College of the Pacific
Faculty Accomplishments
Some recent accomplishments of the College of the Pacific faculty are highlighted, including published works, presentations and performances, some of which involved student and faculty collaboration.
Summer/Fall 2009
Donald Wedegaertner, emeritus, Chemistry, coauthored the article "Regioselectivity in the Reductive Bond Cleavage of Diarylalkylsulfonium Salts: Variation with Driving Force and Structure of Sulfuranyl Radical Intermediates" published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Mark Urista '08, Qingwen Dong and Kenneth D. Day, Communication, published the article "Explaining Why Young Adults Use MySpace and Facebook through Uses & Gratification Theory" in Human Communication.
Megan Turco '10, Communication graduate student, has transformed her internship at Fox40 News in Sacramento into a part-time job as Production Assistant.
Kurtis C. Burmeister, Earth & Environmental Sciences, was an invited participant in the International Paleontological Research Exchange Program (IPREP) hosted by the Burgess Shale Foundation as part of the Centennial Celebration of C.D. Walcott's discovery of the Burgess Shale Lagerstätten in Field, British Columbia, Canada.
Andreea Boboc, English, will have her article "Se-duction and Sovereign Power in Gower's Confessio Amantis 5," appear in a volume titled John Gower's Translations, ed. Elisabeth Dutton. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (forthcoming 2010). She also presented the paper "From Legal Person to Social Self in Henry Lovelich's Merlin" (1425), at the Workshop on Inquisition and Confession in England after Lateran IV, at Queen Mary, University of London.
Courtney Lehmann, English, has been appointed to the graduate faculty at University of Kansas, where she will oversee doctoral candidates.
Jennifer Helgren, History, published "Gender and Generational Identity: Camp Fire Girls and Cultural Production in the Interwar Years" in the anthology Essays on Women's Artistic and Cultural Contributions, 1919-1931.
Ray Rennard, Philosophy, presented "Joint Attention in the Explanation of Behavior" at an NSF-funded interdisciplinary conference on joint attention at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Kieran Holland, Physics, gave a talk titled "Running coupling measurements in Technicolor models" at a workshop called "Universe in a Box: LHC, Cosmology and Lattice Field Theory" held at the Lorentz Center at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
Stacy Rilea, Psychology, Sarah Trinh '08 and Matt Van Donsel published the article "Complex Video Game Play: Self-Reported Strategy Use, Spatial Ability, and Gender" in Cognitive Technology.
Caroline T. Schroeder, Religious and Classical Studies, is contributing several entries to the new interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Ancient History, to be published in print and online by Wiley-Blackwell.
Ethel Nicdao, Sociology, was one of over 100 researchers selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's New Connections Third Annual Symposium, a training, mentoring and networking event focused on diversity, held in Princeton, New Jersey.
Todd Davenport, Physical Therapy, and Michael Leonard, Visual Arts, collaborated to create distance-learning modules "Clinical Biomechanics of the Lumbar Spine" and "Clinical Biomechanics of the Cervical Spine" for Kaiser Permanente Northern California. They are intended for use by physical therapists enrolled in a post-graduate training program in orthopedic manual physical therapy through Kaiser Permamente in Hayward.
Joan and Geoff Lin-Cereghino, Biology, recently published the research article "Engineered Pichia pastoris AOX1-based promoter libraries for fine-tuning gene expression" in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. The article featured former Biological Sciences Masters student Sabrina Johnson and collaborators in the Anton Glieder lab at the Technical University of Graz (Austria) as co-authors.
Rajeev R. Pandey, Chemistry, published the article "Theoretical Design of Bioinspired Macromolecular Electrets Based on Anthranilamide Derivatives" in the July/August 2009 issue of the journal Biotechnology Progress.
Jianhua Ren, Chemistry, along with undergraduate student John Tan '06 and graduate student Robert Harper '07 published a research paper "Gas-Phase Acidities of Cysteine-Polyalanine Peptides Part I: A3,4CSH and HSCA3,4" in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Matthew E. Curtis, third-year Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences Program (PCSP) graduate student, presented a paper titled "Capturing Radical Species Formed in the DART Ionization Source" at the 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference held in Bremen, Germany, August 30 to September 4. Accompanying Mr. Curtis were Chemistry Professors O. David Sparkman and Patrick R. Jones. Prof. Sparkman taught a two-day course titled "Organic Mass Spectrometry."
