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on the short feature “Wordmaster.”The transcript and audio areavailable at http://www.voanews.com/wordmaster/.Brians’ translation of Leo Africanus’“Description of Timbuktu”has been selected for use by theAga Khan Trust for Culture HumanitiesProject for Central Asiain Tajikistan. It will be used as oneof the readings for a new curriculumat several Central Asian universities.On June 25, Brians gave aninety-minute multimedia presentationcalled “The Roots of ‘StarWars,’ or Why Princess Leia Fightslike a Girl” at the annual meetingof the Science Fiction ResearchAssociation in Las Vegas. He alsoled a discussion of H.G. Wells’ Warof the Worlds in the WSU SummerRecreation reading group programon June 30 at the Bookie.• Brigit Farley (history, WSUTri-Cities) participated in a panelentitled “Pioneers of Restoration”at the British Association of Slavicand East European Studies’ annualmeeting at Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge, on April 2. Her paperwas titled “Oleg Zhurin’s RedSquare Projects, 1990–95.”• Don Dillman (sociology) gavean invited presentation, “DesignEffects in Web Surveys,” atthe 2005 eHealth Conferencesponsored by NIH and the NationalCancer Institute June 9in Bethesda, Maryland. Dillmanalso presented an invited shortcourse on “Visual Design Effects inSelf-Administered Surveys” at thetwentieth anniversary celebrationof the Journal of Official Statisticsat Statistics Sweden in Stockholm,August 24–25.• Jeff Joireman (psychology) hasbeen invited to join the Society ofExperimental Social Psychology.A paper by Joireman, DishanKamdar, Denise Daniels, andBlythe Duell (Ph.D. candidate,psychology), “Above and Beyondthe Call of Duty: How Empathy,Concern with Future Consequences,and Employee TimeHorizon Impact OrganizationalCitizenship Behaviors,” was presentedat the annual Academy ofManagement conference in Honolulu,Hawaii, in August. Joireman,Kamdar, Daniels, and CelestinaBarbosa-Leiker (M.S. candidate,psychology) coauthored the paper“Willingness to Share Knowledgein Organizations as a Functionof Empathy, Future Orientation,Time Horizon, and Social Identity:A Social Dilemma Analysis,”presented at the eleventh InternationalConference on SocialDilemmas in Krakow, Poland, inJuly; a poster by Duell, Joireman,Craig Parks (psychology), andMark Konty (sociology), “TheEffect of Mortality Salience onCooperation in a Public GoodsDilemma,” was presented at thesame conference.• Victor Villanueva (English)delivered the keynote address forthe University of Delaware Mc-Nair Scholars Awards Dinner onAugust 11.• Stephen Lakatos (psychology,WSU Vancouver) has beenawarded a $32,135 contract bythe Centers for Disease Controlto evaluate a new class of vehiclebackup alarms for possible adaptationin the U.S.• Mimi Salamat (speech and hearingsciences, WSU Spokane), withcolleagues from the Universityof North Carolina at Greensboroand Brigham Young University,presented a paper titled “ALRand P300 Brainmaps Variationsin Adults Due to Age” at the XIXBiennial Symposium in Havana,Cuba, in June.• Tahira M. Probst (psychology,WSU Vancouver) was appointed tothe editorial board of the Journalof Business and Psychology. She wasalso reappointed for a three-yearterm to the editorial board ofthe Journal of Occupational HealthPsychology. Probst concluded her2004–2005 sabbatical leave withthe United Nations’ InternationalLabor Organization (ILO) in Geneva,Switzerland. Probst and ILOresearchers submitted a $1.8 milliongrant application to the NIH,the first such collaboration for theILO with a U.S.-based researcher.She was also asked to contribute achapter on economic stress for abook on managing health-relatedproblems at work, to be publishedby the ILO in 2006. Her leave waspartially supported by a $1,000International Programs InternationalizationProfessional DevelopmentGrant. Probst also gave aninvited talk to the business schoolat the University of Navarra in Barcelona,Spain, entitled “Unemployment,Underemployment, and JobInsecurity: Implications for Spain.”• Helen Burgess’ (English, WSUVancouver) DVD-ROM project, ReimaginingBiocommerce, coauthoredwith Rob Mitchell (Duke University)and Phillip Thurtle (Universityof Washington), was awardeda grant from the North CarolinaBiotech Consortium for $38,000for continued development.• Gail Chermak (speech andhearing sciences) presented twoinvited lectures, in May on neuroplasticityand treatment of auditoryprocessing disorders at BoysTown National Research Hospitalin Omaha, Nebraska, and in Julyat the University of Connecticut,Storrs campus.• John Streamas (comparativeethnic studies) has been named toa three-year term on the MinorityScholars Committee of the AmericanStudies Association (ASA). Thecommittee’s function, accordingto the ASA constitution, is to keep“the association’s membership informedof the issues affecting minorityscholars in the profession”and to undertake “special tasksinvolving minority scholars in themembership.”• Joseph Keim Campbell (philosophy)was recently selectedto serve a three-year term on theProgram Committee for the PacificDivision of the American PhilosophicalAssociation.• Bill Condon (English) deliveredthe keynote address to the FacultyInstitute at Nicholls State Universityon August 16. His topic was“Identifying, Assigning, Evaluating,and Assessing What We Value:Writing and Critical Thinkingacross the Curriculum.” He also ledtwo breakout sessions, one deal-4 | The Chronicle
