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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.
Yenbo Wu, International Programs, was recently selected to receive a Fulbright Grant. He will be one of six participants in the 2003 program for International Education Administrators held June 21 through July 11.
Daniel Vencill, Criminal Justice, presented "The Killing Corridor of Oakland, California: Are There Statistical Links Among Parolees, Probationers, Unstable Drug Markets, and Runaway Homicide Rates?" at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association held Feb. 26 through March 1 in Rio Rico, Ariz.
Sarah Soh, Anthropology, presented a paper on "The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and South Korean Responses," at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference held March 27-30 in New York.
Maziar Behrooz, History, wrote the "Golsorki, Kosrow" entry for the Encyclopedia Iranica, published recently by Bibliotheca Persica Press.
Philip Dreyfus, History, wrote a review of Carl Abbot's Greater Portland for the spring issue of Western Historical Quarterly.
Paul Longmore, History, wrote Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays, recently published by Temple University Press.
Barbara Loomis, History, wrote a review of Carl Abbot's Greater Portland for the fall issue of Public Historian.
Christopher Waldrep, History, wrote The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extra Legal Violence and Punishment in America, recently published by Palgrave Press.
Angelika von Wahl, Political Science/ International Relations, presented "International Reparations: Why, When and How Democratic Governments Get Involved" at the Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies Are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past conference held March 27-29 in Washington, D.C. Von Wahl also presented "Gender, Employment and the Court: A Review of Affirmative Action Cases Before the U.S. Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice" at the National Feminism In Transnational Arena: The European Union and Gender Politics Conference held April 4-5 at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Deborah A. Gerson, Social Science/Sociology, presented "Occupied Minds: The Aftermath of Pro-Palestinian Mobilization At San Francisco State University" at the meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association held in Pasadena.
Yu-Charn Chen, Design and Industry, presented "The CAD Technology For Ball Grid Array (BGA) IC Packing Design" and "The CAD Tools in IC Packaging Design and Patent Applications" to the faculty and graduate students of National Taiwan Normal University on March 26-27. Ronald Compesi, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, presented "The New Environment of Video Field Production" at the annual meeting of the Broadcast Education Association held April 6 in Las Vegas.
Jo Tomalin, Theatre Arts, judged one-act plays at the "9th Annual Theatre Festival" held April 4 at Ohlone College in Fremont.
Nancy Rabolt, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, co-authored Consumer Behavior: In Fashion, published by Prentice-Hall. Rabolt also presented "Fashion Consumer Behavior In the Global Marketplace" at the California Family and Consumer Sciences conference held March 28 in Riverside.
Lena Zhang, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, presented "New Directions In Teaching Electronic Media Production: Integrating Desktop Video In Video Production" at the Broadcast Education Association meeting held April 6.
A sculpture by Jeff Downing, Art, was selected for inclusion in Feats of Clay XVI competition held April 26 through May 25 at the Gladding McBean Clay factory in Lincoln, Calif.
Penelope Flores, Secondary Education, presented a research paper analyzing the journals of SFSU student teachers who taught in Philippine high schools at the First Biennial International Education Conference held April 2-5 in San Diego. Flores also wrote "Filipinos Are All Wet," published in the April issue of Filipinas Magazine.
Gilda M. Bloom, Secondary Education, was elected as one of the eighteen State of California delegates to attend the National Association of Education Representative Assembly in New Orleans.
Minnie Graham, Special Education, presented "Group Treatment: Similarities and Differences Across Disorders" at the 2003 California Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention held April 4 in Monterey.
Judith Fox Blomberg, Secondary Education, presented results of a study titled "What Do Shadow Studies Tell Us? A Typical Day in the Life of a Seventh Grader" at the National Middle School Association's annual conference held Nov. 2 in Portland, Ore. Blomberg also conducted a focus session "Effective Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum" at the California League of Middle Schools Annual Conference held March 8 in San Diego.
"Should We Invite Students to Write In Home Dialects? Complicating the Yes/No Debate" by Patricia D. Irvine, Secondary Education, appears in the spring issue of Composition Studies.
Tomas Almaguer, Ethnic Studies, presented a paper titled "Translated Jotos: Reflections And Queeries on Research on 'Los Otros'" at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association held April 3-5 in Pasadena.
Anabel Pelham, Gerontology, presented a paper on "Creating Healthy Aging Themes in Diverse Curricula: Planning and Implementation Without a Budget" at the annual meeting of the California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics held recently at the Durant Hotel in Berkeley.
