Vol. II, No. 3
Campus community members are encouraged to submit items with the title
"Achievements" by:
James Aldrich (Sociology) co-authored a book, "Annotated Information Resource Manual
for Public Administration, First Edition" (University of La Verne Press, 1997).
Barbara Tabachnick (Psychology) co-authored "Therapist Responses to Recovered and
Never-Forgotten Memories of Child Sex Abuse: A National Survey of Licensed
Psychologists" (Violence Against Women, Aug. 1997).
Sembiam Rengarajan (Electrical and Computer Engineering) co-authored "Extension of
Orchard's Pattern Synthesis Technique for Over-determined Systems" (Electromagnetics,
vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 15-23, Jan.-Feb. 1997). He also co-authored "A Comparison of Two Forms
of Spherical Wave Expansions" (Electromagnetics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 75-87, Jan.-Feb. 1997).
Rengarajan also co-authored "A Method Using Focal Plane Analysis to Determine the
Performance of Reflector Antennas" (ICAP 1997), a paper presented at the International
Conference on Antennas and Propagation held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April.
William Flores (Social and Behavioral Sciences) published a book with Rina Benmayor (CSU
Monterey Bay), "Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space and Rights" (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1997).
Daniel Kessner (Music) and William Toutant (Arts, Media, and Communication) participated
in the Fifth Romanian-American Music Days Festival July 4-17 in Romania. Among the
works performed were Kessner's Chamber Concert No. 3, Five Preludes for Piano, and
Orchestral Prelude No. 2 (Raging), and Toutant's Quintetto Amaroso, Peregrinations and
Small Suite for Piano.
Marvin Harden (Art) was included in an international exhibition, "Book Obsession," at Tel
Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, April-July 1997. Prints from his book "Natural Selections" also
were shown at an invitational exhibition, "Changing Media: Books & Prints," at the
Armory Center for the Arts, Feb. 2-April 6, 1997. A one-man exhibition "Marvin Harden,
Paintings," took place at Ventura College Art Galleries, March 5-21.
Gary Chapman (Physics and Astronomy) presented a paper on results from the past 12
years of monitoring solar variability. The poster paper was presented at the 19th
Summer Workshop held at the National Solar Observatory, Sacramento Peak, NM, Sept.
9-12.
Jay Siegel (Chemistry alumnus) was named a 1998 Arthur C. Cope Scholar by the American
Chemical Society, an award given in recognition of outstanding research achievements in
organic chemistry. Siegel is currently an associate professor of chemistry at the
University of California, San Diego. At CSUN, he performed undergraduate research under
the guidance of Edward Rosenberg.
Adele Gottfried (Educational Psychology and Counseling) received a Mensa award for
excellence in research for her paper, "A Longitudinal Study of Academic Intrinsic
Motivation in Intellectually Gifted Children: Childhood through Early Adolescence,"
published in Gifted Child Quarterly (1996, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 179-183). This was an
international competition.
Carrie Saetermoe (Psychology) was named the 1997-98 Jerome Richfield Scholar at Cal
State Northridge.
David Whitwell (Music) was awarded the "Goldege Verdienstmedaille," the highest honor
of the Austrian Band Association (Styria). The presentation was made in July at a
banquet held near Salzburg.
Robert Carpenter (Biology) was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research on the
Great Barrier Reef in Australia. He is one of about 1,600 U.S. grantees who will travel
abroad for the 1997-98 academic year under the Fulbright Program. Carpenter was the
director of research for National Undersea Research Program in the Virgin Islands prior to
becoming a CSUN professor in 1988.
Joyce Feucht-Haviar (College of Extended Learning) has been appointed to the advisory
committee of the University Continuing Education Assn.'s Review.
Sandra Harris (University Counseling Services) was elected for a three-year term as
California representative to the American Psychological Assn.'s Council of
Representatives. California has three seats on the APA Council.
Harry Murphy (Center on Disabilities) was appointed by the European Commission to the
conference program committee of the TIDE (Technology Initiatives for Disabled and
Elderly) meeting of June 1998 in Helsinki, Finland. He also was appointed to the program
committee of the Sixth International Conference for Computers Helping People with
Special Needs, to be held in Vienna and Budapest in August 1998.
Sembiam Rengarajan (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was appointed topical editor
for the topic of "antennas" for the special publication of URSI (International Union of
Radio Science) Radio Science Review 1996-1999 to be published in "Radio Science."
Rengarajan was a visiting professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, during
the summer of 1997. He also gave guest lectures on research problems in antennas and
electromagnetic theory at the University of Stellenbosch.
David Whitwell (Music) was elected to a six-year term on the board of directors of the
World Assn. for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, a member of the International Music
Council, UNESCO. The election was conducted in more than 50 countries.
Achievements
Editor's Note: These announcements henceforth will be printed in this publication.
Achievements will appear on a space-available basis with general priority based on their
date of submission. Any items held for space reasons should appear in the next
Achievements column.
Publications
Susan Plutsky and Barbara Wilson (both of Office Systems and Business Education)
co-authored "Faculty Perceptions of Students' Business Communication Needs" (Business
Communication Quarterly, Dec. 1996) and "Predicting Success in Upper-Division Business
Communication Classes" (Journal of Education for Business, vol. 72, no. 3, Jan./Feb. 1997).
Wilson also authored "A Descriptive Study: The Intellectual Development of Business
Administration Students" (The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, vol. XXXVIII, no. 4, Fall 1996).
Presentations
Harry Murphy (Center on Disabilities) presented a paper "Leadership Issues in the Field of
Disability" at the Human Computer Interface convention in San Francisco. He also
presented another paper "Trends in the CSUN Technology Conference Over the Years" at
the Association for Assistive Technology in Europe.
Honors/Awards
Kirk Behnke (Center on Disabilities) was awarded the Assistive Technology Practitioner
credential by the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North
America.
Elections/Appointments
Stephen Walton (Physics and Astronomy) was elected secretary of the Solar Physics
Division of the American Astronomical Society in June.
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September 22, 1997
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