Jacob Adams (Educational Studies) published an opinion piece in the Washington Post: "Matching Resources to Educational Results.” He also completed his term as chair of the National Working Group on Funding Student Learning and published the group's final report (which he wrote): “National Working Group on Funding Student Learning. Funding Student Learning: How to Align Education Resources with Student Learning Goals.” He released the Working Group report at a National Press Club event in Washington, DC, attended by DC-based education interest groups and media. Adams also spoke at a Sacramento conference honoring the 25th anniversary of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a state education policy research center based at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. He received a new grant from the Spencer Foundation for a project called “Creating Conditions for Policy Innovation in Education Finance.” The money supports three forums, two for state legislators and one for school district leaders, to explore state and local perspectives on policy innovation in education finance.
Susan Ames (Community and Global Health) and Jennifer Unger (Community and Global Health) are contributing authors on the 2010 Surgeon General's Report, Young People and Tobacco Use. Their contribution was the chapter on Etiology. Ames and Alan Stacy (Community and Global Health) are contributing authors on “Associative memory in appetitive behavior: Framework and relevance to epidemiology and prevention,” with R.W. Wiers and M. Krank, in Handbook of Drug Use Etiology. Ames published “Substance abuse among adolescents,” with S. Sussman and S. Skara, in Substance Use & Misuse; “Alcohol, drugs, and condom use among drug offenders: An event-based analysis,” with B.C. Leigh and A.W. Stacy, in Drug and Alcohol Dependence; and “Working memory capacity moderates the predictive effects of drug-related associations on substance use,” with J.L. Grenard, R. Wiers, C. Thush, S. Sussman, and A.W. Stacy, in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
David Amico (Arts and Humanities) was involved in an exhibition at the Riverside Museum, “Painting in Southern California: The 1980s Neo Expressionism and Driven to Abstraction II.”
Lourdes Arguelles (Educational Studies) was honored with an award at Pitzer College's celebration of its history of civic engagement and social responsibility. The celebration dinner and research symposium was attended by more than 100 Claremont Colleges faculty, students, and representatives of community agencies.
Michelle Bligh (Behavioral and Organizational Sciences) published “The Enduring Allure of Charisma: How Barack Hussein Obama Won the Historic 2008 Presidential Election,” with J. C. Kohles, in the Leadership Quarterly; and “Identity and Intergroup Leadership: Asymmetrical Political and National Identification in Response to Uncertainty,” with Z.P. Hohman and M.A. Hogg, in Self and Identity. She also presented “Leading Innovation: Understanding Barriers and Facilitators in the Singaporean Context,” with E. Ng, at the Sixth Annual Asia Academy of Management Conference in Taipei, Taiwan.
J. Travis Columbus (Botany) published several papers: “Proposal for an expanded Distichlis (Poaceae, Chloridoideae): Support from molecular, morphological, and anatomical characters,” with H.L. Bell, in Systematic Botany; “Paspalum vaginatum (Poaceae), a new threat to wetland diversity in southern California,” with R.E. Riefner, Jr., in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas; “Nota sobre Portulaca californica Legrand (Portulacaceae), una especie endémica poco conocida de Baja California Sur, México,” with G. Ocampo, in Acta Botánica Mexicana; “Noteworthy collection, California. Rytidosperma caespitosum (Gaudich.) Connor & Edgar (Poaceae),” with F.M. Roberts, in Madroño; and “Unisexual flower, spikelet, and inflorescence development in monoecious/dioecious Bouteloua dimorpha (Poaceae, Chloridoideae),” with M.S. Kinney and E.A. Friar, in American Journal of Botany. Columbus also received a National Natural Science Foundation of China grant for 2008-2010, and is a coprincipal investigator studying “Systematics and evolution of the Chloris group in the tribe Cynodonteae (Poaceae).” Columbus also presented “Phylogeny of Muhlenbergia and relatives (Poaceae, Chloridoideae)” at the Monocots without Borders symposium in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Ingolf