Faculty & Staff Achievements

Research and Sponsored Projects

DoE Supports S.K. Ramesh, Nagwa Bekir, Ali Amini, Behzad Bavarian, Hamid Johari, Gloria Melara, Karla Pelletier, Nazaret Dermendjian’s ‘Initiative’ ( CECS Student Service Center, Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Computer Science, Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management, Mechanical Engineering )

June 5, 2013

Ramesh and Bekir (Engineering and Computer Science), Amini (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Bavarian (Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management), Johari (Mechanical Engineering), Melara (Computer Science), Pelletier (CECS/ Student Service Center) and Dermendjian (Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics) have received $1,128,888 from the U.S. Department of Education in continuing support of a project entitled “CSU, Northridge Engineering and Computer Science HSI Initiative.”

American Council of Learned Societies Funds Meiqin Wang ( Art )

June 5, 2013

Wang, an Art department faculty member, has received $50,400 from the American Council of Learned Societies in support of a project entitled “From the Countryside to the City: The Urban Turn of Contemporary Chinese Art.”

ECU Interested in Sloane Burke’s ‘HPV Vaccine Utilization’ ( Health Sciences )

June 5, 2013

Health Sciences faculty member Burke has received $10,000 from East Carolina University in support of a project entitled “HPV Vaccine Utilization and Adherence Among College Students.”

Janet Kubler and Steve Dudgeon are in NSF ‘Scope’ ( Biology )

June 5, 2013

Kubler and Dudgeon, lecturer and professor, respectfully, in the Biology department, have received $690,641 from the National Science Foundation in support of a project entitled “RUI: Ocean Acidification: Scope for Resilience to Ocean Acidification in Macroalgae.”

David Bermudes Piques NiH Interest With ‘Tumor-Targeting Salmonella’ ( Biology )

June 5, 2013

Bermudes, a Biology department assistant professor, has received $108,750 from the National Institutes of Health in support of a project entitled “Tumor-Targeting Salmonella Expressing Apoptosis-Inducing Cytotoxic Proteins.”

Publications

Jean-Luc Bordeaux Publishes Francois Le Moyne History ( Art )

March 27, 2013

Bordeaux, who is an Emeritus Faculty of the art department, will publish “Francois Le Moyne (1688-1737) – Opera Completa – His Influence and Legacy” in France. The book, which took 15 years to research, will be released by Les Editions Faton.  Jean-Patrice Marandel, currently the Robert H. Ahmanson Senior and Chief Curator of European Art at LACMA, will write the preface.

Peri Klemm Will be Published in “Veiling in Africa” Anthology ( Art )

March 27, 2013

Klemm, an associate professor of art history, will have her article “We Grew Up Free but Here We Have to Cover Our Faces: Veiling Among Oromo Refugees in Eastleigh, Kenya” released as part of an anthology, “Veiling in Africa.” The Indiana University Press release is scheduled to be available in May, 2013.

Robert Chianese Begins Writing For ‘American Scientist’ ( English )

January 18, 2013

Chianese, a former professor, has become an invited columnist for the “American Scientist,” writing about relationships among the humanities, arts and sciences. Chianese’s initial essays constitute a series of evaluations of just how ecologically “green” some iconic works of Earth Art actually are. The title for the series is “How Green Is Earth Art?” and the first essay, focusing on Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” appears in the current January/February 2013 issue.

Rick Talbott’s ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ Reviewed ( Religious Studies )

September 5, 2012

Talbott had his review of the book, “Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian’s Account of His Life and Teachings” (Casey, T & T Clark International) published in the Sept. 2012 edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Miriam Neirick Recounts the Rise and Fall of the Russian Circus in Her New Book ( History )

August 22, 2012

Neirick, an associate professor in the Department of History, has written a book on the history of the Russian Circus entitled “When Pigs Could Fly and Bears Could Dance: A History of the Soviet Circus”. Published by the University of Wisconsin Press, the book looks at the seven-decade reign the circus had as a cultural mainstay in the Bolshevik-era Soviet Union.

Presentations

Nanci Carr, Sherry Tehrani and Stuart Pardau Wow at Annual Conference ( Business Law )

February 21, 2013

Carr, Tehrani and Pardau — all faculty members in the Business Law department — recently presented at the Annual Conference of the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business in Palm Springs, Calif. Carr’s presentation was entitled “Understanding Every Word”; Tehrani’s was “Welcome to the Amazon: Leading Online Retail from Local Tax Avoidance into Your Backyard”; and Pardau’s was “A Case Study of the Intellectual Property Rights of Participants in Social Media: Phone Dogg v. Noah Kravitz.”

Lawrence Stoffel Guest Conducts In Santa Clarita ( Music )

March 5, 2011

Stoffel was a guest conductor at a performance by the Hart District Honor Band at Hart High School in Santa Clarita on March 5.

Lawrence Stoffel Leads Clinic for ‘The Other 15 Percent’ In Peoria ( Music )

January 24, 2011

Stoffel will lead a clinic titled “The Other 15 Percent – Rehearsing for Musicality and Expression” with West Aurora High School Band Director Steve Orland, at the Illinois Music Educators Association annual all-state conference in Peoria.

Mark Steele Looks at ‘Fish Production’ ( Biology )

January 24, 2011

Steele will present his research on “A comparison of fish production on artificial and natural reefs in Southern California,” co-authored by Jennifer Granneman, at the CSU’s Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology (COAST), a systemwide consortium of marine scientists taking place on Jan. 25.

Alexis Krasilovsky Shows Los Angeles ‘Women Behind the Camera’ ( Cinema and Television Arts )

December 14, 2010

Krasilovsky had her film, “Women Behind the Camera,” screened at the Los Angeles Film School’s Main Theater on Dec. 14.

Honors & Awards

Michelle Rozic Captures Two Distinctions ( Art )

March 27, 2013

Rozic, an assistant professor of art, has recently received two awards and distinctions. First, she was elected president of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society for a two-year term beginning in 2013. Rozic also captured the Merit Prize award at the 23rd Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, that was held at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, WI.

Lesley Krane Wins For “Wait 21” ( Art )

March 27, 2013

Krane, an art department faculty member and photographer, captured first place in the Photo Review 2012 Competition for her black and white photograph, “Wait 21.” The competition was juried by Peter Barberie, the curator of photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Three photographs from the “Wait” series were then published in the January 2013 issue of “The Photo Review.”

Owen Doonan Named Getty Residential Fellow ( Art )

March 27, 2013

Doonan, a member of the art department faculty, was named a Getty Residential Fellow. He was chosen out a field of 577 applicants with only 15-20 fellowships being granted.

Kenya Covington Receives Haynes Foundation Fellowship ( Urban Studies and Planning )

March 20, 2013

Covington has been awarded a $12,000 2013-2014 Faculty Fellowship from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation for her project, “Neighborhood Stabilization in the Los Angeles Metro Area.” Covington will examine 61 local Neighborhood Stabilization Programs (NSP) in the Los Angeles region to illuminate links between types of collaborations, strategies and neighborhood impacts of NSP. The project will lead to the documentation of a robust set of inventive community foreclosure and abatement strategies that may be replicated by other private and public efforts to stabilize neighborhoods.

Richard Heermance is The 2012-13 Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar ( Geological Sciences )

January 10, 2013

Every academic year, the Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar is given to a faculty member conducting research in the arts, sciences or humanities. For 2012-13, the recipient is Heermance, an assistant professor in his fourth year at CSUN. Part of being the Richfield Scholar is that Heermance will present a university lecture as part of the Provost’s Colloquium Series. The time and date of it has yet to be announced, but will take place in the spring of 2013.