Vijay Ganji, Dietetics, and Mohammad Kafai, Mathematics, presented "Serum Total Homocysteine Determinants In Non-Hispanic Whites, Non-Hispanic Blacks and Mexican Americans of U.S. Population" at the Experimental Biology Meeting held in April in San Diego. "Demographic, Health, Lifestyle, and Blood Vitamin Determinants of Serum Total Homocysteine Concentrations In the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1998-1994" by Ganji and Kafai was published in the spring issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Beth Kelley, Kinesiology, was appointed as the 2003-04 vice president of health and education for the Californian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Allan Abraham, Kinesiology, was honored at the annual Californian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Conference held March 20-23 in Sacramento.
Christopher Concolino, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Attraction and Repulsion in Andrea De Carlo's Treno di panna" at the 2003 Convention of the American Association for Italian Studies held March 14 at Georgetown University.
"Persist" a poem by Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, appears in the spring issue of Hunger Mountain Review. Mirosevich's "The Procession," was included in the Poets For Peace chapbook published recently by Chapiteau Press.
Gust Yep, Speech and Communication Studies/Human Sexuality Studies, delivered a keynote address titled "Bringing Sexuality Out of the Closet: Unpacking the Construction of Sexual Cultures in Communication" at the 88th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association held recently in New Orleans. Yep's essay "From Homophobia and Heterosexism to Heteronormativity: Toward the Development of a Model of Queer Interventions in the University Classroom" appeared in 2002 issues of the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism.
Moon Creek Road, a book of short stories by Elana Dykewomon, English Language and Literature, was recently published by Spinsters Ink Publishers.
Rachell Waksler, English Language and Literature, presented "English Intonation and Discourse Function" at the 48th Annual Meeting of the International Linguistics Association held April 5 at New York University.
Helen Gillotte-Tropp and Sugie Goen, English Language and Literature, conducted a workshop on"Teaching an Integrated Reading and Writing Program-Some Strategies That Work," held March 6 at Diablo Valley College. Gillotte-Tropp also presented a paper on teaching an integrated reading and writing program at the Northern California Reading Association held March 7 at City College of San Francisco.
On March 18 Michael Krasny, English Language and Literature, was awarded the James Madison First Amendment Award for distinguished service in public information by the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Carlos Crocker, Biology, and J.J. Cech's articles "Physiology of Sturgeon: Effects of Hypozia and Hypercapnia" and "Effects of Dissolved Gasses on Oxygen Consumption Rate and Ventilation Frequency in White Sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus" appared in the December issue of the Journal of Applied Ichthyology.
"A Unique Ballistosporic Sequenstrate Lactarius From California" by Dennis Desjardin, Biology, was published in the January issue of Mycologia. A paper by Desjardin with T. Boonpratuang and others titled "New Spinose Species of Mycena in Sections Basipedes and Polyadelphia From Thailand" appeared in the January issue of Fungal Diversity.
Megumi Fuse, Biology, C. Harris and others presented "Identification of Putative Regulators of Ecdysis in the Moth, Manduca Sexta" and "Activity of Ecdysis Triggering Hormone Analogs in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca Sexta" at the Invertebrate Neuropeptide Conference held in February in Port Stephens, Australia.
"The Mechanism of C-Terminal Fragmentations in Alkali Metal Ion Complexes of Peptides" by Scott Gronert, Chemistry, W. Feng and others was published in the January issue of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. Gronert presented "Using Multiply-Charged Ions to Probe Gas Phase Organic Chemistry," at the 5th Igler Conference on Mass Spectrometry held in February in Igls, Austria.
Thomas Parker, Biology, and B. Hardesty's paper "Community Seed Rain Patterns and a Comparison to Adult Community Structure in a West African Tropical Forest" was published in the January issue of Plant Ecology.
"HPLC Method For Detecting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Activity" by Clifford Berkman, Chemistry and Biochemistry, I. Kamga and others was published in the November issue of Analytical Biochemistry.
Todor Cooklev, Computer Science, presented "Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation and Channel Coding For Providing QoS In Wireless Networks" at the International Telecommunications Conference held March 22 in Papeete, Tahiti. He presented "Wireless Data Communications" at the Wescon 2003 Industry/University Panel Meeting held August 12-14 in San Francisco.
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