Publications
Updated 10/10/08
A poem by Scott Andrews (English) entitled “I (Thunderheart) N.Y.” has been accepted for publication in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics.
Andrea Davies Henderson (History) has co-authored a new study, “Climbing the Technical Ladder: Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level Women in Technology,” which investigates why the mid-level is “perhaps the most critical juncture for women on the technical career ladder because it is where a complex set of gender barriers converge.” A San Jose Mercury News article said the study, generated by Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, found that “women face the greatest barriers to advancement when they are in mid-career.” Another finding: more mid-level technical women than men suffer poor health due to “excessive work-related stress.”
Shirley Svorny (Economics) writes that the use of innovation to make health care cheaper and more accessible is “the only good option.” In an October 6 Los Angeles Times article, Svorny argues that high-quality health care can be delivered in less expensive ways. “Annual physicals don’t need to be done in a high-priced medical office,” she offers as one example. As another, Svorny says patients “should have low-cost options when it comes to getting a simple hearing test.”
Two poems by Matt Terhune (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences) are forthcoming in the Beloit Poetry Journal and in Drunken Boat. They are entitled “Dublin, Georgia” and “Southern Gothic with Doric Column.”
Updated 10/3/08
Scott Andrews (English) has written an essay, “A New Road and a Dead End in Sherman Alexie’s ‘Reservation Blues,’ “ which will be included in Contemporary Literary Criticism (vol. 265), published by Gale.
A poem by Tracy Ann Teel (English) entitled “Late Harvest” has been published in Oracle: A Journal of the Literary Arts.”
Larry Varnes (Marketing) writes that in a “time-constrained society” bombarded with commercial communications, the smart marketer will stick to the basics: “Be relevant, keep it simple and entertain.” Varnes’ observations appeared in a Daily News article in late September. “Marketing communications,” he said, “should be something consumers seek out because they view it as a valuable tool—something they want to see or hear.”
Updated 9/23/08
A new study by Robert Krol (Economics), entitled “Trade, Protectionism, and the U.S. Economy: Examining the Evidence,” has been published by the Cato Institute. The study, described as a “comprehensive review of the important empirical studies that quantify the impact of trade on the economy,” examines data dating back to the end of World War II. A Cato Institute news release says the study “unequivocally shows that the expansion of international trade has been a boon for Americans and the U.S. economy.”
Linda Rader Overman (English) is the author of an essay entitled “Goodbye, Rita Hayworth. Hello, Margarita Cansino,” due to appear in “Reflect, Inform, Persuade: College Writing in the 21st Century,” scheduled for publication by Longman in 2009.
Martin Pousson (English) has sold his story, “Wanted Man,” to Epoch. The story is a chapter from “The Nerves,” Pousson’s novel-in-progress.
In an article published by the Cato Institute, Shirley Svorny (Economics) states that state licensing of medical professionals does not assure quality care. In contrast, Svorny argues, “licensure not only fails to protect consumers from incompetent physicians, but, by raising barriers to entry, makes health care more expensive and less accessible.” Education, credentialing and scope-of-practice decisions are better left to the private sector and the courts, she notes.
Nayereh Tohidi (Gender and Women’s Studies) wrote a commentary for Women’s E News entitled “Iran’s Women’s Rights Activists are Being Smeared.” In the September 17 commentary, Tohidi said Iranian women’s rights activists have faced smears and arrests in their move to stall a bill easing “polygamy, temporary marriage and male-bias in divorce.”
Updated 9/12/08
John Balian (Accounting) is the author of an article, “College Students Can Get Breaks on Taxes,” written for the Daily News and published September 8. In the article, Balian points out that students who recently have entered college or who are returning to school “may be eligible to receive a tax credit for part of their paid tuition.” He discusses two education credits: the Hope Scholarship Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit.
Authored by Rick Talbott (Religious Studies), “Nazareth’s Rebellious Son: Deviance and Downward Mobility in the Galilean Jesus Movement” was published as the lead article in the fall 2008 issue of the Biblical Theology Bulletin.
Updated 9/8/08
Pamela Bourgeois (English) wrote an article, “New Voices: Enduring Basic Writing,” which was published in CEA Forum (Winter/Spring 2008).
Irene Clark (English) is the author of ”Writing and Learning in the Health Sciences: Rhetoric, Identity, Genre and Performance,” published in the August 2008 issue of The WAC Journal.
