May 7, 2001

Athletics

Michael Simpson , gave a speech on gender equity in intercollegiate athletics at the CAHPERD (California Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) Convention held in Santa Clara on March 9.

Behavioral & Social Sciences

The Cihuatan Archaeolgical Project page (www.cihuatan.org), written and maintained by Karen Olsen Bruhns, Anthropology, recently won the Studyweb Academic Excellence Award. It was also selected as a featured site on StudyWeb, a major site for students and teachers.

Amita Shastri, Political Science, presented a paper on "Reproducing Hegemony: The United National Party of Sri Lanka" at the International Workshop on Political Parties in South Asia: Asianization of a Western Model? held March 29 - April at the University of Nottingham in England.

On April 22 at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, , Moses Rischin, History, moderated a roundtable discussion that closed the day-long symposium titled "California Jews: Generation to Generation."

Betty Blecha, Economics, presented a paper titled "Learning by Doing and the Choice of Instructional Technology" at meeting of the Midwest Economic Association held in March in Cleveland. Blechaalso organized and chaired a session on computer-assisted instruction in economics at the meeting of the American Economic Association held in January in New Orleans.

"Past Time: Baseball as History" (Oxford University Press, 2000), by , Moses Rischin, History, has been chosen to receive the Society for American Baseball Research's sixth annual Seymour Medal, awarded to the book judged the best work of baseball history or biography published in the preceding year.

Business

"The Big `R,'" a book written by John O'Shaughnessy, Accounting, Larry Crumbley and Doug Ziegenfuss, was published recently by Carolina Academic Press.

Creative Arts

Carolynn Lindeman, Music, received an Outstanding Arts Educator Award from the California Arts Council at a ceremony held March 26 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Lindemanwas the only music educator and one of 15 people overall to win the award.

Julia Turner, Art, recently received a juror's award for her series of rings in "Full Circle," an exhibition of metalwork in the Collectors' Gallery of the Oakland Museum. Her work also appeared in the spring issue of Metalsmith Magazine in an article titled "Observations: The Work of Julia Turner

Hamid Khani, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, presented a paper on "Enhancing Education Through Technology: Visual Tools for Visual Thinking" on March 16 at the American Technical Education Association annual conference in Atlanta.

Ron Compesi, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, gave a presentation titled "Everything Old is New Again: Fluorescent Lighting for Television Studio and Electronic Field Production" at the Broadcast Education Association Convention held April 20 in Las Vegas.

Education

Gilda Bloom, Secondary Education, presented a paper titled "Alienated Intellectual Environments: Unearthing Barriers to Teaching About Diversity" at the American Educational Research Association meeting held April 10-14 in Seattle.

Penelope V. Flores, Department of Secondary Education received a scroll for her six-year tenure as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Council for the Humanites (CCH). She received the scroll at a meeting in San Diego on March 16.

Andrew Dubin, Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, led a San Francisco Education Team on Capitol Hill to discuss Congressional support for returning Peace Corps volunteer teachers to liaison officers of U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos at the 11th Annual Fellows/USA Convocation titled "Peace Corps Fellows At Work: From Inspiration to Reality," held Feb. 21-24, in Washington, D.C.

Pat Gallagher, Elementary Education, chaired the California Council on the Education of Teachers Conference, titled "... and justice for all," held March 29-31 in San Jose. "Jumpstart to Literacy: Using Written Conversation to Help Developing Readers and Writers," written by Gallagher and Gloria Norton, Elementary Education, was published by Heinemann in fall 2000.

Ethnic Studies

Dorothy Tsuruta, Black Studies, served as a judge in the College Language Association's (CLA) annual poetry contest. Winners were announced at the CLA convention held in New Orleans in April.

Jose Cuellar, Raza Studies/Cesar E. Chavez Institute for Public Policy, served as facilitator for Hartnell College's second annual Diversity Conference held March 9.

Health and Human Services

Several faculty members from the Institute for Holistic Healing Studies and the Health Education Department gave presentations at the 32nd annual meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback held March 29 -April 1 in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Erik Peper , presented a paper titled "Is Computing a Pain in the Neck? The Role of Biofeedback and Self-regulation" and, with Katherine H. Gibneyand Kate Hubera paper titled "Multimodal Biofeedback Intervention to Prevent Mouse-induced Discomfort: A Controlled Outcome Study." Peperand Gibneyalso gave a poster presentation on "Breathing Biofeedback to Reduce Side Effects After a Kidney Transplant" and Peperand Adam Burke poster presentations on "A Psychophysiological Profile of Boys Playing Computer Games" and College-Student Computer Use: Preventing Cumulative Trauma Disorders." Burke also presented a paper titled "The Interplay of Emotions and Behavior: CTD Risk and Children's Computer Games."

