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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.

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

JoAnn Aviel, International Relations, spoke on"Unilateralism vs. Multilateralism" Feb. 4 at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco as part of its Great Decisions program.

Jack W. Osman, Economics, and Jouko Yla-Liedenpohja wrote "The Monetary Policy of the ECB and Automatic Stabilizers: Will They Work?" The article appears in CESifo Forum.

 

Creative Arts

The work of Julia Turner, Art, is displayed in "Beyond the Mines: The Art of Gold," a traveling invitational exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento through April 27. Turner's work also appears in "Material Explorations: Wearable Objects of Non-Traditional Materials" at the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, N.Y. and "Fifty Years in the Making: The Bay Area Metal Arts Guild 1951-2001" at the Velvet Da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco.

"Burials and Borders," a video by Paula Levine, Art, is part of "Being and Belonging, Reflections on Jewish Space" at the Gotthelf Gallery, San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, in La Jolla.

Jeff Downing, Art, exhibited his large-scale ceramic sculptures at "The Eighth Annual Art in the Park 2003" at Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park in Key West, Fla. The exhibit ran through Feb. 22.

Ce Ce Iandoli, Design and Industry, recently delivered a keynote address at The Academy of Art entitled "Great Expectations: Engaging Our Design Students Day after Day."

 

Business

"Corporate Branding Through External Perception of Organizational Culture," by Stanley Kowalczyk, Management, and Michael Pawlish was published in the fall 2002 issue of The Corporation Review -- An International Journal.

 

Education

Penelope V. Flores, Secondary Education, published "The Origins of Diversity: Ethnogenesis Applied to the American Colonial Experience," in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Education.

Nathan Avani, Secondary Education, presented "Moving Toward a Research Agenda: Key Questions for Teacher Educators on the Role and Impact of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards" in January at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in New Orleans.

"A Bean Hollow Goodbye," by Stan Goldberg, Special Education, received first place in the California State Poetry Society Contest and was published in January in Potpourri Literary Magazine. The poem "Tidal Movements" was awarded second place in November by the American Society on Aging. "Images of New York" was published on SFGate.com and received second place in the California State Poetry Society Contest and a third place in the Poem Kingdom National Poetry Contest.

Doris A. Flowers, Ming-Yeh Lee and A. Reynaldo Contreras, Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, presented "Leadership to Empower: Creating a School Environment that Promotes Equity and Social Justice" in November at the 16th Annual University Council for Education Administration Convention in Pittsburgh. Flowers, Lee and Vanessa Sheared presented "Adult Educators for Social Change: The Classroom as a Site of Contestation" in November at the 51st Annual American Association for Adult and Continuing Education conference in St. Louis.

 

Ethnic Studies

Jose Cuellar, Raza Studies, was master of ceremonies of the 2002 Encuentro de la Cancion Popular in San Francisco on Dec. 6 and special guest performer at the Santa Fe Film Festival Luminarias Awards Tribute Dinner for Peter Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, and Robert Young on Dec. 7.

 

Health and Human Services

Erik Peper, Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, gave the invited presentations, "Surface EMG and Respiration at the Workstation" and"Stress Management" Feb. 18-22 at the seventh annual meeting of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe in Udine, Italy. In January, Peper gave a presentation on "Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback: History, Present and Future/Problems and Solutions" at the Swedish Center for Stress Medicine, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Adam Burke, Holistic Healing Studies, presented "Evaluating Attentional Style and Meditation Efficacy for Novice Meditators" in November 2002 at the International Conference on Science and Meditation at the Himalayan Institute Hospital in Uttaranchal, India. Burke was also recently appointed to the executive committee of the board of the California Society of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture.

Darlene Yee, Gerontology, and Elizabeth W. Markson co-wrote "A Selective Annotated Bibliography for Gerontology Instruction on the Older Woman." In January, Yee chaired a panel on "Inclusion: Policy, Ethics, or Justice -- Is It Time to Reexamine the Guidelines?" for the NIH-ORWH scientific workshop Science Meets Reality: Recruitment and Retention of Women in Clinical Studies, and the Critical Role of Relevance in Washington, D.C.

