Mahyar
A. Amouzegar,
associate professor, Computer Information Systems, was elected Fellow of the
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2000). Also, he was re-elected
managing editor of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences,
published by LEA, Inc. His term is five years. Amouzegar’s latest paper,
"A Global Optimization Method for Nonlinear Bilevel Programming,"
has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Man, Machine and Cybernetics: Part B.
Margaret
Blue,
director, Academic Student Support Programs, and associate professor, Political
Science, attended the Liaison Board Meeting Nov. 11-12 for the Washington
Center in Washington, D.C. Blue also was an invited panelist Nov. 9-11 at
the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association annual
meeting in Albany, New York. The panel was titled "Political Conventions
in the 21st Century." And, she was a faculty leader at the Democratic
National Convention in Los Angeles, California for The Washington Center.
David
Bradfield,
professor of music, and composer, presented a new composition at the Southern
California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music Fall 2000 Concert in the Roy
O. Disney Music Hall at the California Institute of the Arts on Friday, Nov.
17. He premiered his composition, "Earth’s Vital Signs." Says
Bradfield about this work: "The inspiration for this piece came from
an article in April 2000 Scientific American, ‘Monitoring Earth’s
Vital Signs’ by Michael D. King and David D. Herring. The sounds for
the pieces were generated from satellite images downloaded from the web. The
files were processed with the ‘image synth’ feature of the software
synthesis program Metasynth."
Carol
Casten,
professor of physical education and recreation, has been elected to become
the first female president in the 46-year history of the Western College Physical
Education Society.
Alan
Fisher,
professor, political science, addressed The Young Business and Professionals
Division of the Jewish Federation of Orange County. His presentation was part
of a panel discussion on "The Jewish Vote" in the presidential election.
The program was held Oct. 29 at the Crowne Plaza in Irvine. Also, Fisher spoke
Oct. 27 at Shabbat services at the Leo Baeck Temple. The title of his talk
was "Generations of Jews: Voting and Values."
Prakash
L. Dheeriya,
chair and professor, Finance, published the "Impact of Internet on Firm’s
Cost of Capital: An Analysis" in the Proceedings of the 5th Colloque
de l’AIM (Association Information and Management, an international conference
in Montpellier, France). And, he published "Creating an Undergraduate
E-Commerce Concentration: A Case Study" for the Proceedings of the Information
Systems Education Conference (ISECON) 2000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The theme of the conference was "Information Systems Education: Where
Teaching Takes Center Stage." ISECON is the longest running conference
for Information Systems educators. Both conferences were in November. Also,
Dheeriya addressed the Torrance-Lomita Airport Rotary Club meeting Nov. 22
at the Rolling Hills Country Club. The title of his presentation was "The
‘Dot-Gone’ Economy."
Toros men’s
soccer coach Joe Flanagan
was named California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Coach of the Year
for the second time in his career after guiding CSUDH to a 17-1-1 regular
season record and the Central Division title. (see
"Toros Win…," p. 1)
Mary
Granger,
records management analyst, Procurement, Contracts, Logistical and Suport
Services, was awarded the State of California Governor’s Employee Safety
Award on Aug. 25, 2000, after being nominated by Emmit
Williams, director, Procurement, Contracts, Logistical and Support
Services.
Patricia
Hamilton,
coordinator, Institute for the Study of Cultural Diversity & Internalization,
was chosen by Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks’ Community Police
Academy Committee to attend a 10-week course designed to expose participants
to a general working knowledge of the Los Angeles Police Department. The Academy
will teach law enforcement operations and policies.
Robert
Hooper,
assistant professor, communications, will participate in the International
Eisenhower Conference, Nov. 12-16 in Sydney, Australia. The Eisenhower Trustees
and Eisenhower’s chairman, former President George Bush, appointed him
an Eisenhower Fellow to Malaysia in 1996. Based in Philadelphia and initiated
by Walter Annenberg in 1953 as a birthday gift to President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
the Eisenhower Fellowships are one of the most select awards offered in the
United States. This year’s conference will feature a series of roundtable
discussions by emerging leaders from nations around the globe. They will discuss
and debate issues of Infrastructure and Economic Development, the Roles of
Public and Private Capital, Ethics and Economics, IT Education in Development,
Food Technology and Environmental Conflicts. Hooper will be able to renew
friendships with fellows from around the world, and discuss issues related
to Indonesia with the Indonesian Fellows in preparation for his Senior Fulbright
Scholarship to Indonesia next semester. (See
story on Hooper, page 3)
Louise
Ivers,
professor of art, and chair, Art Department, published a book review, "Odd
Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture" by Suzanne Muchnic"
in the Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 82 (Summer, 2000), pp. 230-232.
Thomas
Landefeld,
associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, participated Sept. 24-28 at
a pre-health professional school advisor’s group at St. George’s
Medical School in Granada, West Indies. St. George’s has had a medical
school for several years and recently opened a School of Veterinary Medicine.
David
R. Maciel,
professor of history, and chair, Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies, traveled
to the University of Guadalajara to present a lecture on Chicano Cinema and
inaugurate a festival of Chicano films that he organized for the University.
His lecture was titled, "El Norte: The Origins and Development of Chicano
Cinema."
Brendan
McNulty,
professor, Earth Sciences, was invited to present his latest research to the
112th annual session of the Geological Society of America, meeting in Reno,
Nevada on Nov. 16 at the Reno/Sparks Convention Center. McNulty’s field
of study is the outer shell of the earth, which is comprised of strong rigid
plates of rock known as "lithosphere" that are up to 60 miles thick.
