Professional Activities

Scholarship

Ted Lascher, Public Policy and Administration, presented a paper entitled, "Reconsidering the Secondary Benefits of Direct Democracy," at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association over the Labor Day weekend in Boston.

Ron Coleman, Biological Sciences, was co-organizer of the "George Barlow Commemorative Symposium: Fish Reproductive Behavior, Mating and Parental Care Strategies" at the 2008 Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes conference (June 29, Boston). He also presented a paper entitled, “Surviving the storms: Egg size and reproductive strategies in riverine tropical cichlids,” coauthored with Samantha Hilber (U. Florida) and Allison Berke (MIT). At the same conference, Coleman and others presented the posters, “Parental ecology of the plainfin midshipman, Porichthys notatus,” and, “Habitat structure directly affects aggression in the convict cichlid, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus.”

Several staff from the Center for Collaborative Policy delivered talks at the 5th National Conference of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, in Tucson, May 20-22. Susan Sherry presented, “Lessons Learned from Our Organizational Development Colleagues,” and, “Tapping into the Multiplicity of Diverse Approaches for Collaboration on Public Issues: Making Strategic Choices.” Bill Leach presented, “Collaborative Versus Conventional Environmental Policymaking: The California Water Plans of 1998 & 2005,” and, “Results and Implications of a Three-Year Multi-Agency Evaluation Study.”  Dave Ceppos and Jodie Monaghan presented, “Go Fish - The Long Strange Saga of Northern Pike Eradication in Lake Davis.”  Greg Bourne moderated, “To Tell the Truth: When Do Negotiated Rulemaking and Other Collaborative Policy Processes Make Sense and When They Don’t."

Recognition

Bill Owen, Communication Studies, has received a Special Recognition Award for Best Haibun Book of 2007 (titled, “small events: haibun by w. f. owen”) in the Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards sponsored by the Haiku Society of America.

Alice Winston Carney, Communication Studies, was installed as president of the Soroptimist International of Greater Sacramento. SIGS is a worldwide organization of professional and business women who work through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women.