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Insiders is published in First Monday for the faculty and staff at SFSU on the first Monday of the month in October, November, December, February, March, April and May by the Office of Public Affairs and the Office of Publications, Diag Center. 415/338-1665. E-mail: pubcom@sfsu.edu

Deadline for submissions to "Insiders" is the 10th of the month preceding publication. Send submissions to: pubcom@sfsu.edu. Please include a contact name and extension.

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

"Prelude to the Popular Front: The Communist Party in California, 1931-1935," written by Robert W. Cherny, History, was published in the summer 2002 issue of American Communist History: Journal of the Historians of American Communism. Cherny presented a paper titled "The Communist Party in California, 1935-1940: From the Margins of Politics to the Mainstream and Back," at "Beyond the New Deal: Another Look at the 1930s," held in June at the Center for Research on North America, University of Paris VII, and the Museum of American Art, Giverny, France.

Business

John O'Shaughnessy, Accounting, D. Larry Crumbley and Douglas E. Ziegenfuss are co-authors of The U.S. Master Auditing Guide, published in March by Commerce Clearing House.

Sally Baack, Management, presented "A New Paradigm for Teaching Strategic Management: The Skill-Centric Approach" at the 29th Annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference on June 21 in Orange, California. Baack presented a paper titled "An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Expatriate Assignment, Adjustment and Managerial Effectiveness in Denver in August at the Academy of Management 2002 meeting.

Creative Arts

Ronald J. Compesi, Broadcast and Electronic Arts, is the author of Video Field Production and Editing, 6th Edition, recently published by Allyn and Bacon.

A solo exhibition of recent paintings by Keith Morrison is on display at the Miller/Geisler Gallery in New York through Oct. 5.

Jerry Duke, Music and Dance, saw his choreography for the Jubilee Dance Theatre Co. performed in July in Klatovy, Czech Republic, and the Italian towns of Cori, Minturno, Ladispola and Rome.

Jo Tomalin, Theatre Arts, served as an adjudicator for the Regional Irene Ryan Acting Audtions at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival held Feb. 12-13 at CSU Hayward. She also served as a judge at the Ohlone College High School Theatre Festival held in April at Ohlone College.

Marty Gonzalez, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, served as the newscaster on the KFOG 104.5 FM morning show Aug. 12-16.

Education

Penelope V. Flores, Education, was the 2002 National Alumni Awardee at the Philippine Normal University Graduation Commencement in April in Manila, Philippines.

Patricia D. Irvine, Secondary Education, presented "A Critical Literacies Perspective on Using Students' Home Language in College Writing" at an invited symposium, Study of Writing and Teaching of Writing, held in July at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Ethnic Studies

Dorothy Tsuruta, Black Studies, moderated two roundtable discussions, "The Write Stuff, Getting Your Stuff Published" and "Colorstruck: Why Are We Still Trippin?" in April at the 10 Year Expo for Today's Black Woman in Chicago.

Health and Human Services

Nancy Rabolt, Susan Stark and Connie Ulasewicz, Consumer and Family Studies/Dietetics, attended the annual meeting of the International Textiles and Apparel Association in August in New York. Rabolt presented the paper "Consumer Satisfaction with Fashion Internet Purchases: Using a Web site Gathering Technique." Stark presented the paper: "Field Research with Foss Fibre and Body Odor Number One." Ulasewicz presented "From Market Research Through First Sample: Product Development for the Sewn Products Industry."

Erik Peper, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, Katherine H. Gibney, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies and Catherine F. Holt recently published Make Health Happen: Training Yourself to Create Wellness.

Darlene Yee, Gerontology, was appointed chairwoman of the Professional Development Subcommittee for the Department of Health and Human Services' Minority Women's Health Panel of Experts. She participated on the Task Force for the Conference on Recruitment, Retention, and Integrity of Clinical Studies: Good Science and Reality, sponsored by the Office of Research on Women's Health, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health.

