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Mary Abascal-Hildebrand, Assistant Professor–Education, wrote a chapter titled “Ricoeurean Implications for Narrative in Forming Constituitive Social Relations As Refigured Multiculturalism” in the forthcoming book The Future of the Foundations of Education. She was also invited to write the foreward to the book Pedagogy and Personalism: Education as a Spiritual Experience by Winfried Bohm. In February 2001 she was a guest on internationally broadcasted National Radio Project discussing the topic “Working for Change: Cooperatives and Economic Development.” In March 2001 she delivered an address to the St. Francis Foundation on “Implications for Mondragon Cooperative Concepts Concerning Conditions of Work and Poverty in California.” In April 2001 she was invited to talk at the Marin Philosophical Society on “Should We Educate for Citizenship or Simplify Citizenship?” She also organized a roundtable titled “Considerations for the Relationship Between Rural Poverty and Urban Policy: Roundtable on ‘Knifefight City: Poorest Town in California,’” for the exhbit “Shooting Farmworkers” featuring essays and photographs by Richard Steven Street. On March 8 she will be presenting a paper, “Stories From An Anthropology of Work: The Cheeseboard and Arizmendi,” at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Atlanta, Ga. She is a research fellow of the society.
Sheri Brenner, Director–College of Arts and Sciences laboratories, recently completed a video documentary on Navajo religion and sacred beliefs titled In Beauty I Walk: The Navajo Way to Harmony. The program will be screened locally and is being considered for broadcast in the fall. It was also accepted for distribution by the University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning.
Jeff Buckwalter, Associate Professor–Computer Science, taught two seminars in January on frame relay computer networking to the networking staff of National City Bank in Louisville, KY.
Mark Cannice, Assistant Professor–Business, with Carol Graham, Assistant Professor–Business, and Todd Sayre, Assistant Professor–Business, had their article, “The Value-Relevance of Financial and Non-Financial Information for Internet Companies,” published in the January/February special issue on E-Business of the Thunderbird International Business Review. Cannice also co-authored an article, “Silicon Valley Firms’ Operational Tactics and Venture Performance in Greater China,” published in the December issue of Business Forum Journal.
 Betty Carmack, Professor–Nursing, was a recent guest on KQED radio’s Friday Forum addressing the human response to the illness and death of geriatric companion animals.
Jeff Castro, Admissions Systems Manager–Academic Services, received an Academic Services Colleague Recognition Award for the fall 2001 term in honor of his extraordinary service.
Connie de la Vega, Professor–Law, and several law students met in December with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Toxics. Professor de la Vega presented information regarding the export of radiated tree pulp from the area surrounding the Berkeley lab to Japan and Korea. Kinna Patel, a student at the USF Law Clinic, prepared materials on U.S. laws governing the export of toxics and a report on violations of human rights from the illicit transport of toxics.
Brian Komei Dempster, Lecturer–Expository Writing, published poems in recent issues of Gulf Coast and Quarterly West.
Lisa Dickinson, Director–Law Career Services, facilitated a discussion on law school programming innovations at a regional conference of the National Association for Law Placement in San Francisco on Jan. 17. She is also training to complete Ironman USA (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run) on July 28 with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training.
Lisa Ernstthal, Coordinator–International Student Services, met with legislative staffers from the offices of Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, as part of “Congressional Education Day” organized by the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA)/Association of International Educators and the Alliance of International Education and Cultural Exchange. She is also California state whip in NAFSA’s advocacy network. At NAFSA’s regional conference last November, she chaired/presented two sessions: “SEVIS: The New Student Monitoring System” and “Changing Times, Changing Attitudes, Changing Roles.”
Leonard Fisher, Assistant Professor–Master of Science in Information Systems, represented USF at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference in Honolulu, Jan. 13-17.
Mitchell Friedman, Lecturer–Communication Studies, will be a featured columnist on media relations on the Web site Luce Online News and Information Bulletin at www.luceonline.com.
Philip Hanson, Assistant Professor–Interdisciplinary Studies, has three articles forthcoming in the following journals: South Central Review; Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History; and Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies.
