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Worthy
of Note
 Two of
Paul Lee's (Fine Arts) photographs from his National Endowment
for the Humanities-funded Shanghai Architecture Project were
published in the September edition of the International Herald
Tribune. His photographs of the Russian Embassy and the St.
Nicholas Russian Orthodox Military Church were included in a
page-26 article on Russians in Shanghai. The Tribune downloaded
the photos from his project Website which is located at: www.wsu.edu/~leep/shanghai.html
A description
of Orlan Svingen's (History) work with Idaho's Lemhi Tribe
on their bid for acknowledgement by the federal government as
a distinct tribe is included in an article on the Lemhi in the
Oct. 26 issue of the New York Times. You can find it at http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+141+0+wAAA+lemhi.
Tim
Kohler (Anthropology) begins a three-year term as editor
of American Antiquity in April. The publication is the official
journal of the Society for American Archaeology and, with a circulation
of more than 7,000, it is one of the two largest professional
archaeological journals in the world.
Nancy
Vaughan (Speech and Hearing Science) presented a workshop
entitled, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids--Not Just The Half of
It!, at the Northwest Regional Seniors' Wellness Conference,
Seaside, Oregon, in October. Nancy reviewed new hearing aid technology,
including some she is developing in her lab.
In celebration
of Washington Archaeology Month the Museum of Anthropology held
Kid's Day in mid-October. About 25 elementary school children
spent a Saturday morning in the museum learning about what archaeologists
do and what is known about the native cultures of eastern Washington.
Museum staff and archaeology graduate students led discussions
and activities that included making and using items like those
used by traditional Native American people. The children watched
a flint knapper, ground and tasted cous (biscuit root), tried
to identify the age and function of imaginary archaeological
sites, and made feather, bead, bell, and sinew wrapped dancing
sticks. Many laughs, no tears, and only a few band aids!
Teresa
Tsushima (Sociology graduate student) received a $420 grant
from the graduate school to go to the American Sociological Association
annual meetings at Chicago in August where she presented two
papers. At a social psychology session she presented a paper
titled "The Emergence of Agency in the Identity Model."
At a roundtable session on the sociology of mental health she
presented a paper, co-authored with Jan Stets (Sociology),
entitled "Identity Theory and Emotions: The Case of Anger."
An exhibit,
Space Stations: Solo and Collaborative Work, by Emily Blair
and Phuong Nguyen (both Fine Arts) will be on display
in the Sheehan Gallery, at Whitman College in Walla Walla from
Nov. 12 to Dec.17. Nguyen's work blends painting and industrial
design and uses television imagery. Blair's work examines spatial
aspects of everyday places in sculptures and videos. Their opening
talk will be Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. in the gallery.
Ted
Curry (Sociology graduate student) has been awarded a $450
grant from the graduate school to travel to the American Society
of Criminology annual meeting at Toronto in November. He will
present research pertaining to Charles Tittle's (Sociology)
"control balance" theory of deviant behavior.
While at
a conference, Nature, Society and History, in Vienna, Austria,
Gene Rosa (Sociology) was interviewed twice by Blue Danube
Radio (an English language station there), first on the idea
of social metabolism and then about the nuclear accident in Japan.
He was also interviewed by Austrian Radio Station 1 on the risk
perceptions of Americans compared to Japanese.
Kathryn
Sowards (Sociology) was interviewed by public radio station
KCSN at California State University, Northridge about her research
with doctors and nurses who work in intensive care nurseries.
This research was reported in her paper "Science and Compassion
in Professional Caregiving."
Welcome
to Dretha Phillips, new adjunct faculty member in Sociology.
WSU has
been selected to host the 2001 Society of Experimental Social
Psychology conference. Organizers are Larry Sanna and
Craig Parks (Psychology) and Kelly Ervin and Yolanda
Flores Niemann (Comparative American Cultures).
Shelli
Fowler (CAC and English) was a presenter and panel chair
at the The Politics of Schooling: Creating Communities of Solidarity
and Hope Conference of the Northwest Rocky Mountain Educational
Research Association in October. Her presentation was "Beyond
(the limitations of) Identity Politics: Developing a Pedagogical
Praxis that Critically Engages the Geopolitics of the Classroom."
In October,
members of Judy Jones' class in Native American Women's
Traditions and members of the Native American Students Association
learned about tules and cattails--two marsh-land plants. Minerva
Soucie, a Burns Paiute, led a workshop in the Museum of Anthropology
on making tule egg baskets. Participants learned how these plants
were important in indigenous North American cultures and the
properties that make them good for basketry, mats and other purposes.
Ellen
Gorsevski (English) received her Ph.D. in Speech Communication
from Penn State University, where she was an Edwin Erle Sparks
Fellow. Her research includes employing communication theory
to understand modes of communication that counter human rights
abuses such as hate crimes and hate speech. Portions of her dissertation,
"The Geopolitics of Peaceful Persuasion: Toward a Theory
of Nonviolent Rhetoric," appear in: Peace Review,
The Macedonian Review, Peace and Change, and The
Journal of Communication and Religion.
The final
report by Gary Huckleberry (Anthropology), co-authored
with Julie Stein of LTW, on sediments from Kennewick Man has
been released on the Web: <www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick>. This study
is part of an effort by the National Park Service to determine
Native American status and cultural affiliation of the human
remains.
Buddy
Levy (English) was hired by the Discovery Channel to cover
their Eco-Challenge in Patagonia, Argentina, this fall. Levy
will work with international journalists and filmmakers documenting
this ultra endurance team competition. He will write press releases,
color commentary, and race reports from the field as he follows
teams kayaking, snow and ice climbing, horseback riding, trekking,
navigating, and rappelling.
John
T. Brewer (Foreign Languages) will read a paper, "The
Image of America in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Years of Apprenticeship"
at the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
conference in Durham, New Hampshire, in December.
Philosophy
faculty participated at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy,
held in Coeur d'Alene. Joseph Campbell read a paper, "Hume
and the Ancient Sceptics;" Michael Neville commented
on "Aquinas on Knowing Our Religious Habits;" and David
Garrison presented a workshop on Service Learning in Ethics
Courses.
Riley
Dunlap was elected a Fellow of the American Association of
the Advancement of Science. He was honored for being one of the
founding fathers of an entirely new subspeciality of inquiry,
environmental sociology.
Teaching
a course in "installation art" has taken Ross Coates
(Fine Arts) to a new experimental art school, Centro Piloto de
las Artes, in Venezuela. His trip is funded in part by the Idaho
Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mary
Blair-Loy (Sociology) is lead investigator of a research
project entitled "Extended Stock Market Hours and the Restructuring
of Financial Services Work" which is funded by a $260,520
grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Roberta
Kelly (Communication) was elected president of the Pacific
Northwest Association of Journalism Educators. She has also been
chosen an Honorary Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
The National
Association of Schools of Music has selected Erich Lear
(Music and Theatre) to participate at the NASM Workshop for Experienced
Evaluators Annual Meeting at Chicago in November. Workshop participants
subsequently serve as team leaders for NASM accreditation visits.
Laurie
Heustis (program coordinator, Sociology) was selected by
Human Resource Services to teach advanced Filemaker Pro software
courses starting in December. She has previously taught beginning
Filemaker Pro.
Camille
Roman (English) presented a paper entitled "Revising
the Confessional Paradigm via Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop"
at the inaugural conference of the Modernist Studies Association,
in October, at Pennsylvania State University.
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College of Liberal Arts Conference, "The Liberal Arts
in the New Millennium." See the Web for a complete program:
www.wsu.edu/~libarts/conference.htm