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Professional Activities

Student Spotlight

Farid Ghaheri, Civil/Geotechnical Engineering graduate student, presented a paper on “Shear Wave Velocity Profiles of Soil Cement using Borehole Geophysical Technique" at the 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in San Francisco on April 18. His paper, which was based on his master's project, was published by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.

Luke Gibbons, mechanical engineering student, has been chosen to work at the Advanced Materials and Processing Branch at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. this summer. He was one of only 150 students in the country selected.

The Sacramento State Wakeboard team placed second at a national competition put on by College Sports Television, a division of CBS. The event was held in Reno on April 20-23.

Recognition

Otis L. Scott, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, was honored as the 2006 outstanding faculty initiate at the annual banquet of Phi Kappa Phi held April 25 on campus.

Bill Owen, Communication Studies, has been appointed haibun editor of the journal Simply Haiku.

Scholarship

Nancy Fox, Transportation and Parking Services, gave a presentation to the California College and University Police Chief Association in South Lake Tahoe on “New Construction and Coping with Parking” on April 13.

Barbara Carle, Foreign Languages, had six translations of poetry along with an introductory note in the article "From the Shadow of Alfonso Gatto: Graziana Pentich" published in the spring 2006 issue of Gradiva, the International Journal of Italian Poetry.

Patricia Clark-Ellis, College of Health and Human Services, Santos Torres, Serna Center, and Kelly Tobar, Nursing, along with the Discrimination Research Center, organized a statewide forum to address the lack of diversity in the healthcare field on April 21 on campus. More than 170 people attended, including policymakers, healthcare providers, representatives from academia, and community-based organizations and students. Panels addressed obstacles to diversification and offered recognized practices used to increase diversity in the healthcare professions.

Rob Wassmer, Public Policy and Administration, offered an invited presentation on his paper "The 'Roller Coaster' of California State Budgeting After Proposition 13" to a national conference on Fiscal Relations and Fiscal Conditions at the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University on April 21. Wassmer was also asked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to submit his PPA/ECO/ULI 251 syllabus for the course "Teaching the Concepts of Urban Land Development, Urban Sprawl, and Smart Growth from an Economic Perspective" to a new website on Teaching Smart Growth at Colleges and Universities. It can be found at www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/courses.

In the News

The Center for Collaborative Policy was cited in the April 19 Amador Ledger Dispatch for its selection as the project facilitator for the Highway 49 bypass project.

Tony Platt, Social Work, had his review of Thomas Bender's A Nation Among Nations, entitled "History: It's Not Just About Us" published in The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review on April 23.