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Kathleen Archambeau, Lecturer–English, won an Iowa alumni nonfiction writer’s contest in July. Her work, “Before Iowa,” will be published in the University of Iowa alumni magazine’s April online publication. Another article, “Independent Women Unite,” was published in the July issue of Bay Area Businesswoman News.
Francis J. Buckley, S.J., Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, joined 35 Jesuits from around the world in Budapest, Hungary in July to assess progress in Ecumenism, the gradual reunification of the Christian church. He spoke on how new technology promotes Ecumenism.
Mark Cannice, Assistant Professor–Business and Management, and Roger Chen, Associate Professor–Business and Management, co-presented their paper, “Managing International Technology Transfer Risk: An Alternative Perspective,” in Monterey at the July annual conference of the Academy of International Business.
 Connie de la Vega, Professor–Law, received one of the Mathew O. Tobriner Public Service Awards in June at the annual luncheon of the Legal Aid Society’s Employment Law Center.
Chris DeLorenzo, Lecturer–Rhetoric and Composition, won this spring’s USF Distinguished Lecturer Award in May. He was also certified as an Amherst Writers and Artists Institute writing workshop facilitator.
George Devine, Adjunct Professor–Business and Management, co-authored How to Buy a House in California, just released in its ninth edition. He has also been assisting his son George Devine, Jr. (’92) in filing live game updates for Fox Sports Radio of PAC-10 basketball games and major league baseball games featuring the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. In August he will begin his third season as the Oakland Raiders’ correspondent for SportsTicker, a subsidiary of ESPN.
Elena Flores, Associate Professor–Education, had an article, “Final Word,” featured in the summer issue of The Family Psychologist, bulletin of the division of family psychology of the American Psychological Association.
Robert Fordham, Executive Director–Fromm Institute, was promoted from program director in April. He promoted Derek Leighnor, Program Director–Fromm Institute, from assistant program director.
Janet Giddings, Lecturer–Philosophy (Sacramento campus), won first runner-up for Teacher of the Year 2003 at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno. In 2002, Giddings won Teacher of the Year, which can be awarded to each recipient only once.
 Susana Kaiser, Assistant Professor–Media Studies and Latin American Studies, chaired a panel in March at the conference, Culture and Peace: Violence, Politics, and Representation in the Americas, organized by the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Her presentation, “What Happened? vs. Why it Happened? Young Argentineans Remember Terror,” will be published by UNESCO Brazil in an edited volume. Also in March she presented “So What? Human Rights and Indifference in Post-Dictatorial Argentina” and “Nunca Fuí a Ninguna Marcha” at the 2003 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Dallas. In May she was a panelist of the OURMedia III conference in Barranquilla, Colombia, discussing “Movements toward the Democratization of Media and Information Technologies.” In May she also attended an International Communication Association conference in San Diego and presented “Singing, Dancing, and Remembering: The Links Between Music and Memory.”
Alice Kaswan, Professor–Law, published “Distributive Justice and the Environment” in the March edition of the North Carolina Law Review.
Susan Katz, Associate Professor–Education, was a Fulbright senior scholar in Hungary during her spring semester sabbatical, teaching courses at the University of Pecs. She also researched the education of Roma (gypsy) students in Hungary and Bulgaria. Her article, “Does NCLB (No Child Left Behind Act) Leave the U.S. Behind in Bilingual Teacher Education?” will appear in the January edition of the journal English Education. In June she presented a workshop on “Peer Response in the University EFL Academic Writing Classroom,” at the annual meeting of the European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing, in Budapest, Hungary. She will also write a chapter for a forthcoming book, Language in Multicultural Society.
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Tim Iglesias, Lecturer–Law, will have his article, “Housing Impact Assessment: Opening New Doors for State Housing Regulation While Localism Persists,” published this winter in Oregon Law Review.
 Jack Lendvay, Assistant Professor–Environmental Science, and his research group presented work at two national conferences in June: “Yosemite Watershed Restoration Project” at the American Society for Engineering Education in Nashville, Tenn., and “Community Based Water Quality Sampling at Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, Ca.” at the National Association of Environmental Professionals in San Antonio.
J. Thomas McCarthy, Professor–Law, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the publication of his six volume legal treatise, Trademarks and Unfair Competition. This book has become a standard reference in the field of intellectual property law and has been cited in over 1,500 judicial decisions, including citation by the U.S. Supreme Court in eight cases and by every federal court of appeals.
Lester A. Myers, Assistant Professor–Business and Management, spoke about professional ethics in March to more than 300 pharmacists and physicians at the 14th annual conference of the Drug Information Association in San Francisco. He also delivered a paper in July critiquing the regulatory framework of the American accounting profession at the fifth international symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Management at the Jesuit Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, Spain.
John Nelson, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, published his article, “Social Memory as Ritual Practice: Commemorating Spirits of the Military Dead at Yasukuni Shinto Shrine,” in the May edition of the Journal of Asian Studies. He also contributed a chapter, “Myths, Shinto, and Festivals in the Shaping of Japanese Cultural Identity,” in the recently released volume, Religion, Myth, and Identity. In July he was the organizer of a panel on “Ritual, Praxis, and the Individual in 21st Century Japan,” as part of an anthropological conference held in Florence, Italy.
Ray Quirolgico, Associate Director–Residence Life, co-presented a workshop, “Combating HIV Infection in our Communities,” in June at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ Undergraduate Fellows Program at the University of Southern California.
 Daniel A. Rascher, Director–Sport Management Master’s Program, presented in July a paper, “Optimal Variable Ticket Pricing in Baseball,” at the Western Economic Association International’s annual conference in Denver. At the North American Society for Sport Management’s annual conference in June in Ithaca, NY, he presented “The Impact of Stadia on Wealth Maximization in the National Football League: To Build or Renovate?” He also co-wrote the strategic plan for the North American Society for Sport Management. In June the Sports Business Journal ran a short piece on his sports economics and finance course.
Jacqueline Taylor, Assistant Professor–Philosophy, presented in July a paper, “Hume on Luck and Moral Inclusion,” at the 30th International Hume Conference in Las Vegas. This month she will also present a paper, “Pride and the Practices of Justice,” at the American Political Science Association meeting, in Philadelphia.
Sally Vance-Trembath, Assistant Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, facilitated a workshop in June on the documents of Vatican II for the East Bay chapter of the Voice of the Faithful, a national organization responding to the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church. Also in June, she spoke to the St. Thomas More Society of Catholic Lawyers in San Francisco about the documents of Vatican II. In July she spoke at Trinity Presbyterian Church in San Carlos on “Saints in the Christian Tradition.”
Michael Wilson, Stacks Coordinator–Gleeson Library, received the Award for Most Outstanding Academic Achievement in the Department of Cinema and the John Gutmann Memorial Filmmaking Award at San Francisco State University for the completion of his MFA thesis film, Flora’s Film: this is not a film about Eadweard Muybridge. He will also be a featured film artist in September at the APAture Asian American arts festival.
Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor–Politics, spoke in June to the Dominican College World Affairs Council of Marin County on U.S. Middle East policy. Also in June he addressed U.S.-Israeli relations as a plenary speaker at the Tikkun Conference in Washington, D.C., and he spoke as part of a plenary panel on U.S. policy in Iraq at the annual convention of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Arlington, Va.
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