Andrea Davies Henderson (History) co-authored a major, nationally recognized 2008 study on "Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know," produced by the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. The study, summarized the week of August 18 in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed, is reported to be one of the most comprehensive, detailed reports on the subject to date. Nearly 100 pages in length, it surveyed more than 9,000 faculty members at 13 leading research institutions. Inside Higher Ed's report on the study's findings revealed that 36 percent of the surveyed faculty had academic partners.
Kitty Nard (English) has written a poem entitled “The Purification of Space for Jessica,” which will appear in the 2009 issue of Alehouse.
A paper by John Peters (English), presented two years ago in Paris, is now a chapter in a new book. “The Borders of Fidelity: Cosmopolitan Ethics in Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ ” appears in Frontieres, marges and confines, edited by Corinne Alexandre-Garner and published by the Presses Universitaires de Paris 10.
Wayne Smith (Management) is the author of an article called “Modern Devices Can Affect Writing,” published September 1 in the Daily News. Smith notes that spelling and grammar checkers in contemporary word processors sometimes do not detect misplaced and dangling modifiers, homonyms, omitted verbs, run-on sentences and a host of other writing errors. “Writing well remains a difficult human endeavor,” said Smith. “Formal, quality writing, regardless of transmission medium, requires time commitment and focused effort.”
William Whiting (Kinesiology) co-authored a chapter on “Bone Biomechanics and Fractures,” published in the reference text, “Biomechanics in Ergonomics” (second edition). The chapter describes and explains the form and function of bone, mechanical testing procedures, bone’s mechanical behavior and common bone fractures.
Updated 8/28/08
Larry Steven Londre (Marketing) contributed an article to the August 26 Daily News describing “How to Create a Marketing Strategy.” Among several recommendations in the article were making one’s “marketing, advertising and promotion different than your competitors,” remembering one’s target customer and being “unique with your product mix.”
Updated 8/25/08
Abe Feinberg (Systems and Operations Management) suggested, in an article written for a late August issue of the Daily News, that to achieve smarter operations performance, businesses should consider cross-training their workforces, “so each worker can perform several tasks and each task can be performed by any one of several workers.” Feinberg cited Southwest Airlines’ flexible workforce and the fringe benefit of “low employee turnover” resulting from that flexibility.
Updated 8/15/08
Robert Chianese (English) penned an article, “Happy Golden Empire,” published August 12 in “Blowback,” the online forum for responses to articles, editorials and Op-Eds in the Los Angeles Times. Chianese explored the Chinese perspective on issues such as China’s reverence for social harmony over dissent and individuality. Chianese was a Fulbright senior specialist in American Studies last fall at Cal State Northridge’s sister campus, Shanghai Normal University.
The work of composer Liviu Marinescu (Music) can be heard on “Liviu Marinescu Chamber Music,” a new CD from Capstone Records. Music he has written since his emigration to the U.S. from Romania in 1994 is presented on this first all-Marinescu recording, whose liner notes were written by fellow composer Daniel Kessner (Music). Marinescu’s CSUN Music Department colleagues Julia Heinen, John Roscigno, Steven Thachuk, Françoise Régnat, Andrew Duckles, David Aks and Kessner can be heard on the CD, along with CSUN alumni Simon Carroll, Serena Vaquilar and Edgar Sandoval. Musicians Ovidiu Marinescu, Russell Peterson, Richard Kravchak, Shari Raynor and Danielle Ondarza also are heard.
Steven Oppenheimer (Biology) co-authored with Southern California Academy of Sciences Research Training fellow Sarine Shamirian research on “Carbohydrate based experimental therapeutics for cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases,” published in the Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin, Vol. 107, No. 2, p. 138 (abs. #107) (August 2008). Shamirian presented the research at the annual meeting of the Southern California Academy of Sciences in May.
Gerard Rossy (Management) presented “5 Simple Questions on Ethics” in an article written for the August 12 Daily News. In the piece, Rossy argues that ethical mistakes occur primarily “because we fail to clearly think through the longer-term implications of our decisions or actions.” To avoid such mistakes, Rossy suggests developing the habit of asking critical questions to “better understand their ethical implications.”
Udpated 7/23/08
Linda Reid Chassiakos (Klotz Student Health Center) wrote an article entitled “Doctor Counsels with Hope When Risky Procedure’s at Hand,” which appeared July 21 in the Los Angeles Times. In the article, Chassiakos describes the agonizing experience of dealing with a patient’s question: “Doc, am I going to make it?”
