October 2, 2000

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Don Mar, Economics, wrote an article titled "Four Decades of Asian American Women's Earnings: Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American Women's Earnings 1960-1990" for the spring 2000 issue of Contemporary Economic Policy.

Frank Scott, Public Administration Program, presented a paper on "Anti-Modernist Governance and the Reunification of the Self" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association held Aug. 30-Sept. 3 in Washington, D.C.

Creative Arts

Arthur Asa Berger, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, presented a lecture on "Media Criticism" at the University of Marrakesh on June 26. Berger also presented a lecture on "Image and Imagination" at the Parrish Museum in Southampton, N.Y., on Aug. 5.

Jo Tomalin, Theatre Arts, presented a lecture and workshop on "Improvised Storytelling and Physical Theater" at the Great Lakes Regional Puppetry Festival held July 21 at the University of Madison, Wis. She also performed at the festival on July 22.

Yu-Charn Chen, Design and Industry, presented a paper on "Trends of Printed Circuit Board Design for IC Industry" at the International Conference on Engineering Education 2000 held Aug. 16 in Taipei, China. Capoeira, The Art of Survival, written by Waldenkolk Oliviera, Dance, was published in September.

Education

Marci Hanson, Special Education, presented "An Ecological Systems Analysis of Inclusion for Preschool Children with Disabilities" to the International Special Education Congress in Manchester, England, on July 25. Hanson also presented a paper on "Inclusion" at the Early Childhood Summit: Eager to Learn: Educating our Preschoolers held June 23 in Washington, D.C.

Ethnic Studies

Jose Cuellar, La Raza Studies, presented the keynote address on "The Student as Text and Context" at the National Conference on Diversity in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2000 held April 20 in San Francisco. Cuellar also presented a lecture titled "From Mariachi to Tejano-Chicano/Latino Musica!" as part of the Cinco de Mayo Lecture Series held May 5 at Portland University.

"When Service is Treated as Though It Were Help," written by Dorothy Tsuruta, Black Studies, was published in the spring 2000 issue of Concerns: A Publication of the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association. Tsuruta also recently published "A Womanish Visit With Soyinka's Isara" in the June 2000 issue of Sosongo: The Cameroon Review of the Arts and Social Sciences.

Health & Human Services

Darlene Yee Melichar, Gerentology, was recently appointed to the Professional Certification Committee of the American College of Health Care Administrators. The committee is dedicated to advancing general welfare through education, research and professional achievement. Yee also was elected recently to the Executive Committee of the Association for Gerentology in Higher Education, an organization of academic institutions and affiliates involved in education/training, research and service r elated to gerentology.

Michael Mayer, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, recently produced a video on "Bodymind Healing Qigong Method."

Shannon Perry, Nursing, received the Distinguished Alumna 2000 award by the University of Colorado School of Nursing on May 26. Perry also met with Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt, and Egypt's minister of health recently in Cairo as part of a group of 15 American nurses to discuss professional exchanges related to improving health care in Egypt.

Several members of the Kinesiology department presented papers at the annual North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) Conference held in June in San Diego. David Anderson and Nelson Sierra presented a paper titled "Does Prior Knowledge of a No-KR Retention Test Affect Retention Performance?" Anderson, Steve Wallace, Brad Bennett and Tim McGarry presented a paper on "Coordination of Reaching Patterns in the 1-1 Frequency Relation."

Bennett and Joseph Higgins, Kinesiology, presented a paper titled "Analysis of Spinal Movement Coordination as Dental Students Perform a Simulated Teeth Cleaning Procedure" at the NASPSPA Conference. Bennett, Higgins and Susan Higgins, Kinesiology, also presented papers on "The Interaction of Foot and Arm Position on Single Leg Balance When Swinging the Non-Support Leg" and "Learning to Ollie: The Acquisition of a Skateboard Moves and Mechanics."

David Anderson, Kinesiology, presented a paper titled "Can Prelocomotor Infants Learn to Control a Powered Mobility Device?" at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development Biennial 2000 Conference held in July in Beijing. Mi-Sook Kim, Kinesiology, presented a paper on ''Determining Coping Effectiveness in Sport: An Examination of "Perceived Immediate and Long-term Outcomes and the Goodness-of-Fit Model" at the NASPSPA conference. "Precision-grip Force Changes in the Anatomical and Prosthetic Limb During Predictable Load Increases," written by Steve Wallace, Kinesiology, was published in a recent issue of Experimental Brain Research.

Susan Zieff, Kinesiology, presented a documentary titled "From the Birdies to the Bolero: Cultural Connection in San Francisco's Chinatown" at the annual conference of the North American Society for Sport History held in May in Banff, Canada.

Steve Evans, Kinesiology, was selected recently as a visiting lecturer for UCSF's sports medicine course during the fall semester. The course is designed to update medical school students on topics related to the preventative and remedial values of movement and exercise.

Humanities

"Lesson,"a poem by Sally Croft, English, appeared in the spring 2000 issue of the journal Slant. "Learning How," also a poem by Croft, appeared in the spring 2000 anthology Essential Love. Americans with Disabilities: Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions, written by Anita Silvers, Philosophy, and Leslie Francis, was published in August by Routledge.

C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, presented a paper on "Redressing the Comfort Women Survivors: The Women"s Fund Controversy" at the 36th International Conference for Asian and North African Studies held Aug. 27ÐSept. 1 in Montreal, Canada. "Human Rights and the Comfort Women," written by Soh, appeared in the March 2000 issue of Peace Review. From May 5 to 12, Lois Lyles, English, exhibited her textile art diptych, "Japan by Day and by Night," at the Kinokuniya Bookstore in Japantown in San Francisco.

Science and Engineering

"Geology-The Sensitive Science," written by Ray Pestrong, Geosciences, was published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Geoscience Education. Pestrong also presented a session on "Sounds of the Earth" at the Ylem Forum on Art From Nature held in September at the Exploratorium.

"Sfrp-1 and Sfrp-2 are Expressed in Overlapping and Distinct Domains During Chick Development," co-written by Laura Burrus, Biology, appeared in a recent issue of Mechanisms of Development.

"Rapid and Early Export of Phaeocystis Antarctica Blooms in the Ross Sea," co-written by Dale Robinson, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, was published in the April 6 issue of Nature Volume. Robinson also co-wrote "Phytoplankton Taxonomic Variability in Nutrient Utilization and Primary Production in the Ross Sea," which appeared in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Michael Goldman, Biology, presented a paper on "Beyond the Sequence: The New Human Epigenome"at the Medico-Dental Guild of California in May in San Francisco.

Ralph Larson, Biology, and Bernice D'Souza presented a paper on "Use of Otolith Microstructure to Determine Settlement-Date Distribution in Juvenile Bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis)" at the Larval 2000: Larval Biology Meetings held in June. Larson was appointed by the California Department of Fish and Game in June to the Master Plan Team for implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act.

Wolfram Stadler, Engineering, presented a keynote lecture on "Multicriteria OptimizationÑA History and Applications in Mechanics" for the 150th anniversary of the Department of Mechanics held May 25Ð26 at the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland.

"Commutants of Analytic Toeplitz Operators on the Bergman Space," written by Sheldon Axler, Mathematics, Zeljko Cuckovic and N.V. Rao, appeared in a recent issue of Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

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