Awards
Updated 8/17/09
Annie Cleveland (Theatre) will spend the 2009-10 academic year as a Fulbright Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Drama at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.
Anne Glavin (Police Services) was presented with the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s (IACLEA) President’s Award at the annual IACLEA conference held in Quebec City in June 2009. Glavin was recognized for her contributions to the campus law enforcement profession and leadership of the Envisioned Future of Campus Public Safety Task Force, and was elected to the IACLEA Board of Directors in 2008.
J’aime Morrison (Theatre) received a Fulbright Award to the Polytechnical Institute in Leiria, Portugal.
Updated 8/13/09
Karin Crowhurst (Chemistry & Biochemistry) has been selected as the Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar for 2009-2010 and will present a university lecture as part of the Provost’s Colloquium Series.
Updated 8/6/09
Steven Oppenheimer (Biology) has received a commendation from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for his U.S. Presidential Award.
Updated 7/9/09
Steven Oppenheimer (Biology) has been selected as the winner of a U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring by the National Science Foundation and the White House. Oppenheimer will also receive $10,000 for his student involved research programs
Updated 6/29/09
Karin Durán (Oviatt Library) received a Certificate of Recognition in June 2009 for her outstanding community service from Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes and Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon.
James Flynn and Sharlene Katz (Electrical & Computer Engineering) have been selected as the winners of Best Paper in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Division at the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition for their paper “Using Software Defined Radio (SDR) to demonstrate concepts in Communications and Signal Processing Courses.” They will be entered in the Professional Interest Council I Best Paper Competition for the 2009 Conference.
Updated 6/22/09
Julie Graham (Oviatt Library) has been elected vice president/president elect of the Society of California Archivists (SCA). Starting her two-year term in June 2009, she will oversee the planning of the association’s annual meetings, publications, administration and membership.
Ana Sánchez-Muñoz (Chicana/o Studies) received three units of reassigned time for fall 2009 from Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Projects (“Beck Grant”) for her project, “Preserving our Cultural Roots: Engaging Students in the Study of Spanish Heritage Language Maintenance and Loss in the San Fernando Valley.”
Updated 6/19/09
Dianne Philibosian (Recreation & Tourism Management) has been reappointed to University of the Pacific’s Board of Regents for a three-year term. Philibosian was originally elected to the board in 1998, serving three consecutive three-year terms including four years as chairwoman.
Paul Shin (Chemistry & Biochemistry) has been selected, as the recipient of the Los Angeles Police Department Emergency Service Division’s 2008 Reserve Officer of the Year award, presented at the Twice a Citizen. Shin has served as a specialist reserve officer for the LAPD HazMat (Hazardous Materials) Unit since 2005.
Updated 5/8/09
Adilifu Nama (Pan African Studies) has been selected as winner of the 2008 Peter C. Rollins Book Award, an annual recognition of the "best" book in popular culture studies and/or American culture studies. The book which won Nama the prize, awarded in 2009, is "Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film" (The University of Texas Press), described as the first book-length examination of the African American presence in science fiction film. Presented by the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA), "Black Space" "demonstrates that SF [science fiction] cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, a site where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined," according to Kenneth Dvorak, SW/TX PCA/ACA secretary treasurer.
Claude Willey (Urban Studies and Planning) has been selected as the recipient of a one-month fellowship to participate in a summer institute for university and college teachers. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the institute is entitled "Nature and History at the Nation's Edge: Field Institute in Environmental and Borderlands History." It is hosted by the University of Arizona and is led by faculty from that university and the University of New Mexico.
Updated 4/27/09
Jackie Stallcup (English) has been elected to a three-year term as treasurer of the Children's Literature Association, an organization
whose mission it is to "encourage high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children’s literature."
Updated 4/8/09
Louis Rubino (Health Sciences) and his colleague Marsha Chan, chief quality officer at the St. Francis Medical Center, won the Management Innovation Poster Competition at the American College of Healthcare Executives Congress held in Chicago in March. Their poster title was "An Innovative Approach to Improving Governance and Accountability for Quality and Patient Safety."
