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Eugene Benton, Professor–Physics, reviewed research proposals for the Department of Energy as part of its nuclear engineering education research program. He also was appointed to rank-and-tenure committees for the physics departments of two universities: King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia and The Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan.
Deborah P. Bloch, Professor–Education, delivered the keynote address “Chaos, Connections, and Career: Toward a Post-Modern Theory of Spirituality and Work” to the Australian Association of Career Counselors in Melbourne in April. At the same conference she led a workshop titled “Can Assessment Have Soul?”
Michael Bloch, Associate Professor–Psychology, gave a speech titled “Neuropsychology and Dyslexia” at the annual International Association of Reading conference held in San Francisco in May. In April, Bloch presented three papers at the annual Western Psychological Society convention in Irvine. The presentations were titled “The Effects of Olfactory Stimulation on Interhemispheric Interaction,” “Hemispheric Differences in Native and Non-Native English Speakers,” and “The Effects of Basil Oil on Hemispheric Asymmetry.”
T.J. Brady, Assistant Professor–Biology, had his paper, “The Significance of Population Successional Status to the Evolution of Seedling Morphology in Lodgepole Pine,” published in the March issue of California Botanical Society’s Madrono magazine.
 Larry Brewster, Dean–College of Professional Studies, participated in a panel titled “California’s Global Importance” in April sponsored by California State University, Monterey. He was included on the panel because of his research on California politics for a book he will publish in July 2003.
Francis J. Buckley, S.J., Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, gave the welcome and introductory talk at an April symposium titled “The Changing Face of Shinto: Culture, History, and Gender in Japan’s Way of the Kam,” co-sponsored by the Asian Art Museum, the Society for Asian Art, and the USF department of theology and religious studies. He also worked with Sister Mary Peter Traviss, O.P., Associate Professor–Education, and Sally Vance Trembath, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, to evaluate the draft of the National Directory for Catechesis for the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.
 Tyrone Cannon, Dean–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, was elected vice president/president-elect of the Association of Colleges and Research Libraries (ACRL) in May. The ACRL is the largest division of the American Library Association.
Annie Breault-Darling, Adjunct Professor–Fine and Performing Arts, has been awarded a teacher development grant from the USF faculty union to paint and study art, activism, and media at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vermont this month.
 Richard E. Davis, Professor–Fine and Performing Arts, will visit Shanghai, China to study traditional Chinese theater. While there, Davis will present a paper, “Judge Bao and the Case of Qin Xianglian.” He also will chair a panel titled “Producing Traditional Asian Theater Outside Asia” at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Performance in July. He will chair a panel, “Introducing Asian Theatre in the General Course—Southeast Asia,” at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Raymond Dennehy, Professor–Philosophy, gave two presentations, “Abortion: The Betrayal by the Professors” and “Don’t Let Them Clone Einstein!” at the Global Family Life Conference in April, which was sponsored by the Population Research Institute in Santa Clara.
Mitchell Friedman, Assistant Professor–Communication Studies, wrote a column on public relations for the email newsletter ExpertPR. He contributes a monthly media relations column to Luce Online News and Information Bulletin and is a public relations expert on workz.com. He also contributes a public relations column to the monthly email newsletter, MemoRandom.
Brian Gerrard, Associate Professor–Education, presented a paper in March at the Oxford Round Table conference at the University of Oxford, England.
Edith Ho, Instructor–Law, was appointed president in March of the Asian American Bar Association of the greater Bay Area.
Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Associate Professor–Education, will have her second book, Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed, published in May by Corwin Press.
Susan Katz, Associate Professor–Education, has been named a Fulbright-Hays scholar at the University of Pecs in Hungary in spring 2003. She will teach applied linguistics and conduct research on the education of Roma (sometimes referred to derogatorily as gypsy) children.
Melissa Kenzig, Coordinator–Student Health Education, graduated in May from the National Public Health Leadership Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. She presented her case study “Peer Education through the Lens of Systems Theory” at graduation.
 Dorothy Kidd, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, gave a speech titled “The Media Democracy Movement” at the Radio Barnstorming conference in Oroville in April. She also spoke about “Pacifica as a Broadcast Commons” at New College in San Francisco the same month.
Anne Mairesse, Associate Professor–Modern and Classical Languages, invited internationally renowned poets from France, Germany, and the United States to USF for a conference, Pourparler de Langues, in April.
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 Robert Makus, Associate Professor–Philosophy, had his article, “Education in the Grip of Technological Thinking: An Analogical Hermeneutic of Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology,” published in the fall 2001 issue of the quarterly Existentia, An International Journal of Philosophy. His article, “Phenomenology in Critical Decision Making: A Case Study,” was published in the spring edition of online journal Practical Philosophy. His review of Philosophical Counseling was published in September 2001 in Philosophy in Review. In March, Metapsychology published Makus’ review of the book The Art of Living.