Robert Krol (Economics) is the author of “World Trade Benefits America,” an article published July 21 in the Daily News. Krol argues that “international trade provides the U.S. with significant benefits.” Government programs and better work force skills can offset labor market problems, he said.
Steven Oppenheimer (Biology), Ed Carroll (Chemistry/Biochemistry), Cathy Coyle-Thompson (Biology) and Virginia Hutchins-Carroll are co-authors of a paper entitled “Hyalin is a cell adhesion molecule involved in mediating archenteron-blastocoel roof attachment,” which was published in Acta Histochemica 110: 265-275 (2008). The paper for the first time identifies hyaline as a specific cell adhesion molecule, important because the repeat domain of hyaline is present in proteins in a wide range of organisms, from lowly bacteria to non-human primates and humans.
Linda Rader Overman (English) has penned her debut novel, “Letters Between Us,” to be released by Plain View Press October 6. David Bradley, author of “The Chaneysville Incident,” describes Overman’s work as a “clever, intricate, powerful novel” about girls who grew up during the wild days of the ‘60s and about “the women they become.” It is, according to “Persian Girls” author Nahid Rachlin, “a powerful story of search for self, identity, of losing a friend and finding her in a deeper sense…”
Updated 7/18/08
Curt Dommeyer (Marketing) penned a July 14 article for the Daily News, “Putting a Face on Market Research,” in which he contends that “marketing research helps companies make better decisions.” Citing an experiment he conducted to help determine factors that increase the response rate to mail surveys, Dommeyer acknowledged that the results were “not exactly” what he would have predicted, leading him to suggest that “We must test our strategies before investing a lot of money in them.”
Updated 7/11/08
Melanie Williams (Business Law) wrote an article entitled “Knowing Info’s Use is Key to Research,” published in the Los Angeles Daily News in early July. Discussing the merits and distractions of Web availability as a resource, Williams said the “real skill to be learned is what use to make of information. The students and employees who grasp that concept are the ones who will make the information age golden.”
Updated 7/2/08
Alan Glassman (Management) wrote an article, “Private, Public Business Different,” published July 1 in the Daily News. In the article, Glassman points out a number of ways in which private and municipal government organizations differ from each other. “In short,” Glassman wrote, “serving the common good of a democracy is very, very different from making a dollar.”
Christopher Shortell (Political Science) is the author of Rights, Remedies, and the Impact of State Sovereign Immunity (SUNY Series in American Constitutionalism), from the State University of New York Press, July 2008. Shortell’s book presents “engaging case studies on the impact of state sovereign immunity on both plaintiffs and states.” John J. Dinan, author of The American State Constitutional Tradition, said Shortell’s “meticulously researched book…makes use of an impressive range of primary sources in the course of assessing the impact of judicial rulings over a span of two centuries.”
Updated 6/27/08
William Jennings (College of Business and Economics) is the author of an article, “Consider Risks Before Retirement,” that appeared June 23 in the Daily News. Jennings wrote that baby boomers would do well to make sure they have “saved enough, invested enough, and worked long enough” as they prepare for retirement.
Linda Reid Chassiakos (Klotz Student Health Center) wrote an article entitled “Patients Face a Sellout of Their Privacy,” published in the June 18 issue of the Daily News. The article holds that SB 1096, a bill under consideration by the California legislature, would undermine patient privacy by “allowing companies to obtain patient prescription information and begin direct mailings to patients about their medications.”
Updated 6/19/08
Ben Yaspelkis III (Kinesiology) is the author of a paper entitled “Exercise training increases components of the CAP/c-Cbl signaling cascade in muscle of obese Zucker rats,” published in Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental 57: 858-856, 2008.
Updated 6/13/08
Linda Reid Chassiakos (Klotz Student Health Center) penned an article entitled “Savor Perfect Beach Days While You May,” which appeared in the June 11 Daily News.
Louis Pugliese (Educational Psychology and Counseling) wrote a commentary entitled “Teacher’s Field Trip Was Done by the Book,” published June 11 in the Daily News. His article discussed a field trip during which students met indigent workers at a day labor site.
