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Steven Alter, Professor—Business and Management, presented two papers in August at the Americas Conference on Information Systems in Dallas. One paper, “The Work System Method for Understanding Information Systems and Information Systems Research,” was also published in the journal Communications of AIS in September. The other paper, “A Work System View of DSS in its Fourth Decade,” discussed the relevance of a decision support system.
Catherine Brady, Lecturer—Fine Arts in Writing, was a co-winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction. Her second collection of short stories, Curled in the Bed of Love, will be published this year by the University of Georgia Press.
Maria Bonavoglia, Library Assistant—Periodicals, wrote a short story, “What’s Your Name?” under the pseudonym D.C. Benvolio. The story will be published in August by Junkyard Books, a new local publisher, in the anthology Lowdown Highway.
Mark Cannice, Assistant Professor and Roger Chen, Associate Professor—Business and Management, and John Daniels of the University of Miami Business School, had their paper, “Managing International Technology Transfer Risk: A Case Analysis of U.S. High Technology Firms in Asia,” accepted for publication in The Journal of High Technology Management Research. Cannice also published two papers with Carol Graham and Todd Sayre, Assistant Professors—Business and Management, “Analyzing Financial Analysts: What They Look for in Financial Reports and How They Determine Earnings Quality,” in the Journal of Management Research, and “The Value-Relevance of Financial and Non-Financial Information for Internet Companies,” in the journal Thunderbird International Business Review.
Mary Lou DeNatale, Associate Professor—Nursing, was appointed to the County of Santa Clara’s Senior Care Commission.
Toni E. Fogarty, Associate Professor—Human Resources and Organization Development in the College of Professional Studies, is one of two lead consultants for a business continuity training grant recently awarded by the Dave and Lucille Packard Foundation to the Nonprofit Risk Management Center in Washington, D.C.
Jack Garvey, Professor—Law, returned from a sabbatical which included his appointment as a Fulbright Senior Specialist teaching graduate students in Rio de Janeiro. He also established a new USF summer program in Budapest, Hungary, proposed a law student exchange program with the University of Chile in Santiago, and placed six USF law students in clinical positions in Rio de Janeiro with private law firms and in Rio’s Office of the Attorney General.
Michael Harrington, Associate Budget Director—Budget Office, was promoted to his new title from senior financial analyst in June. In August, Harrington completed the four-year course of the Western Association of College and University Business Officers’ Business Management Institute.
Peter Honigsberg, Professor—Law, just completed a recording of his book, Crossing Border Street, for the Teacher as Historian Project in conjunction with New York radio station WNYE. The recording will be broadcast on National Public Radio stations next year.
Kathleen Jonson, Associate Professor—Education, will make a presentation at the 26th Annual Conference of the Reading Association of Ireland in Dublin on Oct. 4.
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Susana Kaiser, Assistant Professor—Media Studies and Latin American Studies, had her article, “Escraches: Demonstrations, Communication, and Political Memory in Post-Dictatorial Argentina,” published in July in the journal Media, Culture & Society. She also presented her paper “Rock Concerts, Memory, and Human Rights” in July at the “Our Media, Not Theirs” conference on alternative media, a pre-conference of the International Association of Mass Communication Research meeting in Barcelona, Spain.
Sunnie D. Kidd, former Assistant to the Dean—School of Education, co-authored an article, “Chinese Ways of Living,” which was published posthumously on superdirector.com.
Neil Laughlin, Professor—Exercise and Sport Science, will present his paper, “Muscle Endurance and Gender Differences,” on Oct. 5 at the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) statewide conference at West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif.
Sharonjean Leeds, Adjunct Professor—Visual and Performing Arts, was awarded a “30 Year” pin by Jennifer Turpin, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, in recognition of her years teaching dance at USF. Smith College honored her by naming a space in its Mendenhall Center for the Arts “The Sharonjean Moser Leeds ’67 Dance Studio.” In May, Leeds and her husband established a dance scholarship at San Francisco’s High School of the Arts.
Charlene Lobo, Coordinator—Learning Center, made a presentation, “Pinays Kaibigan at Kapatid: Building Communities for Filipinas on a College Campus” at the (Re)Presenting Filipino Americans Conference at the University of Connecticut, Sept 20-22.
Larry Margerum, Associate Professor and Jeff Curtis, Professor—Chemistry, and Brandon Brown, Assistant Professor—Physics, won a $38,051 grant from the National Science Foundation for the purchase of electrochemical instruments used in research training and projects.
Joseph Murphy, Environmental Safety Manager—Facilities Management, and Adjunct Faculty—Environmental Science, had a paper, “Toxic and Feeding Deterrent Effects of Native Aquatic Macrophytes on Exotic Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella),” published in the August issue of the journal Ecotoxicology.
Marc Spencer, Student Adviser—Upward Bound, was awarded a $63,000 grant from the California Arts Council for 2002-2003 as co-director of the USF Upward Bound Visual & Performing Arts project titled Class Act: From Stage to Campus.
Christian Thompson, Assistant Professor—Exercise and Sport Science, was selected by the American Association for Active Lifestyles and Fitness to develop a manual titled “Developing a Fitness Program for the Frail and Well Elderly.” The manual will be released nationwide in 2003.
Mark Thoma, Assistant Director—Apartment Life, and Julie Orio, Director—Loyola Village, will present “Where's Our Chapter? Training and Development for the Apartment Resident Advisor” at the annual Association of College and University Housing Officers International Apartments Conference on Oct. 8 in Salt Lake City, Nev.
Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor—Politics, presented his paper, “U.S. Policy Towards Iraq in a Unipolar World,” at the World Conference on Middle East Studies in Mainz, Germany in September. His article, “The Shift to the Right in U.S. Policy Toward Israel and Palestine,” was published in the fall issue of Middle East Policy.
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