ing with program assessment andaccreditation issues and the otherwith designing writing assignmentsthat promote critical thinking.• David Pietz (history, Asia Program)delivered a paper, “Stateand Nature on the North ChinaPlain, 1949–1999” at the InternationalSymposium on Environmentand Society in Chinese Historyat Nankai University (Tianjin,China) in August. Pietz has alsobeen awarded a $100,000 grantfrom the National Science FoundationScience and TechnologyStudies Program for 2005–2006 tosupport his project “Engineeringa State of Nature: Hydraulic Transformationson the North ChinaPlain, 1949–1999.”• Susan Swan (general education)has completed a commission fromthe law offices of Aitken, Schauble,Patrick, Neill, & Ruff to paint awatercolor portrait of the firm’sfounding partner. The painting willbe hung in the office entry area.• Kim M. Lloyd (sociology) wasawarded the spring 2005 EdwardR. Meyer Grant DevelopmentAward by the College of LiberalArts. She will receive release timefrom teaching and a monetaryaward to facilitate her efforts toprocure an extramural grant fromthe National Institute of ChildHealth and Human Developmentto examine “Latino Family Formationin the United States.”• The Self-Control Lab, underthe direction of Thomas A.Brigham (psychology), presentedthe following posters at thethirty-first annual convention ofthe Association for Behavior Analysis:“Chewing Gum: A Hard Behaviorto Swallow,” by RaymondSacchi (M.S. candidate), RyanSain (Ph.D. ’05), Brigham, JenniferMcDonald (Ph.D. candidate),and Sean Greene; “Peer Reviewof Teaching: Increasing InstructionSkills,” by Sacchi, Brigham,Sain, and McDonald; “IncreasingCondom Use in College Students:A Modification to the Psychology106 Program,” by Sain, Sacchi,Julie Carrier (B.S. ’04), andBrigham; and “Listserv Discus-Welcome to our new liberal arts faculty!TENURED AND TENURE-TRACKFACULTYAnthropologyJessica Lynch AlfaroRobert QuinlanCommunicationStacey HustJeffery PetersonMija ShinComparative Ethnic StudiesKimberly ChristenCriminal JusticeBryan Vila (WSU Spokane)EnglishAimee PhanAugusta RohrbachFine ArtsStephen ChalmersMaria DePranoDouglas Gast (WSU Tri-Cities)HistoryIan WendtMusicJeffrey SavageAnthony TaylorPhilosophyAbigail GosselinPolitical ScienceDana Lee Baker (WSUVancouver)PsychologyArmando Estrada (WSUVancouver)SociologyHiromi OnoSpeech and Hearing SciencesNancy Potter (WSU Spokane)TEMPORARY FACULTYAND INSTRUCTORSAnthropologyCourtney MeehanMarsha QuinlanCommunicationKenji KitataniWayne PopeskiEnglishRhonda DietrichJared EshelmanLaura Gruber-GodfreyLeslie SenaMatthew ShearsDometa WiegandFine ArtsTia-Maria HoellerForeign LanguagesSuzanne PolleJennifer WalserGeneral StudiesCarla MichaelsenMusicSarah BahauddinNoel BarbutoHeidi JarvisKaren SavagePhilosophyRoyce GrubicPsychologyKathryn Becker-Blease (WSUVancouver)Greg Belenky (WSU Spokane)John M. Roll (WSU Spokane)SociologyMaria Quevas (WSU Tri-Cities)Speech and Hearing SciencesMary Ann NewcomTheatre ArtsBen GonzalesWomen’s StudiesSerena PetersKITATANI APPOINTED LES SMITH DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORKenji Kitatani has accepted a two-year appointment as the Les Smith DistinguishedProfessor of Media Management in the Edward R. Murrow School ofCommunication. He is currently executive advisor, Sony Corporation, and formerexecutive vice president, Sony of America.Kitatani will be teaching Entertainment and Corporate CommunicationManagement. He will be on campus periodically and conducting class sessionsfrom Tokyo via videoconferencing. He is also recruiting corporate leaders tospeak to the class by video or phone conference. So far, he has lined up Fred Cohen,president, International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; GordonSmeaton, vice president, National Football League; John Mezacco, senior vicepresident, WKC Group, and former vice president of marketing, Sony Music Entertainment;and John Meglen, president, Concerts West (currently promotingthe Celine Dion Show at Caesars in Las Vegas).Kitatani will donate his faculty appointment salary back to the Murrow School.September 2005 | 5
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