Updated 3/17/09
Shanté Morgan (University Advancement) was among a group of women representing the Ventura County Commission for Women, the Ventura County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the American Association of University Women at a March 3 ceremony hosted by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors. Declaring March 2009 as Women’s History Month in Ventura County, the supervisors presented Morgan and her colleagues with a resolution acknowledging that “women have made historic contributions to the growth and strength” of Ventura County in “countless recorded and unrecorded ways.”
A feature film directed by Dianah Wynter and edited by Michael Hoggan (Cinema and Television Arts) won Special Jury Mention at the Pan African Film Festival in February. “HAPPYSAD” was shot in Trinidad and Tobago and tells the tale of a 17-year-old determined to overcome her dysfunctional family and to make a success of her life. “It was touching, painful and intelligent,” said noted film producer/director Bill Duke of the film.
Updated 2/25/09
Lori Baker-Schena (Journalism) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “Teaching Teamwork Skills to Undergraduate Students in University Capstone Public Relations Campaigns Courses.”
The Probationary Faculty Support Program awarded Alex Bierman (Sociology) three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 for his project, “My kids make me sick! Why do negative relationships with adult children affect parental well-being?”
Christina Campbell (Anthropology) was the recipient of three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “Production of ‘Primates in Perspective: Second Edition.’”
Three units of reassigned time were awarded to Debi Prasad Choudhary (Physics & Astronomy) for spring 2009 by the Probationary Faculty Support Program for his project, “Study of Height and Dynamics of Solar Chromosphere.”
Robert Conner (Manufacturing Systems Engineering & Management) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for his project, “Transmission Electron Microscopy of Bulk Metallic Glasses.”
The Probationary Faculty Support Program awarded Paula Fischhaber (Chemistry & Biochemistry) three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 for her project, “Preparation of the Rad 14-RFP yeast strain for time lapse analysis.”
For his project, “Limiting Joints and Joint Torque Coordination during Multi-Joint Movement,” Sean Flanagan (Kinesiology) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program.
Sharon Hsu (Kinesiology) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “Psychosocial Factors of Stages of Change and Physical Activity among Adults with Mild Intellectual Disabilities.”
Three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 were awarded to Amani Ismail (Journalism) by the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “A Bestseller in the Global Spotlight: Coverage of ‘The Israel Lobby’ in the Domestic and Foreign Press.”
Tim Karels (Biology) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for his project, “Cattle Grazing Impacts on the Conservation and Recovery of an Endangered Grassland Mammal.”
Jieha Lee (Social Work) was awarded three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 by the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “Pathways to alcohol use among Asian American adolescents and young adults: the direct and indirect effects of acculturation, parental, and peer factors.”
For her project, “A Component Analysis of Social Story Interventions for Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism,” Debra Berry Malmberg (Psychology) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program.
Ronald Mehler (Electrical & Computer Engineering) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for his project, “Electronic Data Fault Tolerance in Live Theatre Environments.”
Elena Miranda (Geological Sciences) was the recipient of three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “Testing models of fault development: a microstructural and petrologic evaluation of oceanic fault rocks, Mirdita Ophiolite, Albania.”
The Probationary Faculty Support Program has awarded Deqing Ren (Physics & Astronomy) three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 for his project, “A Coronagraph for the Direct Imaging of Earth-Like Plants.”
Lois Shelton (Management) received three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 from the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “Cultural Expectations, Role Structure and Small Business Performance: A Multicultural Examination of Work Family Conflict in Entrepreneurs.”
Mary-Pat Stein (Biology) was awarded three units of reassigned time for spring 2009 by the Probationary Faculty Support Program for her project, “Binding of ‘Legionella’ Effector Proteins to Host Sec22b.”
