Professional Activities

Student Spotlight

The State Hornet student newspaper picked up 11 honors in the non-daily newspaper category in the 2004-05 California College Media Competition, sponsored by the California College Media Association. The Hornet received: first place, “Best Overall Design;” first place, ”Best Sports Page Design;” first place, “Best Sports Story,” written by Jimmy Spencer; and first place, “Best Sports Photo,” taken by Ken Larmon. Other awards included second place in “Best Features Page Design,” ”Best Online News Coverage” and “Best Feature Photo.”

Sacramento State had a number of graduates at the Sacramento Police Department Academy graduation in July, including Criminal Justice alumni Scott Blynn, Sophia Juarez, Michelle Martin, Joseph Torres, Traci Trapani, Keri Woolery and Christopher Uribe, and Kinesiology alumnus Joshua Frey. Ryan Bal, Criminal Justice, had the highest academic ranking of 96 percent. William Vizzard, chair of Criminal Justice, attended the event.

Recognition

Greg Wheeler has been named associate sean for undergraduate studies effective Aug. 2. Wheeler joined Sacramento State as a geology professor in 1979 and has served as chair of the Geology department, chair of CSUS Foundation Board, and most recently director of General Education.

Tim Hodson, Center for California Studies, received the 2004-05 Academic Excellence Award from the Sacramento Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.

Patti Nogales, Philosophy, was selected for participation in the Teaching Using Technology Summer Institute.

Liam D. Murphy, Anthropology, received a Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, to write a book based on his long-term field research in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Steve Leland, Environmental Health and Safety, passed the Certified Safety Professional examination and now is certified as both a safety professional from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, and as an industrial hygienist from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Sacramento State is the only campus in the system to have two industrial hygienists and a certified safety professional on staff.

Daniel Clark Orey, Teacher Education, has been invited to spend the 2005-06 academic year as a Pesquisador Visitante (visiting researcher) sponsored by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico ("National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development") where he will teach, pursue his work in ethnomathematics, and assist in developing a new masters program in mathematics education. He will be housed in the mathematics department at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in Brazil.

Santos Torres Jr., Social Work, has been named interim director of the Serna Center for the fall 2005 semester. Torres was a scholar-in-residence for the center in spring 2003. He recently finished an administrative leadership fellowship with the Kellogg HACU/MSI Leadership Fellows Program.

Robert Fountain, emeritus faculty and director of the Applied Research Center, is the winner of the Lambda Alpha International Richard T. Ely Educator Award for lifelong teaching and research in land economics. Lambda Alpha is a society for the advancement of land economics knowledge and research, established in 1930. It has chapters worldwide, including Sacramento. Fountain will formally receive the award at the Lambda Alpha 75th Anniversary meeting in Chicago in October.

Scholarship

Liam Murphy, Anthropology, published a chapter entitled "Avoiding the Bulldozer" in the new volume Underground Halifax: Stories of Archaeology in the City (Nimbus Publishing, 2005.)

Tanya Altmann and Debra Brady, Nursing, had their article entitled “PDAs Bring Information Competence to the Point-of-Care” published in the June 8 issue of the International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship.

Robyn Nelson, chair of Nursing, co-authored a chapter on “Undergraduate Curricula in Nursing” in a new book on curriculum development and Evaluation in Nursing, by Sarah Keating and published by Lippincott.

Mark Ludwig, communication studies, co-authored the fifth edition of Modern News Editing, a journalism textbook. The book was published by Blackwell Publishing during the summer.

Bill Leach, Center for Collaborative Policy, presented a talk on “Gauging the Effectiveness of Community-Based Collaboratives” at a workshop of the Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium in Nelson County, Va, June 5-7. Leach also authored a book review of Collaborative Environmental Management: What Role for Government? by Tomas M. Koontz, et al. (RFF Press, 2004) which was published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Mark Hennelly, English, has an essay titled "Alfred Hitchcock's Carnival" appearing in the next issue of The Hitchcock Annual. Hennelly also has an untitled review essay on the representation of "Inclusive Society" in 19th Century novels appearing in the next issue of Dickens Quarterly.

In the News

David Zuckerman, Communication Studies, was interviewed on June 7 by National Public Radio for a statewide story about Saudi Arabian grassroots public relations efforts across the United States and the stability of the Saudi-U.S. friendship in light of the possible death of Saudi King Fahd. He also was quoted on Capital Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” on June 10 in a story about Saudi public relations efforts across the United States. Zuckerman was interviewed for background on why the Saudis would undertake this effort, and Americans’ perceptions of Saudi Arabia.

Ernest Uwazie, Criminal Justice, was quoted in the April 11 Sacramento Bee regarding the imminent visit of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda to Sacramento State on April 14, and again on April 15 in the on the role of the gacaca (indigenous) justice system in post-genocide Rwanda.

William Vizzard, chair of Criminal Justice, appeared on KQCA Channel 58 and KCRA Channel 3 on July 7 to discuss the London bombings and on UPN 31’s “Good Day Sacramento” on July 10, discussing rail security in the United States.