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	New Telecom-munications Master's Degree
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Helping To Make CSU, Chico Better

ED ABRAMSON, Department of Psychology, is quoted in the March issue of Good Housekeeping on the subject of weight gain and nighttime eating.

EDWARD BRONSON, Department of Sociology, was quoted in the Record of San Joaquin County about juror bias and change of venue in a murder case.

PAUL FRIEDLANDER, Department of Music, was the subject of a cover story, "So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Teacher," in Teacher Magazine (January 1999). See the article on Friedlander in Chico Statements (fall ‘98).

REED GIBBY, Department of Civil Engineering, had his research on roadway crosswalks featured in a November 27, 1998, article in the San Jose Mercury-News.

Geosciences professor BILL GUYTON’s book Glaciers of California (University of California Press, 1998) was the subject of an editorial in the Los Angeles Times (Oct. 10, 1998). The editorial stressed the book’s importance and the need for attention to the fate of the state’s glaciers. The 108 glaciers remaining in California are a volatile barometer of climate changes in the West. For instance, Mt. Shasta’s Whitney Glacier, 2 miles long and 126 feet thick, lost half its volume in the 1920s and ‘30s. As beautiful and fragile as they are, glaciers are unknown to most mountain hikers and tourists, Guyton says. Many don’t even realize glaciers exist in the western mountain ranges.

LOU HARROLD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was quoted in a November 24, 1998, Sacramento Bee article about a software gift from Cadence Design Systems, the largest software gift in school history. An item on the gift also appeared November 15, 1998, in the Sacramento Business Journal. (See Chico Statements, back cover, fall 1998, for more information.)

CAROLIVIA HERRON, Department of English, continues to receive national media attention for her controversial children’s book, Nappy Hair. Along with contributing to articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and other publications, Herrron appeared on TV network news programs, the Montel Williams Show, the Rosie O’Donnell Show, and other programs.

It’s a cross between a block and tackle and a rope tow–it’s called a zigzag yarder, and it allows small crews to remove fallen trees and other debris from hillsides to prevent soil erosion, clogged waterways and forest fires. Fire prevention expert RON HODGSON, Department of Parks and Recreation, has been taking the zigzag yarder into the Sierra and other forests to help the U.S. Forest Service and private land-owners clear areas with high potential for fire. See the article on Hodgson in Chico Statements (spring 1999).

STEVE KING, dean of the College of Communication and Education, was quoted in a story in Education Week (Oct. 7, 1998) about new plans in California for training teachers.

As structural damage by termites increases, out-thinking the adaptable insects is becoming increasingly important. DAVID KISTNER, Department of Biology, is perfecting a method of detecting termites with wood-based sensors, which lead the insects to poison tubes. Kistner, editor of Sociobiology, has written more than 200 scholarly papers on social insects and has named approximately 500 new species of beetles and other insects around the world. See the article on Kistner in Chico Statements (fall 1999).

LINDA MACMICHAEL, director, Office of Admissions, was quoted in a Feburary 27 story in the Sacramento Bee about growing enrollment and the use of on-line applications.

MARV MEGIBOW, Department of Psychology, was quoted in a December 14, 1998, article in the Sacramento Bee about Chico’s Jewish community and its new rabbis.

JAMES PUSHNIK, Department of Biology, recently discovered the first in a suite of genes that turns a Ponderosa pine’s photosynthesis into wood production when exposed to high-level carbon dioxide–the first step in bio-engineering trees to absorb more CO2. With high-CO2-climate changes predicted, the genetically modified pines will be key to reducing global warming, maintaining timber harvests, and restoring vegetation in areas such as the Sierra. Pushnik has three papers on his research coming out in the Journal of Experimental Botany and the Journal of Water, Air and Soil Pollution.

SUE ROSOFF, Special Collections, Meriam Library, was named one of the country’s top professional photographers in an article titled "Rodeo’s Hot Shots" in the March issue of The Western Horse. Rosoff worked on her master’s thesis at UC, Berekely with Ansel Adams, who suggested she pursue the rodeo genre.

RICK SHERIDAN, Department of Health and Community Services, was interviewed on KHSL TV’s evening news in February about his on-line medical research course, which teaches students how to use the Internet to find health and medical information.

DAVE SWANSON, Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science, had his recent research on athletic performance discussed in the December 1998 issue of Sports Illustrated, as well as articles in Runner’s World, Men’s Health, and Hypocrites. The research concerned using an herbal antioxidant to improve endurance.

CHRISTIAN TODENHAGEN, Department of English, had a letter published in the February 5 Wall Street Journal on language and political correctness.

CSU, Chico’s two board-certified forensic anthropologists were quoted in stories about how to determine the cause of death of Monterey-area teen Christina Williams, whose body was found in mid-January after a long and well publicized search. P. WILLEY was quoted in a January 21 story in the San Francisco Chronicle, and TURHON MURAD was quoted in a January 15 story in the Monterey Herald.

Music professor YING YEH, the first opera singer permitted to leave China and perform internationally after the Cultural Revolution, was videotaped on campus by a visiting Chinese Central TV crew for a Chinese New Year’s broadcast on February 16. The broadcast is one of the most watched programs in China. Along with Yeh, a performer at the Met and a star of the filmed Madame Butterfly were taped in New York by the television crew.