Updated 6/06/08
Patricia Born (Finance, Real Estate and Insurance) prepared with University of Virginia law professor Jeffrey O’Connell a study entitled "The Cost and Other Advantages of Early Offers Reform for General Liability Claims,” published in the Columbia Business Law Journal, in June. A news report said the study shows there are “strong advantages to a system in which businesses facing personal injury lawsuits could promptly pay injured parties for out-of-pocket medical expenses and lost wages while avoiding long court battles, high legal fees and ‘pain and suffering’ damages…’ “
Ben Yaspelkis (Kinesiology), former graduate student Jeffrey Bernard, John Ivy of the University of Texas, Austin, and other colleagues collaborated on an article entitled “Exercise training increases components of the c-Cbl-associated protein/c-Cbl signaling cascade in muscle of obese Zucker rats.” It was published in the June edition of Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, 57: 858-866, 2008.
Updated 5/29/08
Glen Whitman (Economics) is the author of “Trouble in the Ranks: How the World Health Organization Unfairly Evaluates National Health Care Systems,” published by the International Policy Network in London for the Campaign for Fighting Diseases.
William Whiting (Kinesiology) authored a reference textbook, Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Injury, (second edition), published by Human Kinetics. The book explores the mechanical bases of musculoskeletal injury to better understand injury mechanisms and prevention.
Updated 5/16/08
Scott Andrews (English) penned a short story, “Now and Forever,” accepted for publication in The Langdon Review, 2008 edition. He will participate in “Langdon Weekend,” when works from the journal will be read and exhibited, at Tarleton State University in Texas, in September.
Robert Chianese (English) wrote an article entitled “’Sespe Brand’ Meets ‘Black Swan’ Brand” that appeared in the May 11 Ventura County Star.
Amber Norwood (English) is the author of three poems—“Monsoon," ”As Many As There Are Types of Grass” and “Nevada”—chosen for publication in Toasted Cheese, online June 1.
Updated 5/09/08
Richard Kilpatrick (English) had two poems accepted for publication: “Mood, In Blue,” in Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, and “Kirinyaga,” in Paper Wings.
Rick Mitchell (English) penned an article, “Derek Walcott’s Pantomime, Old San Juan’s Monuments, and the Everyday Spectacle of Caribbean Tourism,” for Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diasporas.
Shirley Svorny (Economics) wrote an opinion piece, “California Focus: Solving the CSU Budget Shortfall,” that appeared in the May 8 Orange County Register.
Updated 5/02/08
Edward Jackiewicz (Geography) co-edited with San Diego State University professor Fernando Bosco a text entitled “Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography,” published in spring 20008 by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Designed for upper division undergraduate courses, the book takes a thematic approach to the study of the diverse human geographies of Latin America.
Melissa Wall (Journalism) co-authored the journal articles “The Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation; U.S. Conservatives Take Aim at the British News Media,” published in Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 2008, and “ ‘A Window on Your World’: The Rise of British News in the United States,” published in Journalism Practice, 2008.
Updated 4/25/08
James Ballard (Sociology) authored “Scenario Development in Oil and Gas Management: Envisioning the Future by Means of Analytical Techniques,” in Strategic Insights, vol. vii, issue 1 (Feb. 2008); “Using Social Scientific Methodological Approaches to Reducing Risk: How the Risk Reduction Approach Works with Oil and Gas Faculties,” International Journal of Social Inquiry; “Perceptions and the Social-Political Aspects of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Waste Disposal," The Journal of Physical Security; “Yucca Mountain Transportation Security Issues: Overview and Update,” co-authored, in Waste Management Conference Proceedings; and “Mentoring for Success in Criminal Justice and Criminology: Teaching Professional Socialization in Graduate Programs,” co-authored with Melanie Klein (Sociology) and Amanda Dean, in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education. With Vickie Jensen (Sociology), he co-authored a book entitled Teaching Qualitative Methods: A Collection of Syllabi and Instructional Materials, 4th edition. Ballard’s co-authored book chapter, “Legal Policy to Counteract the Threat of Catastrophic Terrorism,” appeared in NATO and Terrorism: On Scene—New Challenges for First Responders and Civil Protection. “Where is my Package—Exactly? Nuclear Waste Transportation, Public Safety and ITS,” was published in Bringing ITS All Together, Las Vegas, Nev.: Clark County Comprehensive Planning, Nuclear Waste Program. His book review, “Terror, Culture and Politics: Rethinking 9/11” appeared in Political Communication, spring 2008, and he penned “Assessment of Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) developed by DOE” for Nevada’s Agency for Nuclear Projects. His “State of Nevada Funded Threat Assessment of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California” was written for the same Nevada agency.
