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Behavioral & Social Sciences
Sudip Chattopadhyay, Economics, presented a paper titled "The Divergence Between the Hicksian Welfare Measures: The Case of Revealed Preference for Public Amenities" at the European Association of Environmental Resources Economists' 2000 conference held June 29-July 2 in Crete, Greece.
Bernard Wong, Anthropology, presented a paper on "Globalization and Ethnic Identity Among the Immigrant Chinese Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley" at the Conference of the International Society for the Study of the Overseas Chinese held June 12-14 in Seoul, Korea.
Creative Arts
Whitney Chadwick, Art, presented a lecture on "Amazons and Warriors: New Images of Femininity in the Paintings of Romaine Brooks" at a symposium titled "The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars" held Oct. 27Š28 at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Stanford University.
"Claudel's 'Pensˇe de Co˛fontaine' Between 'Desire' and the 'Drive': A Lacanian Case Study," written by Mohammad Kowsar, Theatre Arts, was published in the most current issue of Literature Interpretation Theory.
Carolynn Lindeman, Music, recently received the 2000 President's Award for Extraordinary Service in Music Education from The California Association for Music Education.
Albirda Rose, Dance, received the Master Teacher certification from the Katherine Dunham School of Dance in September.
Jerry Duke, Dance, was elected to the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival in September.Duke also gave a speech titled "Songcatcher" at the Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 12.
Education
Penelope V. Flores, Secondary Education, presented a lecture on "Beyond the Looking Glass: Understanding the Roots of Multiculturalism" at Chevron Corp.'s Cultural and Diversity Conference held June 26 in San Ramon. Flores also gave a lecture on "From Makphet to Longgan: A Laos Diary" at the Mekong Circle International conference held June 29 in Burlingame.
John Leighton Art, gave a speech on "GAS 2000: Bridge to the Future" at the 30th annual conference of the International Glass Society held June 8-11 by UrbanGlass: New York Contemporary Glass Center and Long Island University in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Ethnic Studies
"Ethel Pitts Walker: Teaching Life Through Theatre," written by Dorothy Tsuruta, Black Studies, was published in the July/August issue of Black Masks.
Jose Cuellar La Raza Studies, was a featured speaker at the Western Arts Alliance 32nd Annual Conference's "Meet the Artist Sessions" held Sept. 6 in San Jose. Cuellar also presented a lecture titled "The History of the 16th of Septembre" on Sept. 14 as part of Latino Heritage Week at Mesa College in San Diego.
Nancy Mirabal, La Raza Studies, presented a paper on "Reconfiguring Latina/o Historical Paradigms" at the American Studies Association on Sept. 15 in Detroit.
Health & Human Services
Michael Mayer, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Health Education, presented his article "Qigong and Hypertension: A Critique of Research" at The Science and Spirituality of Healing Conference held Oct. 27 in North Carolina.
Robert C. Chope Counseling, presented a paper titled "The Emotional Aspects of the Career Search" at the National Career Development Association convention held in June in Pittsburgh.
Brian de Vries, Gerontology, presented the keynote address "Aging and Society" at the Global Conference on Aging held Sept. 17- 21 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. De Vries also presented a paper on "Life Stories" at the same conference.
The YES WE CAN Urban Asthma Partnership, co-directed by Mary Beth Love, Health Education, received a $10,000 award from the Chest Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians. The award acknowledges the pioneer work of the program, a coalition of 11 major institutes in San Francisco that together developed a model urban asthma program for nationwide replication.
Humanities
"Establishing Viewpoint: Wrapping-up Devices in Japanese Oral Narrative Discourses," a paper by Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages and Literatures, was presented at the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language conference, held in May at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Minami also presented a paper on "Developmental and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Children's Narrative Discourses" in May at the Developmental Psychology Brown Bag Series at Stanford University.
"Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice," written by Laurie Zoloth,Jewish Studies, was reviewed in the June 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Charles Egan, Foreign Languages & Literatures, published an article titled "Reconsidering the Role of Folk Songs in Pre-T'ang_Yueh-fu_Development" in a recent issue of T'oung Pao.
Douglas Brown, English, presented a paper on "Socially Responsible Language Teaching" on Aug. 3 at the convention of the Association of Binational Centers of Latin America in Lima, Peru.
Dane Johnson, World & Comparative Literature, presented a paper titled "To Protect Authentic Writers: Franco's Censors and the Latin American 'Boom' Novel" at the Censorship: Phenomenology-Representation-Contexts conference held Sept. 9 in Newcastle, England.
Tom Scovel, English, gave a lecture on using computer corpus data to help teachers select relevant English structures in their instruction of non-native learners. His lecture was presented at a series of English-language conferences held in late October in Turkey.
Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, presented a paper on "Genealogies of Belonging in the Diaspora Space" at the conference on Recasting European and Canadian History, National Consciousness, Migration and Multicultural Lives held May 18-21 in Bremen, Germany. Moallem also gave a speech on "Women, Gender and Cultural Citizenship in a Transnational Context" at a meeting of the National Women's Studies Association held June 14-18 in Boston.
Peter Weltner, English, received a Book of the Year Silver Award from Foreword magazine, a trade publication for independent and university press, for his book "How the Body Prays." "Morphological Systems ans Structure in Language Production," an article by Rachelle Waksler,English, appeared in the book "Aspects of Language Production," edited by L. Wheeldon and published recently by Psychology Press.
Library
"Deforestation and Clearcutting: Bibliography Essay," an article by Carole Harnly, Associate Librarian, appeared in the October issue of Choice.
Science and Engineering
"Evolution Rising from the Grave," written by Michael Goldman, Biology, was published in a recent issue of Nature.
"Geology - The Sensitive Science," written by Raymond Pestrong, Geology, was published in the Journal of Geoscience Education in May. Pestrong also gave a lecture on "Sounds of the Earth," at the Art From Nature symposium sponsored by the Ylem Forum held Sept. 20 at the McBean Theatre in San Francisco.
The School of Engineering received $150,000 from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) to participate in the DOE's Industrial Assessment Center program. Faculty and students will conduct energy-efficiency assessments of manufacturing plants. Contact is Ahmed Ganji, Mechanical Engineering.
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