Dennis O. Flynn, Economics, published "A Price Theory of Monies: Evolving Lessons in Monetary History" (Collected papers), Wetteren, Belgium: Moneta 2009. This volume contains 18 previously published essays divided into three categories: (1) Essays Prior to Collaboration with Kerry W. Doherty [late professor at Pacific], (2) Essays Since Collaboration with Kerry W. Doherty, and (3) Essays Since Collaboration with Kerry W. Doherty and Arturo Giráldez [current professor at Pacific].
Camille Norton, English, will have her poem "August Afternoons at the Love/Art Laboratory" appear in the fall issue of Feminist Theory.
John Lessard, English, had two articles published in the summer and fall issues of Cineaste, respectively: "Iron Curtain Auteurs: Lost Voices from East Germany's DEFA Studios," and "A Second Look: Kuhle Wampe: Or Who Owns the World?".
Caroline Cox, History, will be part of a panel discussion on George Washington's leadership to be filmed at Mount Vernon, Virginia on October 21. The program, made for Mount Vernon's National Distance Learning Project, will be broadcast to schools nationally a week later and distributed later to K-12 educators on DVD. Cox also presented the paper "Boy Soldiers: Citizenship and Patriarchy in the American Revolution" at the Omohnundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference in Salt Lake City, June 2009.
Alan Lenzi, Religious and Classical Studies, had his article "Šiptu ul Yuttun: Some Reflections on a Closing Formula in Akkadian Incantations" published in Gazing on the Deep: Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Jewish Studies in Honor of Tzvi Abusch, eds. Jeffrey Stackert, Barbara Nevling Porter, and David P. Wright (Bethesda: CDL Press, forthcoming 2010). He also had his article "The Calendrical Basis for the Placement of Psalms 19 and 119 in the Masoretic Psalter" accepted for publication in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.
George Randels, Religious and Classical Studies, is having the book "Contemporary Bioethics" (co-authored with Jessica Pierce) released on October 9 by Oxford University Press.
Alison Hope Alkon, Sociology, published "Breaking the Food Chains, An Investigation of Food Justice Activism" in Sociological Inquiry. She also presented "The Green Economy: Consequences for Environmental Justice and Environmentalism" at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.
Jillian Fiske (class of 09) presented her paper "Borderwork in Action" at the American Sociology Association conference in San Francisco.
Dari Sylvester, Political Science, and San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters Austin Erdman, will attend the Non Precinct Place Voting Conference in October, hosted by the Pew Center on the States. They will disseminate their findings from research collected during the 2008 San Joaquin Voter Education Campaign.
Michael T. Hatch, Political Science, presented the paper "The Europeanization of German Climate Change Policy" at the University Association for Contemporary European Studies Conference, held in Angers, France September 3-6.
Trent Burkett, Visual Arts, is exhibiting this November at a group show featuring artists from around the country at AKAR design gallery in Iowa City and at a two-person exhibition at Trax Gallery in Berkeley.
Qingwen Dong, Communication, presented a research paper on "A Study of Factors Affecting Chinese College Students' Interpersonal Communication Competency" and chaired a panel on News and Television Effects at the Sixth International Conference on Chinese Media and Chinese Civilization in Singapore.
Kieran Holland, Physics, gave a talk titled "Calculating the running coupling in strong electroweak models" at the 27th international symposium on Lattice Field Theory, which was held July 25-31 in Beijing, China.
Marcia Hernandez, Sociology and Jacoby Center, presented a paper, "Soror Barbie: Colorism, Consumerism and Identity of African American Women" at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. She also co-facilitated a workshop at the annual summer meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society titled "Centers of Silence: Interracial and Intergenerational Tensions." The goal of the workshop was to explore key issues that impede or promote interracial relationships.
The Athletic Training Education Program, housed in the Department of Sport Sciences, just received a 7-year accreditation award, which is the maximal number of years awarded, from the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). The program is now accredited through the 2017 - 2018 academic year. The Athletic Training Education Program provides an academic and experiential learning environment for students who desire to become Certified Athletic Trainers.
Paul Turpin, Communication, attended the National Communication Association's Institute for Faculty Development, July 26 - August 1, at Randolph-Macon College. He presented a paper titled "Rhetoric, Ideology, and Moral Judgment: An Approach from Comparative Political Economy."
Courtney Lehmann, English, has been appointed to her first Doctoral Dissertation Committee at the University of Kansas, which will rely on her expertise in Shakespeare and Popular Culture as the committee appraises one of the top Ph.D. candidates in the Department of English. Professor Lehmann will attend the candidate's doctoral defense in spring 2010.
Merrill Schleier, Visual Arts, was nominated for this year's Katherine S. Kovacs book award for her book Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). The Kovacs book award is granted for outstanding scholarship in Film Studies, and is administered by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.