Achievements

Publications

Michael Gundlach, Management, co-authored “Understanding and Managing Organizational Deviance: A Causal Reasoning Perspective,” a chapter in Managing Social and Ethical Issues in Organizations, Information Age Publishing Inc., 2007.

Ira Latour, professor emeritus, Art and Art History, had an introductory essay, “Translations,” published in a special edition of fine prints by 11 distinguished American printmakers from Blue Sky Press. The collection has been acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He also co-authored “Notes on a Visit to Tor House in 1950,” published in Jeffers Studies: Robinson Jeffers and the Visual Arts (Vol. 9, No. 1–2, 2007) along with two photographs of Robinson Jeffers.

Jeff Livingston, History, had a review essay, “Storms in the Land of the Morning Calm: Allen R. Millett, The War for Korea, 1945–1950,” published in Diplomatic History 31 (Sept. 2007). Livingston also published reviews of Michael B. Katz and Mark J. Stern’s One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming and Andreas Killen’s 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America in the journal Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries in March and April, respectively.

P. Willey, Anthropology, co-authored “Cave Archaeology and the NSS: 1941–2006,” published in the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2007.

Awards and Activities

Ralph Huntsinger, professor emeritus, Computer Science, was on the scientific committee of the XIV PTSK Scientific Workshops international conference, The Simulation in Research and Development in September 2007 in Krynica-Zdrój, Poland. He also co-presented “Exploring the Linearity of Models on the Basis of Ranked Data” at the 2007 Summer Simulation Multiconference in July in San Diego.

Ela Thurgood, English, presented “Phonetic Variation of Vowels in Anong, An Endangered Tibeto-Burman Language of Yunan” at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2007.

Nanette Wylde, Art & Art History, presented the paper “Just What Is It that Makes Electronic Literature So Different, So Appealing?” at the Remediating Literature Conference at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in July 2007.

Grants

Judy Bordin, Child Development Program, received $27,666 from the California Department of Social Services to provide a community care licensing division with training for early childhood educators.

Tom Ferrara, Civil Engineering, received $10,740 from the Community Housing Improvement Project for a traffic study of the Oroville Forebay Highway Project.

Sherry Fox, Nursing, received $33,788 from the Northern Sierra Rural Health Network to increase the number of LVNs who attain BSN degrees in rural Northern California.

Tom Fox, English, received $216,983 from the U.S. Department of Education to continue the National Writing Project program and $45,500 from the University of California Office of the President to provide educational enrichment for English teachers through the Northern California Writing Project.

Joe Greene, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, and Manufacturing Technology, received $27,344 from Metabolix, Inc., to conduct biodegradable testing on PHA material for a 12-month period.

Todd Greene, Journalism, Geological and Environmental Sciences, received a license from Landmark Graphics to make educational use of the object version of its software.

Curt Haselton, Civil Engineering, received $35,078 from Pacific Gas and Electric to create structural designs and models and simulate nonlinear dynamic response to underground motion.

Christopher Ivey, Biological Sciences, received $16,987 from the University of Virginia to collect plant and soil samples from identified suitable field sites and conduct laboratory analyses about drought adaptation in two mimulus species.

Willem Kymmell and Mike Borzage, Construction Management, received $25,000 from Turner Construction to complete building information modeling for their Sutter Hospital project.

Rebecca Lytle, Kinesiology, received $749,669 through August 2009 from the U.S. Department of Education for stipends for students pursuing degrees in low-incidence special education and training.

Bev Marcum, Biological Sciences, received $334,000 through 2010 from the University of California Office of the President for the CSU, Chico CSP Teacher Retention Initiative. She also received $60,000 from No Child Left Behind to provide science educators with instruction and information on teaching science to students.

Chuck Nelson, Geographical Information Center, received $375,000 through June 2010 from the San Francisco Estuary Institute for mapping 75 quads of the estuary.

Diana Parks, Graduate, International, and Interdisciplinary Studies, and Susan Place, Multicultural and Gender Studies, received $67,232 from the Academy for Educational Development to provide school and state department visits for 20 participants from Egypt to learn about accreditation processes in U.S. schools.

Char Prieto, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and student Peter Alaimo received a $1,350 grant from the Committee on Arts and Letters to bring Spanish writer and journalist Montse Armengou to campus in November to speak about the recuperation of historical memory in Spain.

Dan Ripke, Center for Economic Development, received $100,000 from NoRTEC to link the WIRED project and partners with the small business development centers to facilitate trainings and information dissemination.

Jennifer Rotnem, Natural Sciences, received $28,350 from the State Water Resources Control Board for standardization of freshwater invertebrate taxonomy to support biocriteria.

Gregg White, Archaeological Research Center, received $59,690 from the National Park Service to conduct an archaeological inventory of fuel treatment units at Lassen National Park.

In The News

Kathryn Schifferle, Marketing, was featured in “How to (Finally) Get the Body of Your Dreams,” about women who find their fitness passions in adulthood, in the October issue of Health magazine. She loves fencing and is the faculty advisor for the Chico State Fencing Club.

Bev Marcum, Biological Sciences, was quoted in “Making the Grade,” an article on training math and science teachers in the October issue of Discover magazine. She discussed the Hands-On Science Lab.

Irene Salter, Biological Sciences, was featured in the September issue of The Scientist in their careers section article titled “From Grad School to Grade School: So You Want to Be a Science Teacher? Here’s How to Get Started.”