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• Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, associate professor of French, chaired a session on Antillean and African literature and film, "Tableau Antillais, Tab-leaux Africains," and presented a paper, "Tableau Ferraille' de Mossa Sene Absa et 'Xala' d'Ousmane Sembene: Un Problème de Contradiction," at the Conseil International des Etudes Francophones (CIEF) in Lafayette, La., in May. She will serve a three-year term on the CIEF executive board with conferences in Tunisia, the Ivory Coast and Vietnam. Aas-Rouxparis also serves as the Western United States and Western Canada representative on the executive board of Women in French. • Obo Addy, instructor of drumming, is one of two recipients of the first Individual Artist Fellowship from the Regional Arts and Culture Council. • Kellar Autumn, assistant professor of biology, published two articles: "Secondarily Diurnal Geckos Return to Cost of Locomotion Typical of Diurnal Lizards" in Zoology and "Locomotor Performance at Low Temperature and the Evolution of Nocturnality in Lizards," with D. Jindrich, Dale DeNardo and Rachel Mueller, in Evolution. He also published three abstracts in American Zoology: "Dynamics of Geckos Running Vertically" and "Function of Feet in Ascending and Descending Geckos" with S.T. Hsieh, D.M. Dudek, J. Chen, C. Chitaphan and R.J. Full; and "Rapid Negotiation of Rough Terrain by the Death-Head Cockroach" with R.J. Full and J. Chung. Autumn gave presentations at the U.S. Marines Urban Warfare Exposition in Oakland, Calif., and at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Denver. • Barbara Balko, associate professor of chemistry, gave a talk, "The Effect of Doping with Fe(II) on the Reduction of Oxygen at alpha-Fe203 Electrodes," on research she is conducting with student Kathleen Clarkson '01 to the geochemistry division of the American Chemical Society. She also presented this work at the Northwest regional meeting of the American Chemical Society in June. In July, Balko made a poster presentation at the Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Also presenting at the American Chemical Society in June were James Duncan, professor of chemistry; Gillian Gardner, instructor in chemistry and lab instructor; Louis Kuo, associate professor of chemistry; Janis Lochner, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Professor of Science; William Randall, professor of chemistry; Kenneth Strothkamp, visiting associate professor of chemistry; and students Nick Perera '00 and David Severson '99. • David Becker, senior lecturer in music and director of bands, received the Citation of Excellence Award from the National Band Association, the world's largest band organization. He adjudicated high-school and middle-school bands at the Northern Nevada Concert Band Festival, University of Nevada at Reno, in April. Becker also organized and led the Oregon Ambassadors of Music on a 16-day concert tour of Europe. The tour involved 295 high-school students and staff representing 70 Oregon high schools and universities. The 163-member band and 125-member choir performed in London; Paris; Champery, Switzerland; Seefeld, Austria; and Rothenburg, Germany. • Michael Blumm, professor of law, and Janet Neuman, associate professor of law, published "Water for National Forests: The Bypass Flow Report and the Great Divide in Western Water Law" in Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 18. Blumm and Daniel Rohlf, instructor in natural resources, along with several coauthors, wrote "Saving Snake River Water and Salmon Simultaneously: The Biological, Economic, and Legal Case for Breaching the Lower Snake River Dams, Lowering John Day Reservoir, and Restoring Natural River Flows" for Environmental Law. The article surveys a number of scientific and economic studies, including one by Eban Goodstein, associate professor of economics. • Michael Broide, associate professor of physics, gave an invited talk, "The Physics of Water," at the Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society in Atlanta. The meeting was attended by more than 11,000 scientists from around the world. • Robert Eisinger, assistant professor of political science, wrote "Cynical America?: Misunderstanding the Public's Message" for the April/May issue of The Public Perspective. • Mónica Flori, professor of Spanish, presented a lecture, "Women Writers From Argentina," at Portland Community College in March. • Sherry Fowler, assistant professor of art history, presented the paper "Unstable Identities: Images of Transformation in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture" at the Asian Studies Conference Japan, at Sophia University in Tokyo, in June. • Elaine Gass, reference librarian in Watzek Library, published "A New Dialogue: A Student Advisory Committee in an Academic Library" in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. She coauthored the paper with Wendi Arant and Candace R. Benefiel. • John Gerth, associate professor of theater, designed sets for "Pippi Longstocking" for Oregon Children's Theatre Company and for "Damn Yankees" for Lakewood Theatre Company. • Susan Glosser, assistant professor of history, received a $5,000 research fellowship from the Oregon Council for the Humanities to support her research