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Alexandra Amati-Camperi, Assistant Professor–Music, will participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar titled, “Opera: Interpretation, Reading, Staging,” in June and July at Princeton University.
 Eugene Benton, Professor–Physics, was re-appointed to a NASA advisory committee on research and development of radiation shielding.
Aranzazu Borrachero, Assistant Professor–Modern and Classical Languages, Karen Bouwer, Associate Professor–Modern and Classical Languages, Susana Kaiser and Dorothy Kidd, Assistant Professors–Media Studies, and Cecilia Santos, Assistant Professor–Sociology, organized the first annual Esther Madriz Global Women's Rights Forum at USF in March. The title of the forum was “Women's Human Rights are Global.” Students, faculty, and members of the community heard speakers and saw films and performances exploring themes such as the treatment of women in Mexico’s free trade zones, ongoing self-help efforts by African women, the experience of Asian lesbians in the United States, and local programs against violence.
Francis J. Buckley, S.J., Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, chaired a symposium titled “Interreligious Dialogue for Peace” at USF on Jan. 24. That same day, he participated in an interreligious prayer service for peace at St. Mary's Cathedral. On Feb. 16, he taught a section on Christology for the Archdiocesan School of Pastoral Leadership at Marin Catholic High School and on March 24 taught a section on the Gospel according to Mark. He attended the East Coast Religious Education Congress in Washington, D.C., Feb. 23-24. He also chaired a session of the Quinn Symposium on Human Cloning at USF on March 9. On March 13, he participated in an evaluation of the National Directory for Catechesis at St. Mary's Cathedral for the Archdiocese and another evaluation of it for the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities on March 26.
Connie de la Vega, Professor–Law, recently taught a class at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law on the role of international law in U.S. death penalty cases. In February, she gave expert testimony on behalf of a juvenile offender charged with murder in Arizona. She also represented juvenile offender Alexander Williams before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding his death sentence for a crime committed as a juvenile. In March, she participated in a meeting at American University in Washington, D.C., addressing the use of international law in death penalty cases. Later that month, she was a panelist at the Symposium on International Law and the Death Penalty at Santa Clara University. She also was a panelist at the Fourth Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest Retreat in Santa Cruz on March 16.
 Raymond Dennehy, Professor–Philosophy, debated a representative from the American Civil Liberties Union on reproductive rights during a class in March at U.C. Berkeley.
John Denvir, Professor–Law, presented a paper, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Trickster for Social Justice,” at a March meeting of the Association of Law, Culture, and the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Bruce Heiman, Professor–Business, wrote an article, “Towards Reconciling Transaction Cost Economics and the Knowledge-Based View of the Firm: The Context of Interfirm Collaborations,” for the April issue of the International Journal of Economics and Business. He will complete his doctorate this month at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. His dissertation is titled “Knowledge and Governance in Collaborations.” Heiman has accepted a tenure-track appointment in the management department at San Francisco State University.
Andrew Heinze, Associate Professor–History, presented his paper “The Entrance of Martin Buber and Erich Fromm into American Culture” at the Western Jewish Studies Association meeting in March. In June, he will present a paper, “Assimilation and Psychic Pain: The Construction of an American Cultural Category,” at the Rutgers University Conference on Pain and Culture.
Susan Katz, Associate Professor–Education, will be a speaker at the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in New Orleans in April. Her presentation “Cross-Disciplinary Reading Apprenticeship Journals: A Critical Analysis” is part of a symposium, “Enriching Literacy and Rethinking Remediation: Social Justice and Equity in Content Area Literacy Instruction,” which she co-organized for the conference.
Dorothy Kidd, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, is involved in the campaign to renew the national Pacifica Radio network. She presented the workshop “Lessons for Building Democratic Radio” to the Local Advisory Board of Berkeley radio station KPFA and on the KPFA program Livingroom. She currently is planning a national Internet course and conference for listeners, programmers, and the community.
 Lois Ann Lorentzen, Associate Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, presented a paper, “Migration and the Changing Face of Latino/a Religion,” at the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting in March at St. Mary's College in Moraga. The paper is part of the Academy’s Religion and Immigration Project. She also participated in a forum last month on religion and migration at the Pew Center for Religion and the Public Life in Washington, D.C.
Jack McLean, Coordinator–Community Service & Service Learning, and Dayle Smith, Professor–Business & Management, will co-present “Defining Service Learning and Preserving Innovative Approaches: Can Both be Done?” at the Western Regional Campus Compact Consortium Conference in Portland, Ore. on April 19. McLean will also co-present another workshop titled, “Service Learning and Faith-Based Institutions: Mining the Wisdom and Facing the Challenges.”
