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David Batstone, Associate Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, received two first-place press awards in May from the Evangelical Press Association for two articles in Sojourners Magazine. “God is My Palm Pilot,” his dialogue with Bill Wylie-Kellerman, won first place for general article or feature, and his column “Macrowave” won first place for best standing column.
John Blackwell, Associate Professor–Exercise and Sport Science, presented his research, “Effect of the Type 3 Ball on Tennis Serve Performance and Upper Extremity Loading,” at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting in St. Louis in May.
Pamela Blotner, Assistant Professor–Fine and Performing Arts, was an artist-in-residence at the Ucorss Foundation in Clearmont, Wyoming during May and June. Her sculpture will be featured next month in “Natural Science,” an exhibition at the Olive Hyde Gallery in Fremont.
 Francis J. Buckley, S.J., Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, moderated a discussion at the Catholic Theological Society of America convention in New Orleans on “Cybernetics and Theology,” presented by David Robinson, S.J., Program Director–College of Professional Studies. Fr. Buckley gave a lecture in July at the annual convention of the College Theology Society in New York City. It was titled “Parish Catechesis in a Secularized Society,” and will be published by Living Light. In June he taught a summer graduate course, Christian Doctrines in Historical Perspective, for the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership. In July he taught a course on Foundations of Catechetics at USF, and hosted a retreat for the Society of Our Lady of the Way in Los Angeles. Also in July, he gave a talk on St. Mark's Gospel for the San Francisco Archdiocese School of Pastoral Leadership.
John Cobley, Professor–Chemistry, presented his paper, “CpeR is an Activator Required for Expression of the Phycoerythrin Operon (cpeBA) in the Cyanobacterium, Fremyella Diplosiphon, and is Encoded in the Phycoerythrin Linker-Polypeptide Operon (cpeCDESTR),” at the fifth European Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in June. This paper and another, “Co-ordinated Expression of Phycobiliprotein Operons in the Chromatically Adapting Cyanobacterium Calothrix PCC 7601: A Role for RcaD and RcaG,” were published in Molecular Microbiology in June.
Mary Lou De Natale, Associate Professor–Nursing, presented her paper, “Evaluation of Websites and Implications for Program Planning for Patient Education,” at the 20th Annual International Computer and Technology Conference at Rutgers University in New York City. Another paper, “Adventures in Using On-line Learning: Promoting Excitement in Nursing Education,” was accepted in November for presentation in Chicago at a National Conference on professional nursing education and development.
Raymond Dennehy, Professor–Philosophy, recently published a book, Anti-Abortionist at Large: How to Argue Intelligently About Abortion and Live to Tell About It, a memoir of his nearly four decades debating abortion at universities and on radio and television. His article, “The Loss of the Knowing Subject in Contemporary Epistemology,” was published in the book Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing. Another article, “Maritain's Reply to Gilson's Critique of Critical Realism,” was published in July in the first volume of Gilson Archives.
Dede Donovan, Professor–Law, presented the topic “The Guantanamo Bay Detainees: The Geneva Conventions and Military Law in the United States” at the regional meeting of the American Society of International Law in San Francisco in May. That same month, she presented “International Terrorism and Law” to the Annual Meeting of the North American Red Cross, Northern California chapter, in San Francisco.
Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Professor–Communication Studies, Dorothy S. Messerschmitt, Professor–Education, and Stephanie Vandrick, Associate Professor–Communication Studies, had their book Ethical Issues for ESL Faculty: Social Justice in Practice published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in June.
Andrew Heinze, Professor-History, presented a paper, “Assimilation and Psychic Pain: Construction of an American Cultural Category” and chaired a panel at the conference “Pain, Medicine and Society” at the Fifth Scholars' Conference in American Jewish History at the State University of New York, Albany in June.
Stephen J. Huxley, Professor–Business and Management, presented a paper, “The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: Data Envelopment Analysis and Non-Linear Programming as Tools for Estimating the Efficiency of Foreign Aid Allocations for Developing Countries” to the Policy Modeling International Conference in Brussels in July. He will also host a conference in September, “Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness: Apologetics for the New Millennium,” sponsored by a grant from the USF Jesuit Foundation.
 Roberta Johnson, Professor–Politics, was offered a contract by St. Martin's Press for a second book on whistle blowing, The Struggle Against Corruption: A Comparative Study, focusing on different countries such as Israel, India, and Russia.
Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Associate Professor–Education, chaired a session on early literacy instruction in July at the World Congress of the International Reading Association at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Melissa Kenzig, Coordinator–Student Health Education Program, discussed “Hot Topics in Health Education 2002” as part of a panel at the annual meeting of the American College Health Association (ACHA) held in Washington, D.C. in June. She also was elected a member-at-large of the health education section of ACHA and of the Pacific Coast College Health Association.
Tony Martinez, Adjunct Faculty–School of Business and Management, was a guest in July on the KNTV3 television program, La Comunidad Del Valle, discussing his “Transcending Leadership for Latinos” seminars and symposiums. He also was a panelist that same month in a discussion of “The Rebirth of the Silicon Valley” sponsored by the California Hispanic Professional Association.