on the historical analysis of the marketing of milk during the Republican period of China (1911-1949). She has titled her proposed research "Milk Does the Body Politic Good." • Robert Goldman, professor of sociology, and Stephen Papson, professor of sociology, St. Lawrence University, published Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (SAGE Publications, 1998). The book takes an in-depth look at how an advertising image works. It situates the Nike swoosh in terms of political economy, sociology, culture and semiotics. • Eban Goodstein, associate professor of economics, debated Hoover Institute Fellow Thomas Gale Moore on "Should the U.S. Senate Ratify the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty?" at Stanford University in May. • John Grant, visiting professor of law, spoke at three media briefings at the Lockerbie Trials Symposium, at the Glasgow School of Law in Glasgow, Scotland. • Lawrence Hammar, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, presented "Behind the Back of Beyond: Wantok Sexism, In-lain and On-line" at the Beyond Homophobia conference, San Francisco State University, in April. He also presented a Horizons Project workshop in San Francisco in April. The workshop was sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Science. • Martin Hart-Landsberg, professor of economics, recently published Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S. Foreign Policy (Monthly Review Press, 1998). In the book, he reconstructs the long pattern of Korean struggles for national unity and independence from foreign domination and shows that the division of the country into hostile states after World War II was contrary to the desires of the majority of Koreans. • Mary Henning-Stout, professor of counseling psychology, serves on the editorial board of the School Psychology Quarterly. Lark Huang, a graduate student in the counseling psychology program, serves on the publication's student editorial board. Henning-Stout and Denise DeZolt, assistant professor of counseling psychology, coauthored a chapter, "Adolescent Girls' Experiences in School and Community Settings," in Beyond Appearances: A New Look at Adolescent Girls (American Psychological Association, 1999), edited by N.G. Johnson, M.C. Roberts and J. Worell. • Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, Mary Stuart Rogers Professor of Education, coedited "We Want to Be Known": Learning From Adolescent Girls with Maureen Barbieri and Brenda Miller (Stenhouse, 1998). • James Huffman, professor of law and dean of the law school, lectured at a seminar for law professors, "Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis," in Gallatin Gateway, Mont., in August. The seminar was part of a conference sponsored by the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment.
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• William Kinsella, assistant professor of communication, presented a paper, "Theorizing Nuclear Communication: Moral Conflict, Institutional Power, and Social/Cultural Text," at the Conference on Communication and Environment, Northern Arizona University, in July. • The Rev. Zuigaku Kodachi, professor emeritus of Japanese language and literature, published two articles on the history of the Lotus Sutra in Lotus, a Japanese academic journal focusing on religion. One article appeared in the August/September 1998 issue, and a second article ran in the February/March 1999 issue. In the Buddhist religion, the Lotus Sutra represents the essence of the teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha. • Michael Krauss, instructor in ISALC, will teach an on-line course for the U. S. Information Agency. Krauss designed a Website, http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/home.html, and on-line discussion board for the four-week course, "Integrating the Internet Into the Language Classroom," to be presented to 50 European teachers and teacher trainers. He received a $3,000 grant from the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium to create the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Independent Study Lab, a Web-based resource, which will allow ESL/EFL students to improve language skills. • Arthur LaFrance, professor of law, published a casebook, Bioethics: Health Care, Human Rights and the Law (Matthew Bender, 1999). The only such book in print, it differs from existing bioethics materials by taking a broader human rights perspective and in consisting almost exclusively of legal materials. LaFrance set the materials in a philosophical framework of traditional rights analysis while continuously questioning that orientation. Each assignment has at least one problem, drawn from current issues, including managed care. • Lydia Pallas Loren, associate professor of law, received a $10,000 grant from the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium to support the "Learning Cyberlaw in Cyberspace" project. Loren, as project coordinator, is working with 10 professors across the United States who all teach in the field of cyberspace law to develop timely course material that is available on the Web. She will publish "Digitization, Commodification, Criminalization: The Evolution of Criminal Copyright Infringement and the Importance of the Willfulness Requirement" in the Washington