Bill Michaelis, Recreation and Leisure Studies, gave the keynote address at The Child's Right to Play: A Global Approach, an international conference held May 3-5 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Michaelisaddress was titled "A Lighthearted Look at the Power of Play."

David Anderson, Kinesiology, presented a paper on "The Experimental Manipulation of Locomotor Experience: Basic and Clinical Considerations" at the annual meeting of the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology held in Kyoto, Japan in March. Andersonalso presented a paper on "Explaining Developmental Transitions in Infancy" to the Psychology Department at Doshisha University in Kyoto in March.

Susan Zieff, Kinesiology, gave a speech on "Gender and Sport" at the Sport and Diversity in America conference held April 2 at CSU Sacramento.

Robyn Lock, Kinesiology, presented papers on "The Framing of Teachers' Work for Change Through Action Research" and "Phase Two of the Action Research Model: Lessons Learned" at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance conference held March 27 in Cincinnati.

Beth Kelley, Kinesiology, recently received the Health Educator of the Year Award from the State Community College Organization of Physical Education.

Humanities

"Jewish Perceptions of Time: Linear, Layered, Cyclical and Circular," an essay written by

Fred Astren, Jewish Studies, appeared in the exhibition catalog "Telling Time" at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley in 2000.

As part of the Silent Voices Speak art exhibition and lecture series, Laurie Zoloth, Jewish Studies, and Deborah Lipstadt presented a lecture titled "Lessons of the Holocaust: Never Again" at the Herbst International Exhibition Hall in San Francisco on May 2.

Anatole Anton, Philosophy, gave a talk on his book "Not for Sale: In Defense of Public Goods" at the College of San Mateo/Cañada College/Skyline College Philosphy Club on Feb. 23. Antonalso gave a talk on the book with one of its co-editors, Milton Fisk, at the John F. Kennedy Law School on March 17.

"Gengogaku To Nihongo Kyooiku II: New Directions in Applied Linguistics of Japanese," a book edited by Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Yukiko Alam Foreign Languages and Literatures, was recently published by Kurosio Publishers. Minamicontributed a chapter to the book titled "Narrative Ni Okeru Fuhensei To Bunka-teki Koyuusei (Universals and Culture-specific Aspects in Narrative)." "Chushingura," an exhibit of scholarly text and original artwork by Minami,Midori McKeonForeign Languages and Literatures, and Lois Lyles, English, was on display at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco during January.

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, presented a paper on "Disjunctive Temporalities in Islamic Nationalism and Transnationalism" at an international conference titled The Meaning of Race for the 21st Century organized by the Collegium for African-American Research, held in March in Sardinia, Italy. "The Textualization of Violence in a Global World: Gendered Citizenship and Discourses of Protection," an article byMoallemwas published in the December 2000 issue of the Review of Japanese Culture and Society.

Martha Klironomos, World and Comparative Literature/Center for Modern Greek Studies presented a paper titled "Remembering and Forgetting in the Poetry of Giorgos Seferis" at the 12th annual Time, Memory, Text Conference held March 24at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y.

Troi Carleton, English, and Rachelle WakslerEnglish, presented a paper on "Marking Focus in Chatino" at the 46th Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association held March 30, at New York University.

Chris Wen-Chao Li, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Where Have All the Neutral Tones Gone? Charting Neutral Tone Decline in Taipei Mandarin, With Evidence from Online Phonological Simulation" at the 211th Meeting of the American Oriental Society held March 30 at the Toronto Colony Hotel.

Library

The second edition of "Internet Research: Theory and Practice," by Ned Fielden, Library, was published by MacFarland Publishers in April.

Darlene Tong, Library, presented a workshop titled "Beyond Celluloid: Artist-generated Time Arts Media - How to Research It," at the Art Libraries Society of North America annual conference held March 31 in Los Angeles.

Science and Engineering

"Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands," written by Dennis Desjardin, Biology, K.R. Peterson and D.E. Hemmes, and "Agaricales of Indonesia," written by Desjardin, A. Retnowati and E. Horak, were published in recent issues of Sydowia.

Oliver Johns, Physics and Astronomy, recently received the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Award for Teaching Excellence.

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