October 1, 2001

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Bernard Wong, Anthropology, contributed a chapter titled "From Enclave Small Businesses to High-Tech Industries: The Chinese in the San Francisco Bay Area" toManifest Destinies-Americanizing Immigrants and Internationalizing Americans, edited by David Haines and Carol Mortland and published by Praeger.

Amita Shastri, Political Science, and A.J. Wilson edited The Post-Colonial States in South Asia: Democracy, Identity, Development and Security, published recently by Curzon and Palgrave Press.

"Japan's Responsibility for Comfort Women Survivors," by C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, was published in May as Working Paper No. 77 of the Japan Policy Research Institute.

Bill Issel, History, served as chair and discussant for a session on Hollywood's depiction of American politics and history at the American Political Science Association annual convention held Sept. 1 in San Francisco.

Business

William Perttula, Marketing, presented "Asian American Media Consumption Patterns" at the Marketing Educators' Association Conference on April 21 in Waikoloa, Hawaii.

Creative Arts

Keith Morrison, Creative Arts, exhibited 11 of his paintings at "Jamaica in Venice," from June 10 to Nov. 4 at the 49th Venice Biennial in Venice, Italy. A photo of "In Search of El Dorado," one of Morrison's paintings on display at the Biennial, was published in June in a special edition of Il Giornale Dell'Arte.

"Paths in Clay," an exhibit featuring work by David Kuroaka, Art, and Toshiko Takaezu was on display from June 13 to July 31 at The Maui Arts and Cultural Center.

William Corbett-Jones, Music, was recently named Honorary Professor of Music at the Xinjiang Normal University, where he taught this summer. He also taught at the Xinjiang Fine Arts Institute this summer.

Barbara Foster, Art, was recently awarded a six-month Resident Artist Fellowship at Kala Institute in Berkeley, where she is working on large-scale digital/media prints.

Candace Crockett, Art, received an award from the Handweavers Guild of America for "Celebration," a silk weaving. The piece was recently shown in the "Small Expressions 2001" exhibition at the St. Louis Artists' Guild.

Paul Pratchenko, Art, held a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings in September at the Natalie and James Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University.

Arthur Asa Berger, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, presented a lecture on "Postmortem for a Postmodernist" on July 2 to the National Institute of Literature in Hanoi, Vietnam. He also presented a lecture on "Bloom's Morning: Everyday Life in the USA" on July 2 to the Institute of International Education in Hanoi.

"Transit Time," a video/sound/kinetic event created for the MUNI train system by Stephen Wilson, Art, was exhibited at "The Impact of Ylem: 20 Years of Art, Science and Technology," from Sept. 4 to 22 at Somarts Gallery in San Francisco.

Education

Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Elementary Education, May Young, Elementary Education, and students Theresa Griffin and Monifa Williams presented "Developing Cultural Competence: African American and Chinese American Teachers" at the International Conference for the National Association of African American, Hispanic and Latino, Native American, and Asian Studies held Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 in Cancun, Mexico.

The appointment of Laureen Chew, Elementary Education, as department chair, was celebrated Aug. 22 at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in San Francisco. The Association of Chinese Teachers (TACT) sponsored the event.

Literacy in a Multimedia Age, by Mary Hamm, Elementary Education, and Dennis Adams, was recently published by Christopher-Gordon Publishers Inc.

Penelope V. Flores, Secondary Education, presented "Attitudes Toward the Urban Poor" at the 10th Triennial Conference of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction held Sept. 12-18 in Madrid, Spain. She also presented "The Ancient Filipino Syllabary - The Baybayin, Before the Spanish Conquest" and "How 16th Century World Mapmakers Showed Southeast Asia: Cartographers Coming Across as Novices" the week of Sept. 9 at the University of Alcala

Ethnic Studies

Tomas Almaguer, Ethnic Studies, presented a paper titled "At the Crossroads of Race: Latinos and Race-Making in the United States" at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association on Aug. 20 in Anaheim. He also presented a paper titled "Paradigm Fever in Chicano Studies" on a panel on Conversations on Latino Politics Across Generations at the 97th Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association held Aug. 31 in San Francisco.

Health and Human Services

Vijay Ganji, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, William Bigler, Center for Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, and Mohammad Kafai, Mathematics, gave three presentations at the Annual American Association for Nutritional Sciences Meeting held in April in Orlando, Fla. The presentations were on: "Serum Selenium Concentrations in the U.S.: Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey, 1988-94"; "Use of Selenium Supplements and Blood Selenium Concentrations of Selenium Suppl ement Users Versus Non-selenium Supplement Users"; and "Relationship Between Serum Selenium and Serum Lipids."

"Zelfdruk, het broerje van werkdruk," by Erik Peper, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, and A.C. Weijman was published in a recent issue of Management and Bestuur. "The Physiological Correlates of Kundalini Yoga Meditation," by Peper; Katherine Gibney, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies; P. Arambula; and M. Kawakami, was published in a recent issue of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.

"A Preliminary Examination of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Courses in Graduate Public Health Curricula," by Adam Burke, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education; Robert Gordon, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies; and B. Bhaswati, was published in the spring issue of Complementary Health Practice Review.

Burke also presented posters on "Examining the Physiological Effects of Select Acupuncture Points" and "Traditional Medicine in China Today: Health Reform and Social Change" at the California Society of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture Annual Meeting held in August in San Francisco.

Humanities

Brighde Mullins, Creative Writing, and Justin Chin, Creative Writing, read poems from Mullins' manuscript, including "Insomniac," on March 27 at the Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.

"Chushingura II: Story and Textile Art," by Midori McKeon, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Lois Lyles, English, and Hitomi Minami was exhibited June 18 to July 11 at the Japan Information Center in San Francisco.

Masahiko Minami presented "Holding onto a Native Tongue: Retaining Bilingualism for School-Age Children of Japanese Heritage" at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting held April 10-14 in Seattle.

Manfred Wolf, English, edited Amsterdam: A Traveler's Literary Companion, recently published by Whereabouts Press. His memoir, "The Two Witch Doctors," was published in the spring issue of The Literary Review.

Martha Klironomos, Center for Modern Greek Studies/Comparative and World Literature, presented "Remembering and Forgetting in the Poetry of George Seferis" in March at the Binghamton University Department of Romance Language and Literatures.

Maxine Chernoff, Creative Writing, read a passage from her novel A Boy in Winter, and a short story during the Summer Literary Seminars held June 18 to July 13 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Rodger Birt, Humanities, presented "Gordon Parks and the Written Word: The Photographer as Writer" in July at the Oakland Museum as part of a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition of Parks' photographs.

"Fat," a story by Nona Caspers, Creative Writing, was recently published in the Cimarron Review. Her story "Hot Weather" was recently awarded first place in a national literary contest sponsored by Salt Hill Literary Review and will be published in the review.

Library

Meredith Eliassen, Library, presented highlights from The Marguerite Archer Collection of Historic Children's Materials to the Collections of Children's Books for Adult Research Discussion Group at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June in San Francisco.

Ned Fielden, Library, presented a paper titled "Grassroots Information Literacy" at the annual LOEX (Clearinghouse for Library Instruction) conference in May in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Science and Engineering

"Engineering Cooperation: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Phased International Agreements," by Jean-Pierre Langlois, Mathematics, and C. Langlois, was published in the July issue of the American Journal of Political Science.

Student Affairs

Sgt. Jennifer Schwartz, Public Safety, was recently elected president of the California Women Peace Officers Association for 2001-02.

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