Professional Activities

Student Spotlight

Bianka Bommarito and Samantha Hilber, Biological Sciences student, presented their honors thesis research in the student competition at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, in Tampa, Fla., July 6. Bommarito’s oral paper was entitled "Choice of Spawning Temperature by Neotropical Cichlid Fishes." Hilber’s paper was titled "Egg Size Through Consecutive Spawning in the Convict Cichlid."

Recognition

Sacramento State was recognized as one of the top 10 water ski programs in the country and as a “a perennial contender at the national level” in the fall 2005 issue of WaterSki magazine.

Kent Porter has been named associate vice president for Human Resources. Porter has served in the California State University system for almost 15 years at both the system and campus level. He was previously assistant vice president for Faculty Affairs at CSU Dominguez Hills. Porter will begin his appointment at Sacramento State on Nov. 1.

WAVE Camp, a summer camp for young people with disabilities directed by kinesiology professor Scott Modell, was recognized by Sacramento County as one of the outstanding collaborative programs in Sacramento that serve youth. The Sacramento community made the America’s Promise list of the 100 best communities for young people. The list was featured in Newsweek magazine.

Anthony Sheppard, Recreation and Leisure Studies, and Derek Bevers, staff member and Anthropology and Digital Media student, received an honorable mention (2nd Place) at the Orinda Film Festival in Orinda, Sept. 24. Their submission "Condiment Love" was an entry in a Cinemasports sponsored program, in which participants are given 10 hours to make a finished movie based on a given set of themes. The two have worked previously on several other projects and Sheppard is also a director of the Sacramento Film and Music Festival (www.sacfilm.com), an all-genre festival that promotes local filmmakers and musicians as well as screening films submitted from around the world.

Scholarship

Bill Owen, Communication Studies, has a haiku published in the Oct. 1 issue of Mainichi Daily News, Tokyo, Japan.

Sal Arrigo, Jr., Recreation and Leisure Studies, chaired a golf tournament to benefit the Alzheimer’s Aid Society of Northern California. The event raised more than $29,000 to help families and caregivers of those afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.

William DeGraffenreid, Physics and Astronomy, gave a talk titled "Teaching Professionalism/Ethics to Undergraduates" at the 2005 American Association of Physics Teachers meeting on Aug. 10 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Terri Castaneda, Anthropology, presented the paper "'Come to the Dark Side'.....What is Authenticity in Museums?" at the annual meeting of the Western Museums Association in Pasadena, Sept. 28-Oct. 2.

Diana Tumminia, Sociology, had her book When Prophecy Never Fails published by Oxford University Press.

Ron Coleman, Biological Sciences, presented an oral paper entitled "Storms, Growth and Egg Size in Riverine Neotropical Cichlids" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, in Tampa, Fla. on July 6.

In the News

Roger Sullivan, Anthropology, had his research on the evolution of human drug use featured in an article by science writer Meredith Small in the September issue of the Australian science magazine Cosmos.

Beth Kivel, Recreation and Leisure Studies, had a letter to the editor published in the June 23 Sacramento News & Review in response to a story about the Oak Park neighborhood. Kivel was also interviewed on KCRA Channel 3 for the National Night Out Event on Aug. 4.