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Professional Activities

Scholarship

Lindy Valdez, Kinesiology & Health Science, was selected to receive the 2007 California Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) Honor Award. The notification letter states, “This award exemplifies the meritorious contributions that you have made in the areas of service, research, teaching and administration.” He will receive this award at the 2007 CAHPERD State Conference on March 3.

Rafael Diaz, Mathematics/Statistics, co-authored an article with Nirmal Mann, Gastroenterology, at UC Davis, titled “The Evaluation of Classified Advertisements for Gastroenterology in NEJM 1985-2000,” that appeared in the International Medical Journal, December 2006. Volume 13, Number 4. The study involved a statistical Time Series analysis of the number of classified advertisements in the New England Journal of Medicine over a period of 20 years in order to explore a hypothesis relating the number of these advertisements and a recent demand for colonoscopy screenings.

David Booher, Center for Collaborative Policy, was invited to give a guest lecture at the Naval Post Graduate School College of Defense Analysis in Monterey on Dec. 5, 2006. The lecture focused on the use of collaborative strategies to address complex “wicked” problems.

Hellen Lee-Keller, English, has published an article titled “Civilizing Violence: ‘The Haunted Valley,’” in The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal, 2.1 (Fall 2006). The article addresses Bierce’s radical politics that condemned the nineteenth-century United States nation-building project.

Tom Knutson, Communication Studies, has been informed that the Bangkok University Academic Review will publish his paper, "A Scale to Measure Thai Rhetorical Sensitivity." The paper is co-authored by Val Smith, Boondharika Kaweewong, and Phan Datthuyawat, Communication Studies, and Rosechongporn Komolsevin, chair of the doctoral program in Interpersonal Communication at Bangkok University, Thailand. Knutson is spending the semester break in Thailand conducting research and consulting at Bangkok University and Kasetsart University.

Barbara O’Connor, Communication Studies, was appointed to the National Policy Council on Information Communication Technology Literacy as a representative of the CSU system. The goal of the council is to develop a national framework for adoption of Information Communication Technology (ICT) thresholds. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has been beta testing ICT exams on CSU campuses for two years. O’Connor chaired the International Framework Committee and served on the ETS test development committee.

Bill Owen, Communication Studies, has published a book of haiku, senryu and haibun entitled haiku notebook.

Cloteal Thrower Herron, Outreach Admissions Counselor, presented at the "First Class Lady's Conference," St. Paul Baptist Church, on Nov. 18. The title of her presentation was "Having a First Class Marriage."

In The News

Timothy Hodson, Center for California Studies, was quoted: in the Nov. 26 Sacramento Bee about California legislators who accepted pay increases after having previously rejected them; in the Oct. 20 Pasadena Star, the Oct. 21 Tri-Valley Herald and the Oct. 23 San Bernardino Sun on the growing popularity of absentee ballots; in the Oct. 10 San Mateo Times and the Nov. 8 Tulare Advance Register on the contrasting styles of candidates Jerry Brown and Chuck Poochigian; in the Oct. 25 Marin Independent Journal on Richard Pombo’s bid for re-election; and in the Nov. 16 Oakland Tribune on the instability of public finance in California.

Nancy Shulock, Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy, was quoted: in the Nov. 29 Sacramento Bee and the Nov. 16 San Francisco Chronicle on low completion rates in California’s community college system; in the Oct. 26 Fremont Argus, the Oct. 23 Torrance Daily Breeze, the Oct. 23 San Diego Tribune, the Oct. 20 North County Times, the Oct. 21 San Bernardino Sun and the Oct. 20 San Mateo County Times on the declining rate of California students entering college directly after high school.

Kimberly Nalder, Government, was quoted in the Oct. 16 Tahoe Tribune about voter turnout in the November elections.

Ted Lascher, Public Policy & Administration, was quoted in the Nov. 9 San Francisco Chronicle on the election of former Gov. Jerry Brown as attorney general.

Michael Semler, Government, was quoted in the Oct. 25 San Mateo Times about the use of bond measures to support funding for state educational institutions.

Barbara O’Connor, Communication Studies, was quoted: in the Nov. 5 San Joaquin County Register on voter turnout in the November elections; in the Oct. 15 Santa Cruz Sentinel on Jerry Brown’s bid for attorney general; in the Nov. 4 Contra Costa Times on voter outrage over the Ted Haggard scandal; in the Oct. 13 Orange County Register on advertising campaigns to support controversial propositions; in the Oct. 29 San Francisco Chronicle on Phil Angelides’ campaign for governor; in the Oct. 7 Orange County Register on the televised gubernatorial debate; in the Nov. 9 San Mateo Times on the similarity between Bay Area election voting and the rest of the nation; in the Nov. 8 Pasadena Star News on the re-election of Gov. Schwarzenegger; and in the Nov. 23 San Francisco Chronicle on the end of Nancy Speier’s term of office in the California Legislature.