Updated 2/24/09
Assistant professor James Hill (far left), graduating senior Natalia Zelaya and media production specialist Lincoln Harrison (Journalism) have been awarded a Golden Mike by the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California (RTNA) for their television news series, “AIDS in Tijuana.” At the RTNA’s awards banquet in January, “AIDS in Tijuana” won “Best Hard News Series Reporting” in Division B. Harrison was photographer and editor, Hill produced and reported, and Zelaya was associate producer for the series, which aired in November 2007 on KCET’s “Life and Times” television program. The series also won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, and was nominated for a Los Angeles-area Emmy. It evolved from a class project initiated by assistant professor José Luis Benavides (Journalism), whose students examined HIV/AIDS in the Latino community.
Matadors softball coach Barbara Jordan (Athletics) has been named to the USA Softball Women’s National Coaching Pool for 2009-12. The coaches are responsible for training and preparation for the Women’s National team program. Jordan’s appointment marks the second time she has been selected for the honor. She was part of a Team USA staff that helped win the 2007 International Softball Federation Junior Women’s World Championships in the Netherlands.
“Adios Rita Hayworth, Hello Margarita Cansino,” a nonfiction piece by Linda Rader Overman (English), received an Honorable Mention Award in nonfiction in the New Millennium Writings Awards 26 for Fiction, Poetry, & Nonfiction, Summer 2008 competition.
Updated 2/2/09
The news department of KCSN-FM 88.5, under news director Keith Goldstein (Journalism), has received the Golden Mike Award from the Radio Television News Association of Southern California for “Best Newscast—More than Fifteen Minutes” in Division B. The award, presented January 24 at the Universal Hilton, saluted the station’s September 17, 2008 broadcast of KCSN’s 6 p.m. “Evening Update” broadcast. The newscast covered stories on the fatal Metrolink train crash investigation, the federal government’s financial bailout plan, the California state budget, the Pasadena water supply, airline customer satisfaction and particle pollution in Southern California. An in-depth report on teen pregnancy by broadcast journalism student Diana Prieto and a sports segment by Tiffany Lane also were featured. Broadcast journalism student Joyce Ajouri anchored the newscast.
Updated 1/15/09
The Office of Scientific Review has invited Steven Oppenheimer (Biology) to serve on the highly prestigious National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences R13 Grant Review Panel, and to serve as the 2009 chair of the panel.
Updated 12/19/08
Two poems by Amber Norwood (English) have been nominated by their publishers for the Pushcart Prizes: “Nevada,” from Toasted Cheese, and “Natural History,” from “Prick of the Spindle.”
Jennifer Quiñonez-Skinner, Danielle Skaggs and Luiz Mendes (University Library) have won the 2008 California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) Research Award with their research topic, “Subjecting the Catalog to Assessment: Subjects v. Tags.” The trio will either present their research results in the CARL Newsletter (March 2009 issue) or at the CARL 2009 Conference in April.
Patricia Swenson and Nancy Taylor (English) have been selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in Humanities Higher Education.
Updated 12/10/08
For their article, “Fort Worth for Entertainment: Billy Rose’s Casa Mañana (1936-1939,” Barry Cleveland (Theatre) and his wife Annie have been awarded the 2009 Herbert D. Greggs Award, the highest honor bestowed under the aegis of The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT). Presented annually to promote “innovative, in-depth writing about theatre design and technology,” the award recognizes the best article published in the Theatre Design and Technology publication during the previous year. The article was ratified by the USITT board of directors as the top choice among those nominated by a jury composed of the editors of Theatre Design and Technology and the members of the USITT Publications Committee. “Annie and Barrett Cleveland have published the results of a fascinating historical research project that is a fitting fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Fort Worth Centennial, produced by legendary Broadway producer and nightclub impresario Billy Rose,” wrote one juror. “This is a comprehensive treatment and analysis of an amazing theatrical spectacle, an entertainment tradition that continues today in the big-budget complexities of stadium rock concerts, Las Vegas-style performance venues and the ubiquitous franchises of Cirque du Soleil.". The Clevelands are scheduled to accept the award, named for a well-regarded former USITT general manager and first given in 1979, at the 2009 USITT conference in Cincinnati in March.
