Professional Activities

Student spotlight

The Olympic Weightlifting Club won the 3rd place team trophy at the Golden West Open. Ben Claridad won the 4th place medal for outstanding junior lifter. Kathy Redcher-Bowling won the 69kg division and graduate student Mark Saldana, 3rd in the men's 62kg class.

Biological Sciences student G. Vernon Williams received an award for his research and poster presentation at the National Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Atlanta Nov. 2-5. His poster was entitled "The Effect of Sambucus mexicana (Elderberry) Juice on the Growth of Common Bacterial Organisms." The poster was co-authored by Susanne Lindgren, Biological Sciences faculty, Vernon's research mentor and collaborator on the project. The initial project idea came out of a summer research experience with Lindgren through the Alliance for Minority Participation program which is funded and administrated through the Science Educational Equity program in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Kinesiology graduate student Jackie Nasca presented her master's thesis “Perfectionism and Anxiety in Competitive Track and Field” at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology in Vancouver, Canada on Oct. 28.

Kinesology graduate students Melissa Madeson, Jackie Nasca, and Cindy Long-Nicholson along with Professor Gloria Solomon presented their research “The Assessment of Athletic Ability at the Junior College Level” at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology in Vancouver, Canada on Oct. 29.

Biological Sciences graduate student Lynn Drennan has been awarded the Mark Tomasello Grant from the Pacific Coast Cichlid Association for her work on mate selection in a cichlid fish.


Grants

Katherine D. McReynolds, Chemistry, has been awarded a two-year, $41,220 grant from Research Corporation titled "Synthesis of Novel Anionic Glycodendrimers and Evaluation of their Anti-Viral Properties."

Scholarship

Robert Halseth, Music, served as conductor of the 2005 Iowa Collegiate Honor Band, leading rehearsals and giving a concert in C. Y. Stephens Auditorium on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, Nov. 18-19. He also gave an address, "To Be Or Not To Be ... Expressive," at the Iowa Music Educators' Association.

Otis Scott, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, will have his essay on two recently published books on genocide published in the December 2005 volume of the journal The International History Review.

Terry Webb, Library, presented a paper “The Tourist Has Two Faces: Local Knowledge and Ethnic Tourism Development in West China,” in Jinghong, China, in July, at an international conference on the economic development of Western China, organized by Yunnan University. In November Webb addressed the First International Conference on the Universal Digital Library, held in Hangzhou, China. The presentation was “Digital Libraries and the Reformation of Scholarly Communication” which was co-authored by Bin Zhang, Library.

Ernie Hills, Music, served as the moderator for a panel presentation on faculty workload management issues at the recent meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music. He also serves as vice-chair of NASM’s western states regional organization.

Gloria B. Solomon, Kinesiology, co-presented a teaching workshop entitled “The Cutting Edge: Integrating Technology into Teaching and Consulting” at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology in Vancouver, Canada on Oct. 27.

Louis Downs, Counselor Education, had his co-authored book, Building a Results-Based Student Support Program, published by Lahaska Press in September.

Joseph Palermo, History, spoke at a memorial event in honoring what would have been the 80th birthday of Robert F. Kennedy in Washington D.C. on November 16. Palermo is the author of In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, (Columbia, 2001) and was invited to speak at the event by the RFK Memorial Foundation. Other speakers included Senators Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Edward Kennedy, Mark Dayton and Paul Sarbanes, and Congressmen John Lewis and Dennis Kucinich. The event was broadcast on C-SPAN’s "American Perspectives" program Nov. 19.

In the News

Ernie Hills, Music, was interviewed several times on radio station KFBK prior to the appearance of Paul McCartney at Arco Arena on Nov. 16. Hills is the local advocate for the Music Lives Foundation, a charitable organization supported by McCartney and devoted to raising funds for school music programs.

Joseph Palermo, History, wrote an op-ed for the San Jose Mercury News on Robert Kennedy's relevance to the politics of 2005. It is featured on the RFK Memorial Foundation's website.

Elizabeth Hough, Continuing Education, was quoted in the Sacramento Business Journal on Nov. 23 on the University's development of a culinary and hospitality program to supplement the area’s growing hotel and restaurant industry.

Anthony Platt, Social Work emeritus, was quoted in the Oct. 3 Sacramento Bee about the philanthropist Charles Goethe and a symposium about eugenics and its place in California.

Laura Basini, Music, was featured in the Oct. 10 edition of Sacramento Bee about her move from Wales to California, her passion for all kinds of music, her classes at Sacramento State and her curiosity with baseball.

Joshua McKinney, English, was featured in the Sacramento News and Review on Sept. 15 about his book of poetry, The Novice Mourner, and the inspiration behind it.

Donald Kendrick, Music, was featured in the October edition of Sacramento Magazine for his involvement with six local choirs.

Robert Waste, Public Policy and Administration, was quoted in the Oct. 7 Sacramento Business Journal on his interpretation of the California Environmental Quality Act in relation to a controversy over a housing development in Sacramento. Inside Arden magazine also used an excerpt from a letter Waste wrote about the L St. Lofts.

Robert Fountain, President’s Office, was quoted in the Nov. 7 Sacramento Business Journal on the affordability of California homes and likely buyers for the area.

Barbara O'Connor, Communication Studies, was quoted in: an Oct. 8 Sacramento Bee article on the power of labor unions on the Sacramento City Council, the Oct. 5 San Francisco Chronicle about Gov. Schwarzenegger's special election campaign, the Oct. 8 San Francisco Chronicle about Schwarzenegger's signing of a bill that prohibited California high school students from using some dietary supplements, an Oct. 7 Sacramento Bee story about an obscene t-shirt that got a woman kicked off an airline flight, a Sept. 33 Los Angeles Times article on campaign fundraising for the California Special Election including the millions spent on television advertisements, a Sept. 27 San Ramon Valley Times article about the ABC drama "Commander in Chief,” an article featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, The San Francisco Examiner, The San Francisco Daily Journal, the East Bay Daily News, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the Redding Record-Searchlight, and the Vallejo Times Herald about the California legislators’ pay increase, and a Sept. 17 Santa Ana Register article about Gov. Schwarzenegger's decision to seek a second term.