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Christin Anderson, coordinator–wellness/fitness, worked with the American Journal of Health in Washington, D.C. in February as a political advocate for including health promotion on the national agenda. Meetings with Sen. Diane Feinstein, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and other officials resulted in the Feb. 14 introduction of Senate Concurrent Resolution 11, “Building Health Promotion and Disease Prevention into the National Agenda Resolution.” The resolution is now in committee for debate.
Bernadette Barker–Plummer, chair and assistant professor–media studies, had her paper, “The Political Economy of News Access: A Case Study of the National Organization for Women,” accepted for publication in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. She is also editing, with Dorothy Kidd, assistant professor-media studies, an issue of the Peace Review journal on “Social Justice Movements and the Internet.” The issue will be published in fall 2001.
John Callaway, assistant professor–environmental science, has been asked to serve on the Science Review Panel evaluating the proposed runway expansion at the San Francisco International Airport. The panel is coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In addition, Callaway is serving on the board of directors of the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies at San Francisco State University.
Jeffrey Carr, director–university center operations and services, presented a session at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Regional Professional Development seminar. Carr participated on a panel of technology experts and presented a session on “Bridging the Co-Curricular Digital Divide.” The panel shared extensive information on resources available for student affairs administrators and the session was a workshop that explored the characteristics of today’s college students and examined ways to include technology in the day-to-day co-curricular needs of students.
Mel Joseph Ciena, lecturer–psychology, a DJ at the well-known club Nikita, will be featured in the new film 2 am, which takes a look at DJs and club culture. It will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival. He was filmed both as a DJ at Nikita and as a lecturer at USF.
Mary Lou De Natale, associate professor–school of nursing, received the Art of Nursing Award from USF’s Beta Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau for the Advancement of the Profession of Nursing. She was recognized for a project conducted at the Legion of Honor with senior nursing students on the uses of art and paintings in the nursing curriculum. The nursing students were given various themes (i.e. contentment, compassion, caring, commitment, poverty, depression, isolation, and self-esteem) and asked for their reflections and applications. This project has been accepted for a poster presentation at a conference at the University of Washington in October 2001.
Raymond L. Dennehy, professor–philosophy, addressed CEOs on the ethical and social implications of laboratory reproduction and cloning in Palm Springs in April.
George Devine, adjunct professor–business and theology and religious studies, was a guest speaker in the Lenten Lecture Series at St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco. He spoke about the Catholic tradition of social and economic justice. Devine has also had his book Responses to 101 Questions on Business Ethics translated and published in Indonesian, Spanish, and Italian editions.
Elena Flores, associate professor–education, presented a paper titled, “Emotional Distress, Alcohol Use, and Violence Among Mexican American and European American Adolescents,” at the national conference of the Society for Research on Child Development in Minneapolis in April.
Rita Galvin, office assistant–financial aid, was chosen as one of two Academic Services colleagues to receive the “Academic Services Colleague Recognition Award” for the spring 2001 term. This award is given in recognition and honor of her extraordinary service as a valued Academic Services colleague.
Susan M. Heidenreich, associate professor–psychology, will present the results of a recent study of eye movements and visual perception at the international meeting for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The work, titled “Scan Paths for Modern Art Paintings do not Reflect the Viewer’s Aesthetic Judgments,” will be published in the scientific journal Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science.
 Andrew R. Heinze, associate professor–history, served as commentator on the panel “The Many Audiences of the Lower East Side,” at the Organization of American Historians annual convention in Los Angeles in April. He also organized a roundtable for the convention on “The Holocaust in American Life.”
Patrick J. Heryford, assistant director of corporate and foundation relations–advancement, interned on a book written by INOM adjunct faculty member Janice Gow Pettey. He helped with research and editing, prepared tables and charts, and wrote a case study based on his experiences working for a Chinatown-based nonprofit organization. Tentatively titled Diversity in the Philanthropic Sector, the book analyzes the traditions of giving and philanthropy in different ethnic cultures and is scheduled to be published by John Wiley & Sons in fall 2001.
 Daniel Kendall, S.J., professor and chair–theology and religious studies, was the organizer and chief editor of The Convergence of Theology: A Festschrift in Honor of Gerald O’Collins, S.J.
Dorothy Kidd, assistant professor–media studies, participated in several activities as part of the Project Censored Press Freedom Symposium and Conference at San Francisco State University in May. She spoke on “Sunday Morning Salon” on KPFA-FM about the direction of the independent media movement, chaired and spoke on the panel “International Dimensions of the Media Democracy Movement,” and also spoke about the Democratic Media Legal Project. Earlier this spring, she delivered a talk about the history of community radio at a forum sponsored by the Marin Social Justice Centre and the Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica. She is also currently editing with Bernadette Barker-Plummer, chair and assistant professor-media studies, an issue of the Peace Review journal on “Social Justice Movements and the Internet.” The issue will be published in fall 2001.
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 David Haekwon Kim, assistant professor–philosophy, presented “Racial Others, Foreign and Domestic: White Nationalism in the Pacific Century” at the Critical Theory and Race Conference at Purdue University on March 24. He also presented “The First Asian Americanist: W.E.B. Du Bois” at the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting on March 29. On April 28, Kim presented “Anomaly and Impurity in Disgust” at the Emotion and Cognition Conference, sponsored by the Center for Philosophical Education at SBCC.
