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John Blackwell, Chair–Exercise and Sport Science, and Trudy May, Secretary–Exercise and Sport Science, played conference host and secretary, respectively, at the IXX International Symposium on Biomechanics in Sport and the Fifth National Symposium on Teaching Biomechanics in Sport in June. More than 250 individuals representing 38 countries attended the week-long conference at USF. Photos of the conference may be viewed at www.usfca.edu/ess/sym2001.
 Aranzazu Borrachero, Assistant Professor–Modern and Classical Languages, Pedro Lange-Churion, Associate Professor–Modern and Classical Languages (pictured), Cecilia Santos, Professor–Sociology, Dorothy Kidd, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, and Susana Kaiser, Assistant Professor–Media Studies and Latin American Studies, collaborated to present the mini film festival and discussion “Latin American Cinema and Human Rights” in October. Held at USF and co-sponsored by the Fifth Annual Latino Film Festival, the program, supported by the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas and faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, brought together students, faculty, staff, and community members from around the Bay Area.
Francis J. Buckley, S.J., Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, will have his article “Parish Catechesis in a Secularized Society” published in the religious journal Lumen Vitae. Connexions, the magazine of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, will publish his article “Teaching about Terrorism and War.”
 Horacio E. Camblong, Associate Professor–Physics, co-wrote an article, “Quantum Anomaly in Molecular Physics,” which will be published later this month in the premier physics journal Physical Review Letters.
Thomas Cavanaugh, Associate Professor–Philosophy, recently reviewed On Homicide & Commentary on Summa theologiae IIaIIae Q. 64 by Francisco de Vitoria, O.P. for the journal Faith and Reason.
Shelwyn Corrigan, Lecturer–ESL, received a grant from the American Medical Women’s Association and Pharmacia Corp. for her work developing a software program for the speech impaired.
Connie de la Vega, Professor–Law, spoke on international human rights at Santa Clara University School of Law in October. She spoke about U.N. agencies that address human rights, participation by the United States in those agencies, and recent developments in the juvenile death penalty, migrant workers’ rights, women’s rights, and environmental and human rights. De la Vega also testified Oct. 25 as an expert during the penalty phase of the trial of a 16-year-old offender. Her testimony covered U.S. treaty obligations and applications.
Raymond Dennehy, Professor–Philosophy, lectured on abortion before a class of 700 students at the University of California, Berkeley, on Oct. 15. It was his 29th semester addressing the topic in that course. Also in October, he debated Santa Clara Law Professor Margaret Russell at Hastings School of Law on the U. S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Michael Fraley, Director–Programming, has a poem, “Wild Horses,” in the fall 2001 issue of Plainsongs, a poetry magazine published by Hastings College in Hastings, Neb. Plainsongs is indexed by the Index of American Periodical Verse.
 Eileen Chia-Ching Fung, Assistant Professor–English, had her article “The Cultural Politics of (Dis)Orientation: Mapping the Racial and Gender Bodies in Mandeville’s Travels” accepted for publication in Atlantic Literary Review. Her article “To Eat the Flesh of His Dead Mother: Hunger, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk” will be reprinted in a forthcoming anthology, Food in the USA, by Routledge University Press.
 Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Professor–Communication Studies and Coordinator–ESL, was chair of the presentation “Building Respect and Professionalism Among ESL Personnel” and a panelist for the session “Ethics in International Education? It All Depends?” at a regional conference of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors: Association of International Educators on Nov. 4-8 in Palm Springs. In addition, she was a panelist for a session, “What is an IEP? Why Should You Work at One?” at the Northern California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages conference on Nov. 3 at Cal State Hayward.
Debra Jackson, Lecturer–Philosophy, presented a paper, “Surviving Sexual Assault: A Phenomenological Approach to Rape Theory,” at the October meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Baltimore, Md.
Melissa Kenzig, Coordinator–Student Health Education, had her article “Evaluating Peer Education Programs” published as the cover story in the August 2001 issue of The Peer Educator.
David Kim, Assistant Professor–Philosophy, presented “Mortal Revulsion: The Structure and Significance of Disgust” at the Philosophy and Emotion Conference in July, sponsored by the University of Manchester and the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He also presented the paper “Emotion and Racial Agency” and served as a faculty mentor at the Rutgers Summer Institute for Minorities in Philosophy.
Luis Murillo, Assistant Professor–Business and Management, recently visited several universities and stock markets in South Africa, Namibia, and Mozambique as part of his ongoing research on emerging markets. Murillo also received a congratulatory letter from the Presidential Palace of Panama regarding his frequent newspaper articles on economics, politics, and social conditions. Murillo has been named to the 2001-2002 editorial board of Industrial Management and Data Systems, an operations management academic journal.
