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Professional Activities

Student Spotlight

Samantha Hilber, recent graduate from Biological Sciences, presented her Honors Thesis "Egg Size Through Consecutive Spawnings in the Convict Cichlid" at the Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes 2006 conference at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo on June 5.

Justin Knighten completed an internship over the summer in Washington, D.C. with Talk Radio News Service and College Media News through the Washington Center.

Grants

Katherine D. McReynolds, Chemistry, was awarded a grant from CSUPERB (California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology) entitled "Studies Directed Towards the Synthesis of Anti-Viral Glycodendrimers." This grant is being used to provide stipends for undergraduate and graduate students to gain valuable hands-on experience working in the laboratory on novel research.

Scholarship

Tom Knutson and Sutirat Posirisuk, Communication Studies, will have their manuscript, “Thai Relational Development and Rhetorical Sensitivity as Potential Contributors to Intercultural Communication Effectiveness: JAI YEN YEN,” published in the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. The paper reports the results of research identifying elements of effective intercultural communication.

Tom Knutson, Communication Studies, spent the early part of the summer in Thailand where he lectured and conducted research at Bangkok University and Kasetsart University. Knutson also presented a workshop for a group of Mexican scholars and students from The International Business Leadership Program, Tecnologico de Monerrey, during their summer academic trade mission to Thailand. The topic of Knutson’s presentation was “Thai and Mexican Culture: Manyana and Mai Pen Rai. Knutson, along with Richard Adams, English, also coordinated and supervised Sacramento State students serving as English teaching assistants at the Chitralada Royal Palace School.

Bill Leach, Center for Collaborative Policy, organized and chaired a panel at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago, April 20-21. The panel brought together editors of three major books published last year to discuss common themes across the three volumes: The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management and Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict: New Institutions for Collaborative Planning. During the conference, Leach also presented a paper on “Implementing Voluntary Agreements in Stakeholder Partnerships.”

Rob Wassmer, Public Policy and Administration, participated in a national forum on "Exploring the Linkage Between Density and Affordability" sponsored by the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C. on May 25.

Spencer Freund, Academic Affairs, was one of 150 attendees representing many Fortune 100 companies at the invitation-only 2006 Dell Platinum Advisory Council held from May 15-17. Created 12 years ago as a forum to discuss critical technology issues, the event is an opportunity for executives to exchange ideas and innovations influencing today’s business with a focus on creating strong partnerships that lead to innovative marketplace solutions. Freund also was one of six panel members discussing “Stability of In-building Wireless Systems Performance and Security” at the recent GTC West 2006 conference in Sacramento. He spoke on the underlying strategies of the CSU's Telecommunications Infrastructure Initiative.

Will Corral, Foreign Languages, will have his book Theory’s Empire featured at the International Association of Comparative Literature conference. The book will be the focus of a panel discussion during the association’s conference in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.

Jonathan D. Kaplan, Economics, was an invited presenter at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Workshop on Information Deficiencies in Agri-Environmental Policy held at OECD Headquarters in Paris, on June 6. The workshop was attended by delegates from the 30 member nations. He presented research on policy design for conservation compliance on highly erodible land.

Ron Coleman, Biological Sciences, presented a paper "Brood Developmental Stage Affects Parental Defense by Female Convict Cichlids” at the Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes 2006 conference at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo on June 5.

In the News

Beth D. Kivel, Recreation and Leisure Studies, was interviewed for KXJZ for a story about Oak Park which aired on May 31.

Tony Platt, Social Work, had his non-fiction story, “Uncommon Ground” featured Sunday, May 28 on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition.

Lisa Beutler, Center for Collaborative Policy was featured in an article in the Reno Gazette-Journal on the third graduating class of the North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Leadership Program.

David J. Leon, Ethnic Studies/Chicano Studies, served as a consultant and appeared in a KVIE documentary “The Braceros.”

Arthur Williamson, History, was interviewed on July 12 on BBC-Edinburgh, Radio 3, about the 16th-century political theorist, George Buchanan one of the early founders of democratic and civic traditions that culminated in the American and French Revolutions. Williamson had presented a paper to a conference on Buchanan at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.