Professional Activities

Student Spotlight

Anthropology graduate student Henry Lyle III and his supervisor Roger Sullivan presented a poster entitled "P2P file sharing as costly signaling" at the 17th Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Austin, Texas in June.

Grants

Tim Horner, Geology, was awarded a $99,864 grant to study intergravel flow and gravel mobility in salmon spawning sites on the American River. This project is funded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, and will support faculty and graduate students as part of an on-going project. Horner also received a $15,779 grant from the City of Sacramento Water Forum and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency to study steelhead spawning habitat in a potential restoration site on the Lower American River. This project supported graduate and undergraduate students in the summer of 2005, and will be used by Phillip Williams and Associates to design a restoration project.

Scholarship

Maria Winkler, Art, has one of her original, handmade artist books, The Winter Woods, accepted into the fourth Bright Hill Center North American Juried Art Exhibit, which will take place from Oct. 2-29 at the Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell, N.Y.

Sarah Flohr, Art, produced several paintings for a collaborative project involving art and music at the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg this summer. The project is described and illustrated on the museum's website at: http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/exhibitions/?id=323&i=0&year=2005

Ann Weldy, English emerita, was honored with the 2005 Inaugural Trailblazer Award by the Golden Crown Literary Society for her Beebo Brinker Series novels on June 25 in New Orleans. Golden Crown was formed to support and encourage women writers.

Rachel Clarke, Art, was elected editor-in-chief of media-N this year. Media-N is a international online journal of the College Arts Association New Media Caucus. It is a peer-reviewed and invitational journal of digital and media arts. The first issue of media-N was released this month. Visit the journal at: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/2005/v01/n01/index.htm

Nancy Kalish, Psychology, gave the presentation “Using Bad Films for Good Teaching” at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Aug. 12 in Washington D.C. She also had her article “Rekindling a romance: Seniors who find lost loves” published in Family Focus: Special Issue on Aging by the National Council on Family Relations.

Roger Sullivan, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "Emotional Reward as Motivation for Human Drug Use: An Evolutionary Critique" at the 17th Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Austin, Texas in June.

In the News

Rob Wassmer, Public Policy and Administration, was one of two local housing and urban development experts featured in an article in the September Comstock's business magazine on "Outward Bound: Larger lots and lower prices are luring homeowners away from Sacramento."

Sue Cote, Criminal Justice, was interviewed for a Sept. 12 Sacramento Bee story on Placer County's efforts to track sex offenders.