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Publications

James Karman, English, had Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers / Photographs by Morley Baer accepted for publication by Stanford University Press in the spring.

Bill Murphy, Geosciences, published "Natural Analogs and Performance Assessment for Geologic Disposal of Nuclear Waste" in the Materials Research Society Proceedings, fall 2000, Vol. 608. He also coauthored "Thermodynamic Interpretations of Chemical Analyses of Unsaturated Zone Water from Yucca Mountain, Nevada" and "An Archeological Site at Akrotiri, Greece, As a Natural Analog for Radionuclide Transport: Implications for Validity of Performance Assessments," published in the society's Proceedings.

Brenda A. Riemer, Physical Education and Exercise Science, coauthored "The Influence of Peer and University Culture on Female Student Athletes' Perceptions of Career Termination, Professionalization, and Social Isolation," published in the Journal of Sport Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2000.

Kristin Trefts and Sarah Blakeslee, Library Instruction Program, published "Did You Hear the One about the Boolean Operators?: Incorporating Comedy into Library Instruction" in the journal Reference Service Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2000.

Grants and Contracts

James Fletcher, Recreation and Parks Management, and Diane Schmidt, Political Science, received $238,519 from the California Public Utilities Commission for surveys in English, Spanish, and Cantonese to analyze formal and informal complaints about telecommunication companies.

Michael Marchetti, Biological Sciences, received $51,709 from the California Department of Water Resources for a study of invertebrate assemblage and salmonid feeding habits in the Feather River below Lake Oroville.

Mark Stemen, Geography and Planning, received $13,616 from the Butte County Department of Public Works for a recycling education project to educate the public about waste management.

Awards and Activities

Tricia Daniels, Center for Regional and Continuing Education, received the Best Four Color Catalog Cover Award for 2000 from the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators.

Beverly Ford, Faculty and Staff Assistance, presented "Health and Wealth through Indian Eyes" at the International Association of Employee Assistance Programs in Education Conference in New York City, New York. She chairs the International Outreach in Education Committee and will co-chair the 2001 International Conference.

Christine Goulding, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented "Interactive On-Line Activities and Java Script: A Communicative Approach" and chaired a session on computer-assisted language learning at the annual conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Boston, Massachusetts, in November.

Patricia Smiley, Physical Education and Exercise Science, had her Introduction to Dance course nominated as an exemplary WebCt course representing CSU, Chico's WebCt Institute.

Greg Tropea, Philosophy, presented an invited talk "Philosophical Counseling and Cross-Cultural Negotiation" in the "Pacific Region Forum on Business and Management Communication" series, sponsored by the David See-Chai Lam Centre for International Communication of Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, British Columbia, in November. A summary of the talk is published on the center's Web site and will appear in the center's annual Forum Reports.

Dave Waddell, Journalism, was named a 2001 Institute for Journalism Excellence Fellow by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Aiping Zhang, English, presented "Ethnicity and Masculinity: The Trial of Man in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet and Frank Chin's Donald Duk" at the second MELUS Europe conference at the University of Orleans, Orleans, France, in June and presented "Who Is Dick Diver: The Composite Characterization in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night" at the fifth International Conference on F. Scott Fitzgerald in Nice, France, in June/July. He also delivered a keynote speech on "East and West: The War of Words over the Nobel Prize for Literature" at the conference on "Asia and the West: A Difficult Intercontinental Relationship" sponsored by the University of Rome in Rome, Italy, in December.