Jose Luis Leiva, lecturer–fine and performing arts, designed and will direct the American classical musical West Side Story at the Diego Rivera Theater at City College of San Francisco. The musical will also feature USF student Magda Jisrawy, who dances the part of Teresita, a member of the “Sharks” gang.
Patricia Y.C.E. Lin, assistant professor–history, had her letter to the editor on educational software published in the New York Times on April 5, 2001.
Jack McLean, coordinator of community service and service learning–student affairs, was one of three panelists for a workshop titled “Institutionalizing Service: Problems, Solutions, and Plans for Moving Forward” at the recent Converging Perspectives on Service and Learning Conference sponsored by the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium.
Luis Murillo, assistant professor–school of business and management, was interviewed by Telemundo, Channel 48, San Jose on the topic of dollarization in El Salvador, Guatemala, and the rest of Central America. Telemundo, which is owned by CNN, is the second largest Spanish-language television network in the United States. A segment of the interview was broadcast locally during the evening news. Murillo was also interviewed Univision, the largest Spanish-language television network in the United States, headquartered in Miami. The interview was on the general state of the economy in the United States and the prospects of a recession. A segment of the interview was broadcast nationally on the network evening news. Murillo was also interviewed by Latin Finance magazine, a respected institutional American financial magazine and the only such journal specializing in Latin emerging financial markets. The article focused on the subject of dollarization in Latin America. He was quoted, along with bankers, World Bank economists, and government ministers, in an article by Mary O’Brien that appeared in the April issue.
Richard J. (Dick) Nicolopulos, men’s golf coach–athletics, was named WCC Men’s Golf Co-Coach of the Year by his fellow coaches. He led the Dons to a second place finish in the WCC tournament in April.
Maurice J. Penner, professor–cps, is the co-author of the article, “Reimbursement for Complimentary/Alternative Medicine by California HMOs,” which will be published in Managed Care Quarterly in fall 2001. He is also the first author of “Physician Office Access for the Uninsured; An Observational Study” that will be presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Sara Range, head women’s golf coach–athletics, was named West Coast Conference Coach of the Year by her fellow coaches. Range led the Lady Dons to the league championship in an upset defeat over No. 9 Pepperdine in the WCC tournament in April.
Paolo Ricci, professor–environmental science, will co-author Risk Assessment and Management of Air Quality. The book is scheduled for publication in May 2002. In addition, Ricci has been appointed to the Electric Power Research Institute Advisory for Ecological Assessments and Management. Also, Ricci was appointed to a peer review panel for the U.S. Department of Energy. He was in Washington D.C. in April on the peer review of environmental technologies. Ricci also taught an intensive risk management and assessment course at the University of Queensland in Australia for federal and state managers in April and May.
 Glori Simmons, arts facilities manager–fine and performing arts, received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for a book in progress. Her poem “Graft” is forthcoming in the Beloit Poetry Journal.
Melinda Stone, visiting media artist in residence–media studies, received a $10,000 grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for a site specific outdoor screening at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in July. The event is titled “Sink or Swim” and consists of 14 commissioned short films and installations from well known Bay Area filmmakers as well as films made by Hunters Point residents that were created in a workshop that took place in May and June.
John T. Sullivan, fletcher jones professor–biology, co-authored with R. E. Vasquez a paper titled “Effect of miracidial dose on adoptively transferred resistance to Schistosoma mansoni in the snail intermediate host, Biomphalaria glabrata,” which was published in the April issue of The Journal of Parasitology.
Mark Thoma, coordinator of off-campus housing–office of residence life, was recently recognized as “Outstanding Committee Member of the Year” by the Western Association of College and University Housing (WACUHO). This is one of the top honors in the association since all of its activities are volunteer-driven and committee-organized. WACUHO acknowledged Thoma’s leadership for chairing and hosting an apartment living conference for the western United States region in only his first year in the association and in the region. The conference was held at USF in February.
Linda V. Walsh, associate professor–school of nursing, had had her book Midwifery: Community-based Care During the Childbearing Year published by W. B. Saunders Co. Her paper “Midwives as Wives and Mothers: Urban Midwives in the Early Twentieth Century” was published as a chapter in the textbook, Enduring Issues in American Nursing by Baer, D’Antonio, Rinker and Lynsugh.
Billy Wong, cps records coordinator–university registrar, was chosen as one of the two Academic Services colleagues to receive the “Academic Services Colleague Recognition Award” for the spring 2001 term. This award is given in recognition and honor of his extraordinary service as a valued Academic Services colleague.
Stephen Zunes, associate professor–politics, co-led a workshop on conflict resolution for Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Italy in February. The workshop was sponsored by the Pax Christi and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. At the close of the workshop, he gave a lecture sponsored by the University of Florence and the city government on “The Study of Nonviolence in Higher Education,” which took place in the Palazio Vecchio. Afterward, he gave a talk at the University of Turin on “The Growth of Nonviolent Direct Action in Global Social Movements.”
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