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Posted the week of November 8, 2004

Grants

Tim Horner, geology, was recently awarded a research grant for $97,390 from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Central Valley Project Improvement Act. The one-year project will study "Habitat Suitability of Spawning Gravels on the Lower American River" and will support graduate and undergraduate student research.

Scholarship

Dave Zuckerman, communication studies, will be responding to "Cultural Values, Adaptation, and Conflict," an intercultural communication panel at the 2005 Western States Communication Association convention in February in San Francisco.

Sylvia Fox, journalism, was on a panel at the UC Berkeley campus to discuss the media and “Campus Secrecy.” It was one of several October events sponsored by the California First Amendment Coalition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the free speech movement.

Duane Campbell, bilingual/multicultural education, has just published The Instructor's Manual to his book, Choosing Democracy: A Practical Guide to Multicultural Education.

Val Smith and Linda Tucker, communication studies, have been appointed to the editorial board of the journal Communication Education.

Diego Bonilla, communication studies, won the Internet/Multimedia category in the XXVI Moscow International Film Festival with his non-linear fictional piece entitled “A Space of Time." The festival is one of the 11 competitive feature film festivals accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Bonilla also won the Art Direction award in the Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival last summer.

Rob Wassmer, public policy and administration, presented his paper on "Local Fiscal Structure as a Cause of Urban Sprawl in the United States" at the 97th Annual Conference on Taxation of the National Tax Association on Nov. 11 in Minneapolis. He presented his paper on "Urban Sprawl's Impact on Housing Prices in U.S. Urban Areas" at the 26th Annual APPAM Research Conference on Oct. 28 in Atlanta, and he discussed "Sacramento's Blueprint Project to Reduce Sprawl" as a guest on Capital Public Radio's "Insight" on Oct. 22.

Tony Platt, social work, had his research on Sacramento State's relationship with C. M. Goethe reported in summer 2004 issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. He co-wrote an article with Sacramento State alum Amy LaPan titled “To Stem the Tide of Degeneracy: The Eugenic Impulse in Social Work,” which will be published in Mental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives. Platt’s article, “Reconstructing Race and Crime: The Radical Tradition Revisited,” has been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, & Society. And a memoir, “Everyone Else: Becoming Jewish," has been published in Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry.