September 10, 2001

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Betty Blecha, Economics, presented a paper titled "Learning by Doing and the Choice of Instructional Technology" at the meeting of the Midwest Economic Association held in March in Cleveland. Blecha also organized and chaired a session on computer-assisted instruction in economics at the meeting of the American Economic Association held in January in New Orleans.

Past Time: Baseball as History (Oxford University Press, 2000), by Jules Tygiel, History, received the Society for American Baseball Research's sixth annual Seymour Medal, awarded to the book judged the best work of baseball history or biography published in the preceding year.

C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, presented a paper titled "The Military Comfort System' of Imperial Japan: Toward a Complex Historiography," at Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender on April 4. Soh presented a paper on "Korean Comfort Women Survivors in Northeast China" at the Second Roundtable on the Comfort Women Issue held March 1 in Tokyo.

Bernard Wong, Anthropology, presented a paper on "Minority/Majority Relations: The Chinese in Four Pacific Rim Countries" at a conference on Rethinking Minority/Majority Relations: Cultural Identity and Political Process for Asians in Peru, Brazil and the United States held May 19 at UCLA.

Business

Susan J. Fox-Wolfgramm, Management, presented variations of her case study, "Paragon R&D Agency, Implementing a New Vision for the 21st Century," at the Western Casewriters Association in April in Sun Valley, Idaho, and at the Hawaiian Conference on Business in June in Waikiki, Hawaii.

William Perttula, Marketing, presented papers on "Perceived Risks: Online Versus Offline Purchasing" (co-authored with Kathleen O'Donnell, Marketing, and Chia-Jeng Lu) and "Gen X: Targeted Promotion Behavior and Beliefs for the Internet" (co-authored with Deborah Lowe, Marketing) on March 9 at the International Academy of E-Business Conference in San Francisco.

Creative Arts

Ron Compesi, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, presented "Everything Old is New Again: Fluorescent Lighting for Television Studio and Electronic Field Production" at the Broadcast Education Association Convention held April 20 in Las Vegas.

The work of Julia Turner, Art, was included recently in the Millennium Metals Exhibition at Artemis Gallery in Richmond, Va., and "101 Rings," a traveling exhibition originating at Yaw Gallery in Birmingham, Mich.

Joan Arhelger, Theatre Arts, designed the lighting for Opera San Jose's production of "La Boheme," which opened April 14. Arhelger was recently appointed the Circuit 2 coordinator for regional design respondents of the American College Theatre Festival, sponsored by the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

"China at the Millennium," a documentary by Marty Gonzalez, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, aired on Bay-TV on April 28 and 29.

Jerry Duke, Dance, gave a lecture on the film "Songcatcher" for the Film Institute of Northern California on April 25.

Carolynn Lindeman, Music, led the People to People Ambassador Programs first Music Education Delegation to Cuba from April 20 to 28.

Todd Roehrman, Theatre Arts, designed costumes for the Sacramento Theatre Co.'s production of "Shedding the Tiger," from March 3 to April 1, and "Apertura Modotti," performed at Brava! for Women in the Arts in San Francisco from April 21 to May 20.

Nontsizi Cayou, Dance, received an Award for Sustained Achievement at the 15th annual Isadora Duncan Dance Awards held in April at the War Memorial Building in San Francisco.

Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Music, recently won the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award from Composers Inc. for his composition "Luciernegas."

Education

Marci Hanson, Special Education, was recently appointed to the "School Readiness" Task Force Group to write a master plan for education from birth through 12th grade. Hanson was also recently the keynote speaker on children with disabilities at the Green College, University of British Columbia international lecture forum. Her speech was titled "Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child Across Time, Space and Disciplines."

Health & Human Services

David Anderson, Kinesiology, presented a paper on "The Experimental Manipulation of Locomotor Experience: Basic and Clinical Considerations" at the annual meeting of the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology held in March in Kyoto, Japan. Anderson presented a paper on "Explaining Developmental Transitions in Infancy" to the Psychology Department at Doshisha University in March in Kyoto.

Susan Zieff, Kinesiology, gave a speech on "Gender and Sport" at the Sport and Diversity in America conference held April 2 at CSU Sacramento.

