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Professional Activities

Scholarship

Bill Leach, Public Policy and Administration and Center for Collaborative Policy, co-authored two papers at the annual conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Los Angeles, Nov. 7-8:  "Collaboration and Its Alternatives? What We Know from Comparative Research on Environmental Governance" and "Can Collaborative Institutions Substantially Reduce the Devil Shift and Negative Constructions of Target Populations?"  He also served as the discussant for a panel titled, "Water as One of the Biggest Policy Challenges in the Western United States over the Next Decade: Toward an Action and Research Agenda."

Monica Freeman, Global Education, has been elected International President of Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society for International Scholars for 2008-09.  PBD is the first honor society dedicated to recognizing international scholarly achievement of faculty, students, and staff in all disciplines. There are 171 chapters worldwide, including the Omicron Chapter at Sacramento State. 

David Booher, Center for Collaborative Policy, co-edited and wrote the lead article, “Civic Engagement and the Quality of Urban Places,” for a special feature on civic engagement in the international journal Planning Theory and Practice. Booher also gave a presentation on, "Social Justice and Sustainable Regions," at the UC Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development on Nov. 20.

Marjorie Gelus, Foreign Languages, has accepted an invitation to be a keynote speaker at an international conference at the University of Exeter in England in July 2011, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist.

Louis Downs, Counselor Education, has accepted an invitation by the Chinese counselor/psychotherapist certification agency, psychcn, to travel to Sichuan Province Dec. 9-31 to train the earthquake disaster mental health team in treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and in group counseling skills and techniques. Downs has also accepted five invitations from the International Symposium on Counseling and Social Work, the Penang General Hospital psychiatric staff, the Penang Counseling Association, Turning Point Wellness Center and Kolej New Era to spend two weeks in Malaysia in January 2009 doing workshops for psychotherapists and counselors on various areas of psychotherapeutic intervention.

Student Spotlight

Sarah Estrella, Byron Love, and Michelle Beachley, Biological Sciences, presented talks at the Wildlife Society's Natural Resources Symposium held in the University Union on Nov. 5.

In the News

Wesley Hussey, Government, spoke with Time.com on Oct. 8 and with Capital Public Radio on Oct. 27 regarding the McClintock-Brown congressional race and on Oct. 15 with Time.com about the McNerney-Andal congressional race. Hussey also spoke with the Bakersfield Californian about the 30th Assembly District.