November, 1999

Behavioral Social Science

Kenneth Monteiro, Psychology, has been elected president of the Association of Black Psychologists, San Francisco Chapter. The local chapter serves as a resource to over three hundred African American psychologists and affiliated professional in the Bay Area.

In August, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies published a paper by JoAnn Aviel, Political Science, as an ISEAS Working Paper on Social and Cultural Issues. The paper is titled "Social and Environmental NGOS in ASEAN."

C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, gave an invited speech, "Wartime Sexual Violence against Women: The Case of 'Comfort Women,'" on Sept. 16 at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. Soh presented the paper "Life Histories of Korean 'Comfort Women'" at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology held Sept. 23 in Albuquerque, NM.

Bernard Wong, Anthropology, chaired a session on globalization and issues of modernity and presented the paper "Nationalism, Ethnicity and Public Policy: The Chinese in Japan and the Philippines" at the Asian Studies Pacific Coast Conference held June 18 at San Diego State University.

"The Olmec Queens," an article by Karen Olsen Bruhns, Anthropology, was recently published in the journal Yumtzilob.

Norma McCoy, psychology, presented the paper "Female sexual interest, response and attractiveness in relation to age, the menopause, and hormone replacement therapy" at the 9th International Menopause Society World Congress on Menopause held Oct. 17-21 in Yokohama, Japan. McCoy also chaired a symposium on menopause and sexuality for the conference.

Business

At the national Academy of Management conference held in Chicago last August, Ronald Purser, Management, presented the paper "Making Democracy Work: Organization Development for a Pluralistic World," led the symposium discussion "Designing the Self-Managing Organization," and chaired a special dialogue session, featuring Wall Street Journal columnist Tom Petzinger, that explored the nexus between journalists and business academics.

David Franz and William Hefter, Accounting, published the paper "Providing Reliable Information to Clients: The Case of Environmental Remediation" in the International Journal of Applied Quality Management.

Creative Arts

Julia Turner, Art, was invited to exhibit her jewelry in the show "SWEDEN + USA: Contemporary Jewelry and Metalwork." The show will be hosted in San Francisco by the Velvet Da Vinci Gallery from Oct 13 to Nov. 17 and then will travel to L.A. and then on to Stockholm, Sweden.

"The Bonds of Sense: A Fool Before and After," a print by Barbara Foster, Art, received a Purchase Award at the 1999 Janet Turner National Print Competition at CSU Chico.

Sylvia S. Walters, Art, received a Juror's Honorable Merit Award for her print, "Fathers and Sons." The Janet Turner Gallery is located at CSU Chico.

Jerry Duke, Dance, was selected in October to serve on the scholarship panel and as regional coordinator of testing for Mensa.

Education

Last June, Summer Tsai-hsing Hsia, Special Education, gave a two-day conference at the National Tainan Teachers College in Tainan, Taiwan. The conference was on curriculum-based assessment for infants and young children with special needs

Humanities

"Crossing borders: the politics of schooling Asian students," by Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages, appears in "The Politics of Multiculturalism and Bilingual Education: Students and Teachers Caught in the Cross-Fire," a recently published McGraw-Hill book.

"Digging," a fictionalized memoir by Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, appears in the Fall 1999 issue of Zyzzyva magazine. Mirosevich was the recipient of the 1999 Astraea Lesbian Action Foundation Emerging Writer in Fiction Award--a $10,000 national prize given to one lesbian fiction writer whose work deals with lesbian themes and issues.

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, presented a paper in June at the National Women's Studies Association in Albuquerque, NM, entitled, "Anomalous and Eclipsed: Feminist Identity Strategy and the Occlusion of Women with Disabilities."

An article, "Cross-linguistic evidence for morphological representation in the mental lexicon," by Rachelle Waksler, English, appears in the journal Brain and Language.

"Now You Are One of Us: Gender, Reversal, and the Good Read," an essay by Laurie Zoloth, Jewish Studies, appears in ""The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine," Duke University Press. Zoloth's book, "Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice," has been published by the University of North Carolina Press. Zoloth was voted President Elect of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in September.

Anatole Anton, philosophy, presented the paper "Public Goods as Commonstock" at the 14th Congreso Intramericano de Filosofia held at Benemerita Universidad Autonama de Puebla on Aug. 19 in Puebla, Mexico. Anton also edited and added a foreword to the recently published twelfth volume of the San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy, "From the Unconscious to Ethics," by Jacques J. Rozenberg.

Inderpal Grewal, Women Studies, co-authored with Caren Kaplan the article "'Warrior Marks': Global Feminism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context" for the journal Camera Obscura. Grewal presented "The Sexual Lives of Refugees" to a research goup on gender and citizenship in Muslim communities last May at the UC Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine.

Science and Engineering

Peter Palmer, Chemistry & Biochemistry, had two papers published in the Proceedings of the 47th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics: "Characterization and Use of a New Air Sampling Module for Direct Sampling Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry" written with X. Fan, and "Investigation of Gaseous Siloxane Contamination on Mir Space Station" with G. DePeralta. The conference was held June 13-17 in Dallas, TX.

Dennis Desjardin, Biology, along with co-author B.A. Perry saw their article "Mycena californiensis resurrected" published in a recent issue of Mycotaxon.

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