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Professional Activities

Recognition

Sandra Perez, Center for California Studies, has been selected as one of 22 women nationwide to participate in the National Hispana Leadership Institute's 2006 Executive Leadership Program. The Institute develops Latina leaders who will return to their communities and work to ensure that political and policy changes meet the needs of the nation's growing Latino population. Perez is the director of the California Executive Fellowship Program.

Monica Freeman, Global Education, has been selected as one of four participants nationally for the Fulbright U.S.-Korea International Education Administrators Program to take place in June. Freeman has served as Sacramento State’s Fulbright advisor for more than 20 years and has previously held two Fulbrights: one to Germany and one to France. She has also been elected vice president-elect of Phi Beta Delta, the honor society for international scholars. The Sacramento State chapter was one of the original founding chapters.

The Sacramento State Aquatic Center has been awarded the bid to host the 2006 Intercollegiate Water Ski National Championships, Oct. 12-14 at Bell Acqua Ski Lakes in Rio Linda. Skiers will come from 22 universities to compete in the Division I and Division II national championships. The Water Ski Team is also celebrating its 30-year anniversary and will hold a reunion Oct. 14-15. For more information visit www.csusaquaticcenter.com/ColWaterSkiNationals.htm.

Scholarship

Mary Mackey, English, had her short fiction "Third Initiation: A Gift From the Land of Dreams" in the anthology ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction, Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories published by Omnidawn Press.

Evri Kwong, Art, has been invited to conduct an art workshop on April 22 as part of the "Any Town, Any Time: Drawing as Painting, Painting as Drawing in Contemporary Context" series sponsored by the Di Rosa Preserve at the Sonoma Community Center. He also has artworks in the Di Rosa Preserve collection.

Robert Ortbal, Art, has his recent work "Pollinate II" on exhibit in the gallery at Fresh Paint Art Advisors in Culver City through May 1.

Dan Deocampo, Geology, had his paper titled "Evaporative Evolution of Surface Waters and the Role of Aqueous CO2 in Magnesium Silicate Precipitation: Lake Eyasi and Ngorongoro Crater, Northern Tanzania" published in the South African Journal of Geology.

In the News

Marion O’Leary, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, was quoted in the Dec. 1 Sacramento Bee about development and funding for the Sacramento State Space and Science Center.

David Swim, Criminal Justice, was quoted in the Dec. 2 Sacramento Bee on the recent emergence of female police chiefs and women in command positions in the police force.

Tim Hodson, Center for California Studies, was quoted in: the Dec. 5 Sacramento Bee on the likelihood of grassroots constituent victories; in a Nov. 7 Antelope Valley Press article about the 2006 race for governor and how it related to the special election; in Nov. 8 Pasadena Star and the San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune articles about how propositions on the November ballot would affect California; and in a Nov. 11 Los Angeles Daily Journal article about the likelihood of reapportionment reform becoming a reality after the defeat of Proposition 77.

Sudhir Thakur, Business Administration, was quoted in the Dec. 2 Sacramento Bee on real estate prices in California in comparison to other states.

Jerome Jenkins, Athletics, was profiled in Dec. 5 Sacramento Bee. The story touched on his goals as coach of the Sacramento State men’s basketball team and the strategies he uses to motivate players.

Linda Joy Clemons, Financial Aid, was quoted in the Dec. 8 Sacramento Bee and on KCRA Channel 3 about a state error that jeopardized financial aid to a thousand college students in California and what students at Sacramento State can do.