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Professional Activities

Students

The Sacramento State Debate Team won the Santa Rosa Junior College Invitational Debate Tournament on Oct.17. The team took top honors by closing out the novice division of policy debate. Two of the teams were seeded first and second and went on to win both semi-final debate rounds to become co-champions of the tournament, taking home both first and second place honors. The team of Ramshin Daneshi and Kaitlin Ferrick went undefeated throughout the entire tournament. Laura Hampton and Adrienne Yoseph won five of their six preliminary debates.

Scholarship

Bryan Coleman-Salgado, Physical Therapy, delivered a platform talk about his research on “Gender Disparities Among Physical Therapy Students in Passing Terminal Clinical Internships” at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Educational Leadership Conference in Arlington, VA on Oct. 6.

Chrystal Barranti, David Nylund, Serge Lee and Francis Yuen, Social Work, authored three chapters: “Teen Pregnancy and Girl Students with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties,” “Deconstructing Patriarchy and Masculinity with Teen Fathers: a Narrative Approach,” and “Explaining Early Marriage in the Hmong American Community” for a new book, Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood: Global perspective, Issues and Interventions.

Sacramento State’s College of Continuing Education has been named Professional Development Provider of the Year and its innovative Caltrans Project Management Certificate Program was named Professional Development Product of the Year for 2006 by the Project Management Institute.

Louis Downs, Department of Counselor Education, recently received word from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars that he has qualified for a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship. He is presently working with two universities in Malaysia to develop a project to consult with faculty and staff at the universities to enhance counseling student skills acquisition as well as helping develop more effective international response to regional disasters.

Jonathan Kaplan, Economics, had his co-authored paper, "Multiple Environmental Externalities and Manure Management Policy," accepted for publication in The Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Ken Owens, History, is the author of "Frontiersman for the Tsar: Timofei Tarakanov and the Expansion of Russian America," which is featured in Montana The Magazine of Western History for autumn 2006.

Barbara Carle, Foreign Languages, has published an article titled "The American Editions of Alfredo De Palchi's Poetry: The Scorpion's Dark Dance, Sessions With My Analyst, Anonymous Constellations, Addictive Aversions," in Gradiva, Fall 2006.

Laurel Zucker, Music, is nominated for seven Just Plain Folks Awards. The Awards Concert, where Prof. Zucker would performing, is held at the Galaxy Theater in Pasadena, CA.

Dan Melzer, University Reading and Writing Coordinator, presented Writing Across the Curriculum workshops for the Northwestern Wisconsin Education Association Conference and the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire on October 12 and 13.

Sue Cote, Criminal Justice, presented a paper, “Crimes of the Internet: Sexual Offenders and Predatory Abuse on MySpace.com,” at the annual meetings of the Western and Pacific Association of Criminal Justice Educators held in Reno, NV in Oct.

Susan Wycoff, Counselor Education, will attend the National Board for Certified Counselors International Global Mental Health Congress: Focus on the Never Served, to be held in Delhi, India, in Oct.

Xin Ren, Criminal Justice, was a speaker invited by the UN International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council to present her research on Data Collection on Human Trafficking: What Can Be Collected and Measured-Asian Perspective at the UNISPAC Conference on Measuring Trafficking in Persons. Courmayour, Italy. December 1-5, 2005; presented a paper entitled, "Human Trafficking as A Global Enterprise," at the International Conference on International Criminal Justice in the Age of Globalization sponsored by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain in May; her book Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Systems in the Non-Western World was published by Criminal Justice Press in Aug.; and she was elected to the Executive Committee of World Society of Victimology in July to serve the term of 2006-2009.

In the news

Mary Mackey, English, was the subject of a feature article on her writing and teaching career on the front page of Sacramento Bee Metro Section on Oct. 17. Stephanie Antalocy, English, and graduate student B.L. Kennedy were quoted in the article.

Gina Kaufmann, Theatre and Dance, was interviewed on Friday, October 13, by Jeffrey Callison on KXJZ for the program "Insight" regarding her direction of The Crucible; an article was published in The Sacramento Bee, Ticket section on Sunday, October 15 on The Crucible.

Barbara O’Connor, Communication Studies, was quoted: in the July 28 San Francisco Chronicle and Davis Enterprise about the political benefits of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s appearance in San Francisco; in the Aug. 1 Pleasanton Valley Times, San Jose Mercury-News and Contra Costa Times about gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides’ receiving more money for his campaign than Gov. Schwarzenegger; in the June 22 Californian about politicians naming bills after victims of tragedies; in the July 24 Orange County Register about Assemblyman Rudy Bermudez running in 2012 for the seat he recently left to run for state Senate; and was interviewed on KCRA Channel 3 and KQCA Channel 58 on Aug. 9 about the gubernatorial candidates’ views on gay marriage.

Tom Kando, Sociology, was quoted in the July 8 Stockton Record about juvenile crime and its decline across the state over the past 12 years.

Stephen Perez, Economics, was quoted in the July 18 Lodi News-Sentinel about the price of laptop computers today versus personal computers in the late 1980s.

Maureen Smith, Kinesiology and Health Science, was quoted in the Aug. 14 Sacramento Bee about Sacramento’s civic identity in relation to the Sacramento Kings.

Robert Waste, Public Policy and Administration, was quoted in the Aug. 11 Sacramento Bee about attempts to energize development in the Sacramento downtown railyard and was interviewed on KXJZ on July 27 about the sales tax for an arena on the November ballot.

Tim Capron, Criminal Justice, was interviewed Aug. 11 on KXTV News 10 about security threats after the foiled terror plot.

Tim Hodson, Center for California Studies, was quoted in the Aug. 1 Sacramento Bee about campaign fundraising in the upcoming gubernatorial election.

Kimberly Nalder, Government, was interviewed on July 18 on KCRA Channel 3 about the political consequences of the President’s threatened veto of stem cell research.

Daryl Parker, Kinesiology and Health Science, was interviewed July 27 on KCRA Channel 3 about the steroid scandal of a recent Tour de France champion.

Eugene Dammel, Civil Engineering, was interviewed on KXJZ Capital Public Radio on Aug. 9 about waste and recycling in Sacramento.

William Vizzard, Criminal Justice, was interviewed on KCRA Channel 3, KXTV News 10 and KXTL Fox 40 on Aug. 11 about airline security and carry-on restrictions after the foiled terror plot.