University Law Quarterly. Loren presented "Copyrighting Cyberspace" at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Education in June. • Jens Mache, assistant professor of computer science, presented a paper, "The Impact of Spatial Layout of Jobs on Parallel I/O Performance," at the Association for Computing Machinery Federated Computing Research Conference, Atlanta, in May. His paper, one of only 30 percent accepted for presentation, was part of the workshop on I/O in parallel and distributed systems. • Robert Miller, senior lecturer in art and program head of photography, showed his work as part of a group exhibit, "Handmade Oregon," at the Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, in August. • Clayton Morgareidge, associate professor of philosophy, published "It Happens: A Critique of Responsibility" in Ethics and Justice. He will publish "Imposing Values on Others: What Do Moral Judgments Do?" in Teaching Philosophy. • Thomas Olsen, associate professor of physics, was elected president of the Oregon Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Olsen and Alison Smiley '01 are coauthors with Richard Wiener, assistant professor of physics, Pacific University, of "Control of Chaotic Pattern Dynamics in Taylor Vortex Flow," published in Physical Review Letters, the journal for rapid dissemination of significant new work of interest to the physics community. • Jill Ostrow M.A.T. '94, visiting assistant professor of education, wrote Making Problems, Creating Solutions: Challenging Young Mathematicians (Stenhouse, 1998). • Joan Polansky, assistant professor of counseling psychology, presented "Supervising Culturally Diverse Students" at the American Psychology Association (APA) meeting in Chicago. She is chair of the APA Division Two Task Force for the Teaching of Ethics for Psychology. • William Rottschaefer, professor of philosophy, edited and moderated a listserve and news service promoting the constructive engagement of science and religion. He wrote "The Transfiguration of Human Identity and Values: Some Reflections on E.O. Wilson's Consilient Enlightenment Catechism," which was published electronically. Rottschaefer's book, The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency, was reviewed in the Journal of Moral Education in June. • Michael Sexton, dean of admissions, was appointed to the Professional Development Committee of the National Association for College Admission qCounseling. • Kim Stafford, associate professor in the graduate school and director of the Northwest Writing Institute, participated in a reading at Powell's Books to celebrate the release of Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford, by Judith Kitchen (Oregon State University Press, 1999). C-SPAN2 filmed the reading for national broadcast on "Book TV." • Marisa Tabizon, coordinator of student activities, is the multicultural and diversity education coordinator for the National Association of Campus Activities convetion. • Michael Taylor, associate professor of art, exhibited "Dreams of Atlantis&emdash;New Sculptures," at the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland. • Nancy Teskey, assistant orchestra conductor and flute instructor, presented a paper, "Interpreting Marcel Moyse's Tone Development Through Interpretation, to the National Flute Association Convention in Atlanta. • José Pablo Villalobos, assistant professor of Spanish, will present "Altering Boundaries: The Redefined Border in Miguel Méndez and Alejandro Morales" as part of the Corporal and Geographical Recon-figuration in Chicano Literature special session that he organized for the Modern Language Association convention in Chicago. He will publish "In the Text of the Father: Genealogical Hauntings in the Work of Silvia Molina" in Hispanófila. • Ted Vogel, senior lecturer in art and program head of ceramics, is director-at-large of the board of directors of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. He exhibited sculptures at the Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, in May. In August, he opened an exhibition of new sculptures at the Danforth Museum of Art, Livingston, Mont. • Greg Walters, director of human resources, chairs the Northwest Region of the College and University Personnel Association (CUPA). He also serves on the national board of directors of CUPA. • Bruce West, senior lecturer in art and program head of sculpture, installed a commissioned sculpture, "Water, Water, Water," at the Lake Oswego Fire Department. • Carol Witherell, professor of education, reviewed two books: It's Hard to Be Good: Moral Complexity, Construction, and Connection in a Kindergarten Classroom, by Brian McCadden, for the Journal of Moral Education and The Courage to Teach, by Parker Palmer, for Educational Studies. • Phyllis Yes, professor of art, exhibited her work, "Slices of White Bread," at the Lee Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, in September. She also will exhibit 100 paintings of "White Bread" at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in January. • Rishona Zimring, assistant professor of English, received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to participate in a six-week seminar on psychoanalysis and aesthetics at Cornell University.
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