Updated 11/20/08
Rodolfo Acuña (Chicana/o Studies) received the National Hispanic Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization’s highest recognition, at a special ceremony in Austin, Texas, in mid-November. The Institute, one of the largest minority organizations in the United States, honored Acuña for his ongoing efforts to advance the Latino community. The professor is the founding chair of the Chicano Studies Department at CSUN.
The Diane Morisato Staff Recognition Award was presented to satellite operations manager Kristie Godfrey (Satellite Student Union) by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) at its Region 15 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Staff Recognition Award is given to an outstanding staff member of a college union. Godfrey was saluted for her volunteer involvement and assistance in the arena of student campus activities, as well as at the conference.
The University Student Union marketing department received 11 awards in the "Steal This Idea" Graphic and Web Design Competition at the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) regional conference in Las Vegas. Winners included James Matzen, Randall Loui, Christian Davis, April Consuelo, Andres Ruiz and Eric Wilkinson. The USU is a member institution of ACUI Region 15, an organization dedicated to supporting and recognizing college unions in their mission to implement activities for students and provide the "ultimate college experience."
Updated 11/12/08
Ana Sánchez-Muñoz (Chicana/o Studies) has been awarded the 2009 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Faculty Fellowship: AAHHE Junior Faculty Fellows Program for the AAHHE national conference, “Soluciones para el Futuro—Achieving Hispanic Success,” set for March 2009 in San Antonio, Texas.
Updated 11/10/08
In late October, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer and Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced the appointment of Roger Clemens (Family and Consumer Sciences) to serve on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, “made up of prominent medical and scientific researchers from universities and scientific institutions across America that are leaders in their field.” Clemens, who teaches a Family and Consumer Sciences course entitled “Food Science and Technology,” has extensive experience in functional foods and technology, with emphasis on probiotics and prebiotics. An expert in toxicology and food safety, food processing and the food industry, Clemens is a spokesperson for the American Society for Nutrition and the Institute of Food Technologists.
As reported by Wendy Taylor (Nursing), director of nursing at CSUN, all students in the first cohort of the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program (A-BSN) have taken the National Council Licensure Examination-Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN) exam and passed on the first try. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing developed the exam “to test the entry-level nursing competence of candidates for licensure as registered nurses…”
Updated 10/31/08
Aurelio de la Vega (Music) composed a piece, “Variación del Recuerdo (Variations of a Memory),” performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, which has been nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. The composition, originally commissioned by the Culver City Chamber of Commerce in 1999, can be heard on the album “Remembrances-Recuerdos,” a compilation of music by Cuban and U.S. composers.
Aisha Dixon-Peters (University Counseling Services) has been selected for the Psychology Summer Institute (PSI), a competitive and distinguished fellowship program administered through the Minority Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association. Dixon-Peters was selected as one of 20 fellows to participate in the institute’s program in Washington, D.C., developing an article for publication based on her dissertation, “The Psychological Effects of Hatha Yoga on Low-Income Women Who are Survivors of Domestic Violence.”
Alan Glassman (Management) was elected to the board of directors of MEND (Meet Each Need with Dignity), one of the San Fernando Valley’s largest poverty agencies. He also was appointed by County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky to the Citizens’ Economy and Efficiency Commission.
“Letters Between Us,” a novel by Linda Overman (English), has been honored as a finalist in the “Fiction and Literature: Chick Lit/Women’s Lit” category of the National Best Books Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.
Updated 9/23/08
Cathy McLeod (National Center on Deafness) was the City of Los Angeles’ District 12 honoree for Deaf Awareness Month, nominated by City Councilman Greig Smith. McLeod was honored September 12 for her work at the National Center on Deafness at Cal State Northridge, and for her work at PEPNet, directing the western region of the national postsecondary network system for deaf students. Saluted along with Gallaudet University President Bob Davila, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and others, McLeod received a framed resolution from the City of Los Angeles.