Shannon Perry, Nursing, was the Sr. Rosalie Klein Visiting Lecturer at Marquette University and St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Milwaukee for two weeks in April. She also worked in Washington, D.C., reviewing program grant proposals for the Division of Nursing of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and served on the fellow selection committee for the American Academy of Nursing at a meeting in May in Washington, D.C.

Humanities

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, with Rosamond Rhodes and Margart Battin, wrote Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, published in August by Oxford University Press.

Meg Schoerke, English, gave a poetry reading at Northwestern University in March. Schoerke's review-essay, "The Secret Service: On Mark Jarman's 'The Secret of Poetry'" appeared in the spring 2002 issue of The Hudson Review. Four of her poems appear in the summer 2002 issue of The Hudson Review.

Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, has had several poems published this spring. "Shorthand," and "Honorarium," appeared in the spring Blue Mesa Review from the University of New Mexico, and Mirosevich's story, "The View," appeared in the fall issue of Five Fingers Review.

Lois Lyles, English, spoke on "Korean Women's Struggle Against Japanese Domination" and presented a textile art exhibit on the theme of Korean resistance to colonization by Japan, l9l0-l945, on Aug. l2. The exhibit and lecture were held at the Intercultural Institute of California, San Francisco.

Library

"Sources of Stock and Archival Footage," by Helene Whitson, San Francisco Bay Area Television Archives, was published in Video Collection Development in Multi-type Libraries: A Handbook, by Gary P. Handman.

Science and Engineering

Zhigang Chen, Physics and Astronomy, published (with student H. Martin) "Clustering of Solitons in Weakly Correlated Wavefronts," in the April Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, and gave the invited talk "Light-induced Waveguides in Photorefractive Materials and their Applications," at the eighth IUMRS International Conference on Electron-Optic Materials, in June in Xi'an, China.

Adrienne Cool, Physics and Astronomy, presented "Observing Cataclysmic Variables and Active Binaries in Globular Clusters with Chandra and Hubble" at the New Horizons in Globular Cluster Astronomy meeting in June in Padua, Italy.

James Lockhart, Physics and Astronomy, presented "Gravity Probe B: Testing General Relativity with Orbiting Gyroscopes" in July at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View.

A number of faculty and students from the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies presented papers and poster presentations at the American Geophysical Union and American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting held in February in Honolulu. More than 15 papers and 18 posters were presented, including:

"Climate Impacts on Primary Production in Central San Francisco Bay" by Richard Dugdale, Victoria Hogue, Al Marchi and Frances Wilkerson; "Feeding Ecology and Potential Predatory Impact of Tortanus dextrilobatus, an Invasive Carnivorous Copepod in the San Francisco Estuary" by Steve Bollens and student Rian Hooff; "Effect of Nitrogen and Silicon Pools on the Production and Composition of Siliceous Microplankton in the Western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean" by Edward J. Carpenter and Sarah R. Govil and students Rebecca Ship, Jay Burns, Laura Sprague and Doug G. Capone; "The Response of Phytoplankton Processes to Wind Events and Upwelled Nutrients During the CoOP WEST Study" by Frances P. Wilkerson, Richard C. Dugdale, Al Marchi, Victoria Hogue, and student Adria Lassiter; "Response of euphaussid populations to wind events off Northern California during summer 2000 and 2001: results from CoOP WEST study" by Steve Bollens and student Jeff C. Dorman.

Elahe Enssani, Engineering, presented "Biological Treatment of MTBE," at the International Conference on Water Resources Management held March 22-27 in Kuwait.

Wenshen Pong, Engineering, and co-authors S. Chen, P. Chen and Y. Nishihama presented "Teaching Reliability to Civil Engineers at the Southeastern Section Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineers held April 7-9 at the University of Florida.

Student Affairs

Jack Brewer, Career Center, was named a member of the Walt Disney World College Program Advisory Board.


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