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John Callaway, Assistant Professor–Environmental Science, participated in July in the third meeting of the Coastal Environmental Science and Technology panel in Yokosuka, Japan, sponsored by the U.S.-Japan Cooperation Program in Natural Resources.
George Devine, Adjunct Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, and Business, was honored with the best sports feature of the year by the Catholic Press Association for his story on the 1951 USF football team, “Undefeated, Untied and Uninvited.” The story ran last year in Catholic San Francisco. Devine ’62 watched the team play Sunday afternoons at Kezar Stadium in the company of his father, George Devine, Sr., who graduated in 1923. The third George Devine to graduate from USF, in 1992, announces for the Lady Dons basketball team on KUSF.
Jerry Downing, Training Director–Counseling Center, will have his article, “Psychotherapy Practice in a Pluralistic World: Philosophical and Moral Dilemmas,” published this fall in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
Michael Fraley, Programming Director–Information and Technology Services, has published a new collection of poetry, “Howler Monkey Serenade,” on the Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry Web site.
William Garner, Professor–Education, was granted a fourth and final year of funding by the U.S. Department of Education for his program, “Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology.”
John Kao, Associate Professor–Mathematics, was appointed associate editor of the journal, Advances and Applications in Statistics.
Susan Katz, Associate Professor–Education, taught a research methods course in Xiamen, China, in July as part of the USF-Xiamen educational exchange. She also participated in a summer institute at the national Facing History and Ourselves program in Boston.
Dorothy Kidd, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, presented a paper and served on a panel discussion in July as part of the community section of the International Association of Mass Communication Research meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Also in July, she presented a paper on the precursor movements to the Independent Media Center at the “Our Media, Not Theirs” conference on alternative media.
Sunnie Kidd, former Assistant to the Dean–Education, had two articles published posthumously on superdirector.com: “Gestural Meaning in Acts of Expression,” and “Inbetweenness.”
Jean Molesky-Poz, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies and Latin American Studies, was selected co-chair of the Indigenous Special Sessions of the American Academy of Religion and Western Religion. Her articles, “Maya Spirituality and Nature in The Guatemala Highlands” and “Delfina Cuero: Kemeyaay Ethnobotany in the California Coastal Regions,” were accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Nature and Religion. Her review of Dorothy Soelle's “The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance” will appear in the journal Sequoia: News of Religion and Society and in New Women, New Church in the fall. She preached a homily in August, “Take Heart: It is I,” at Holy Spirit Parish in Berkeley. She will present her paper “The Public Emergence of Maya Spirituality in the Guatemalan Highlands: Challenges to and Responses from Catholic Communities” in September at the International Conference on Christianity and Native Cultures at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind.
Locke Morrisey, Head of Collections–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, presented a paper at the contributed papers session of the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division at the 93rd annual Special Libraries Association Conference in Los Angeles in June. He was also elected vice-chair/chair-elect for 2002-03 of the Association of College and Research Libraries Chapters Council. He was also appointed to the program committee of the Medical Library Association (MLA)-Collection Development Section for the 2003 MLA Conference to be held in San Diego.
Theresa Moser, R.S.C.J., Assistant Dean–Arts and Sciences, had an article, “A Warm Heart and a Clear Eye: Ex Corde Ecclesiae and the University,” published in the fall 2002 issue of Conversations.
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Megan Nicely, Lecturer–Visual and Performing Arts, and her troupe, Megan Nicely & Company, were selected to present original work at the West Wave Dance Festival and the San Francisco Butoh Festival, both held at the Cowell Theater, Fort Mason this summer. The company also received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for its upcoming home season at DanceMission Theater in November and a CA$H grant for a dance/video project next year investigating mortality against the backdrop of Oakland's historic Mountainview Cemetery.
Shalendra D. Sharma, Associate Professor–Politics, will have his book, Crisis, Reform and Recovery: The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis and the New International Financial Architecture published later this year by Manchester University Press.
Aaron Shurin, Co-Director–Master of Fine Arts in Writing, has a piece of nonfiction, “Composed,” in the fall issue of zyzzyva.
Dayle Smith, Professor–Business and Management, Susan Prion, Assistant to the Provost–Academic Affairs, Jack McLean, Coordinator–Service Learning, Chuck Piazza, Associate Program Director–Professional Studies and Locke Morrissey, Head of Collections–Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, co-facilitated USF’s Second Annual Service Learning Faculty Development Institute in August. Victoria Siu, Lecturer–History, Susana Kaiser, Assistant Professor–Media Studies, Roberto Varea, Assistant Professor–Fine & Performing Arts, Kathleen Fletcher, Lecturer–Professional Studies, Anne Mairesse, Associate Professor–Modern Languages, Mike Skahill, Lecturer–Communications, David Ryan, Lecturer–Composition and Rhetoric, Marie Jones-Smith, Lecturer–Professional Studies, and Carol Graham, Assistant Professor–School of Business & Management, participated in the institute. USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. was one of the panelists.
Louise Trygstad, Professor Emerita–Nursing, and Robin Buccheri, Professor–Nursing, had their article, “Behavioral Management of Persistent Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia: Outcomes from a 10-Week Course,” published in the June issue of Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. Also in June, they led a workshop, “Collaborating to Learn What Helps in Managing Auditory Hallucinations,” at the Berkeley Mental Health Clinic, and did a presentation for USF alumni on managing auditory hallucinations.
Shannon Vallor, Lecturer–Philosophy, presented a paper in June titled, “The Intentionality of Reference in Husserl and the Analytic Tradition” at the Intentionality: Past and Future Conference at the University of Miskolc in Hungary.
Jane Vincent Corbett, Professor–Nursing, spent part of her sabbatical at the St. Bartholomew School of Nursing as a visiting scholar at City University of London.
Stephen Zavestoski, Assistant Professor–Sociology, was a co-author of two papers he presented at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Chicago: “Redefining/Pursuing ‘The Good Life’ Without Consumer Goods: Meaning and Resistance in the Voluntary Simplicity Movement” and “Illness Experience and Patient Activism: Gulf War-Related Illness and other Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms.” Zavestoski is also co-author of “The Internet and Environmental Decision-Making: A Dialogue,” which will appear in the September issue of Organization & Environment.
Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor–Politics, in July presented a paper, “Redefining Middle East Security,” and participated in a roundtable on the U.S. response to international terrorism at the biennial conference in Suwon, South Korea, of the International Peace Research Association, on whose board he serves. He also did a series of radio and television interviews across the United States on the prospects of war with Iraq and related issues of U.S. Middle East policy.
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