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Professional Activities

Scholarship

Lisa Beutler and Susan Sherry, The Center for Collaborative Policy, hosted a focus group on Feb. 5 as part of a research project being conducted on behalf of the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation and Stanford University’s Wood Institute of the Environment for use in the development of a new Center for Ocean Solutions.

Wendy Matlock, English, gave an invited talk on "The Intersections between Illustrations and Texts in London, British Library, Additional 37049, a Fifteenth-century Carthusian Miscellany" at the University of Tennessee's Marco Institute Manuscript Workshop on Feb. 9.

Marjorie Wade, Foreign Languages, will present "Die Nibelungenlied: Dragon Slayers and the Bride Quest" to the Wagner Society of Northern California in San Francisco on Feb. 24.

Barbara Carle, Foreign Languages, published "The American Editions of Alfredo De Palchi's Poetry" which appeared in Gradiva, fall 2006.

In the News

Barbara O’Connor, Communication Studies, was quoted: in the Dec. 8 Sacramento Business Journal on television networks’ use of news programming to attract larger ratings and more advertising dollars; in the Dec. 18 Alameda Times Star and the Dec. 16 San Jose Mercury News on Phil Angelides’ success as state treasurer; in the Dec. 30 Woodland Hills Daily News on the end of the 2006 California legislative session; in the Nov. 5 Santa Rosa Press Democrat on the effect of Nancy Pelosi’s role as speaker of the House on Northern California interests; in the Dec. 2 Orange County Register on Jim Battin’s bid to challenge Dick Ackerman for Senate GOP leadership; and in the Nov. 5 San Diego Tribune on Phil Angelides’ failed gubernatorial campaign.

Timothy Hodson, Center for California Studies, was quoted: in the Dec. 3 Contra Costa Times and Pasadena Star News and the Dec. 4 Woodland Hills Daily News on the large number of freshmen legislators entering office; in the Nov. 26 San Luis Obispo Tribune and Nov. 21 San Diego Tribune on salary increases for California lawmakers; in the Oct. 25 San Diego Tribune on Gov. Schwarzenegger’s ability to reinvent himself politically; in the Nov. 27 Bakersfield Californian and Chico Enterprise-Record on Gov. Schwarzenegger’s challenge to win support from Republican legislators; and in the Dec. 10 Fremont Argus on the leadership role of state Assemblyman Alberto Torrico.

Recognition

Barbara O’Connor, Communication Studies, was elected secretary of the California Emerging Technology Fund’s board of directors.