Updated 9/8/08
A documentary by Alexis Krasilovsky (Cinema and Television Arts), “Shooting Women,” will screen as an official selection of the 15th World of Women WOW Film Festival 2008 in October, in Sydney, Australia.Krasilovsky’s feature documentary, “Women Behind the Camera” also is an official selection of the Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers’ Film Festival, set for September 27 through October 4, in Skopje and Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. The film will screen at the Iranian Film Festival as well, in San Francisco, September 28, and at the Baltimore Women’s Film Festival on October 26. “Women Behind the Camera was screened at the FilmCasino Theater in Vienna, Austria, in an event sponsored by the Austrian Association of Cinematographers in July, and at the Mundo de Mujeres Congress of Women at the University of Complutense, Madrid, also in July.
Updated 8/27/08
Sembiam Rengarajan (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was elected vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Waves and Fields of the International Union of Radio Science for 2009-11. Rengarajan, who will serve as chair during the 2012-14 term, also was elected Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy.
Updated 8/25 08
Maria Elena Zavala (Biology) has been appointed to lead the Minority Affairs Committee of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Updated 8/15/08
Steven Oppenheimer (Biology) has been invited to serve on a National Science Foundation grant review panel on disease detection and screening.
Updated 8/1/08
Cal State Northridge’s Purchasing and Contract Administration unit has earned the Annual Achievement of Excellence in Procurement Award for 2008. In a letter to University Controller and Associate Vice President of Financial and Accounting Services Robert Barker and unit manager Mary Rueda (Purchasing and Contract Administration), the National Purchasing Institute, Inc., noted that CSUN has received the award—designed “to recognize organizational excellence in procurement”—for four consecutive years. One of only six California universities to receive the national award, CSUN received high scores for innovation, professionalism, e-procurement, productivity, and leadership attributes of the procurement function.
Thelma Vickroy (Cinema and Television Arts) was honored July 31 at the 2008 Action on Film International Film Festival Awards ceremony in Pasadena. Vickroy's documentary film, "Ahmed, Say Something Funny," won Best Comedy Feature (competing with both fiction and non-fiction films in the festival) and Best Documentary-Feature.
Updated 7/18/08
Thelma Vickroy (Cinema and Television Arts) has created a documentary film called “Ahmed, Say Something Funny,” that premiered July 29 as part of the 2008 Action on Film International Film Festival, at the Laemmle’s One Colorado Theatre in Pasadena. Vickroy’s film, described as a “portrait-style documentary that tells an intimate, sometimes painful, always funny version” of Egyptian-born actor/comedian Ahmed Ahmed’s story, shows performances of Ahmed’s stereotype-flaunting tour across the U.S. The film has been nominated for Best Documentary, Best Documentary-Political, Best Comedy Feature and Best Female Filmmaker-Feature. The Action on Film International Film Festival 2008 award show and dinner is set for July 31 in Pasadena.
Updated 7/11/08
Anne Glavin (Public Safety) was installed July 1 as a director-at-large of the 2008-09 board of directors for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), on the final day of IACLEA’s 50th Anniversary conference and exposition in Hartford, Conn.
Updated 6/13/08
Judith Hennessey (College of Business and Economics) was among the women nominated for Women in Business awards for the seventh annual honors event hosted June 4 by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.
Philip Rusche (Michael D. Eisner College of Education) was honored by the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley at the seventh annual Steve Allen “Excellence in Education” Awards on May 28. Named for entertainer Steve Allen, the awards recognize recipients’ nationally recognized achievements in the field of education.
Updated 6/06/08
Matt Monroe and Braden Villanueva (Athletics) are author and designer—respectively—of the 2007 Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball media guide, recently saluted by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America as the fifth best guide of its kind in the U.S. The CSUN publication earned top honors in District 8, covering the western United States.