Dorothy Barresi (English) wrote poems entitled “John Lennon’s Lips” and “Arriving Late at the Birthplace of Pentacostalism,” accepted for publication in crazyhorse. Her poems, “Stereotype” and “Something in the House was Beeping” was accepted by WEST BRANCH, and “A Shopper’s Prayer” and “Winter Nap” are to appear in POOL.
John Clendenning (English) wrote a review of Paul Sorrentino’s “Stephen Crane Remembered” in Resources for American Literary Study.
Ronald Fischbach (College of Health and Human Development) co-authored with Irene Clark (English) an article, “Writing and Learning in the Health Sciences,” which was accepted for publication in the Writing Across the Curriculum Journal.
Leilani Hall (English) has penned two poems, “The Stroke and After Words” and “Sappho’s Last Dream,” both accepted for publication in the Disability Studies Quarterly. Shayda Kafai (English) also had poems—“Unremitting Behavior,” “Voice for the Body,” and “Sineater” accepted for the publication in the same quarterly.
Adilifu Nama (Pan African Studies) penned Black Space: Imagining Race in a Science Fiction Film, published by the University of Texas Press. The book is described by writer May-lee Chai as “a thought-provoking and timely exploration of white racial anxieties as projected onto black males in science fiction films.”
William Whiting (Kinesiology) authored a reference textbook, Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Injury, second edition, published by Human Kinetics. The book explores the mechanical bases of musculoskeletal injury, to better understand injury mechanisms and prevention.
Updated 4/18/08
David Ackerman and Barbara Gross (Marketing) co-authored "I Can Start that JME Manuscript Next Week, Can't I? The Task Characteristics Behind Why Faculty Procrastinate," Journal of Marketing Education, vol. 29 (August), 97-110. Together with Franck Vigneron (Marketing), the two penned "Peer Observation Reports and Student Evaluations of Teaching: Who are the Experts?" forthcoming in the Alberta Journal of Educational Research.
Rodolfo Acuna (Chicana/o Studies) has written “Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933.” The book explores the origins of Mexican American Labor activism from its earliest roots to its manifestation in the San Fernando Valley cotton strike.
Larry Allen (Biology) is co-author of a research article, "The decline and recovery of four predator fishes from the Southern California Bight," in the journal Marine Biology.
Anthony Arthur (English) published an essay entitled "Blood and Oil" in the New York Times Book Review. The essay focuses on the novel, "Oil," by Upton Sinclair, and the recent film, "There Will Be Blood."
Dorothy Barresi (English) will be the featured poet in the 2008 issue of Pool, which will include new poems and an interview. Her poem, “Spirit Photograph” will appear in /nor, and her poem “A Selective History of Los Angeles in Seven Turns” will appear in Pleiades. Her poem “American Fanatics” appears in the “Quirky American” issue of 5AM, and some of her poems have been reprinted in the anthology American Poetry Now.
Pamela Bourgeois (English) wrote an article entitled "New Voices: Enduring Basic Writing," accepted for publication iin the July 2008 issue of the College English Association Forum.
Ranita Chatterjee (English) has written an article entitled "Charlotte Dacre's Nymphomaniacs and Demon-Lovers: Teaching Female Masculinitie," published in Masculinites in Text and Teaching, Palgrave Macmillan 2008.
Robert Chianese (English) wrote an essay, “Excursion to a Chinese Farm,” that appeared in the Ventura County Star.
Barry Cleveland (Theatre) co-authored with colleague Annie Cleveland (Theatre) an article, “Fort Worth for Entertainment: Billy Rose’s Casa Mañana (1936-1939),” which appears in the spring 2008 issue of Theatre Design and Technology, the quarterly professional journal of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.
Randy Cohen (Biology) co-authored with Rabia Djellouli (Mathematics) and a mathematics graduate student, Paul Ryan, an article that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Biology.
Deborah Cours, Kristen Walker and Tina Kiesler (Marketing) are the co-authors of "Self Construal, Reference Groups, and Brand Purchase Behavior," in European Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 8, 469-474.
Maria de Bellard (Biology) co-authored a paper in Neuron Gila Biology; a chapter in Proceeding VII European Meeting on “Glial cell function in health and disease,” and another paper in Acta Histochemia.
Curt Dommeyer (Marketing) wrote "Using the Diary Method to Deal with Social Loafers on the Group Project: Its Effects on Peer Evaluations, Group Behavior, and Attitudes," in the Journal of Marketing Education, vol. 29 (August), 175-188.
Robert Espinoza (Biology) co-authored a biography of Richard Etheridge, accepted for publication as an "Historical Perspective" by the journal Copeia. Etheridge was Espinoza's herpetology mentor at San Diego State.
