Professional Activities

Student Spotlight

Angel Barajas, ASI president, participated in the 2005 Student Leadership Seminar for Student Body Officers at the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy at CSU Monterey Bay in June.

Sacramento State students took home honors at the 19th CSU Student Research Competition held on campus in May. Maura Dykstra received a first place in the undergraduate category for her project "White Lotuses, Shining Red Lanterns, and the Eternal Mother: The Subversive Legacy of the Wusheng Lao Mu from the White Lotus Rebellions to the Boxer Movement." Robert Lawrence Grasso, was runner-up in the graduate category with his project “Antipredator Response and Palatability of Yosemite Toad Larvae to Nonnative Brook Trout in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.” Anthony Herda, received a runner-up in the undergraduate category for his project “The High Definition Digital Synthesizer, The Principles of Instantaneous Tuning.”

Recognition

Two facilities management staff members received awards at the Governor's Employee Safety Awards Aug. 26 on campus: Robert Gardner and Pantaleon (J.R.) Sanchez. Gardner, who works as a building service engineer in the Engineering Services department, was honored for his consistent willingness during 2004 and in previous years to go beyond the scope of his job description to study safety standards and correct dangerous situations. Sanchez, who works as an electrician in the Building Trades department, was honored for his courageous and meritorious actions to prevent the spread of a fire in a classroom.

John C. Corless, Accountancy, received a certified fraud examiner designation from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The designation is given only to select professionals who meet a stringent set of criteria including character, experience and education.

Scholarship

Matt McCormick, Philosophy, was interviewed about the effects of video game-playing on critical thinking and intelligence for a June 28 Schenectady Daily Gazette article "Are Video Games Making Us Smarter?"

David Booher, Center for Collaborative Policy, presented a guest lecture to the "Environmental Governance: Global and Local Perspectives" graduate course at George Mason University in Washington D.C. The lecture focused on the global emergence of new forms of collaborative policy making in environmental governance.

Ernie M. Hills, Music, received the annual award for Excellence in Music Education from the Capitol Section of the California Association of Music Educators in May. Hills is chair of the Department of Music and has been a professor at Sacramento State since 1984.

Dave Zuckerman, Communication Studies, had his article “To Argue You Have No Opinion is to Insult People: A Gebserian Analysis of Identity in Northern Ireland,” accepted for publication in the inaugural volume of the Jean Gebser Annual, to be published by Hampton Press in November 2005.

Christina M. Bellon, Philosophy, will have two chapters, "Legal Ethics" and "Civil Rights", accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (Sage, forthcoming 2006).

Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, Speech Pathology and Audiology, made several presentations in the spring. She and colleagues presented a paper at the annual convention of the California Speech and Hearing Association in Santa Clara in April. At the same conference she presented papers on “Increasing Written Language Skills in Children with Fine Motor Problems,” on “A Survey of Ethnic Pashtuns from Afghanistan and Pakistan,” and on the “The Influence of Poverty and Maternal Education on Children’s Language.”