Presentations
Updated 10/10/03
Karen Abramowitz and Ilene Rubenstein (English) presented a paper, “A New (University Pathway: Developmental Freshman Writing and Supplemental Instruction” at the Fifth International Conference on Supplemental Instruction in Orlando, Fla., in May.
Linda Rader Overman (English) read from her novel “Letters Between Us,” at the Whitsett Room and at Book Soup in West Hollywood early in October.
A teleconference on tumor-targeting Salmonella for the Teleconference Network of Texas, presented by Sean Murray (Biology), was broadcast to hospitals throughout the country for physicians, nurses and microbiologists seeking continuing education credit.
Paul Wilson (Biology) spoke on shifts between pollination syndromes at San Diego State University.
MariaElena Zavala (Biology) presented a talk on “Money, Money, Who’s Got the Money?” at the National Research Council’s Ford Fellowship Conference in Washington, D.C.
Updated 10/3/08
Mike Summers (Biology) presented a talk at the European Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, in which he discussed his laboratory’s progress on identifying and characterizing genes related to akinete (cyanobacterial spores) formation and function.
Updated 9/23/08
Scott Andrews (English) read his fiction and poetry at a Granbury, Texas, conference in early September. The gathering celebrated the publication of the 2008 Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, which includes Andrews' short story, "Now and Forever," and his essay on writing titled "Punch Lines."
Updated 9/12/08
James Hogue (Biology) will share his expertise on beetles and other “six-leggers” as one of the featured educators and naturalists in a lecture series sponsored by the Topanga Canyon Docents. The series begins in late September at Trippet Ranch Nature Center in Topanga State Park.
Updated 9/8/08
Scott Kleinman (English) presented a paper entitled “Layamon and the Legacy of Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester” in July at the Sixth International Layamon Conference in Gregynog, Wales.
Paula Schiffman (Biology) gave a presentation about grassland ecology for a Sierra Club group at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, in July.
Updated 8/27/08
Sembiam Rengarajan (Electrical and Computer Engineering) presented a paper entitled “Bandwidth Characteristics of Waveguide Planar Slot Arrays” at the XXIX triennial International Union of Radio Science (URSI) General Assembly in Chicago, in August. His research paper, “Slot array antennas for the Juno Radiometer Application,” was presented in July at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation in San Diego, and a paper called “Analysis of Iris-Excited Centered Slot in the Broad Wall of a Rectangular Waveguide” was presented in January at the National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, Colo.
Updated 7/18/08
Charles Hatfield (English) is slated to discuss "the tension between domestic storytelling and the technological sublime in Kirby and Lee's Fantastic Four" at the Comic Con comic book and popular arts convention in San Diego, in July. Hatfield's presentation is entitled "Reinventing the Superhero."
Melissa Wall (Journalism) prepared a 30-minute audio documentary that aired on radio station KPFK 90.7 FM the week of July 14. Wall's work, which explored the "dynamic media scene" and the media reform movement in Taiwan, included interviews with journalists, media activists, academics and students.
Updated 7/11/08
James David Ballard (Sociology) was interviewed on the subject of nuclear waste transport accidents for the television program Mega Disasters. The episode featuring Ballard, entitled “Glow Train,” was scheduled to air June 24 on the History Channel, and to be repeated in subsequent broadcasts.
Charles Zembillas (Art) is scheduled to give a July lecture on animation in Conley Lecture Hall at Fresno State University, as part of California State University’s Summer Arts program. In the program, guest artists offer lectures and performances in a variety of art forms, including animation, photography, music and more.
Updated 6/19/08
Nayereh Tohidi (Women’s Studies) will be a featured speaker in July on “Iran and her Neighbors,” as part of a series of programs on Afghanistan, Iran and Kurdistan sponsored by supporters of Global Exchange Ventura County.
Ben Yaspelkis III (Kinesiology) co-authored a paper, “Divergent regulation of mTOR complex formation in response to chronic lipid availability and exercise training,” presented in May at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Indianapolis. Yaspelkis, also an invited symposium speaker at the Indianapolis meeting, participated as a panelist in a session entitled “Exercise Training and Insulin Action: At the Crossroads of Science and Practice.” He spoke on the topic of resistance versus endurance training for improving insulin action.
Updated 5/29/08
Scott Kleinman (English) gave a paper entitled “Teaching Early Middle English: Where are we now? Where do we need to be?” at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo on May 9.
Updated 5/16/08
Robert Chianese (English) on May 10 read a section of his lyrical verse drama, “Orpheus Re-Membered,” at the Bulgarian American Cultural and Education Society in Los Angeles.
Irene Clark (English) gave a presentation entitled “Critical Reading” at Los Angeles Valley College.
Updated 5/09/08
Ian Barnard (English) gave a presentation, “Disciplining Queer” as part of the CSUN Center for Sex and Gender Research’s spring 2008 Colloquium Series.