Steven Graves (Geography) co-authored an article, "Usury Law and the Christian Right," which appeared in the spring issue of the Catholic University Law Review.
Barbara Gross (Marketing) is the author of "The Experience of Home Foreclosure: Coping with Involuntary Loss of Home and Transition of Identity," European Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 8, 87-93.
Leilani Hall (English) wrote the poem, “Regarding What Has Been Taught,” which will be published in The Laurel Review.
Edward Jackiewicz (Geography) is co-editor with Fernando Bosco of "Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography," Rowman and Littlefield Pubishers.
Tim Karels (Biology) co-authored a paper that has been accepted for publication in the journal Conservation Biology.
Scott Kleinman’s (English) edition of the October eclogue of Edmond Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender has appeared online in The Broadview Anthology of British Literature; http//www.broadviewpress/babl/. Four more eclogues will be published in 2008.
Sharon Kollmeyer’s (English) poem, “Naemirhage, in private” appeared in the fall 2007 issue of Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems.
Amy Levin (Social Work) authored "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act" in the Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks. Levin co-authored with James Decker (Social Work) an article in the Journal of Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, vol. 23 (3/4),entitled "The Assessment of Staff Satisfaction as Compared to Client Satisfaction in Two Departments of Social Service Residential Treatment Facilities."
Evelyn McClave (English) co-authored an article with (former) linguistic graduate students Rita Tamer, Milo Mileff and Helen Kim on the relationship between cognition, speech, and gestures. “Head movements in the context of speech in Arabic, Bulgarian, Korean and African-American Vernacular English” was published in the journal Gesture.
Kitty Nard (English) wrote a poem, "Desert Woman," that appeared in the Winter 2008 edition of Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems.
Steven Oppenheimer (Biology) Edward Carroll (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Virginia Hutchins-Carroll and Cathy Coyle-Thompson (Biology) co-authored a paper, “Hyalin is a Cell Adhesion Molecule Involved in Mediating Archenteron-Blastocoel Roof Attachment,” that has been accepted for publication in the journal, Acta Histochemica. Oppenheimer and Carroll and students Azalia Contreras and John Vitale co-authored a manuscript, “Exogenous Hyaline and Sea Urchin Gastrulation, Part III Biological activity of Hyalin Extracted from Lytechnius Pictus Embryos,” that has been accepted for publication in the journal Zygote. Oppenheimer also co-authored and co-presented the paper “Sea Urchin Hyalin from Lytechinus Pictus May Mediate Archenteron-Blastocoel Roof Attachment.” An abstract of that paper was published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 18, supplement, #2634, 2007. He also co-authored with (former) students Maribel Alvarez and Jennifer Nnoli a review that was published in Acta Histochemia.
Linda Rader Overman’s (English) epistolary novel, “Letters between Us,” has been accepted for publication by Plain View Press.
John Peters (English) wrote an article, “Hemingway’s Cats: Beyond Nonverbal Communication,” that has been published in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Science.
Jutta Schamp (English) wrote an article, “Written on the Body: The Re-inscription of Shakespeare’s Tempest and Othello in David Dabydeen’s Slave Song, Coolie Odyssey, and The Intended” that has been accepted for inclusion in the festschrift for her former Ph.D. advisor, Horst Breuer. (A festschrift is a book published in honor of a scholar’s career and includes contributions from colleagues.)
Cheryl Slobod’s (English) poem, “Apple Flesh & Chives,” has been published in the latest edition of the poetry journal, Alehouse Press.
Richard Squires (Geological Sciences) co-authored "Volutoderminae (Gastropoda: Volutidae) of Coniacian through Maastrichtian age from the North American Pacific slope," in the Journal of Paleontology 82 (2): 213-237, figs. 1-11.
George Uba (English) authored an article titled “From Signifying to Performance: International Ballroom Dance and the Choreographies of Transnationalism” that was published in the Journal of Asian American Studies, 10:2 (June 2007), 141-167. The article examines the participation of transnational Asians in international ballroom dance while offering a postcolonial analysis of ballroom dancing and a critique of the television show Dancing with the Stars.
Paul Wilson (Biology) co-authored a paper published in the International Journal of Plant Sciences.
Ben Yaspelkis (Kinesiology) wrote an article, “Effect of high-frequency resistance exercise on adaptive responses in skeletal muscle,” that was published in the December 2007 issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise (39:2135-2144).