Nancy Erbe, associate professor of negotiation, conflict resolution and peace building at California State University, Dominguez Hills, will be speaking at “Shaping Faculty Roles in Times of Change: Leadership for Student Learning,” the annual conference of the American Associate of Colleges and Universities in San Diego in April. She is also on a research team funded by the CSU Office of the Chancellor, researching social justice and CSU curriculum and has just been named by the U.S. State Department as a Fulbright senior specialist in peace and conflict resolution.

Assistant professor of music Jonathon Grasse presented his paper, “Revisiting Lou Harrison’s Work for American Gamelan Featuring Solo Western Instruments,” as part of a panel on American music at the “Music in the 21st Century: Illuminations and Reflections” symposium held on Feb. 7at San Francisco State University. He also gave the Harrison presentation at the meeting of the Southern California and Hawaii chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology at UCLA later in the month.