Dalferth (Religion) has numerous recent publications: “Interpreting Interpretation” in Scopus; “Selbstaufopferung” in ThLZ; “Alexander Schweizer als Schüler Schleiermachers und Religionsphilosoph” in Emidio Campi, Ralph Kunz, Christian Moser (Hrsg.), Alexander Schweizer (1808-1888) und seine Zeit; “The Contingency of Evil” in Archivio di Filosofia/Archives of Philosophy; “Das Problem des Bösen im analytischen Theismus” in fiph Journal; “Die Selbstverkleinerung des Menschen” in ZThK; “Unbedingter Sinn und absolute Transzendenz” in DZPh; and “Glaube ist kein Arsenal zeitloser Werte” in Reformatio. Dalferth was interviewed on “Religiöser Zeitgeist: Glaube ist kein Arsenal zeitloser Werte” for Unimagazin. He also presented at numerous conferences: panelist on “Kapitalismus als Religion?” at “Gott und Geld” in Frankfurt, Germany; keynote speaker on “Glaubensvernunft oder Vernunftglaube?” at the Europäischer Kongress für Theologie in Vienna, Austria; chair of conference on Contemplative Philosophy of Religion: The Legacy of D.Z. Phillips in Zurich; keynote speaker on “Die Kontingenz des Bösen” at the International Conference on Das Böse in Hildesheim, Germany; chair of the conference on “Der Mensch zwischen Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit: Naturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven” in Zurich; keynote speaker on “Wahre Liebe ist kein Gefühl” at a conference on Pragmatik der Gefühle, in Zurich; chair of conference on Sinngestaltungen. Orientierungsstrategien in Religion und Musik in Zurich; keynote speaker on “Sinnloses Leiden. Vom schwierigen Umgang mit dem Bösen” at a conference on “Gott und das Böse” in Eschege, Germany; presented “The Contingency of Evil” at the Bapsybannoo Marchioness of Winchester Lecture (Endowed Lecture), Oxford, England; keynote speaker on “Trust, Distrust and Mistrust as Modes of Orientation” at the International Conference on Trust, Sociality, Selfhood in Copenhagen, Denmark; and chair of the Thirtieth Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Passion and Passivity, in Claremont. The exchange agreement between the faculty of theology at the University of Zurich and the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University has been signed and the first students from Zurich will be coming to Claremont in the spring and fall semesters of 2009.
David E. Drew (Educational Studies) and emeritus professor Paul Gray published an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on their book What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School. His article “Students Need Good Teachers More Than Tests” was published on the Los Angeles Times’ Education Blog. Along with PhD student Lisa Ulsh, Drew published a technical report presenting their evaluation of year one of a curriculum innovation STEP grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Claremont Colleges Joint Science Department. He also coauthored a technical report with Fitzgerald Bramwell and Michael Howell presenting annual evaluation findings about an ongoing $15 million NSF grant to a consortium of Louisiana colleges and universities. Drew also coauthored a paper on “‘Just-in-Time’ Motivational Messages for Obesity Management” with CGU alumnus Megha Maheshwari and Professor Samir Chatterjee. This paper was presented at the International Conference on Persuasive Technology in Oulu, Finland. Drew also presented, along with CGU alumnus Martin Bonsangue, a paper at the joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematics Association of America in Washington, DC. He recently gave a speech on “Building a Successful Academic Career” at Jackson State University. He is an advisor to Tibetan Buddhists in India who are launching a college in Bangalore, and he continues as principal investigator for an NSF Noyce grant to CGU. He, co-PI Darryl Yong (Harvey Mudd College) and Lisa Loop (Teacher Education) received a $90,000 supplemental Noyce grant this fall.
Patricia Easton (Arts and Humanities) presented at two conferences: “Why Le Grand was not an Occasionalist” at the Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee; and “Desgabets on the mind-body union” at the Pacific Northwest/Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy at Simon Frasier University in Vancouver. Easton also served on a National Panel for Dissertation Awards for the Academic Council of Learned Societies in New York City.