Anthony U. Martinez, Lecturer–Business, had his article, “Transcending Leadership: A New Strategy for Hispanics,” published in the May issue of The Bottom Line, a monthly publication of the National Society of Hispanic MBA’s. He will also host a Hispanic Advantage Leadership Symposium, “Transcending Leadership: A New Strategy for Hispanics,” in June at USF.
Myrtis Mixon, Lecturer–Communication Studies, currently a Fulbright Scholar in Slovakia, attended the Berlin Conference, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Germany. She presented research on cultural values in Slovakia, Croatia, and Albania, where she has taught.
Locke Morrisey, Head Librarian–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, will participate in two panels, “Collection Analysis in an E-world” and “Access or Excess: Are Users Sailing the Sea of Information or Drowning in Too Many Choices?,” at the ninth California Academic and Research Libraries conference in Pacific Grove in May. Morrisey has also been invited to serve on the Nature Publishing Group Library Advisory Committee.
Peter Tze Ming Ng, Distinguished Fellow–Center for the Pacific Rim, was appointed Distinguished Fellow of the Electronic Data Systems-Charles W. Stewart Chair at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History. His manuscripts on Fr. Edward Malatesta will be published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2003. In February, he conducted a roundtable discussion titled “Nourishing the Spirit: Social Change and Spiritual Development in China Today.” Two local Chinese newspapers, The World Daily and Sing Tao Daily, reported the event and a full report was printed in the April issue of the Pacific Rim Report. Ng was also invited to present two lectures at Michigan’s Calvin College in April on “Christian Higher Education in Asia Today” and “Christian Higher Education: A Case for the Study of History of Christianity in China.”
Maureen O’Sullivan, Professor–Psychology, was the keynote speaker in March at the annual meeting of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Labor/Employment section. Her talk was titled “Pinocchio’s Nose, Pants on Fire, and Other Clues to Deception.” O’Sullivan was also quoted in an article about deception in the May issue of Men’s Health magazine.
Aaron Shurin, Co-Director–Master of Fine Arts in Writing, was awarded in May a California Arts Council Artist’s Fellowship in poetry.
Victoria M. Siu, Lecturer–History, presented an illustrated talk in April titled “The Garden for Prolonging the Springtime (Changchun Yuan): Chinese Elements in the European Sector of the Yuanming Yuan” at the First International Symposium on Classical Chinese Gardens in New York. Siu also presented an illustrated paper titled “The European Sector (Xiyanglou) in the Garden of Eternal Springtime (Chang chun Yuan): Western Architectural and Landscape Influences” at the conference “Art Brokering Art for China: The Missionary Connections” at UCLA.
Michael Stanfield, Coordinator–Latin American Studies, served as an expert witness in Immigration Court on conditions in Colombia for Colombian nationals seeking asylum. He also was invited to be the speaker at the University of New Mexico’s history department graduation in May.
David Stump, Associate Professor–Philosophy, gave a talk in April titled “Physics at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair” at the West Coast History of Science Society conference at UC San Francisco.
Sally Vance-Trembath, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, was asked to preach during the liturgy at St. Ignatius Church April 14.
Adelina Trice, Senior Circulation Supervisor–Zief Law Library, was honored in April by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association for her service to the library and USF law students. Trice was also honored in March by the North American alumni association of Rizal High School.
 Stephanie Vandrick, Associate Professor–Communication Studies, was a panelist on a colloquium titled “Issues in Writing for Scholarly Publication” at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference in Salt Lake City in April. She moderated another colloquium titled “Five Perspectives on Writing for Publication” at the Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL) convention, also in Salt Lake City. At the TESOL convention she also presented a paper titled “Why Use Literature in Second Language Writing Classes.” She presented the paper “Integrating Ethical Awareness into Teacher Education” at the TESOL convention with Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Professor–Communication Studies, and Dorothy S. Messerschmitt, Professor–Education.
Carolyn Weber, Assistant Professor–English, will be a session chair at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Canada in August. She will be presenting a paper, “The Problem of Immortality in Mary Shelley’s Short Stories,” for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in October, as well as her paper, “The Female Romantic Writer’s Mental Theatre” to the Modern Language Association in New York in December.
Freddie Wiant, Assistant Professor–Expository Writing Program, published an article, “Exploiting Factional Discourse: Wedge Issues in Contemporary American Political Campaigns,” in the spring issue of Southern Communication Journal.
Bruce Wydick, Assistant Professor–Economics, presented the paper, “Competition and Microfinance,” in April to the economics department at UC Davis.
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