James Decker (Social Work) presented a paper titled “Male Alienation: Pain and Shame Leads to Silence and Depression” at the first Annual National Conference on Social Work with and for Men, sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Social Work on April 29. Decker presented welcoming remarks at a Department of Social Work-sponsored conference—“Empowering Relative Caregivers: Linking Community Resources”—with grandparents acting as parents, held in April at the Satellite Student Union.
Stan Metzenberg, Steve Oppenheimer (Biology), Ed Carroll (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Virginia Hutchins-Carroll with several students co-authored a poster paper, “Recombinant strongylocentrotus purpuratus hyaline binds to proteins isolated by disaggregating sea urchin embryos,” presented by graduate student Oliver Badali at Experimental Biology 2008 in San Diego.
Rick Mitchell (English) will present his play “Through the Roof” at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, part of the Juneteenth Legacy Theatre’s annual Juneteenth Jamboree of New Plays, in June. Mitchell presented a paper on “Praisesong for the Widow” and Caribbean tourism in New Orleans at “Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora & Performance in and on the Caribbean,” hosted by Tulane University’s Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute.
Steve Oppenheimer (Biology) co-authored with 27 students a poster paper entitled “Parameters affecting cell binding to lectin beads in carbohydrate-based drug development,” presented by teacher research associate Greg Zem at Experimental Biology 2008 in San Diego. A published abstract appears in the FASEB Journal (2008).
Jon Stahl (CTVA) participated in a panel on mobile-media production at the annual Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Convention in April, delivering a paper entitled "Writing for the Postage-Stamp Screen: Can Good Things Come in Such Small Packages?" At the convention, Stahl was elected as the new Paper Competition Chair for the BEA Writing Division.
Updated 4/25/08
Larry Allen (Biology) gave an invited presentation entitled “A Fisheries Independent Assessment of the Returning White Seabass Fishery Off California” at the University of New Orleans.
James David Ballard (Sociology) gave co-authored presentations on “Scenario Development in Oil and Gas Management: ‘Envisioning the Future’ by Means of Analytical Techniques” and “Using Social Scientific Methodological Approaches to Reducing Risk: How the ‘Risk Reduction’ Approach Works With Oil and Gas Facilities,” at the Petrosec SEIF-CV Conference in Salzburg, Austria. Nationally, he presented the co-authored “Assessing the Vulnerability of Yucca Mountain Shipments: A Threat Matrix for Human-Initiated Events,” “State of Nevada Perspective on the U.S. Department of Energy Yucca Mountain Transportation Program,” and “Yucca Mountain Transportation Security Issues: Overview and Update” at the Waste Management conference in Tucson, Arizona. He also presented the co-authored “Teaching Ethics for Intelligence Service: Focusing in on Self-Identity, Self Awareness and Accountability” at the Ethics in the Intelligence Community annual meetings in Baltimore, Maryland. Regionally, he presented “Two Simple Models of Nuclear Transparency,” and “Gimme Two Steps,” both co-authored, at the Western Social Science meetings in Las Vegas, Nevada. He also presented “Mentoring Criminology Students for Employment in the Intelligence Community” at the Western Society of Criminology meetings in Sacramento and “Mentoring Gifted Undergraduates,” co-authored with Melanie Klein (Sociology) as part of the Honors Freshman Faculty Mentors Brown Bag Lunch series with the Center for Innovative and Engaged Learning Opportunities at CSUN.
Maria Elena de Bellard (Biology) presented “Mechanisms of Neural Crest Migration,” a paper based on data collected with her students, at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans conference.
Joseph Galasso (English) presented a paper called “New Perspectives on Lexical and Functional Categories” at CSU Bakersfield.
Harry Hellenbrand (Office of the Provost), Ian Barnard, Tina Bertacchi-Love, Pamela Bourgeois, Irene Clark (English) and Kathleen Rowlands (Secondary Education) participated in a panel entitled “Writing Realities among Future Elementary School Teachers” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New Orleans. Clark also presented a paper, "Identity and Form: Constructing Reality through Genre," at the conference.
James Hogue (Biology) presented a talk on “Beetles of Southern California and Their Relationships with Native Vegetation” to the Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains chapter of the California Native Plant Society.
Cesar Soto (Chicana/o Studies) presented a paper entitled “The Orientalist Sublime in ‘La Casa de los Espiritus’ and William Beckford’s ‘Vathek’ ” at The Gothic Conference, National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.
Updated 4/18/08
Rodolfo Acuna (Chicana/o Studies) gave the keynote address, “Chicana/o Studies: A Paradigm, a Pedagogy or a Field of Study?” at the 2008 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Regional Conference at South Texas College.
Larry Allen (Biology) organized and moderated a symposium entitled "Marine Reserves off California--What Do We Really Know About Their Impact on Marine Fisheries?" Allen also delivered the keynote presidential address, "Perspective," at the naturalists' Presidential Banquet.