Lori Anne Ferrell (Arts and Humanities) has been awarded a residential fellowship in spring 2010 at All Souls College, Oxford. Her essay “How-To Books, Protestant Kinetics, and the Art of Theology” was published in the Huntington Library Quarterly special issue on “Religion and Cultural Transformation in Early Modern England.”
Elizabeth A. Friar (Botany) published “Hybrid origin and genomic mosaicism of Dubautia scabra (Hawaiian Silversword Alliance; Asteraceae–Madiinae),” with L.M. Prince, J.M. Cruse-Sander, ME. McGlaughlin, C. Butterworth, and B.G. Baldwin, in Systematic Botany; and “Unisexual flower, spikelet, and inflorescence development in monoecious/dioecious Bouteloua dimorpha (Poaceae, Chloridoideae),” with M.S. Kinney and J.T. Columbus, in the American Journal of Botany.
Jeanne Fryer (Educational Studies) consulted with the Pomona San Gabriel Regional Center on autism training protocols for teachers, caregivers, and service providers. These protocols will be instrumental in ongoing work in establishing a certificate program (and a research agenda) in autism. She also developed a program with Susan Perry, director of the Claremont Musabi Dojo, on “Mindfulness Training for Behaviorally At Risk Children 8-12” for the Claremont Unified School District. Fryer is on the Board of Directors of Crossroads, a community transitional program for formerly incarcerated women. As chairman of the program committee, she worked with Executive Director Sister Terry Dodge on developing a program-evaluation system that should provide interesting data for publication. She also continues to serve on the California Women and Criminal Justice Task Force.
DeLacy Ganley, Lisa Loop, and Anita Quintanar (Educational Studies) presented “Ethnographic Narratives: Helping New Teachers Embrace Parents and Communities and Foster Student Achievement” and “Qualifications to Teach English Language Learners: Are Veteran Teachers Prepared?” at the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Education. Ganley and Qunitanar also presented “Global Education? International Studies? Where Do We as Teacher Educators Start?” at the Conference of the California Council on Teacher Education in San Diego.
Dean Gerstein (Office of Research and Sponsored Programs) published a review of Resorting to Casinos: The Mississippi Gambling Industry, edited by Denise von Herrmann, in the Journal of Gambling Issues.
Paul Gray (Emeritus, Information Systems and Technology) published “Teradata University Network: A No Cost Web Portal for Teaching Database, Data Warehousing, and Data-Related Subjects,” with Nenad Jukic, in the Journal of Information Systems Education. He also published “From Hindsight to Foresight: Applying Futures Research Techniques in Information Systems,” with Anat Hovav, in Communications of the Association for Information Systems. Gray was reappointed for another three-year term as editor of TutORals in Operations in Research by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He continues as book review editor for the Journal of Information Systems Management for the 23rd year.
Hedley Morris (Mathematical Sciences) published several articles: “An Algorithm for the Pricing of Path-Dependent American Options Using Malliavin Calculus,” with H. Schellhorn (awarded the Best Paper Award), in World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008 Proceedings (WCECS); “The Varying Behavior of U.S. Market Persistence,” with J. Preciando (outstanding paper nominee), in World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008 Proceedings (WCECS); “Scoring Amino Acid Substitutions in Phage Genomes,” with P. Bose, R. Edwards., and P. Salamon, in the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008 Proceedings (WCECS); and presented “Asymmetric Double Gate MOSFET Compact Model,” with Henok Abebe, Ellis Cumberbatch, and Vance Tyree, at the 1st International MOS-AK Meeting in San Francisco.
