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, presented "A Tale of Three Cities: Ephemeral Urbanism in Early Postclassic El Salvador" at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held March 22 in Denver.

Jack Osman, Economics, and co-author Ann Goldman, Capital Planning, presented "On the Accident of Geography: Three Decades After Serrano," at the Western Regional Science Association meeting held Feb. 18 in Monterey.

Karen Hossfeld, Sociology, presented "The 'Low Side' of 'High Tech': Gender, Race and Class Inequality in the Silicon Valley" at the Third Annual Women Studies Colloquium held in March at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Business

Sally Baack, Management, presented "The Strategic Management of Organizational Reputation in the Global Economy" at the Western Academy of Management Annual Conference held March 22 in Santa Fe, N.M. At the same conference Baack also presented "Group Hijacking: Identifying a Business Team Phenomenon."

Creative Arts

Lena Zhang, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, won first place of competitive papers in the International Division at the 2002 Broadcast Education Association Convention with her field study "Are They Still Listening: Reconceptualizing the Chinese Audience of the Voice of America in the Cyber Era."

"First Sight, An Encyclopedia of Childhood," an exhibit of photographic work by Dale Kistemaker, Art, was recently shown at the Brian Gross Gallery.

Hamid Khani, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, presented "Technology, Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms" at the American Technical Education Association Annual Conference held March 15 in Santa Clara.

Jerry Duke, Dance, presented a lecture/demonstration "Rhythm and Structure in Greek/Macedonian Dance" for the Arcata Folklore Society on April 13 at Humbolt State University.

Todd Roehrman, Theatre Arts, was recently honored by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle with the 2001 Award for Best Costume Design for a Drama for his design of the Marin Theatre Company's production of "Misalliance."

Karl Cohen, Cinema, presented "Animated Jewels: A Pearl of a Program" and "Hey Batter Batter! Animated Home Runs" on March 30 and 31 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

William Corbett-Jones, Music, has recently returned from Urumqi, Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, where he gave two recitals and four lectures and held master classes at the Xinjiang Arts University. Corbett-Jones also gave a recital and held a master class at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music.

Education

"Absent from the Research, Present in our Classrooms: Preparing Cultural Responsive Chinese American Teachers" by Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Elementary Education, and Laureen Chew, Elementary Education, was recently published in the Journal of Teacher Education. Hernandez Sheets was presented with the Kappa Delta Pi/AERA Division K Research Award (early career) for significant contributions to the field of teacher preparation at the Annual American Educational Research Association Meeting held in April in New Orleans.

Humanities

Michael Krasny, English, recently received the National Conference for Community and Justice Inclusiveness in Media Award for his work on the KQED-FM program "Forum." The award recognizes media leaders who have demonstrated an outstanding level of respect and understanding that has resulted in less biased reporting.

Christopher Concolino, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented "Laughter in the Interstices of Italo Calvino's 'The Cloven Viscount' and 'The Baron in the Trees'" at the "Many Faces of Humor" Colloquium held April 25 at CSU Chico.

Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and his students Sanae Fukuda and Emi Fujiyama presented "Correspondence of Achievement Levels in First and Second Languages in The Area of Vocabulary Development: From The Perspective of Heritage Language Maintenance" at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar held April 4 in Washington, D.C.

Midori McKeon, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented "Can Language Create an Equivalent of the Human Body? Anna Ogino's Narrative Experiment in Half Dead Half Alive" at Narrative: An International Conference held April 13 at Michigan State University.

Eric Puchner, English, has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University for the fall. Puchner's short story "Neon Tetra" won the Very Short Fiction Contest held by literary journal Glimmer Train. It will be published in the journal's February 2003 issue.

Rachelle Waksler, English, presented "Perception of Lesbian Speech" at the International Linguistics Association Annual Meeting held April 5 in Toronto.

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, presented "Representation of the Mostasaf 'the depowered' in the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Iran" at the International Conference on Middle Eastern and North African Popular Culture held April 4 in Tunis, Tunisia. Moallem's essay, "Whose Fundamentalism?" appears in the spring issue of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.

Science and Engineering

Jeff Greensite, Physics and Astronomy, presented "The Gluon Chain Model Revisited" at the Nato Advanced Research Institute on "Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD" held Jan. 21-28 in Stara Lesna, Slovakia. He also served as co-director of the institute. Greensite presented "Center Dominance in the Laplacian Center Gauge" at the meeting "The Physics of Color Confinement" held Sept. 16-21 in Trento, Italy.

William Bigler, Center for Biomedical Laboratory Science, presented "Clinical Laboratory Education at SFSU: MS, CLS, Phlebotomy" at the Fall Convocation of Clinical Laboratory Educators held Nov. 5 in Debrecen, Hungary. Bigler gave the same presentation at the National Meeting of Clinical Laboratory Educators held Nov. 11 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary.

Wenshen Pong, Engineering, presented "Structural Reliability for Transportation Designs, Part II" at a course for practicing engineers held Nov. 16 at the University Transportation Center of Alabama at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Laura W. Burrus, Biology, presented "The Regulation of Wnt Protein Activity in Developing Chick Embryos" on Jan. 31 at the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. Burrus presented the same talk on Feb. 14 at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Ahmad R. Ganji, Engineering, presented "What Mechanical Engineers Do? Effect of Curriculum on Mechanical Engineers Profession" on Dec. 31 at the School of Engineering at Birjand University in Eastern Iran. Ganji conducted a two-day workshop on "Energy Audit of Industrial and Commercial Facilities" on Jan. 16 and 17 at the Isfahan University of Technology in Isafahan, Iran.

Wim Kimmerer, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, presented "Physical, Biological and Management Responses to Variable Freshwater Flow into the San Francisco Estuary" at a meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation held in November in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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