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 Pamela Balls Organista, associate professor–psychology, and Rebecca Cameron, assistant professor–psychology, were interviewed by the newspaper Nuevo Mundo about bulimia in March.
Betty Carmack, professor–school of nursing, recently attended a three-day course on end-of-life care held in Pasadena. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the City of Hope Cancer Center received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct this program for undergraduate nursing school faculty. The principal goal of the training program was to provide faculty with information on end-of-life care and resources to integrate end-of-life content into nursing school programs.
Chris DeLorenzo, lecturer–expository writing program, Leslie Dennen, coordinator–expository writing program, Charlene Lobo, assistant coordinator–learning center, and Lisa Mahon, lecturer–expository writing program, gave a panel presentation at the Northern California Writing Center Association (NCWCA) conference, held on March 3. The presentation was titled “Working Outside the Boundaries of the Writing Center.”
Greg DeBourgh, assistant professor–school of nursing, has been invited to present a paper in June at the WebCT International Annual Users Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The conference focuses on using technology to transform the educational experience. His presentation and paper are titled “Simple Elegance: WebCt As Pedagogical Infrastructure To Enhance Science Learning."’DeBourgh was also recently honored with an Innovation in Scholarship Award for his Web-based application to enhance the impact of a clinical nursing course. The honor was presented by the Beta Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Raymond Dennehy, professor–philosophy, served as chair for a panel discussion on the philosophy of history at the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Convention on March 29 in San Francisco.
Robert Elias, professor and chair–politics, was selected as one of 10 finalists in a national competition for the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, sponsored annually by Campus Compact. The award recognizes faculty whose teaching, scholarship, and leadership on campus and in the community exemplify exceptional service-learning practices. Beyond consistently advocating and providing leadership for service learning at his own institution, Elias is also a supporter of service learning within professional organizations, including the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Peace Studies Association.
Michael Harrington, senior financial analyst–business and finance, earned dean’s list honors for the fall semester and graduated in December from the university’s School of Business and Management MBA program with an invitation for membership in the national honorary society Beta Gamma Sigma.
Andrew Heinze, associate professor–history, was invited by the University of Arizona in March to speak on the subject, “Psychoanalyzing America: How Jews Changed American Thought in the 20th Century.”
Edith Ho, legal writing instructor–school of law, has been named vice president of the board of directors for the Asian-American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. She will serve as vice president throughout 2001, and will become the next president of the board of directors in 2002.
Peter Jan Honigsberg, professor–school of law, spoke to students at Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law on March 30 about the Multistate Performance Test. Earlier in the month, he gave a presentation on the California Performance Test to students at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. In January, he taught a performance test workshop for students at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Aida Joshi, associate professor–education, was a presenter in two separate panels at the 45th annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) held March 13 to 17 in Washington, D.C. Her first paper was titled “International Spread of English: Implications for Global Equity,” and her second paper was titled “Global Culturalism.” Joshi, who also writes poetry, was recently published in the Winter 2001 edition of The Poets' Corner, the official journal of the International Society of Poets (ISP). The title of her poem is “Tomorrow May Never Come.” An exhibit of Joshi’s poems has been put up by ISP's International Hall of Fame and can be viewed online at www.poets.com.
Patricia Lin, assistant professor-history, will participate in a panel on "Religious Pluralism in the Lives of Pacific and Asian North America Women" at the Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley on April 25th.
Lois Ann Lorentzen, associate professor-theology and religious studies, was an invited lecturer for the Yulee Seminar at the University of Florida on March 22.Her topic was gender and environmentalism. Lorentzen is a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies Center of the University of Florida for Spring 2001. She gave her Rockefeller presentation, "Conspirando–Transnational Feminism and Progressive Catholicism" on March 29. On May 25, Lorentzen's book, La Etica y El Medio Ambiente, will be presented at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Puebla, Mexico.
 Thomas R. MacDonald, assistant professor–environmental science, published an article with graduate student Glenda Pigram in Environmental Science and Technology, the American Chemical Society’s environmental journal. The article is titled “Use of Neural Network Models to Predict Industrial Bioreactor Effluent.”