 

Humanities

Martha Klironomos, Modern Greek Studies/Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented the paper "Monuments, and Fragments: Memory in the Poetics of the Generation of the 1930s," on Dec. 30 at the MLA Annual Convention in New York.

Fred Astren, Jewish Studies, presented a lecture at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University titled "Between Muslim Triumphalism and Jewish Resistance: Looking for Islamization in the Medieval Middle East."

Elizabeth C. Wright, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented "The Controversy over the Role of Dance in Pedagogy in Humanist Educational Treatises from Early Modern Europe" on Jan. 14 at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu.

Marc Dollinger, Jewish Studies, published "The Other War: American Jews, Lyndon Johnson, and The Great Society," in the most recent issue of American Jewish History.

"Lambs of God and The New Math," by Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, was published in Best American Travel Writing 2002, edited by Frances Mayes. Mirosevich's new poem, "Force," appears in the March issue of Speakeasy, published by the Loft Literary Center.

Jacob Needleman, Philosophy, presented a lecture on "Deepening the American Dream" on Jan. 29 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Rachelle Waksler, English Language and Literature, presented the keynote address, "Mr. Morse, Would You Get Off My Dress? Linguistic Peculiarities in English from Ambiguity to Zeugma," Dec. 7 at the third annual Rubbing ESL-bows Conference at Estrella Mt. Community College in Phoenix.

Lois Lyles, English Language and Literature, held an exhibition of her visual art at the San Francisco Women's Building from Jan. 6 to 30. Displayed were several textile works on the theme of Korean women's resistance to domination by Japan, 1910-1945.

Minoo Moallam, Women Studies, presented the paper "Governmentality and Citizenship in the Mass Mediated Diasporic Spaces" on Feb. 4 at the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology.

Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented two papers in January, "Culture-specific Language Styles: The Development of Japanese Children's Narrative Discourse Skills and Literacy from Oral Narrative to Literacy," at the Cognition and Development Colloquium at University of California, Berkeley, and "The Development of Narrative and Literacy Skills in Japanese Children," at Ohio State University in Columbus. Minami's article, "Vocabulary Development in English-Japanese Bilingual Children: Correspondence of Achievement Levels in First and Second Languages," appeared in the 2002 edition of Studies in Language Sciences.

 

Science and Engineering

Adrienne Cool, Physics and Astronomy, J. Carlin and others published "Deep Chandra Imaging of Omega Centauri" in ASP Conference Series Vol. 265. Cool and A. Bolton published "Blue Stars and Binary Stars in NGC 6397: Case Study of a Collapsed-core Globular Cluster" in Stellar Collisions and Mergers.

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Computer Science, and A. Saudi, published "Enhancements to a Morphological Generator to Capture Arabic Morphology," in January in the Abstracts of the Eighth International Symposium on Social Communication at the Center of Applied Linguistics in Santiago de Cuba.

Zhigang Chen, Physics and Astronomy, and student J. Klinger published "Induced Modulation Instability of an Incoherent Beam with Varying Perturbation Periods" in the December issue of Physical Review E.

Jozo Dujmovic, Computer Science, and student M. Kadaster published "A Technique and Tool for Software Evaluation" in the Proceedings of the Sixth IASTED SEA International Conference. The conference was held in November in Cambridge, Mass.

Dennis Desjardin, Biology, T. Boonpratuang and others published "An Accounting of the Worldwide Members of Mycena sect. Longisetae" in the October issue of Fungal Diversity. Desjardin also published, with E. Horak, "Agaricales of Indonesia.4. Mycena sect. Longisetae with Comments on Allied Species" in the November issue of Sydowia.

Jeff Greensite, Physics and Astronomy, and Stephen Olejnik edited The Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Pertubative Aspects of QCD, published in September by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Edward Lank, Computer Science, R. Augustine and others published "Controlling Your Environment Through Sketching" in the October issue of the Proceedings of UbiComp: Conference on Ubiquitous Computing.

Hal Markowitz, Biology, and L. Cornick published "Diurnal Voice Patterns of the Black Howler Monkey (Alouatta pigra) at Lamanai, Belize," in the November issue of Journal of Mammalogy.

Sergei Ovchinnikov, Mathematics, and J. Falmagne published "Media Theory" in the September issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics.


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