Updated 5/29/08
Alexis Krasilovsky (Cinema and Television Arts) won the “Best of the Fest” Literary Award at the Austin Woman’s Film, Music & Literary Festival—hosted by the Media Arts & Literacy Institute of Austin—presenting her new DVD, “Some Women Writers Kill Themselves: Selected Videopoems & Poetry of Alexis Krasilovsky.” Krasilovsky also won the “Best Women in Cinema” Award for her feature documentary, “Women Behind the Camera,” at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, 2008. She won a Tribute Award “for her many achievements in independent filmmaking” at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, April 2008. Krasilovsky also won the “Best Documentary Feature” award for “Women Behind the Camera” at the 2008 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Krasilovsky’s “Women Behind the Camera” was screened at the Flying Broom International Women‘s Film Festival in May; at the Rochester/High Falls International Film Festival in May; at the Women’s Film Festival in Vermont in March; at the Squardi Altrove Film Festival in Milan, Italy, in March; at the Women in Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada, in March; at the Unifem Women’s International Film Festival in Florida in February and at the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh in January.
Updated 5/22/08
David Ackerman (Marketing), Barbara Gross (Office of the President) and Deborah Heisley (Marketing) have assumed new leadership positions on the board of directors of the Marketing Educators’ Association, the premier international marketing education organization. Ackerman was formally recognized as director of marketing for the association after a one-year period of informal service, Gross was advanced from president-elect to president of the association, and Heisley began a three-year term as western region director. The appointments were announced April 25 at the association’s annual business luncheon in Salt Lake City.
Mary Curren (Marketing) has been honored as co-author of the Marketing Educators’ Association’s annual Conference Paper of the Year Award. Curren’s award was announced at the association’s April 24 awards dinner in Salt Lake City. The winning manuscript, “Building a Marketing Curriculum to Support Courses in Social Entrepreneurship and Social Venture Competitions,” will be considered for publication in the Journal of Marketing Education, cited as the field of marketing education’s most influential journal. It was selected by the organization’s executive board from 48 manuscripts accepted for presentation at the conference.
Joan Maltese (Educational Psychology and Counseling) was awarded the Unforgettable Educator Award by the Chatsworth/Porter Ranch Chamber of Commerce during the organization’s general membership luncheon at the Radisson Hotel Chatsworth. Co-founder of the Child Development Institute, Maltese was honored for her work with at-risk infants and their families, and for a range of accomplishments in her field.
Kathleen Young (Health Sciences) has been elected to a three-year term as a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE), for a term that began in April and continues through April 2011. The largest professional membership organization for health educators, the AAHE strives to “advance the profession while serving health educators and other professionals who strive to promote the health of all people.”
Updated 5/16/08
Nayereh Tohidi (Gender & Women’s Studies) has been invited by the Dialogue of Cultures unit in the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs to participate in a workshop that will lay the groundwork for a fall 2008 conference on “Common Concerns, Shared Solutions: Middle Eastern-European Networks on Eliminating Discrimination, Promoting Citizenship, and Preventing Radicalisation.” Hosted in cooperation with the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Graz/Austria, the preparatory workshop will be held in Vienna in June. Tohidi will join about 20 women scholars from Europe and the Middle East at the workshop, which will focus on “Interreligious and Intercultural Dialog from Gender Perspectives.”
Updated 5/09/08
Carmen Chandler (Marketing and Communications) has been nominated for recognition as an outstanding woman in business at the San Fernando Valley Business Journal’s 7th annual “Women Who Mean Business” awards program in June.
Rick Mitchell (English) is the author of “Through the Roof,” named one of two finalists in the national Maxim Mazumdar New Play Contest.
Steve Oppenheimer (Biology) has been invited to participate again on a National Institutes of Health grant review panel for R13 grants for the Office of Scientific Review, National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Kathleen Young (Health Sciences) has been elected to a three-year term as a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE), for a term which began in April 2008 and will conclude in April 2011. The AAHE is the largest professional membership organization for health educators.
Updated 5/02/08
MariaElena Zavala (Biology) served as the chair of the Biological Sciences Panel for the 2008 dissertation and postdoctoral review, as part of the Fellowships Office of the National Research Council applications evaluation process for the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program.
Updated 4/18/08
Ian Barnard (English) has been appointed assistant director of the California Writing Project, CSUN chapter.He also was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association.