Thomas Horan (Information Systems and Technology) coauthored (with Bengisu Tulu) “The Electronic Disability Record: Purpose, Parameters, and Model Use Case” in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Horan also co-chaired (with Brad Hesse, Bill Chismar, and Sue Feldman) a research symposium on “Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health and Health Services,” held in conjunction with the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, where he also coauthored (with Ben Schooley, Michael Marich, Brian Hilton, and Aisha Noamani) “Integrated Patient Health Information Systems to Improve Traffic Crash Emergency Response and Treatment.” Horan was also an invited speaker at an Expert Forum by the California Office of the Patient Advocate, where he presented a paper (with Nathan Botts) on “Personal Health Systems for Vulnerable Communities.”
Patrick Horn (Religion) presented the paper “D.Z. Phillips and the Question of Reality” at a conference titled “Contemplative Philosophy of Religion: The Legacy of Dewi Z. Phillips,” which was sponsored by the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich. He also was the respondent for a panel titled “Violence and Representation: Epistemologies of War in Philosophy, Fiction, and Film” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association at Pomona College. He gave a response paper to John Schellenberg’s “Religion and Science: A New Picture” at the Society for Philosophy of Religion in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He also participated in the conference “Theological Education in a Secular Age” at the Claremont School of Theology, presenting a paper titled “Religious Belief in an Age of Choice.”
Jeremy Hunter (The Drucker School) was invited to be a founding member of the Neuro-Performance Collaborative, which seeks to meld state-of-the-art scientific understanding of how the brain functions with effective management practice. The goal of the collaborative is to define a post-Taylor organizational environment suitable for twenty-first century knowledge workers. On a more personal note, Hunter successfully underwent a kidney transplant; the donor was a Drucker student.
Chuck Kerchner’s (Educational Studies) work in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was featured in SES’s most recent policy publication. As a result of his work, Kerchner has been featured on several radio talk shows. Most recently he joined Pomona College professor David Menefee-Libey on Air Talk, a popular radio series hosted by Larry Mantle on KPCC (89.3 FM).
Gondy Leroy (Information Systems and Technology), with Brian Hilton (Information Systems and Technology) and June Hilton (Claremont High School) won a NCWIT Seed Fund Award of $15,000 for their project “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Increase Interest in Information Technology through an Environmental Project.” This project is designed to engage students, especially female and underrepresented groups, through teamwork, problem-based learning, and a socially relevant topic to cultivate an interest in IT.
John Maguire (President Emeritus, CGU) was recently honored as a “Visionary” at the Art Gala: 2008 by the Claremont Museum of Art for “leadership, vision and extraordinary contributions to the Claremont Museum of Art’s realization and success.”
Lucinda A. McDade (Botany) had several publications: “Toward a comprehensive understanding of phylogenetic relationships among Acanthaceae s.l. (Lamiales),” with T.F. Daniel and C.A. Kiel, in American Journal of Botany; “Molecular phylogenetics and morphological evolution of Thunbergioideae (Acanthaceae),” with A.J. Borg and J. Schönenberger, in Taxon; and “The ‘Tetramerium Lineage’ (Acanthaceae: Acanthoideae: Justicieae): Delimitation and Infra-lineage Relationships Based on cp and nrITS Sequence Data,” with T.F. Daniel, M. Manktelow, and C.A. Kiel, in Systematic Botany. At a conference on “Transforming the Role of Natural History Collections in Biodiversity Science,” McDade was a panelist on a breakout session focused on “Developing the New Biodiversity Science Agenda” at the Ninth National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment in Washington, DC. She also presented “Evolutionary processes and the phylogeny of ‘justicioids’ (Acanthaceae: Justicieae): biogeography, molecular and morphological evolution, and species richness,” with T.F. Daniel and C.A. Kiel, at Botany 2008 (a meeting of the Botanical Society of America), in Vancouver.