These plates of lithosphere move around the Earth and often collide with each
other, causing one plate to sink beneath another in a process known as "subduction."
Subduction occurs all along the portion of earth known as the "Ring of
Fire," which includes the Pacific Coast of South America, Japan, and
Alaska, influencing the geology of eastern Asia and the Pacific rim of North
and South America. Understanding subduction helps in the development of safety
measures in regions prone to earthquakes. Construction standards and building
codes, for example, are predicated on principles of subduction. McNulty has
been studying subduction that dates back 100 million years in the Sierra Nevada
mountain chain in California, and has spent considerable time on-site in the
Peruvian Andes studying the phenomenon there. The presentation by McNulty
and Daniel Farber, of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California,
at the GSA meeting was called, "Detachment Faults in the Peruvian Andes:
Riedel Shears to a Flat Slab?" It will focus on Peru’s distinctive
geology created by subduction beneath South America.
Susan
Mathieu,
lecturer, Recreation and Leisure Studies, presented "Therapeutic Recreation:
An Effective and Fun Intervention" to the annual convention, Oct. 28,
of the Southern California Association for the Education of Young Children.
Therapeutic recreation student Samuel
Levine assisted her. On Oct. 17, Mathieu led a workshop, "Turning
Stress into Strength," for parents and teachers at Palos Verdes Intermediate
School. And, on Oct. 12, she presented "What Can I Do? Grief & Loss
Training for the Recreational Professional," and "Join the Harry
Potter Phenomenon: Create Simple and Fun Literacy-Based Recreation Programs"
at the Southern California Municipal Athletic Federation 31st Annual Institute.
Carol
Mellblom,
director, Center for Learning & Academic Support Services/associate professor,
Graduate Education, presented "Reading Competencies of Upper Division
University Students: Strategies for Accommodating and Improving" on Nov.
9 to the College Reading and Learning Association in New Orleans. In addition,
she presented "Urban Education Service Corps, (UESC) An Alternative to
Field Experiences - A Project at Work," to the Council of Great Cities
Great Schools annual meeting, Los Angeles, Oct. 26, 2000. And, she presented
"Working Memory and Spatial Representation in Mental Arithmetic: Implications
and Teaching Suggestions," to the Council on Learning Disabilities in
Austin, Oct. 20, 2000.
Jerry
Moore,
professor of anthropology, addressed Primera Reunión Binacional, Oct.
20-21, hosted by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
at Mexicali, in Baja California, at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja
California. This conference brought together Mexican and U.S. scholars to
discuss "Balances y Perpsectivas de la Baja California Prehispanica e
Hispanica." Moore was invited to present "Investigaciones Arqueológicas
en la Zona de San Quentín - El Rosario: Resultados y Hipotesis del
Proyecto PASE 1995-1999," a paper based on archaeological fieldwork supported
by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research, the CSUDH Foundation, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Sandra
Orellana,
professor of anthropology, presented a paper titled "Automated Culture:
Global Perspectives" at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association held Nov. 15-19 at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco.
Richard
Palmer,
professor and chair, Political Science, served as a faculty leader at the
Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles for The Washington Center.
Linda
Pomerantz,
associate dean, Division of Extended Education, and professor, history/interdisciplinary
studies, chaired a panel discussion Oct. 7 on "Nationalism and Gender
in Early Twentieth Century China" at the Western Conference of the Association
for Asian Studies, at CSU Long Beach.
Larry
Press,
professor, Computer Information Systems, co-authored "Computing at the
Top of the World," which appeared in the November 2000 Communications
of the Association for Computing Machinery. In addition, Press wrote two articles
that appear in Nature Publishing’s Encyclopedia of Computer Science:
"Optical Storage" and "The IBM PC," which he co-authored.
He is a member of the publication’s editorial board. Press also delivered
a presentation, "The Information Revolution in Latin America," to
the Rand Workshop on the Future of the Information Revolution in Latin America,
in Washington on Nov. 1-2. And, he was guest editor of the November/December
2000 "Developing Nations" issue of OnTheInternet, the publication
of the Internet Society, which included an article he co-authored: "Electronic
Commerce in Nepal."
Laura
Robles,
professor, biology/program director, Minority Biomedical Research Support
(MBRS) program, gave a research seminar Nov. 3 at Cal State Northridge on
"The octopus retina: light/dark induced changes in rhabdom structure
and protein distribution." The seminar was presented to faculty and MBRS/MARC/Bridges
students at CSUN. She also participated Sept. 15-17 with student Aria
Miller in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology Evaluation Workshop at Tucson, Arizona.
James
Woods,
acting director, Admissions and Records, was elected to the Board of Managers
for the Gardena-Carson YMCA, and was appointed to the board’s Finance
and Board Development committees.
Burhan Yavas, professor, Finance & Quantitative Methods, co-authored "Segmenting Industrial Markets on the basis of Quality: Some Cross-National Evidence" for the Journal of Marketing Management, Volume 10. No. 1, 37-50.
Randy Zarn,
associate vice president, Student Life, and Kim
Clark, director, Loker University Student Union recently presented
a workshop at the Association of College Unions International Region 15 Annual
Conference in Reno, Nevada. The title, "So You Want to Build a Student
Union," featured an interactive presentation where participants used
a game board to learn more about the elements of a student union construction
project. The board game was developed by Zarn, Clark and Marco
Dowell as a way to educate the LUSU Board of Directors on the plans
for Phase II of the Union.
Kathy Zimmerer, director, University Art Gallery, wrote a review of the exhibit, "John Mason: New Ceramic Sculpture" which appeared in ArtScene, vol. 20, no. 3, November 2000.
