Jim Bretzke, S.J., Associate Professor–Theology and Religious Studies, has published a revised and expanded edition of his book, Consecrated Phrases: A Latin Theological Dictionary. In June he presented two papers on teaching cross-cultural ethics at the annual conventions of the College Theology Society and the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Rob Elias, Professor–Politics, had an article, “The Progressive Interview: Tom Tomorrow,” published in March in The Progressive Magazine. In July he attended a four-day mystery writer’s conference in Corte Madera and gave a keynote talk, “Shrine of the Immortals,” at an induction ceremony of the Baseball Reliquary in Pasadena. His talk was quoted in the July issue of the online magazine Baseball Primer.

David Kim, Assistant Professor–Philosophy, was given a one-year term at Harvard University's W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research to do work on his book, Orientals: The Black Pacific and the American Century.

Pamela Balls Organista, Professor–Psychology, and Kevin Chun, Associate Professor–Psychology, presented a paper in July titled “Acculturation Research: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions” at the 8th European Congress of Psychology conference in Vienna, Austria.

Maureen O'Sullivan, Professor–Psychology, gave a keynote address, “Detecting Deception: Old Problems, New Methods,” in March at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and another in March at Claremont University in southern California on applications of nonverbal behavior research. She consulted with the State Department about training interviewers of visa applicants in Cairo, Egypt in January and Washington, D.C. in February; attended a three-day conference that same month in San Antonio on interrogation training for U.S. counter-terrorist agencies; and participated in July in a two-day conference in Washington, D.C. organized by the American Psychological Association and the non-profit RAND group for deception researchers and government employees adept at detecting it. She gave three talks in May at the Western Psychological Association convention in Vancouver, Canada: “From Masterpiece Theater to Survivor: Twenty years of college teaching,” “When Service Learning is not an Internship,” and “Learning to Detect Deceit.”

John T. Sullivan, Professor–Biology, served on a National Institute of Health tropical medicine and parasitology study section in Bethesda, Md. in March and July. He also participated in a panel discussion in March on “Balancing Teaching and Research Options” during the Graduate Students’ Association 18th annual Career and Research Day at the University of California, San Francisco, and presented parasitology guest lectures in May and June at the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Internship Program at San Francisco State University. In August he presented a paper, “Kinetics of hemocyte formation in Biomphalaria glabrata,” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Heinz Weihrich, Professor–Business and Management, had his co-authored book, Management, ranked the number one most influential management book in circulation in China by China Business newspaper. A Chinese translation of his book, Management: An Asian Perspective, is planned for next year. Weihrich will also teach a seminar on global policy and strategy in the MBA program at Beijing University.

Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor–Politics, spoke in August at John F. Kennedy University Law School about the U.S. invasion of Iraq and international law. His book reviews of Phyllis Bennis’ Before and After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis and Alan Dershowitz’s Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge appeared in the summer 2003 issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He was special editor of the spring 2003 issue of Peace Review on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and contributed the essay “The U.S. Role in the Collapse of the Peace Process.”