published last year by Springer-Verlag. Methods of Geometry was published earlier this year by John Wiley & Sons.

"Reactivity in Acid-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Heterolysis" by Jim Keeffe, Chemistry & Biochemistry, with co-authors W. Cao, I. Erden, R.H. Grow, J. Song, M.B. Trudell, T.L. Wadsworth, F.-P. Xu, and J.-B. Zheng appeared in a recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry.

Laura Burrus, Biology, had her paper "The Dynamic Expression Pattern of FRZB-1 Suggests Multiple Roles in Chick Development" with co-authors M. Baranski, E. Berdougo, J.S. Sandle, and D.K. Darnell published in the January issue of Developmental Biology.

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