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Esther Madriz, associate professor–sociology, was interviewed on Univision March 19 about her research on women and crime. Madriz was also interviewed by Radio Unica in March about school shootings.
Julio Moreno, assistant professor of history, served as a political commentator on the significance of the meeting between Mexican President Vicente Fox and U.S. President George W. Bush, and Fox’s recent visit to California. Interviews with Moreno were featured on KPIX-TV, Telemundo, Univision, Radio Unica, and in the Sacramento Bee. The interviews included a 30-minute live analysis of relations between the United States and Mexico with the Sacramento division of Univision. Moreno also spoke about lynchings of judges in Guatemala on Univision in March.
Mary Theresa Moser, RSCJ, assistant dean–academic programs, arts and sciences, had her presidential address, which was delivered to the College Theology Society at its annual meeting at Villanova University in June 2000, published in the Fall 2000 edition of Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society. Her address is titled “Between a Rock And a Hard Place: Theologians and the Mandatum.”
Bill Murray, professor–school of business and management, was interviewed March 19 by Channel 5 about the Japanese economy.
 Elliot Neaman, associate professor and chair–history, had his review of a new book about the German idea of “heimat” (homeland) published in the Winter 2000 edition of German Politics and Society. His review of a new book about the German philosopher Martin Heidegger was published in the March 2001 edition of Constellations.
Maureen O’Sullivan, professor-psychology, was featured in a story about lying in romantic relationships titled “Gotcha.” The story was written by Sarah Graham and Lynn O’Donnell for the Web site NYC24.com in February.
The publications department was recently honored with a bronze award for the university’s redesigned web site and an award of merit for the honor roll of donors at the Admissions Marketing Report's 16th Annual Admissions Advertising Awards. AMA taps a panel of industry specialists who judge entries from the nation’s best campaigns based on creativity, marketing execution, and impact of message. These are the department's 55th and 56th awards.
Ray Quirolgico, associate director–residence life, was an invited panelist for the first-ever “National Summit of the State of LGBT People and Issues in Higher Education.” The summit was held March 17 in Seattle. It was co-sponsored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education, and the Gill Foundation.
Darrell Schramm, coordinator–expository writing program, had an abridged version of his essay, “Father’s Sorrow, Father’s Joy,” published in the new educational reader Families in Later Life: Connections and Transitions, (Pine Forge/Sage Publications). The essay was first published in A Member of the Family in 1992.
 Shalendra Sharma, associate professor–politics and director–ma program in asia-pacific studies, was selected as guest editor of a special issue of Revista de Economia Politica: Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. His article, “All Financial Crises are Different, All Financial Crises are Similar: Latin America and Asia in the 1990s,” will appear in the issue. Other contributors include the finance ministers of Brazil and Mexico.
Colin Silverthorne, professor–psychology, had his article, “A test of the Path-Goal Leadership Theory in Taiwan,” accepted for publication in the journal, Leadership and Organization Development.
Michael Stanfield, associate professor–history and coordinator–latin american studies program, will present a lecture on April 17 at the University of California, Berkeley about drugs and U.S. foreign policy in Colombia titled, “Silence, Denial, and Violence: Drugs, Colombia, and Us.”
Helen Betsy Stetson, associate professor–school of nursing, will present her holistic health nursing research titled “Learning Early: Nursing Students and Self Care Research” at the San Francisco Holistic Nursing Network meeting on May 9 at USF.
John T. Sullivan, fletcher jones professor–biology, served on a National Institutes of Health grant review panel in the area of vector biology March 21 to 23 in Bethesda, Md.
Jack Treacy, S.J., rector–jesuit community, has been elected to a three-year term as chair of the Higher Education Rectors Organization, the national body of rectors of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities.
Stephen Zunes, associate professor–politics, was a guest on a talk show on WJHU-FM (Baltimore) on March 19 regarding the ongoing violence in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
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