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 Don Dillman (sociology) has received the American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement. The award plaque states, in part, “…his 1978 book, Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method, is widely regarded as the ‘Bible’ for conducting mail and self-administered surveys. … Don’s ‘Total Design Method’ has now evolved into the ‘Tailored Design Method.’ Whatever follows in the ‘TDM’ tradition, we can be assured that the ‘Total Dillman Method’ will always stand for rigor, dedication and integrity.” Previous recipients include George Gallup and Rensis Likert.
Robert Helm, Tamara Helm (both fine arts), and Brenna Helm (B.F.A. ‘97) have been invited to exhibit their paintings at the Redbud Gallery in Houston, Texas, during the spring of 2004. The exhibit, “Palouse Artists—A Family Affair,” is in preparation.
The well-known twelve-man vocal ensemble Chanticleer has included a composition by Paul Ely Smith (music) in their 2003–2004 concert season. The piece, “Canntaireachd,” which is based on the sung dance music of the Scottish Hebrides Islands, was given its premiere at WSU as part of the New Music Festival in 1991, conducted by Lori Wiest (music). “Canntaireachd” will be performed in concerts across North America and East Asia.
Pamela Smith Hill’s (English, WSU Vancouver) most recent book, The Last Grail Keeper, is on VOYA’s April 2003 list of “Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 2002.” VOYA is a library magazine for teachers and librarians specializing in young adult literature. Hill will also be a featured author at the Children’s Literature Festival of the Ozarks in Springfield, Missouri, in October. Her short story “Where the Lilacs Bloom” will be included in On Her Way, an anthology for young readers scheduled for publication in spring 2004 with Dutton Children’s Books.
Gene Rosa (sociology) was interviewed in Paris by BBC Television about whether Paris or London, candidates for the 2012 Olympic summer games, was better prepared to prevent the type of terrorism that occurred in Atlanta.
Mimi Salamat (speech and hearing sciences) delivered a refereed presentation at the International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group in the Canary Islands, Spain, June 8–12. Salamat was awarded a fellowship to participate in the Gallaudet University 2003 Summer Program in Genetics for Audiology Faculty, July 13–19. The program was sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Salamat’s participation in this workshop will greatly enhance the genetics module in the master’s audiology program and allow for expanded genetics coverage in the proposed Au.D. curriculum. She was also granted a promising new investigator fellowship to attend the Deafness Research Foundation’s Advanced Clinical Research Conference, held in Washington, D.C., July 30 to August 2.
William Smith (history) and Birgitta Ingemanson (foreign languages) were both recognized with 2003 Honors College Faculty Awards.
Carol Ivory, incoming chair of the Department of Fine Arts, was recently elected president of the Pacific Arts Association, an international organization devoted to the study of all the arts of Oceania. She previously served four years as vice president (and chair, American chapter). Ivory’s research focuses on the art, history, and culture of the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. She is currently a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an exhibition on Marquesan art scheduled to open in 2004.
John Irby (communication) was selected by his peers to receive the Murrow School of Communication’s 2003 Faculty Award for Distinguished Classroom Instruction. He was also recently named a GIFT (Great Ideas For Teachers) Scholar. His teaching idea, titled “Watching the Watchdog: How to Hold a Mock Hearing Focusing on Those Foaming at the Mouth,” was published in the Community College Journalism Association (CCJA) magazine. The GIFT Program was established in 2000 by CCJA and the Small Interests Group for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s annual summer convention (where he also made a presentation) to recognize excellent standards in teaching journalism and mass communication courses and to provide colleagues with fresh ideas for creating or updating their lessons.
Lisa Fournier’s (psychology) Catalyzing the Future proposal, entitled “Influence of Phytoestrogen on Adult Human Immune Functioning and Cognition,” was funded by the University. She is collaborating with Kathy Beerman of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, an internationally circulated publication funded in part by the Department of English and the College of Liberal Arts, is sponsor of two conference sessions that explore changing conceptions of the mid-nineteenth century “American Renaissance,” one at the 2003 national meeting of the American Literature Association in Cambridge, Massachusetts (already convened in May), and the second at the Modern Language Association convention in San Diego in December. Editor Albert J. von Frank (English) led the ALA session; coeditor Jana Argersinger (English) will chair the MLA event. Essays from these sessions will be gathered in a special issue titled “Re-examining the American Renaissance,” timed to coincide with a new design for the journal’s cover and contents.
Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, the book series edited by Joseph Keim Campbell (philosophy), David Shier (philosophy), and Michael O’Rourke (philosophy, University of Idaho), and with contributed chapters by them, has moved to the MIT Press, beginning with volume 2 (in press).
Marina Tolmacheva (history, associate dean of liberal arts) published “Islam in Kyrgyzstan: Some Historiographical Approaches” in the proceedings of the international conference on Kyrgyz historiography and “The Flowing Waters of Osh” in the proceedings of the international seminar on Kyrgyz statehood. Both meetings took place in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in May. The two papers mark publications #100 and 101 for Tolmacheva. During her visit to Bishkek, Tolmacheva also gave three lectures on themes of Central Asian and world history at the National Pedagogical University and consulted on the Open Society Institute grant project with Dr. Cholpon Turdalieva, who visited WSU in fall 2002. Tolmacheva also took part in the national celebration of the 2,200th anniversary of Kyrgyz statehood and was among the international group of scholars hosted at dinner by the president of the Kyrgyz Republic, Dr. Askar Akaev.
The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at WSU Spokane is co-sponsoring, with St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute (SLRI) in Spokane, “Reading Baby Cues: Infant Neurobehavioral Development,” a two-day professional development program for allied health providers and physicians scheduled for September 19–20 at SLRI.
Will Hamlin (English) delivered a paper in July at Cambridge University on Christopher Marlowe’s satiric tragedy The Jew of Malta. Hamlin also spent several weeks in London carrying out research sponsored by a grant from the British Academy.
Paul Thiers (political science) was invited to speak at the August Headline Forum of the World Affairs Council of Oregon on August 26. His presentation was titled “Farm Subsidies: Strangling World Trade?” Thiers’ research focuses on the political, economic, and environmental issues relating to agricultural production and international food trade, with a particular emphasis on the politics of globalization in rural China and elsewhere in the Pacific Rim.
Steven Stehr (political science) was commissioned by the Century Foundation (formerly the 20th Century Fund) to examine what state and local governments in Washington are doing with respect to homeland security initiatives. The report, “Homeland Security in the State of Washington: A Baseline Report on the Activities of State and Local Governments,” was released in July and can be accessed at www.tcf.org/publications/.
On August 5, John Weiss (music) sang in Longwood Opera Company’s Summer Recital Series in Boston. He also performed selections from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, with soprano and University of Idaho voice faculty member Pamela Bathurst, at the Rendezvous in the Park concert series in Moscow, Idaho, on July 27.
Steven Kale (history) will present a paper, “European Encounters and National Stereotypes in Gobineau’s Aristocratic Racism,” at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association for a panel on “French Pan-European Encounters in the 19th Century.” The conference will be held in Washington, D.C., January 8–11, 2004. He will also attend the thirty-first annual meeting of the Western Society for French History in Newport Beach October 29–31 and comment on a panel entitled “Victimhood and Martyrdom in the Era of Revolutions.”
Lori Wiest (music) was guest choral clinician and adjudicator at the Australian International Music Festival in Sydney and Canberra in June.
Robert Bauman (history, WSU Tri-Cities) presented a paper titled “Federalism and Federal Policy-Making in the West: The War on Poverty in Los Angeles” at the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch annual meeting in Honolulu in August.
Robert Helm (fine arts) is exhibiting in a group show, “Animals,” at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle. The opening reception is September 4.
Camille Roman (English) and Jason Miller (Ph.D. candidate, English) will present papers at the international conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) in Dallas/Fort Worth, September 25–28. Roman will discuss poet Elizabeth Bishop’s career-making relationship with singer Billie Holiday, and Miller will address the role of Bishop’s education in her ecocriticism. Roman also will chair the panel and represent the Elizabeth Bishop Society at the conference.