Jennifer Merolla (Politics and Economics) published “Can Canadians take a Hint? The (In)Effectiveness of Party Labels as Shortcuts in Canada,” with Laura B. Stephenson and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Merolla gave an invited talk, “Bulls Eye or Ricochet? The Effect of Ethnically Targeted Ads in the 2008 Presidential Election,” to the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also received the award Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences for “Terror Threat and Projections of Leadership.” Merolla presented two papers at the Western Political Science Association Meetings, and organized the methodology section for the conference. She presented “No Bottomless Budget? Recruiting Subjects for Internet Based Studies,” coauthored with Matt Barreto (University of Washington), Victoria DeFrancesco Soto (Northwestern University), and Ricardo Ramirez (Universitt of Southern California), and “Uncovering Bias in the 2008 Presidential Race,” coauthored with Brett Benson and John Geer (Vanderbilt University). She also gave an invited talk to the Political Science Department at Rutgers University.
Lorne Olfman (Information Systems and Technology) returned to regular faculty duties after 10 years as dean of SISAT. Olfman recently published a paper, “The influence of online brand community characteristics on community commitment and brand loyalty,” with Ilsang Ko of Chonnam University (South Korea) and two of his colleagues. Ko was a visiting scholar at SISAT during the 2007-2008 academic year. Olfman coauthored, along with SISAT Dean Terry Ryan, SISAT Professor Gondy Leroy, and alumna Kamla Al-Busaidi, a conference paper. Lorne was appointed senior editor of a new journal of the Association of Information Systems, Transactions on Human Computer Interaction.
Allen M. Omoto (Behavioral and Organizational Sciences) recently published the following chapter and articles: “Compassionate acts: Motivations and correlates of volunteerism among older adults,” with A.M. Malsch and J.A. Barraza, in The science of compassionate love: Research, theory, and application; “How do 'religion' and 'spirituality' differ? Lay definitions among older adults,” with M.M. Schlehofer and J.R. Adelman, in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion; and “Volunteerism: Social issues perspectives and social policy implications,” with M. Snyder, in Social Issues and Policy Review. In addition to these publications, Omoto presented or coauthored two presentations at the meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in Chicago, and also made three presentations at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Boston. Omoto served as one of 10 Senior Scholars at the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Psychology Summer Institute held at the University of Michigan. He presented an invited colloquium, conducted a workshop series, and provided mentoring for junior scholars and graduate students interested in LGBT issues. Omoto was also recently reelected for a second three-year term to represent the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues on the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association. The APA is the largest association of psychologists in the world and its Council of Representatives is responsible for developing the association’s internal and external policies.
David Pagel (Arts and Humanities) organized three exhibitions that are currently on view around the country: “L.A. Now” at the Las Vegas Art Museum; “Electric Mud” at the Blaffer Gallery, the art museum of the University of Houston; and “Damaged Romanticism, A Mirror of Modern Emotion” at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. He also wrote essays for Frederick Hammersley and Kevin Lynch: Watercolours.
Susan J. Paik (Educational Studies) published an article on families and schools in East Asia and the US by the publisher Taylor and Francis. Paik was invited to be a part of a symposium at the European Conference on Educational Research in Sweden. Sponsored by the Center for Improvement and Innovation and Council of Chief State School Officers under the US Department of Education, she was also invited to attend a conference involving state officials and directors of regional centers in the US. Paik was recently invited to be a member of the editorial board of the American Educational Research Association, a prestigious and well-known journal in the field of the education. She is currently advising several educational programs, including Room to Read, a nationally and internationally recognized program that builds schools and libraries in developing countries.
Roberto Pedace (The Drucker School) presented “A Warm Embrace or the Cold Shoulder? Wage and Employment Outcomes in Ethnic Enclaves” at the Allied Social Science Association conference. He also presented “Home Safe: No-Trade Clauses and Compensating Wage Differentials in Major League Baseball” at the National Business and Economics Society conference. This paper is coauthored with a Drucker School MBA graduate, Curtis Hall.