Elliot Neaman, Associate Professor–History, interviewed Noam Chomsky, linguist and critic of U.S. foreign policy, in March on KUSF.
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 John Nelson, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, published his article “Tempest in a Textbook: A Report on the New Middle-School History Textbook in Japan,” in the March issue of Critical Asian Studies. He will publish two more papers soon: “From Battlefield to Atomic Bomb to the Pure Land of Paradise: Employing the Bodhisattva of Compassion to Calm Japan's Spirits of the Dead” in the Journal of Contemporary Religion in April, and “Myths, Missions, and Mistrust: The Fate of Christianity in 16th and 17th Century Japan,” in History and Anthropology in May. Nelson also delivered invited lectures on the Japanese history textbook controversy at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, the World Affairs Council of San Francisco, and a public forum at USF’s Center for the Pacific Rim.
Maureen O'Sullivan, Professor–Psychology, was the keynote speaker in March at the annual Law and Employment Symposium of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She gave a lecture at the symposium titled, “How to Tell the Truth...or at Least Whether Your Witness is Lying.” In February, she gave an address titled, “How Do I Know You are Lying? Let Me Count the Ways” to Charter 100, a San Francisco chapter of the Association for Women of Achievement. She also conducted a workshop for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office on clues of deception in a suspect’s demeanor during interrogations and other interviews.
Chris Paterson, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, received the Broadcast Education Association’s 2002 award for the best research paper on international media.
Rosemary Perez, Hall Director–Residence Life, was named the 2002 EmpowHer Fellow by the American College Personnel Association's Standing Committee for Women.
Dean Rader, Assistant Professor–English, will have his poetry published by Borderlands magazine in its anthology “Borderlands Web Audio Project.” The project, featuring printed poems and audio clips of the authors reading and talking about their work, can be found at www.borderlands.org/webaudio.
Paolo F. Ricci, Professor–Environmental Science, co-edited the November proceedings of the RiskSIG workshop for the Clean Air Society of Sydney, Australia, titled “Risk Assessment: Past, Present and Future.” He also was selected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to review U.S. Department of Energy activities as part of a five-day peer review panel titled “Long Term Stability Designs of Long Term Cover Systems” in March 2003.
Dan Schutte, USF Composer-in-Residence, sang his award-winning hymn “Here I am, Lord” in December at the United Catholic Music and Video Association’s Unity Awards in Washington, D.C. His song won Song of the Year and Liturgical Song of the Year.
Shalendra D. Sharma, Associate Professor–Politics, will have his article “Post-Crisis Asia: Economic Recovery and the Challenges Ahead” published in the April issue of Current History. He also signed a contract with a British publisher for his third book Crisis, Reform and Recovery: The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis and the New International Financial Architecture.
Colin Silverthorne, Professor–Psychology, had his paper “Situational Leadership Theory in Taiwan” accepted for presentation at the American Psychological Society’s annual convention in June.
John Sullivan, Fletcher Jones Professor–Biology, was a member of a National Institute of Health review in March of research grant proposals in the field of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology.
Mark Thoma, Coordinator–Off-Campus Housing, and Lew Procacci, a graduate intern in off-campus housing, presented the program “Apartment RA Training: We Wrote the Book” in March at the annual Western Association of College and University Housing Officers’ Apartment and Community Living Conference held at California State University, Monterey Bay.
Linda Walsh, Associate Professor–Nursing, received the Book of the Year Award from the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health for her book Midwifery—Community-Based Care During the Childbearing Year.
 Carolyn Weber, Assistant Professor–English, will present a paper titled, “Metempsychosis and the Romantic Period” in July at the Romantic Orientalism conference in Wales. She will also present a paper, “James Hogg's Motley Romanticism” at the Scottish Romanticism conference in Oxford, England. Both papers will be subsequently published, the former in a collection titled Essays From the Gregynog Collection and the latter in the collection Studies in Hogg and His World.
Bruce Wydick, Assistant Professor–Economics, will have his article “Microfinance Among the Maya: Tracking the Progress of Program Participants” published in the June issue of the Netherlands journal Development and Change.
Patty Yancey, Director, Arts & Education Collaborative–Education, was awarded the Excellence in Arts Leadership Award on March 16 by the Alameda County Office of Education for her work in developing a Multiple Subject Credential/M.A.T. program at USF’s Oakland campus.
 Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor–Politics, presented his paper “U.S. Support for Israel: Ethnic Politics of Pax Americana?” at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association in New Orleans in March. He also gave a series of lectures in February on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East at Guilford College in North Carolina and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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