Locke Morrisey, Head, Collections–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, presented one of three papers submitted at the Special Libraries Association conference, Biomedical & Life Sciences division, in Los Angeles in June. He also was elected vice-chair/chair-elect of the Association of College & Research Libraries' Chapters Council.
Patrick Murphy, Assistant Professor–Politics, co-authored a resource guide, “Coping with Teacher Shortages,” published in June by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Murphy also was awarded a grant in June from the Public Policy Institute of California to examine the financing of California's community college system.
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Peter Novak, Assistant Professor–Fine and Performing Arts, presented a paper in July on translating Shakespeare into American Sign Language at the International Conference for the Deaf in Washington, D.C. He also presented a paper in July at the American Theater in Higher Education Conference on the politics of translation.
Maureen O'Sullivan, Professor–Psychology, was a keynote speaker on “Violent Personality and Deception” at the statewide meeting of County Judges in Sanibel, Fla., in July.
Judith L. Pace, Assistant Professor–Education, published a set of interviews titled “Education Scholars' Reflections on the Implications of September 11th for Curriculum” in the winter issue of Educational Foundations.
Stephanie Paramore, Assistant Director, and Alexandra Jenkins, Counselor–Career Center, joined the Board of the California Career Development Association (CCDA). Paramore was named incoming Northern California Chapter Coordinator, and Jenkins was named Northern California Public Awareness Coordinator.
Terence Patterson, Associate Professor–Education, was elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association in August.
Charles F. Piazza, Associate Director and Donna M. Schaeffer, Program Director–Information Systems, CPS, designers of the course “MSIS 626: Information Technology, Ethics and Social Issues,” have been asked by JesuitNet to offer the course online to other Jesuit universities.
Archie Porter, University Registrar–Academic Services, completed a series of guest presentations in June at several mini-conferences statewide sponsored by the California Association of Financial Aid Administrators. The title of the presentation was “FERPA & Other Confidentiality Issues.” FERPA is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. He also presented at a national conference in New Orleans in July.
Ray Quirolgico, Associate Director–Residence Life, worked in June as an invited faculty member at a meeting in Illinois for the LeaderShape Institute, a nonprofit organization to train student leaders from around the country.
Ed Rimer, Assistant Professor–CPS, was reappointed to the Contra Costa County Alcohol and Other Drug Advisory Board (AODAB) in July. He represents District 1 of Contra Costa County, which includes the cities of Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, and El Sobrante. He also was elected chair of the AODAB's policy committee.
 Michael Stanfield, Coordinator–Latin American Studies Program, received the 2002 College Service Award in May from the USF College of Arts and Sciences.
Helen Betsy Stetson, Associate Professor–Nursing, had an article, “A Description of Holistic Registered Nurses' Characteristics and Practices,” accepted for publication in the Holistic Nursing Practice Journal. She also attended the Advanced Nursing Institute for Heideggerian Hermeneutical Studies, in June at the University of Wisconsin.
Melinda Stone, Artist in Residence–Media Studies, will hold an outdoor screening in October as part of Bay Area Now, a showcase of selected Bay Area artists, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
David Stump, Associate Professor–Philosophy, presented his paper, “Ernest Nagel's Early Study of Formal Axiomatic Systems and the Creation of the Philosophy of Science,” at the Fourth International History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) conference in Montreal in June.
Jim Toohey, Assistant Coach–Volleyball, and David Noble, Head Coach–Volleyball, completed the Native Vision Annual Summer Camp for American Indian Youth in June. The White Mountain Apache tribe in White River, Ariz. hosted the event.
Sally Vance-Trembath, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, presented her lecture, “Vatican II and Ecumenical Dialogue,” for the Jubilee summer series in adult education at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in San Carlos in July.
Linda Walsh, Associate Professor–Nursing, was elected fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). Her book, Midwifery: Community-Based Care During the Childbearing Year, received the ACNM/Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health 2002 Book of the Year award in May.
Benjamin Watson, Librarian–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, published a short story titled, “How Often Do You Masturbate?” in the current issue of Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly. His article “Reznikoff’s Testimony,” originally published in Law Library Journal, will be reprinted in spring 2003 by Legal Studies in a special “Law and Literature” issue.
Bebo White, Adjunct Professor–College of Professional Studies, was elected in April to the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), the governing body of the annual Webby Awards. He also is a member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee, and the general co-chair of the 12th International World Wide Web Conference to be held next May in Budapest.
Freddie Wiant, Assistant Professor–Expository Writing, will attend the new faculty workshop and annual conference of the Society for Values in Higher Education at the University of San Diego this month.
David Wolber, Associate Professor–Computer Science, is coordinating a research program for USF computer science students at the Presidio’s Internet Archive. Teams work on search tools to the history of the web, the archive's digital video collection and a collaborative studio, and providing web access to all digitized books.
Richard Zitrin, Adjunct Faculty–Law, and Carol Langford, Adjunct Faculty–Law, had their second edition of Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law published. Zitrin has been serving as a consultant to the California State Assembly Judiciary Committee on the drafting of a statute to protect government lawyer whistle blowers. He also spoke before the National Conference of Regulatory Attorneys in June on the same issue.
Paul Zeitz, Associate Professor–Math, won the national teaching award from the Mathematical Association of America. He will receive the award, and give a short address on teaching, at the association’s joint math meetings to be held in Baltimore in January 2003.
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