Kathy Pezdek (Behavioral and Organizational Science) has several articles: “Forced Confabulation More Strongly Influences Event Memory if Suggestions are Other-Generated than Self-Generated,” with S.T. Lam and K. Sperry, in Legal and Criminological Psychology; “Criteria-Based Content Analysis of true and suggested accounts of events,” with I. Blandón-Gitlin, S.D. Lindsay, and L. Hagan, in Applied Cognitive Psychology; “Planting False Memories for Childhood Sexual Abuse Only Happens to Emotionally Disturbed People . . . not Me or My Friends,” with I. Blandón-Gitlin, in Applied Cognitive Psychology; “Schema-driven source misattribution errors: Remembering the expected from a witnessed event,” with H.M. Kleider, S.D. Goldinger, and A. Kirk, in Applied Cognitive Psychology; “Children as Witnesses,” with G. Davies, in Textbook on Forensic Psychology; “Content, form and ethical issues concerning expert psychological testimony on eyewitness identification,” in Expert testimony on the psychology of eyewitness identification; and “Children’s memory in forensic contexts: Suggestibility, false memory, and individual differences,” with I. Blandón-Gitlin, in Child victims, child offenders: Psychology and law.
Mary Poplin (Educational Studies) completed work on high performing teachers in low performing urban classrooms. The work was supported by the Haynes Foundation.
Linda M. Prince (Botany) received research awards for “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (via California Department of Fish and Game): Inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSRs) analysis of Monardella linoides” and “San Bernardino National Forest: Sidalcea hickmanii parishii (Malvaceae). Additional Phylogenetic Studies.” Prince presented “Hybridization, domestication, and biogeography of Canna: Presentation for section on New Insights on the Evolution, Biogeography, and Systematics of the Zingiberales II” at the Fourth International Conference on Monocots in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prince also published “Hybrid origin and genomic mosaicism of Dubautia scabra (Hawaiian Silversword Alliance; Asteraceae–Madiinae)” in Systematic Botany with E.A. Friar, J.M. Cruse-Sanders, M.E. McGlaughlin, C. Butterworth, and B.G. Baldwin.
Henry Schellhorn (Mathematical Sciences) published, with H. Morris, “An Algorithm for the Pricing of Path-Dependent American Options using Malliavin Calculus,” in World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008 Proceedings; “A Double-Sided Multiunit Combinatorial Auction for Substitutes: Theory and Algorithms” in the European Journal of Operational Research; and “Optimal Changes of Gaussian Measures, with an Application to Finance” in the International Journal of Information and Management Sciences.
Jean Schroedel (Politics and Economics) flew to Washington, DC to present a coauthored paper entitled “Financial Regulation in the United States: Lessons from History” at a symposium jointly sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation and the National Association of Public Administration. Her coauthor was Paul Peretz. The symposium brought together academics and government financial regulators with the goal of providing insights into ways to come out of the current financial crisis and suggestions for reform.
Daryl Smith’s (Educational Studies) diversity work has been widely recognized. She was invited to be part of a national research panel for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation project, “Building an Agenda for Research on Affirmative Action and Diversity.” The nine-person research panel held their first meeting at Harvard University in November 2008. Smith also recently gave the keynote address at the AAC & U Diversity and Learning Conference in Long Beach, and conducted a workshop for faculty mentors at the Compact for Faculty Diversity’s Institute for Teaching and Mentoring in Tampa, Florida. Smith facilitated a leadership workshop on “Building Diversity as an Institutional Priority” for the Ohio Independent Colleges. She also held workshops on faculty diversity at the University of the Pacific and Denison University, a workshop on Building Capacity for Diversity at Humboldt State University, and a professional development workshop on monitoring progress for diversity at Penn State University. She also gave a talk on faculty diversity at Cal Poly Pomona’s ADVANCE meeting.
Deb Smith (Educational Studies) and Sue Robb (Educational Studies), along with three CGU doctoral students – Tim Braun, Melissa Hartley, and Nicole Block – made conference presentations at the Council for Exceptional Education’s Teacher Education Division’s Annual Conference in Dallas. Robb and Smith also made two presentations about the IRIS Center’s response to intervention (RTI) and classroom and management series of instructional modules, and other resources to assist teachers improve the results for struggling learners. These presentations were made at the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Education in Honolulu. Smith published “Entrevista: È preciso estar atualizado para fazer a diferença” in Pátio Revista Pedagógica. Two translated versions of Introduction to Special Education: Making a Difference – one in Portuguese, the other in Mandarin – were published. Smith, along with N.C. Tyler, completed “The IDEA 2004 and Research for Inclusive Settings II (IRIS II): 3+2 Evaluation Report,” which was submitted to the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education. Smith, a member of the National Response-to-Intervention Technical Assistance Center, attended a meeting of that organization in Washington, DC.