 Andrew Heinze, Associate Professor–History, was awarded an advanced fellowship to Yale University’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion and American Life for the 2002-03 academic year.
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 Marie Ignatius Clune, R.S.H.M, Director–Outreach Ministry, was honored on Dec. 17 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for her work as an educator. On Jan. 23 she participated in the 29th Annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. along with four USF students, alumni, and friends. Sr. Ignatius was quoted about the march in the Jan. 23 issue of The New York Times.
Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Associate Professor–Education, had the second edition of her book, The New Elementary Teacher’s Handbook, published by Corwin Press this month. The first edition of this “survival guide” for beginning teachers sold very well. Jonson has a second book coming out this spring on mentoring in education.
Vamsee Juluri, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, delivered two lectures in Hyderabad, India. One lecture, titled “Television Studies and Globalization,” was presented to graduate students at the University of Hyderabad. The other talk, titled “What is Media Studies?” was delivered to middle school students at the Abhyasa Residential School.
Karae Lisle, Lecturer–Information Systems, was quoted in the article “Silicon Valley: Inside the Dream Incubator” in the December issue of National Geographic magazine.
 Tom Lucas, S.J., Chair–Fine and Performing Arts, spent two weeks during intersession consulting with the Archdiocese of Shanghai on the redesign of Shanghai’s Cathedral of St. Ignatius. Archbishop Aloysius Jin invited Lucas to work with local artists on a complete renovation of the cathedral including the design of some 3,000 square feet of stained glass window. The project will take approximately five years. The trip was partially sponsored by the Ricci Institute.
Shirley McGuire, Assistant Professor–Psychology, published a review of the book The Effect of Children on Parents in the Dec. 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Her article “Nonshared Environment Research: What is it and where is it going?” will appear shortly in Marriage and Family Review.
Charles F. Piazza, Associate Program Director–Information Systems, and Donna M. Schaeffer, Director and Associate Professor–Information Systems, published and presented “Integrity: The Role of Ethical Thinking in the Academic Education of Information Systems Professionals” at the International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum held at the University of Florida, Jan. 31-Feb. 2. The conference was sponsored by the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum which stimulates scholarship on ethics and the teaching of ethics in all academic disciplines.
Ray Quirolgico, Associate Director–Residence Life, was elected secretary of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). An article he wrote about national campus responses to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 appeared in the newsletters of the California state division of ACPA and the Western Association of College and University Housing Officers (WACUHO).
Daniel Rascher, Assistant Professor–Sports & Fitness Management, presented two papers in December, “Locational Choice in the NBA: An Examination of Potential Cities for Expansion or Relocation” and “Psychic Impact as a Decision Making Criterion,” at the annual conference of the sport management association of Australia and New Zealand in Melbourne. He also discussed the financial status of major league baseball in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune in December and will discuss the valuation of teams in the next issue of M&A Advisor.
John T. Sullivan, Fletcher Jones Professor–Biology, reviewed National Institute of Health research grant preproposals for the state of New Mexico in Albuquerque on Dec. 17-18. Sullivan also co-authored a paper titled “Further Characterization of Passively Transferred Resistance to Schistosoma mansoni in the Snail Intermediate Host Biomphalaria glabrata,” which was published in the December issue of The Journal of Parasitology.
Kevin Wilson, Associate Registrar–Academic Services, received an Academic Services Colleague Recognition Award for the fall 2001 term in honor of his extraordinary service.
 David Wolber, Associate Professor–Computer Science, recently presented a paper, “Exposing Document Context in the Personal Web,” co-authored by USF students Michael Kepe and Igor Ranitovic, to the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2002). The two students also demonstrated the system in a separate session. Wolber and two other students, Yinfeng Su and Yih-Tsung Chiang, presented another paper, “Designing Dynamic Web Pages and Persistence in the WYSIWYG Interface.” The two students also demonstrated a system described in the paper.
Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor–Politics, had his essay “Ten Things to Know About the Middle East” published by the Independent Media Institute in After 911: Solutions for a Saner World. His essay “US Policy and Policy Islam” was published in September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke by City Lights Books.
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