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Professional Activities

Scholarship

Cynthia Linville, English, has had the following poems recently published or accepted for publication: "Rendezvous at Folsom Lake" and "Heat" in the Song of the San Joaquin quarterly; "The Elephant Falls" (political haiku) in the Sacramento Bee; "somewhere beyond yourself" and "Christmases Past" in the Rattlesnake Review; "Dead Kennedys: Bleed for Me" in WTF; "Saturday Afternoon Lullaby," "Grandmother's Shoes," "Bliss," "On the Road," "Small Craft Warning," "All is Fair in Love," and "something unsung is mine" on Medusa's Kitchen; "Love’s Labours Lost,"  "I crack open your poetry," and "I curl myself up like a fist" on Sacramento Poetry Art Music; and "Working on a Commercial Fishing Boat" and "Drum Circle at Antietam" on Just Poetry. In addition, she has been serving as poetry editor for the Sacramento Poetry Center's publication Poetry Now; as managing editor for the online literary journal, Convergence-Journal.com; and as host for the Second Friday Poetry Reading Series for the last six months. Her articles "Real World Writing: What Employers Expect" and "Editing Tips" will be included in the Sacramento State Student Writing Handbook forthcoming from the Senate Subcommittee for Reading and Writing in fall.

Adam Sutkus and David Booher, Center for Collaborative Policy, are $1,000 Honorable Mention winners of the prestigious Maxwell School at Syracuse Governance Initiative, Second Annual Collaboration Teaching Case and Simulation competition. They won for their submission, "Emergency Management and Homeland Security."

Roger Sullivan, anthropology, was invited to present at the Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in Boston in January.

Louis Downs, Associate Professor in the Department of Counselor Education, was retained by Psychcn, a counseling agency in the Peoples Republic of China, to travel to Beijing and then to Deyang, Sichuan Province, to train and supervise counselors; he worked with counselors and survivors of the May 12 earthquake throughout December.

Caio Miguel, Psychology, had the article “Using conditional discrimination training with complex auditory-visual samples to produce emergent relations in children with autism” co-authored with colleagues from The New England Center for Children, accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Mark Stoner, Communication Studies / Center for Teaching and Learning, made a presentation titled, "PowerPoint: Affordances, constraints and workarounds" to the faculty at Durham University (UK) on Jan. 8.

In The News

Ron Coleman, Biological Sciences, was interviewed by Costa Rican Television (Teletica, Channel 7) about his fish research in connection with the recent major earthquake in Costa Rica on Jan 8. Coleman has worked in the rivers that were devastated by mudslides for more than 14 years and will be involved in monitoring the recovery of these rivers. He was in Costa Rica at the time of the quake and monitored the initial damage. An electronic interview also appeared in the "E-Canopy" online newsletter for the Organization for Tropical Studies.

Tim Hodson, Center for California Studies, was quoted in The Sacramento Bee on Jan. 10 regarding the governor taking funds from various departments to keep the state out of a complete bankruptcy.

Todd Molaccio, Sociology, was interviewed on KTXL-FOX on Jan. 5 regarding dating and social expectations in the book and new movie He’s Just Not That into You.

Barbara O’Connor, Communication Studies, was interviewed on KXJZ-FM National Public Radio regarding the Governor’s state of the state speech, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 7 about the incident between Leon Panetta and Dianne Feinstein, in the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 1 about the Governor’s push on the 2009 budget and in the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 5 about Californians feeling that former president Bush didn’t carry the state well enough.

Suzanne O’Keefe, Economics, was interviewed on KCRA-NBC on Dec. 30 regarding job-loss in the Sacramento region and was quoted in the Woodland Hills Daily News on Jan. 2 about the differences between a layoff and a buyout.

David Swim, Criminal Justice, was quoted in The Sacramento Bee on Jan. 8 regarding officers traditionally not firing their weapons in the line of duty throughout a career.

Sanjay Varshney, Business, was interviewed on KFBK-AM-FOX on Jan. 14 regarding the job outlook in the Sacramento area.

Robert Waste, Public Policy and Adiministration, was interviewed on KXJZ-FM Capital Public Radio on Jan. 6 regarding the economic future for Californians.