Jerry Spanier (Emeritus, Mathematical Sciences) is the coauthor of three books and has authored a chapter in a fourth in the past three years. Two of these books are research monographs that represented the first treatises on their subjects in book form when initially published. These books – Monte Carlo Principles and Neutron Transport Problems, by J. Spanier and E. M. Gelbard (originally published in 1969), and The Fractional Calculus: Theory and Applications of Differentiation and Integration to Arbitrary Order, by K. B. Oldham and J. Spanier (originally published in 1974), were reprinted by Dover Publications. A third book, An Atlas of Functions, 2nd edition, by K. B. Oldham, J. Myland, and J. Spanier, was published as both a traditional print edition and an e-book. It is a thoroughly revised edition of a book Oldham and Spanier published in 1987 that provides comprehensive information about several hundred mathematical functions in wide use in many fields. Spanier's current research involves developing dramatically accelerated Monte Carlo algorithms and confirming the efficiency gains they achieve for radiative transport problems. These new methods will be useful in modeling the interactions of light and tissue and in other application areas in medicine and biology. When fully developed, the new techniques should make possible near real-time simulations in support of laboratory and clinical diagnoses and treatment protocols.
Scott Thomas (Educational Studies) worked with the National Science Foundation on a review panel for their STEP-II grant program, and traveled to Europe to work with his coeditors and a number of authors who are involved with the International Studies in Higher Education Series. While in Europe he met with colleagues at Oxford's New College to explore the possibility of involving the SES in an annual graduate student seminar that he coordinated while at the University of Georgia.
Gail Thompson (Educational Studies) gave a number of addresses and presentations last semester. She delivered a keynote address, “How I Got Over: How You Can Help America’s Stepchildren‚” to faculty, students, and administrators, and also gave a presentation called “Going the Extra Mile: How You Can Help America’s Stepchildren to Get a Better Education” to faculty at City College of San Francisco. She gave a presentation called “A Brighter Day: How You Can Help African American Youth Have a Brighter Future,” at a church in Pomona, and at a church-sponsored annual women’s conference in Newport Beach. She also conducted a six-hour workshop called “Up Where We Belong: How You Can Help African American and Latino Students Get a Better Education” for the State Center Community College District in Fresno. In addition, she conducted a six-hour workshop called “How You Can Become a Powerful, Influential, Life-changing Educator of African American Students” at a middle school in West Palm Beach, Florida. She gave a presentation called “Writing to Survive” to administrators and faculty at Azusa Pacific University. Thompson also served as an external reviewer for the Department of Education at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Carol A. Wilson (Botany) presented “Diversification and phylogeny of Iris (Iridaceae)” at the Fourth International Conference on Monocots in Copenhagen, Denmark, and “Monophyly and phylogenetics of series Sibericae in Iris section Limniris” at Botany 2008 (meeting of the Botanical Society of America), in Vancouver.
Paul Zak (Politics and Economics) was interviewed on WNCY, the Brian Lehrer Show, on the role of hormones in our innate desire to help others and how hormones may set us up to fall prey to fraudulent schemes. He was one of the keynote speakers at the Ersamus Institute for Economics and Philosophy's conference, “Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope” in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Zak was interviewed by USA Today for the discussion “During a Crisis (financial or otherwise) We Follow the Crowd.” He also published, along with Elizabeth A. Hoge, Mark H. Pollack, Rebecca E. Kaufman, and Naomi M. Simon, “Oxytocin Levels in Social Anxiety Disorder” in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics.