Jose Luis Benavides (Journalism) and James David Ballard (Sociology) are recipients of 2008 Faculty Fellowship Awards from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports social science research for Los Angeles.
Annette Besnilian (Family and Consumer Sciences) has been selected as a recipient of the Excellence Award by the American Dietetic Association, which named her an Outstanding Dietetic Educator. Besnilian was cited for her achievements as teacher, mentor and leader in dietetics education, and for her vital role in "leading the future of dietetics."
Robert Carpenter (Biology) will serve as president of the Western Society of Naturalists during 2008-09.
James Decker (Social Work) was awarded the Administrator of the Year 2008 award by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Region G San Fernando Valley Local Chapter. The Department of Social Work's MSW Program in February was awarded national accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education, from 2004-05 through 2012.
Barbara Gross (Office of the President) takes the reins in April 2008 as president of the Marketing Educators' Association, described as "the premiere international organization for faculty development of the marketing professoriate."
Cedric Hackett (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences) was selected as the 2008 recipient of NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education’s Mid-Level Student Affairs Professional Award, and was honored in Boston.
Leilani Hall (English) participated in the Distinguished Alumni, Visiting Poets Series, at Ohio University. She directed two days of graduate student workshops and gave a public reading.
Debra Hammond (University Student Union) was saluted in March by Region 15 of the Association of College Unions International, which renamed its New Professional Staff Recognition Award in her honor. The award, to be known henceforth as the Debra L. Hammond New Professional Staff Recognition Award, was bestowed on Kevin Lizarraga (University Student Union), who has worked under Hammond's mentorship since 1998.
Sharlene Katz and Behzad Bavarian (Engineering) were recognized for their accomplishments and for setting standards for future engineers, at the 53rd consecutive Engineers Council National Engineer’s Week Honors & Awards banquet.
Alexis Krasilovsky (Cinema and Television Arts) directed “Women Behind the Camera”, which won the Best in Category (Documentary Long-Form for films longer than 40 minutes) award in the 2008 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts Faculty Documentary Competition. Her film also received the 2007 Spirit of Moondance Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, and was screened at the Plus Camerlmage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in Lodz, Poland, and at the Muestra Internacional de las Mujeres en el Cine y la Television at the Cineteca Nacional, in Mexico City.
Janet Kubler (Biology) was an invited instructor for the Placerita Canyon Natural Area Annual Volunteer Naturalist Training program.
Lynn Lampert (Oviatt Library) was recognized as one of the "CSU Library Faculty Stars" in the libraries @ calstate newsletter, which indicatd Lampert was among the "talented information professional" who serve as "exemplars in their areas of research and practice."
Liviu Marinescu (Music) will be honored by The Nimbus Ensemble with a performance of his complete trilogy in an April 2008 performance in the Wilshire United Methodist Church. The Ensemble partners with CSUN in "giving emerging composers the opportunity to hear their works rehearsed by a professional ensemble."
Ana Sánchez Muñoz (Chicana/o Studies) has been selected as a visiting scholar in Princeton, New Jersey, on the campus of Educational Testing Services, for June 2008.. She will consult on equity issues for minorities and on biased testing issues.
Peter Nwosu (Urban Studies and Planning) has been selected as an American Council on Education Fellow for 2008-09. Nwosu will be paired with the president of a sister university or college for a year, during which he will learn what is involved at the highest levels of academic decision-making.
Steve Oppenheimer (Biology) was invited by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a part of the National Institutes of Health, to serve on a review panel for R13 grants. He has also been invited to serve on a National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, grant review panel on R15 applications for model research systems in developmental biology.
Louis Rubino (Health Sciences) has been named a guest professor of China’s Kunming Medical University from November 2007 to November 2010.
Jon Stahl and Alexis Krasilovsky (Cinema and Television Arts) were honored by the Broadcast Education Association for their work in writing and producing feature and documentary films. Stahl was cited for his screenplay, "Park Avenue Baseball," and Krasilovsky for her documentary "Women Behind the Camera."