Maria Gartstein (psychology) received an NIH grant to support her program of research, “Temperament and parent-child interaction in infancy.” Her study was funded at $100,000, direct costs, and $40,000, facilities and administrative costs.
In June, Greg Yasinitsky (music) was guest artist (conductor, composer, saxophonist) at the West Valley College Jazz Camp in Saratoga, California. The camp was organized by West Valley College faculty member Gus Kambeitz (M.A. ’01, music). “Sleight of Hand,” a new composition for flute and piano composed by Yasinitsky and commissioned by the Washington State Music Teachers Association (WSMTA), was premiered in June by flutist Ann Marie Yasinitsky (music) and pianist Sheila Zilar (M.A. candidate, music) at the WSMTA conference in Richland in a concert honoring Greg as the Washington State Composer of the Year.
On September 18, William Willard (professor emeritus, anthropology) will present a talk on the history of the federal policy programs of American Indian urban relocation into the California San Francisco Bay Area cities during the twentieth century. The presentation is sponsored by the Bancroft Library and the American Indian studies division of the ethnic studies department of the University of California at Berkeley.
Michael Morgan and Susan Ingram (both psychology, WSU Vancouver) have received a five-year, $900,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study “Cellular mechanisms of opioid tolerance.”
Patrick Siler (fine arts) opened an exhibit of his art at the Friesen Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho, with a reception on August 29. He also reports that two of his paintings have been purchased by the King County Cultural Development Authority for its offices.
Marcel Wingate (professor emeritus, speech and hearing sciences) published a letter to the editor in the June 16 issue of ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists, titled “Parental influence on children who stutter.”
For the fourteenth consecutive year, Jeanne Johnson (speech and hearing sciences) participated in the Combined Summer Institute for Teachers sponsored by the Washington State Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction. The institute was held in Yakima July 14–18. Johnson presented thirteen sessions in all: eight regarding communication assessment and intervention for the strand regarding students with severe/profound disabilities, and four on the developmental social-pragmatic model of assessment and intervention for the autism strand.
Johnson also gave an invited presentation on augmentative communication for children with severe disabilities to allied health providers (i.e., speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists) at St. Luke ’s Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane.
Roger Schlesinger (history) gave the commencement address to the August 2003 graduating class in Washington State University’s Hospitality Administration Program in Brig, Switzerland.
Diane Gillespie (professor emeritus, English) presented two papers at the thirteenth annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf at Smith College, North-ampton, Massachusetts, in June. Her papers were entitled “Woolf and Walking: Mapping the Rural Flaneuse” and “Annotation and Audience: Editing Woolf’s Roger Fry: A Biography.”
The Museum of Anthropology has been awarded, via the Army Corps of Engineers, a four-year artifact curation project that averages $130,000 a year in extramural support. This will require a full-time effort on the part of many students and museum employees. Congratulations to Mary Collins (anthropology) for securing this multi-year effort for the department.
Jack Dollhausen’s (fine arts) touring exhibition, entitled “Jack Dollhausen: A 30 Year Start,” opened in Helena, Montana, at the Holter Museum of Art on August 28 and runs through October 27.
J.P. Garofalo (psychology, WSU Vancouver) was recently awarded a mini-grant from the Southwest Washington Medical Center/WSU Vancouver Healthcare Partnership for $17,500. The title of the grant application is “The transition from patient to survivor as a predictor of adjustment to cancer survival.”
Joseph Keim Campbell (philosophy) participated in the thirtieth annual Hume Society Conference in Las Vegas in August. The conference theme this year was “Probability, Chance, and Judgment.”
William D. Lipe (professor emeritus, anthropology) has been appointed to the advisory committee for the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument in southwestern Colorado. The monument is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and encompasses over 164,000 acres of public lands. The area is notable for its large numbers of well-preserved archaeological sites representing Ancestral Puebloan cultures from approximately A.D. 100 to 1300. Lipe, a former president of the Society for American Archaeology, was appointed to represent regional archaeological interests. He and the other members of the eleven-person committee will advise the BLM in the development of a resource management plan for the monument.
An exhibition of Leslie Holt’s (fine arts instructor; M.F.A. ’03) art is being held at Works Gallery in San Jose, California, through September 19.
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