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.

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Joel Kassiola, Behavioral and Social Sciences, was recently elected to the Executive Board of The Western Political Science Association. He had two contributions and commentary published in a recent book on morality and environmental political theory published by Duke University Press.

Bernard Wong, Anthropology, presented a paper on Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley at the International Conference on Asian Diasporas: Global and Local Dimensions of Asian America held in May at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lilly Berry, Psychology, is the author of the book Employee Selection, published in August by Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.

Creative Arts

Wayne Peterson (emeritus), Music, was recently awarded a commission from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation and Earplay to write a composition piece for a chamber ensemble.

Paintings and drawings by Paul Pratchenko, Art, are on exhibit until Dec. 1 in the Gallery on Geary at the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Symphony Orchestra performed "Afterlight," a composition by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Music and Dance, on May 9 and 11 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players performed "Clyde Beatty is Dead," a composition by Sanchez-Gutierrez commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, May 13 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Mario Laplante, Art, has been awarded the following three artist's residencies for the coming year: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Jan. 2-16; the Atelier Circulaire, Centre de Production et de Diffusion en Estambe, Montreal in June and the Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia, in July and August.

"Recollection (Toward Oblivion)," an installation and performance by Lewis DeSoto, Art, is currently on view at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Mass.

The Mass Comm Murders: Five Media Theorists Self-Destruct by Arthur Asa Berger, BECA, was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield. Berger also wrote an introduction to Ernest Dichter's The Strategy of Desire, which appeared in the book series Berger edits, "Classics in Communication and Mass Culture."

J.B. Wilson, Theatre Arts, designed the scenery for the musical "Ragtime" in a new production mounted by Theatreworks, which opened Sept. 7 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

David Kuraoka, Art, is featured in a major solo exhibition of his ceramic and bronze work at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. The exhibit runs through Feb. 4.

Stephen Wilson, Art, author of the recent Leonardo/MIT publication Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology, spoke at a symposium Sept. 26-27 on "Sciart /Science on Stage and Screen" at the Liverpool School of Art and Design.

Whitney Chadwick, Art History, has been invited by the Williams College Graduate Program in Art History to serve as the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor for the Fall 2003 semester. While on leave last year, Chadwick held the position of Clark Fellow at the same institution. Chadwick wrote the introduction to the book Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections 1950-2000, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name now on view at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Paul M. Ellison, Music and Dance, recently gave organ recitals at Grace Cathedral and Holy Innocents' Church in San Francisco. His article "Beethoven and Schenker: Unraveling Those Graphs" appeared in the spring issue of The Beethoven Journal.

Yu-Charn Chen, Design and Industry, was invited to visit Shanghai Teachers' University, Shanghai, China, in June, where he gave a presentation on "Design and Technology Programs in California."

Education

Marci Hanson, Special Education, gave an invited presentation at Head Start's Sixth National Research Conference: The First Eight Years: Pathways to the Future, held June 28 in Washington, D.C. Her presentation was titled "Including Children with Special Needs and their Families: Research, Practice and Challenges."

Nathan T. Avani, Secondary Education, wrote a chapter for The Organizational and Human Dimensions of Successful Mentoring Programs and Relations, published this year by Information Age Publishing Inc. His chapter deals with parent mentoring for success in school.

Ethnic Studies

Ruth Love, Black Studies, led a cultural pilgrimage to Ghana and Ivory Coast with 45 students, professionals and senior citizens in July and August. The group was welcomed as citizens in a special ceremony in Western Ghana.

Health and Human Services

Shannon Perry, Nursing, presented a paper on her research on "Concerns of Breastfeeding Mothers: The First 20 Weeks" at the 13th Annual Research Meeting of Sigma Theta Tau International, held in July in Brisbane, Australia.

Steve Wallace and David Anderson, Kinesiology, co-authored a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, titled "Weight Discrimination with a Simulated Upper-extremity Prosthesis." Anderson also published a paper in the latest issue of Human Movement Science, titled "Visual and Haptic Perception of Postural Affordances in Children and Adults."

Louisa Webb, Kinesiology, presented a paper titled "Sport, Physical Education and Gender: Implications for Teachers' Work and Careers" at the World Congress of Sociology held July 7-13 in Brisbane, Australia.

Humanities

"Master, master, we perish," a poem by Meg Schoerke, English, appears in the Academy of American Poets' anthology New Voices: University and College Poetry Prizes, Eighth Edition, 1989-1998, edited by Heather McHugh.

"Integration," a poem by Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, appeared in the May-June issue of Gay and Lesbian Review.

Mercilee Jenkins, Speech and Communication Studies, performed her play Menopause and Desire in September at the San Francisco Fringe Festival.

Martha Klironomos, Center for Modern Greek Studies, read poems by Cavafy, Seferis, Elytis and Olga Broumas, some of Greece's most prominent writers, at the Annunciation Cathedral's Festival of Greece held Sept. 20-22 in San Francisco.

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, was the keynote speaker at Gender and Globalization: A Stanford Feminist Theory Workshop Conference held May 24. The title of her talk was "Civilizational Thinking and the Question of Muslim Women."

"What Happened," a poem by Sally Croft, English, appears in the fall edition of The Larcom Review.

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, initiated the annual lecture series of the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University, on Sept. 16 with a talk on "Preserving the Promise of Genomics: A Civil Rights Route to Protection from Genetic Discrimination."

Making Up Your Mind: A Textbook in Critical Thinking, by Robert Mutti, Philosophy, was published in September by Broadview Press.

The St. Martin's Guide to Public Speaking, by Joseph Tuman, Speech and Communication Studies, and Doug Fraleigh, was published this summer.

Gustavo Yep, Karen Lovaas, and student Alex Pagonis, Speech and Communication Studies, co-authored the essay "The Case of 'Riding Bareback': Sexual Practices and the Paradoxes of Identity in the Era of AIDS," published as the lead article in a recent issue of the Journal of Homosexuality.

Victoria Chen, Speech and Communication Studies, was an invited presenter on "Critical Dialogue" at the Conference on Systemic Social Constructionism in Action, held July 1-3 in Canterbury, England.

Jensen Chung, Speech and Communication Studies, presented papers throughout Asia this summer, including "Contemporary Ch'i Research in East Asia: Implications and Utilities to Communication Research," at the Asian Studies Conference, held in June in Tokyo, Japan, and "Ch'i Communication Theory and the Localized Communication Research," delivered at the annual conference of the Chinese Communication Society held June 28-30 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Shawn Whalen, Speech and Communication Studies, was recently named president of the Cross Examination Debate Association.

Science and Engineering

Ralf Hotchkiss, School of Engineering, and Sandy Pentland spoke Sept. 20 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Development Forum. The two discussed viable development with incoming undergraduate and graduate students at MIT.

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