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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.
Explorations In Environmental Political Theory, by Joel Kassiola, was published this fall by M.E. Sharpe. This book is aimed at providing a first-of-its-kind classroom text for the emerging field of environmental political theory.
Nancy Lee Wilkinson, Geography and Human Environmental Studies, presented a presidential address on "Water and the Geographic Imagination" at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual meeting in October at CSU San Bernardino.
Rafael Diaz, Human Sexuality Studies, received the Hank Tavara Community Service Award at the Aguilas Gala Awards held Oct. 7 in San Francisco.
Bruce Robertson and William Perttula, Marketing, presented the paper "Business Students and the Internet: Usage and Opinions Regarding the News" at the Atlantic Marketing Association Conference Oct. 2-5 in Savannah, Ga.
Don Wood, Marketing, wrote the "logistics" and "transportation economics" entries for the recently published edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.
The Dynamis Ensemble performed "De Kooning Movement IV" by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Music and Dance, on May 30 at Teatro dei Filodrammatici in Milan, Italy. Ensamble Signos performed his "De Kooning Movement III" on June 18, 20 and 21 in Mexico City.
Lewis deSoto, Art, participated in the exhibit "Paranirvana (self-portrait)," organized by the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University. On Oct. 27 deSoto gave a lecture on his work.
"Is This the Kind of Thing That Serious Academics Do?" by Arthur Asa Berger, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, appeared in the spring issue of the International Journal of Comic Art.
In September, Paul M. Ellison, Music and Dance, founded a Gregorian chant group, Schola Cantorum, that sings at a monthly Latin chant Mass at the Church of the Advent in San Francisco, where Ellison is music director and organist.
"Coverage," an interactive digital media installation by Jan Millsapps, Cinema, and Phill Sawyer, was on exhibit Oct. 8-12 at Art Works Downtown in San Rafael as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Joan Arhelger, Theatre Arts, designed the lighting for the San Francisco Opera's production of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). The show ran in October and early November.
David Kuraoka, Art, recently exhibited work at the Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle. His art was also selected for the Hawaii State Art Museum's inaugural exhibition, "Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawaii," which opened in early November.
Carolyn Lindeman, Music and Dance, was recently re-elected to the board of directors of the International Society for Music Education and was appointed to the board's exectuive committee.
At the annual board of directors meeting of the International Mentioning Association, Nathan Avani, Secondary Education, was elected to a second two-year term as vice president.
Ming-Yeh Lee, Doris Flowers and Vanessa Sheared, Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, presented their research on "Resistance to Interlocking Power Structures Among Adult Educators" at the Adult Education Research Conference held on May 24 in Raleigh, N.C.
Penelope V. Flores, Secondary Education, is featured in The Third Wave: Quo Vadis by Caridad Concepcion Vallangca, published in San Francisco by Arkipelago Books. This book reflects the Filipino experience in the United States from 1961-2001.
Dorothy Tsuruta, Black Studies, was a panelist on a discussion on "Collaborative Community Learning" at the Fifty-third Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communications held last spring in Chicago Illinois.
The sixth edition of the textbook Maternity Nursing co-edited by Shannon Perry, Nursing, was published in July by Mosby-Year Book, Incorporated. Perry was also recently re-elected to a two-year term to the Fellow Selection Committee of the American Academy of Nursing.
Members of the Kinesiology Department presented papers in June at the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity's annual conference. Steve Wallace and David Anderson presented "Improvement in Weight Discrimination with a Simulated Artificial Limb." Anderson presented the paper "Does Locomotor Experience Contribute to Psychological Development?" and Mi-Sook Kim presented the paper "Sources of Stress Among Korean Intercollegiate Athletes."
Steve Wallace, Kinesiology, was inducted as a fellow into the Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education on Sept. 28.
Robert C. Chope, Counseling, received the Robert Swan Lifetime Achievement in Career Development Award during the International Career Development Conference held Nov. 8 in Anaheim.
The Kanshou: Book I of EARTHKEEP and The Magister: Book II of EARTHKEEP by Sally Miller Gearhart (emeritus), Speech and Communication Studies, were recently published by Spinsters Ink.
Rachelle Waksler, English, presented a paper on "Variability and Mapping from Signal to Speech Recognition Lexicon," on Oct. 8 at the Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon in Banff, Canada.
Troi Carleton and Rachelle Waksler, English, wrote "Marking Focus in Chatino," which appeared in the August issue of the journal WORD.
Hemmingway in his Own Country by Robert E. Gajdusek (emeritus), English, was published this fall by University of Notre Dame Press.
"Poem for My Father," by Sally Croft, English, appears in the fall edition of Mid-Atlantic Review.
Megumi Fuse, Biology, and J.W. Truman published "Modulation of Ecdysis in the Moth Manduca Sexta: the Roles of the Suboeso-phageal and Thoracic Ganglia," in the April issue of Journal of Experimental Biology. Fuse also published, with W.G. Bendena and others, "Characterization and Baculovirus-Directed Expression of a Myosupressin Encoding cDNA from the True Armyworm, Pseudaletia Unipuncta," in the April issue of Peptides.
Dennis Desjardin, Biology, and D.E. Hemmes, wrote Mushrooms of Hawaii: An Identification Guide, published in July by Ten Speed Press.
Wenshen Pong, Engineering, and D. Sedlacheck presented "Optimal Introduction of Seismic Damping Devices in Structural Design" in April at the Third World Conference on Structural Control in Como, Italy.
Jane Randall, Biology, and K.A. Rogovin published "Meaning of Alarm Calls in a Social Gerbil" in the June issue of Ethology.
James Smith and Dan Wheeler, Mathematics, published "Mashers Mathematical," in the September issue of Math Horizons.
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