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Larry Murphy, Professor Emeritus–Psychology, is competing in lawn bowling in California and Scotland. His four-man team took first place at the 2001 U.S. Open in Orange County and he won the Northern California Novice Singles championship in September. His memberships include the San Francisco Lawn Bowling Club, the St. Andrews Bowls Club in Scotland, and the Professional Bowlers Association.
Michael O’Neill, Professor–CPS, spent April through June as a visiting professor at the Centre for Nonprofit Management at Trinity College, Dublin. O’Neill is completing a book on the U.S. nonprofit sector to be published in June 2002 by Jossey-Bass. His article, “Research on Giving and Volunteering: Methodological Considerations,” appeared in the September 2001 issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. He co-authored an article, “The Implications of Organizational Location for University-Based Programs in Nonprofit Management,” which appeared in the September 2001 issue of Public Performance and Management Review.
Maureen O’Sullivan, Professor–Psychology, presented a paper on sense of humor at the Positive Psychology Summit in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 25. She also presented a day-long workshop on interrogation techniques at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s academy on Oct. 24. She was also featured on Bay Area ABC affiliate KGO-TV commenting on the Aug. 23 Connie Chung interview with California Congressman Gary Condit.
Judy Pace, Assistant Professor–Education, received a two-year appointment as editor of the American Educational Research Association Division B (curriculum studies) newsletter.
Nina D. Patterson, Director–Multicultural and International Student Services, was a guest lecturer for three classes in the ethnic studies department at Solano Community College. Her lectures focused on women in higher education, the black family, and African American student satisfaction and success in higher education.
 Steve Runyon, General Manager–KUSF and Lecturer–Media Studies, published a chapter on Wanda Ramey, the first woman news anchor in the Western United States, in the recently released book Indelible Images: Women of Local Television.
Samantha Schoech, Instructor–Expository Writing, wrote a short piece on San Francisco’s outer Sunset district for the November issue of San Francisco Magazine. Her short story “This is Living” will be published next year in the Gettysburg Review.
George Schultze, S.J., Assistant Professor–Social Ethics, presented “Work, Worship, Laborem Exercens, and the U.S. Today” at a conference Sept. 14 in Vatican City. The conference, “Work as Key to the Social Question: The Great Social and Economic Transformations and the Subjective Dimension of Work,” was part of a meeting to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical “On Human Work.”
Shalendra D. Sharma, Associate Professor–Politics and Director–Asia Pacific Studies Program, published “The World Trade Organization: The South in a Changing Global Political Economy” as a chapter in TRIPS, the Uruguay Round and Third World Interests. He also had an article, “Comparing the Post-Reform Chinese and Indian Economy,” published in Issues and Studies: A Journal of Chinese Studies and International Affairs.
Glori Simmons, Arts Facilities Manager–Fine and Performing Arts, received the 2001 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from the Beloit Poetry Journal. Her book of poems, Graft, recipient of an Academy of American Poets Greenwald Fund grant, is due out from Truman State University Press in December.
Victoria Siu, Lecturer–History, has been invited to give a paper,“The Exchange of Objects Between China and the West as a Result of the Christian Missions to China,” in spring 2002 at UCLA. She will focus on the design and construction of the European pavilions in the Yuanming Yuan imperial garden.
John T. Sullivan, Fletcher Jones Professor–Biology, gave a presentation titled “Opportunistic Infections by Free-Living Amoebae” on Oct. 27 at the annual meeting of the Northern California American Society for Microbiology in Concord.
Josie Weiss, Coordinator–CPS and Frank Gigliotti, Assistant–CPS, candidates for the MFA in writing from USF, read fiction and nonfiction essays on Nov. 2 at a weekly reading at the Monticello Inn in San Francisco.
Michael Wilson, Circulation/Reserves Coordinator–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, directed the film Brown, based on a poem by Glori Simmons, Arts Facilities Manager–Fine and Performing Arts, which screened at the Smithsonian Institution in October as part of the Washington, D.C. 2001 Asian Pacific American Film Festival. Wilson was also the recipient of a 2001 Princess Grace Award Honorarium for his work in progress, The Bride Stripped Bare.
 Xiaoxin Wu, Director–Ricci Institute, organized an international symposium in Beijing, China in October. The conference, Encounters and Dialogues, brought together more than 100 scholars from 19 countries and regions. The meeting was the first of its kind to be held in China in 50 years. It provided the opportunity for scholars to discuss cultural and historical experiences between China and the West with an emphasis on the early Jesuit mission in China. Stanley Nel, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered welcoming remarks at the opening ceremony.
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