Professional Activities

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Emeritus Librarian John Liberty’s bibliography Journals of Dissent and Social Change has been reproduced in pdf format and is available in a full-text version in the University Library’s Eureka online catalog. The 500-page bibliography of the Library’s collection covers right- and left-wing, ethnic, gay and women’s movement periodicals from the 1900s through the 1990s. The creation of the Dissent and Social Change Project earned Liberty a listing in Who’s Who in America.

The scanning of Journals of Dissent and Social Change to digital format was overseen by Reference Librarian Hong Wang who is now responsible for alternative and dissenting library materials. Her research pamphlet, Political Science: Alternative/Non-Mainstream Publications, is available at the Library Reference Desk or online.

Professor Jamie Kneitel, graduate student Emily Kachorek and undergrad Jim Alford from the Department of Biological Sciences presented their research at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 2-7. Kneitel, with graduate student Carrie Lessin as co-author, gave the talk, “Ecosystem Phase Interactions: Aquatic Eutrophication Decreases Terrestrial Plant Diversity.” Kachorek, with Kneitel as co-author, gave the talk, “Biological conservation through integrated conservation and development: Has Iwokrama been successful?” Alford, with Kneitel as co-author, presented the poster, “Veratrum californicum presence structures Sierra Nevada meadow plant communities.”

Lisa Beutler, Center for Collaborative Policy, was a featured plenary panelist at the July 23 summer symposium, “A Time for Changing Values, Ideas and Solutions in Water Management: Are California's Communities Sustainable?” Sponsored by Sacramento chapters of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Floodplain Management Association, Beutler discussed the role of collaboration in achieving sustainability.

Rob Wassmer, Public Policy and Administration chair, had his article on “Using California's Farmland Preservation Programs to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions” published in the May 2009 edition of the Cornell Real Estate Review. He also had a chapter on “Property Tax Abatement as a Means of Promoting State and Local Development” included in the 2009 book on Erosion of the Property Tax Base: Trends, Causes, and Consequences published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Barbara Carle, Foreign Languages, has published a bilingual book of poems in English and in Italian. The book was presented in Rome at the Studio Campo Boario on May 22. It is titled Tangible Remains/Toccare quello che resta and was published by GHENOMENA Edizioni, Formia, May 2009.

Craig Gallet, Economics, has had the paper “Meat Meets Meta: A Quantitative Review of the Price Elasticity of Meat” accepted for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Jana Noel, Teacher Education, Community Engagement Center and EdD Core faculty, had her article titled “A Critical Interrogation of Privilege, Race, Class, and Power in a University Faculty - Urban Community Relationship” published in The Urban Review. It will be published in hard copy in the summer of 2010, but the journal has published it online for subscribers to have early access to the article.