Robyn Lock, Kinesiology, presented papers on "The Framing of Teachers' Work for Change Through Action Research" and "Phase Two of the Action Research Model: Lessons Learned" at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance conference held March 27 in Cincinnati.

Beth Kelley, Kinesiology, recently received the Health Educator of the Year Award from the State Community College Organization of Physical Education.

Zoe Cardoza Clayson, Health Education, participated in the first International Faculty Partnership Conference on "The New Europe and the New California: Coexistence, Convergence and Collision of Cultural Communities" held June 24-29 at the University of Tubingen in Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany.

"Evaluating the Usability and Effectiveness of a Web-based Stress Management Course," by Adam Burke, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, Kenneth Burrows, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, and G. Araki was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Educational Technology Systems. "Peer Approval and Peer Pressure: Factors Influencing Fifth Graders' Smoking Intentions," by Burke, was published in a recent issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior.

Vijay Ganji, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, gave presentations on "Gender Differences Exist in Fiber Intakes of the American Population" and "Use of Fruit-based Puree as a Fat Substitute Ingredient in Low-fat and Cholesterol-free Brownie Recipe" at the Annual California Dietetic Association Meeting held in March in Sacramento.

Humanities

Brighde Mullins, Creative Writing, introduced and interviewed poet Anne Carson at the Lannan Foundation's Writers in Conversation series on March 21 in Santa Fe, N.M. "Click," a play by Mullins, was performed recently at the Humana Festival, held at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky.

Chris Wen-Chao Li, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Where Have All the Neutral Tones Gone? Charting Neutral Tone Decline in Taipei Mandarin, with Evidence from Online Phonological Simulation" at the 211th Meeting of the American Oriental Society held March 30 at the Toronto Colony Hotel. Li was a presenter and judge at the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California's 26th Annual Mandarin Chinese Speech Contest held April 21 at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Franc isco.

Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Parental Influences on Children's Developing Narrative Skill: A Cross-cultural Study" at the Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics held in March at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Artwork and text by Minami, Midori McKeon, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Lois Lyles, English, from their Chushingura Project were exhibited on April 21 at Miyako Mall in San Francisco for the Cherry Blossom Festival.

Charles Egan, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented "Integrating Audio-Visual Materials with Teaching Traditional Chinese Culture" at the spring workshops of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California, held May 5 at Stanford University.

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, gave a lecture on "Seeking Equal Protection: Reconstructing the Disability Classification" on April 18 at the University of Pittsburgh. Silvers presented a paper on "Predictive Genetic Testing and Genetic Discrimination" at a conference titled Sequencing the Future: Ethical and Social Considerations of the Human Genome Project, held April 21 at CSU Long Beach.

"Communication in 'Asian American' Families with Queer Members: A Relational Dialectics Perspective," by Karen Lovaas, Speech and Communication Studies, Gustavo Yep, Speech and Communication Studies, and Philip Ho was recently published in Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State (Columbia University Press).

Laurie Zoloth, Jewish Studies, was selected in May to join the National Advisory Committee for NASA as an ethicist.

Library

Helene Whitson, Special Collections, was presented with the California Heritage Preservation Commission's 2000 Archivist Award of Excellence at the Society of California Archivists' annual meeting, held April 27 in Santa Rosa.

Susan Parker Sherwood, Labor Archives, recently presented "You Become the Memento Mori: Donor Relations in the 'Sea of Keepsakes'" at the Society of California Archivists' annual meeting.

Lynn A. Bonfield, Labor Archives, presented a paper titled "View after Forty Years as an Archivist" at the annual meeting of the Southwest Labor Studies/Pacific Northwest Labor History Associations, held May 5 in Portland, Ore.

Science and Engineering

"Clitopilus chalybescens, A New Species from Thailand," by Dennis Desjardin, Biology, and T.J. Baroni, and "Fungi From Mamane Naio Vegetation Zone of Hawaii," by Desjardin, R.L. Gilbertson, D.E. Hemmes and J.D. Rogers, were published in recent issues of Fungal Diversity.

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