Scott Andrews (English) presented a paper called "The Abject of My Affections: Teen Angst in Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Richard Van Camp's The Lesser Blessed" at the Native American Literature Symposium in Prior Lake, Minn., in March. He also chaired a panel entitled "Teaching Native Drama (The Staged Kind)."
Irene Clark (English) gave presentations titled “Writing Centres in the United States” at Queen Mary University in London and “The Mystery of Theses and Dissertations” at the University of Ireland at Galway. She also presented a paper entitled "Can First Year Composition Papers be Creative, and if so, What Does That Mean?" at the Writing Research across Borders conference in Santa Barbara. Clark was a panelist in a discussion on "Assessing the Writing Proficiency of Future Elementary School Teachers: Results from Year One of the Teachers for a New Era Literacy Research Project at California State University, Northridge."
Dale Conner (Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management) presented the paper, "Fracture Toughness Study on Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glasses" at the Materials Research Society's annual meeting in Boston, MA. He also presented the paper, "Shear Band Spacing and Cracking of Metallic Glass Plates in Bending" at the meeting.
Robert Espinoza (Biology) was an invited symposium speaker at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Summer Research Conference, Snowmass, Colo. He also presented research at the Museo de Diencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina.
Fred Field (English) presented a paper entitled “Chicano English in its Broader Cultural Context” for the American Dialect Society (ADS) at the joint meeting of the ADS and Linguistics Society of America (LSA) in Chicago.
John Gides (English) represented CSUN at the ESL/ELL/Generation 1.5 Roundtable Symposium at Santa Monica College, in March, presenting problem-solving methods to more than 100 literacy educators in the Southern California region, to help bridge language and cultural gaps between students in developmental reading/writing and first-year college writing courses.
Angelina Gonzales (English) presented "Speaking through the Seal: What the California Notary Public Seal is Really Saying" at the Hawaiian International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
Robert Gustafson and Jim Overman (Cinema and Television Arts) were panelists at the Shanghai Normal University's conference in conjunction with the City of Shanhai's International Film and Television Convention. Overman spoke on the logistics and production elements related to the upcoming Beijing Olympics, and Gustafson spoke on the newest in digital technology in television and film, the Hollywood entertainment industry and characteristics in U.S. film and television production.
Janet Kubler (Biology) presented "Biology for Nonbiologists" at a meeting of the Biomimicry Institute in Flathead Lake, Montana.
Cindy Malone (Biology) led workshops on careers in genetics and biology for the San Fernando Valley Branch of the American Association of University Women Brighter Horizons conference.
Evelyn McClave (English) presented "Telling Stories with the Body: How Narrative Structure is Expressed through Gesture" at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics.
Pamela McCrory (Educational Psychology and Counseling) gave a poster presentation on “Cooperative Testing” at the 115th Convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco.
Rheem Medh (Biology) presented a talk on genetic risk factors in diabetes at the 3C Cardiology and Diabetes conference in India.
Sean Murray (Biology) was an invited speaker at the annual meeting of the Southern California American Society for Microbiology in San Diego. His seminar title was "Scientific serendipity: From tumor-targeting Salmonella to outer membrane barrier function."
Carole Oglesby (Kinesiology) was a featured speaker at a forum sponsored by the Studio for Southern California History, in conjunction with its exhibit on "Playing Place: Southern California Sports," tracing individuals who have shaped local history through sports. The forum was held in the Chinatown Public Library in April.
Steven Oppenheimer’s (Biology) students Azalia Contreras and John Vitale presented a poster paper titled “Sea Urchin Hyalin from Lytechinus Pictus May Mediate Archenteron-Blastocoel Roof Attachment,” co-authored with Oppenheimer, Edward Carroll, Jr. (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Virginia Hutchins-Carroll, at the 47th Annual National Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in Washington, D.C. Oppenheimer was invited to deliver a symposium on glycobiology at the 13th International Congress of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry in Gdansk, Poland.
Louis Rubino (Health Sciences) gave two invited presentations in China: “Overview of the United States Health Care System: An International Comparison for Reform” at Guangdong No. 2 Provincia l People’s Hospital and “International Comparisons of Health Care Systems: What China Can Learn from Other Countries," at Kunming Medical University.
Ana Muñoz Sánchez (Chicana/o Studies) will present her research on Spanish as a heritage language in Costa Rica in July.
Jutta Schamp (English) presented "From Memory to Interethnic 'Post-Memories': David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress" at a conference entitled "On Whose Terms? Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts" at the University of London, in March.
Beth Wightman (English) presented "Lost in Space? Architecture, Geography, and Culture in Eilis ni Dhuibhne's The Bray House" at the Queen's Postcolonial Research Forum First International Conference, "Postcolonial Islands: Geographic, Theoretical, and Human."The conference took place at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.