Grants
Bev Marcum was awarded a four-year grant for $540,000 from UCLA for work with the Teacher Reentry Initiative! Her work with the Hands-On Lab is described in the article "Making the Grade — How do you grow a bumper crop of math and science teachers?" in Discover magazine's special anniversary issue that just was published. Posted 9.18.2007
Sherry Fox, Nursing, received $45,415 from Sonoma State University to enhance the Master's of Science degree and Post Master's certificate Family Nurse Practitioner Program by continuing to provide a distance education site at CSU, Chico.
Colleen Hatfield, Meghan Gilbert, and Donald Miller, Biological Sciences, with Joseph Silveira, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and Marcel Holyoak, UC Davis, were awarded $57,477 from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for their project, “The Effects of Host Plant Quality, Soil Composition and Associated Vegetation on Colonization Rates by the Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle.”
Jennifer Rotnem, Natural Sciences, received a total of $512,280 from CalFed to continue the study in Butte Creek of the spring-run Chinook salmon life history for three more years.
Russell Shapiro, Natural Sciences, received $8,993 from the National Science foundation to continue modeling the preserved record of geomicrobial processes at a fossil methane seep in the Tepee Buttes of Colorado.
Publications
Raymond “Jay” Bogiatto, Biological Sciences co-authored “Fish Remains Dominate Barn Owl Pellets in Northwestern Nevada,” published in Western North American Naturalist, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2006. His co-authors were his former student Kevin Dalton, Anthropology, and Dr. Jack Broughton, Virginia Cannon, and Shannon Arnold.
Simon Goberstein, Mathematics and Statistics, had “Inverse Semigroups Determined by Their Partial Automorphism Monoids" published in the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, Vol. 81, October 2006.
Greg Liggett, Northern California Natural History Museum, had “Kansas Academy of Science Position on Teaching Evolution in Public Schools” published in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, Vol. 109, 2006.
Michael Marchetti, Biological Sciences, had “Invasions and Habitat Change as Drivers of Diversity Loss among California's Freshwater Fishes” published in Conservation Biology 2006 and “Predicting Exotic Fishes in Freshwater Systems: Freshwater Fishes in California as a Model” published in BioScience , Vol. 56, No. 6, 2006.
Michelle Neyman Morris and Kathryn Silliman, Nutrition and Food Sciences, co-authored “Perceived Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of California Registered Dietitians Regarding Dietary Supplements,” published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Vol. 106, No. 3, 2006, with former CSU, Chico graduate student Chad Hetherwick.
Activities
Ann Bykerk-Kauffman, Geological and Environmental Sciences, made a presentation on preparing future K–12 teachers of earth science at the 118th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, held in Philadelphia in October. She was also a workshop facilitator for Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: A Workshop for Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows at Stanford University, July 27–30, 2006.
Ann Bykerk-Kauffman, Geological and Environmental Sciences, presented a talk entitled “A Constructivist Guided-Discovery Earth Science Course For Prospective K-12 Teachers: 11 Years, 2500 Students And Still Going Strong” at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Oct. 24.
Greg Liggett, Northern California Natural History Museum, presented “An Overview of Vertebrate Paleontology in Northern California: Localities, Taxa, and Potential” at the 66th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, in Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 20.
Michael Marchetti, Biological Sciences, co-led an hour-long professional development workshop titled “Teaching Non-Majors Conservation” at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting in San Jose in June. He also presented a talk titled “What We Have Learned from CA Fishes: A Road Map to the Future” at the Environmental Protection Agency working group on propagule pressure and invasive species in Washington, D.C, in July 2006.
Don Miller, Biological Sciences, presented the paper “Differential Rates of Inter-Gall Dispersal in Tamalia Gall-Inducers and Inquilines ( Aphididae )” at the XV International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects in Washington, D.C., Summer 2006.
Kristina Schierenbeck, Biological Sciences, served as local liaison and field trip coordinator and co-organized the symposium “Hybridization as a Stimulus for the Evolution of Invasiveness in Plants” for Botany 2006, Botanical Society of America meetings hosted by CSU, Chico in July. At the meetings, she also presented “A Confluence of Mountains and Floras, or Why Northern California Is a Great Place to Study Evolution” and co-presented “Evolution, Ecology and Floristics in Northern California: Current Knowledge and Unexplored Realms.”
Kristina Schierenbeck, Rob Schlising, Gordon Wolfe, and Gavin Blosser, Biological Sciences, co-presented “Ecological and Genetic Diversity and Characterization of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Soils of Vernal Pools in Northern California” at the Botany 2006, Botanical Society of America meetings hosted by CSU, Chico in July. |
