September 28, 2001

Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, and Jennifer Knight '00, recently had a paper accepted for publication. The paper is titled, "He's a Laker; she's a 'looker': The consequences of gender-stereotypical portrayals of male and female athletes by the print media." The article is currently in press at the interdisciplinary journal "Sex Roles."

SU psychology majors Allison Dickson, Keri Cass, and Clint Morris '01 recently had an article they co-authored with Traci Giuliano accepted for publication. Their paper titled "Eminem vs. Charlie Pride: Race, stereotypes, and perceptions of rap and county music performers" is currently in press at the "Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research." First author Allison Dickson also won third place in the Psi Chi/Allyn & Bacon 2000 National Paper Competition for this paper, making her the fifth SU psychology student in four years to place in the top three in this prestigious national competition.

September 10, 2001

Phil Hopkins, assistant professor of religion and philosophy, was invited as a participant in a Liberty Fund Colloquium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in July, on Herodotus titled, "Imperialism, War, and the Defense of Liberty in Herodotus' Histories." Next week Hopkins has been invited to participate in another Colloquium in Savannah, Ga. titled, "Jacques Maritain and the Intellectual Foundations of Democratic Government."

Cameron Sawyer and A.J. Senchack, assistant professor of mathematics and professor of business, respectively, attended the Associated Colleges of the South Teaching and Learning Workshop held at Rollins College in June. The workshop was five remarkable days of gaining knowledge of teaching and learning, through micro-teaching, special sessions, and informal conversations. They both found the experience to be very beneficial and would like to encourage other faculty (at all phases of their careers) to participate in future workshops.

September 4, 2001

Lois Ferrari, associate professor of music, is a finalist for Music Director of the Austin Civic Orchestra. She will conduct an audition performance with the Orchestra on Dec. 8.

In August, Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology, had three pieces published by the American Sociological Association's Teaching Resources Center in Washington, D.C. The first of these, "Applying for a Faculty Position in a Teaching-Oriented Institution" was co-authored with Kathleen Piker-King, Keith A. Roberts and Gregory L. Weiss. The second, "A Note on the Integration of AIDS into the Sociology of Human Sexuality" is pp. 280-283 in "Teaching the Sociology of HIV/AIDS," ed. by Eric R. Wright. The third, pp. 3-17 in "Graduate Student Instructor and Teaching Assistant Program Development" (ed. by Melinda Messineo) is titled "The Selection, Training, and Use of Graduate and Undergraduate TA's for Large Classes."

Sonia Riquelme, associate professor of Spanish at SU, and Philip Swanson, chairman of the Spanish Department at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, organized and co-chaired the symposium, "Culturas transfronterizas: La literatura latinoamericana y la disoluci—n de las fronteras/ Cross-Border cultures: Latin American Literature and the dissolution of frontiers" at the X Conference of the Internacional Federation of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The global forum was sponsored by the Sciences Academy of Russia and the Institute of Latin American Studies, and was held in Moscow, June 25-30, with attendance of Latin Americanists from all over the world. Professor Riquelme presented at the a paper titled "Las protagonistas afro-caribe–as en la narrativa de Mayra Santos." Mayra Santos is a Puerto Rican writer. SU senior Cory Galik and alumna Alicia High '00 joined Professor Riquelme in Moscow.

Ken Roberts, professor of economics, presented papers at three international conferences this summer. The first was the International Conference on Urbanization in China, held in Xiamen, China, where he presented "The Determinants of Occupational Choice by Labor Migrants to Shanghai." The second was the International Forum on Rural Labor Mobility in China, held in Beijing, where he presented "Rural Labor Migration, Women's Status and Fertility in China." The last was the 14th General Population Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, held in Salvador, Brazil. There, Roberts presented "Preliminary Findings from a Study of the Impact of Migration on the Status of Women and Reproductive Health in Rural China," based upon a recent survey funded by the Ford Foundation of more than 3,000 rural Chinese women.

Bob Snyder, associate professor of political science, presented a paper titled "Organski, Kennan, and the End of the Cold War" at the Hong Kong Convention of International Studies in late July.