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Professional Activities

Scholarship

Virginia Dixon, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, presented 12 lectures at three universities in the People's Republic of China during March and April 2007. Dixon served as a Distinguished Scholar at Xuzhou Normal University in Xuzhou, East China Normal University in Shanghai, and Zheijiang University of Science and Technology in Hangzhou.

David Madden, English, recently signed a contract to be a co-editor on The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction, to be published by Blackwell in England, the largest academic publisher in the world. The volume will feature approximately 210 authors and some related special topics and will be a companion to two other volumes in this series--The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century British Fiction and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Fiction in English.

Robert Ortbal, Art, is presenting his work at the JayJay Gallery in Sacramento.  The show, "Untold Wrinkles," will be up from Nov. 7-Dec. 22, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10.

Ken Owens, History emeritus, received the Vivian Paladin prize from the editorial board of Montana The Magazine of Western History. This prize, which is awarded annually for the best article to appear in the magazine during the previous year, went to Owens for his essay, “Frontiersman for the Tsar: Timofei Tarkanov and the Expansion of Russian America,” published in the Autumn 2006 edition. This past August, Owens’ paper, “Alexander Baranov and the Making of Russian America,” was read before the Fourth Russian American History and Archaeology Conference, meeting in Irkutsk, Siberia. Owens also published his article, “Blue-Ribbon Tailwaters: The Unplanned Role of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Western Fly Fishing,” in The American Fly Fisher: Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing: 33-2 (Spring 2007). 

Bill Leach, Center for Collaborative Policy, gave a talk on "Collaboration and Its Alternatives: What We Know from Comparative Research on Environmental Governance" at a symposium on "Collaborative Governance in the West" at Oregon State University, Oct. 1.

Staff

Terry Cataline, Outreach, Admissions and Records, was recognized at an awards dinner on Sept. 25 by the vice chancellor of the California Community Colleges for his contributions to the development and successful start-up of the new statewide “CCCTran” electronic transcript system. The CCCTran system is expected to replace most of the paper processing of student transcript deliveries between California Community Colleges, CSU campuses and other colleges each year.

Students

James Phillips, graduate student in Biological Sciences, presented his master's research entitled, "Nest site selection by cuckolder (Type II) plainfin midshipman" (co-authored with Ron Coleman, Biological Sciences) at the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, San Francisco, Sept. 2-7.