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Gay Breuler, Coordinator, Employer Relations–Priscilla A. Scotlan Career Services Center, recently attended the Professional Business Women of California conference in San Francisco and the 2002 Technology Outlook Forum at the Oakland Marriott. Breuler promoted USF and networked with business leaders to produce new internships and job listings for students.
Marvin Brown, Lecturer–Philosophy, and Eugene Muscat, Senior Associate Dean–School of Business and Management, will present a paper in August titled “Family Businesses and the Virtue of Openness” at the annual meeting of the Society of Business Ethics in Denver.
Francis J. Buckley, S.J., Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, was flown May 10-11 to Nashville, Tenn. by the Lilly Foundation to help create an online list of prominent, 20th Century, Catholic religious educators. Sister Maria de la Cruz Aymes, S.H., who received an honorary degree from USF in 1973 for her contributions to Catholic religious education, topped the list.
 Greg DeBourgh, Assistant Professor–Nursing, received this year’s USF distinguished teaching award. On May 15, DeBourgh, John Bansavich, Director–Center for Instruction and Technology, and Ginny Wallace, Distance Learning Instruction Designer–Center for Instruction and Technology, presented to faculty and staff strategies for online learning using Blackboard software. DeBourgh’s presentation was titled “E-Learning Courseware: Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness.” His current work on e-learning appears in the May/June issue of the online journal The Technology Source at ts.mivu.org
Connie de la Vega, Professor–Law, was a panelist March 28 at the 11th regional meeting of the American Society of International Law in San Franciso. In April, she attended the 58th Session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland with students from USF and Columbia University law schools.
John Denvir, Professor–Law, was elected president of the board of directors of the Center for Youth Development Through Law. Each year, the center provides summer fellowships for 30 East Bay high school students to attend classes on constitutional law and life management skills while working as interns in law offices and public interest offices throughout the Bay Area.
Jonathan Dimmock, Director of Music–St. Ignatius Church, recently performed two organ recitals in Paris at Notre Dame d’Auteuil and Sainte Trinité Church. His performances were given standing ovations.
Dolores A. Donovan, Professor–Law, on April 20 addressed the annual conference of the federal judiciary of Northern California on law and war in the United States. On May 7, she addressed the annual meeting of the Northern California chapter of the Red Cross on international terrorism and law.
Mitchell Friedman, Lecturer–Communication Studies, delivered a presentation May 14 in Orlando, Fla. titled “How to Contact the Media and Generate Press Coverage” to members of CPAmerica International, an association of accounting firms.
Richard Kamler, Assistant Professor–Fine and Performing Arts, was awarded a faculty development grant to continue work on a major installation, “Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations.” The installation will, in part, invite artists from each member nation of the United Nations to sit at a table with their respective ambassador and participate in a global dialogue. Each artist also will create a piece of art reflecting their own cultural perspective on peace, to be displayed in the lobby of the General Assembly in New York city.
Ellen Kelly, Counselor, and Stephanie Paramore, Assistant Director–Priscilla A. Scotlan Career Services Center, hosted the Liberal Arts Connection spring meeting on May 31 at USF. More than 35 Bay Area career counselors and directors met to discuss career issues and challenges related to liberal arts students.
Dorothy Kidd, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, last month presented her paper, “International Networks of Alternative Media,” to the conference of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility in Seattle. Her news story, “Legal Project to Challenge Media Monopoly,” was selected as a finalist for the Project Censored “Top Censored News Stories of 2001” Awards.
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 David Kim, Assistant Professor–Philosophy, presented a commentary in March titled “Race as a Proxy in Law Enforcement” at the 77th Pacific Division American Philosophical Association conference. In April, he presented the papers, “Reclaiming the Tradition of the Black Pacific” at the Blacks and Asians Conference at Boston University and “The First Asian Americanist: W.E.B. Du Bois?” at the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Salt Lake City. His essay, “Asian American Philosophers: Absence, Politics, and Identity” will appear in the Spring 2002 American Philosophical Association Newsletter: The Status of Asian/Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies.
John M. Lantz, Dean–School of Nursing, assumed the responsibilities of president of the California Association of Colleges of Nursing. Lantz also was the keynote speaker at the 52nd commencement of the University of Southern California’s nursing school.
Masato Mitsuda, Reserves Coordinator–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, published an article in March titled “Chuang Tzu and Sor Jana Ines de la Cruz: Eyes to Think, Ears to See” in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy.
Vijaya Nagarajan, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, completes her year-long fellowship this summer as a research associate and visiting lecturer in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School. On March 26, she lectured on “South Indian Kolam: Women’s Threshold Designs” as part of a series titled “Exploring Beauty” at Syracuse University. On April 24, she gave a lecture titled “Hosting the Divine: Women’s Ritual Drawings in Southern India” at the Harvard Divinity School. She also participated in two panel discussions titled “Shaping Sacred and Secular Space: Women Define Religious and Social Worlds,” at the Women’s Leadership Conference in January and May at the Harvard Divinity School. On May 7, she led morning prayers at Appleton Chapel in Harvard’s Memorial Church. Her essay, “(In)Corporating Threshold Art: Kolam Competitions, Patronage and Colgate” was published last fall in the book Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases, co-edited by Lois Lorentzen and David Batstone, Associate Professors–Theology and Religious Studies.
Michael O’Neill, Professor–College of Professional Studies, published his book, Nonprofit Nation: A New Look at the Third America, in June. An overview of the American nonprofit sector, the book is an update of O’Neill’s 1989 edition, The Third America: The Emergence of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States.
Daniel Rascher, Assistant Professor–Sports & Fitness Management, gave a presentation May 15 titled “The Effect of the Economy on Spectator Sports” in Dallas at the second annual Maximizing Revenue Generation and CRM for Sports Facilities and Franchises.
John T. Sullivan, Fletcher Jones Professor–Biology, received a three-year research grant of $137,495 from the National Institutes of Health for his project, “Plasma Resistance Factors in Biomphalaria Glabrata.”
 Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Assistant Professor–Fine and Performing Arts, opened his last show with Soapstone Theater Company on May 2 at the Clay Theater in San Francisco. Varea founded Soapstone Theater company, whose members are all male ex-offenders and female survivors of violent crime. The show, “Boxing With Ghosts,” was the latest of five Soapstone productions that played to sold-out houses, bringing a message of social justice and personal and community restoration through the arts. Soapstone Theater’s work has been featured on National Public Radio, national and local television, and is the focus of an upcoming documentary. The play is moving to the Berkeley Arts Center for June before moving to local half-way houses, community centers, and county jails.
 David Wolber, Associate Professor–Computer Science, presented a paper Jan. 15, “Exposing Document Context in the Personal Web,” at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in San Francisco. He also presented a paper, “Designing Dynamic Web Pages in the WYSIWYG Interface” at the Visual Database Conference in Brisbane, Australia, May 29.
Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor–Politics, spoke April 23 at the University of Missouri, Columbia on “The United States and the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process.” He also spoke May 23 at the University of California, Santa Cruz on “The Betrayal of Peace: U.S. Policy Toward Israel/Palestine.” On May 24, he presented his paper, “Iran and the Future of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” for an online seminar hosted by Teheran International Research Institute.
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