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.

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Karen Olsen Bruhns, Anthropology, recently joined the Ethics Committee of the Society for American Archaeology in recognition of her expertise in the field of the protection of cultural property.

Angelika von Wahl, Political Science/International Relations, gave an invited talk titled "American Educational Pluralism: Careers for Women in American Universities" at the Women's Association of German University Faculty on Jan. 26 in Leipzig, Germany. von Wahl participated in the international comparative workshop of the Research Network on Gender and the State held Dec. 6-9 at the Centre for the Advancement of the Women in Politics, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Business

The Proceedings of the International Business and Economics Research Conference, published in October 2001, contains two papers by College of Business faculty. George Lee, International Business, and Edwin Duerr (emeritus), published "A Case Study of 7-Eleven Japan: Expansion Strategies and Opportunities." Duerr, Yim-Yu Wong, International Business, and John Dopp, Management, received the Best Paper award for "A Case Study of GlaxoSmithKline: Pricing the Pharmaceutical Industry."

Jay Kang, Accounting, and Opie Dawson wrote "Occupational Knowledge Utilities in International Business and Economics," which was published in a recent issue of the Journal of International Business and Economy.

The College of Business, in cooperation with Seoul National University, Korea, and The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, sponsored the International Business and Economy Conference: Emerging Issues in the New Global Economy held Jan. 3-6 in San Francisco. Four SFSU faculty members presented papers: Richard Jenner, Management, "The Information Economy, Global Complexity, and International Entrepreneurial Opportunities"; Cathy Platt, Information Systems and Business Analysis, "Environmental Lessons for Transitional Economies: Turning Points in Industrial Pollution"; Gerald Platt, Finance, "Thirty-One Flavors of Doing Business in Mainland China"; and Emanuel Schwartz, Accounting, "Internal Accounting: Advanced Presentation of the Charts of Accounts for Managerial Cost Accounting."

Creative Arts

New prints by Barbara Foster, Art, are included in "Bay Area Printmakers: Works from Trillium Press, Kala Art Institute, made in California, and Paulsen Press." The exhibition opens March 6 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Foster is also exhibiting her work in "Trillium Press: Past, Present and Future" at the Kala Art Institute Gallery through April 13.

An instillation by Steve Wilson, Art, is featured in the Exploratorium's second Wednesday art series. Wilson is one of a group of Bay Area artists who will explore preconceived notions of cities and how those conceptions are being reevaluated based on the effects of media and technology.

Jerry Duke, Dance, gave a lecture/demonstration on Bulgarian and Greek dance at the National Kolo Festival on Nov. 24 in San Francisco.

A reproduction of "Thicker Skin," a painting by Paul Mullins, Art, was published in the January 2002 issue of Harper's Magazine. It was used to accompany an article titled "Arms and the Man: Saturday Night in West Virginia."

Cutting Horse, a film by Larry Clark, Cinema, screened at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival on Feb. 14 in New York City.

Health and Human Services

Marsha Melnick, Physical Therapy, presented a poster on "Exercise for Parkinson's Disease: Testing the Pro-Self Program" at the Gerontology Society of America annual meeting in November in Chicago. This study also involved collaborators Glenna Dowling and Marylin Dodd.

Linda Wanek, Physical Therapy, gave a presentation on "Opportunities in Practice Settings: University Student Health Centers" at the California Physical Therapy Association Annual Conference held in October in Santa Clara. Wanek presented a poster titled "Balancing Muscle Strength and Function in the Treatment of Adductor Strains: A Case Report" at the fourth World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Pain held in November in Montreal.

Robert Chope, Counseling, presented papers on career instability after Sept. 11 and the effect of agoraphobia on family members at the California Association for Counseling and Development Convention in February in San Mateo. His newest book, Shared Confinement, was published in January by New Harbinger Publications.

Humanities

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, presented a paper titled "Am I a Moslem Woman? Nationalist Reactions, Postcolonial Transactions" at a Feb. 8 conference on Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21st Century. Moallem was the featured speaker on Nov. 13 at Feminist Seminars at UC Davis. Her speech focused on her forthcoming book Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister.

A poem titled "The Seamy Side" by Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, appeared in the February issue of The Progressive. Mirosevich's poem "Letter from Croatia: Bog I Hrvati" appeared recently in the Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly.

Laurie Zoloth, Jewish Studies, along with Suzanne Holland and Karen Lebacqz, edited The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics and Public Policy, which was recently published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. Zoloth's "Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers: Notes Toward a Distinctive Jewish View of Reproductive Ethics," was published in the 2001 Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics.

Chris Wen-Chao Li, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented "Evaluating Chinese Romanization Systems: A Linguistic Perspective" on Jan. 5 at the Humanities Lecture Series at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. Li's articles "Linguistic Translation and Cultural Translation: On Domesticating and Foreignizing Strategies in Translation" and "The Faithfulness Trap in Translation" were recently published in the higher education supplement of the Central Daily News (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Dominant-Looking Males," a play by Brighde Mullins, Creative Writing, won the 2001 Will Glickman Award for the best new play produced in the Bay Area. The play was staged by Thick Description at the Thick House in San Francisco.

Science and Engineering

Susan Lea, Physics and Astronomy, presented a paper titled "What Do Physics Graduates Really Know?" at the American Association of Physics Teachers meeting held Jan. 21 in Philadelphia.

Leticia Marquez-Maga-a, Biology, C.I. Aizawa, L.M. Zhulin, G. Ordal, and wrote "Chemotaxis and Motility in Bacillus subtilis and its Closest Relatives: From Genes to Cells," for the American Society for Microbiology Press, 2001.

Richard Bernstein, Biology, published "Bioinformatics Analysis of Bacterial Toxins," in a recent issue of FDA Science Forum. Abstracts for poster presentations Jan. 11 at Cal Poly Pomona included Bernstein's "Anthrax Toxin Proteins: Bioinformatics Analysis."

Wenshen Pong, Engineering, gave a lecture on "Seismic Design for Structural Control" at an Engineering Seminar held Oct. 11 at the National Taiwan Ocean University. Pong and M. Vilcheck published "Design Parameters for Structures with Velocity-dependent Devices and Displacement-dependent Devices" in a recent issue of CTBUH Review.

Jan Randall, Biology, presented "Marching to Different Drummers: Seismic Communication in Mammals" on Feb. 5 at Sonoma State University. His paper, "Evolution and Function of Drumming as Communication in Mammals," was published in a recent issue of American Zoologist.

Robert Patterson, Biology, and R. Battaglia published "A Taxonomic Review of the Leptosiphon androsaceus Complex," in a recent issue of Madrono.

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