Faculty & Staff Achievements

Research and Sponsored Projects

Shawna Dark ( Geography )

Dark has received $32,500 from California State University, Chico (CSUC) in support of a project entitled “California Broadband Field Testing.”

Ana Lucero-Liu ( Family and Consumer Sciences )

Lucero-Liu has received $18,550 from Programade Investigación en Migracion y Salud in support of a project entitled ”Family Psychological and Mental Health within the Context of Illegal Migration.”

Maria-Rita D’Orsogna ( Mathematics )

D’Orsogna has received $55,400 from the University of Southern California (USC) as supplemental support of a project entitled ”Scalable, Stochastic and Spatiotemporal Game Theory for Real-World Human Adversarial Behavior.”

Radha Ranganathan ( Physics and Astronomy )

Ranganathan has received $108,749 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in continuing support of a project entitled ”Interface Quality Effects in Phospholipase Membrane Enzymology.”

Marianne Link and Yolanda Reid Chassiakos ( Klotz Student Health Center )

Link and Chassiakos have received $5,000 from University of California, Irvine (UCI) in support of a project entitled “College DUI Awareness Program.”

Publications

Vickie Jensen ( Sociology )

Jensen edited a two-volume encyclopedia entitled “Women Criminal: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues” published by ABC-CLIO. The first volume includes entries addressing key issues in women’s criminality. The second volume includes short biographies of approximately 150 women criminals both from contemporary times and from history. Jensen wrote three of the biographies: Casey Anthony, Gladys Kelly and Teresa Lewis.

Jensen also coauthored four entries in the first volume, which addressed the issues of victimization, diversity, individual levels of explanation and types of women’s crimes. The volumes were released in Nov. 2011.

James T. Decker ( Social Work )

Decker contributed a chapter entitled “Developing Sustainable Graduate Social Work Education in Tbilisi Georgia” in Selwyn Stanley’s “Social Work Education in Countries of the East: Issues and Challenges.” Decker’s chapter highlights the importance of social work education. (Nova Publishers, 2011)

Joyce H. Burstein and Greg Knotts ( Elementary Education )

Burstein and Knotts co-authored “Reclaiming Social Studies for the Elementary Classroom: Integrating Culture Through the Arts.” The book integrates social studies and the arts from a cultural anthropological perspective to assist educators in teaching concepts of democracy and culture co-equally with visual-performing arts. (Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2011)

Deborah Chen ( Special Education )

Chen co-authored a chapter with Sam Chen entitled “Families with Asian Roots” in “Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working with Children and Families (4^th ed.)” by Eleanor Lynch and Marci Hanson. This text examines how people’s views of families and providers affect their interactions and perceptions of programs and services; describes diverse cultural approaches to child rearing, medical care, education and disability; and offers practical guidance for providing more effective, sensitive and cultural responsive services to children and families. (Brookes Publishing, 2011)

Deborah Chen ( Special Education )

Chen co-authored “Adapting Early Childhood Curricula for Children with Special Needs (8th ed.).” This is a comprehensive text on early childhood special education built on a foundation of theory and research and provides practical applications. (Pearson, 2012)

Presentations

Sembiam Rengarajan ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Rengarajan presented lectures entitled “Design, Analysis and Application of Waveguide-Fed Slot Arrays” at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) in Dallas, Texas on Jan. 19, 2012; the University of Houston (UH) in Houston, Texas on Jan. 20, 2012; the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, on April 2, 2012; and the University of Adelaide in Australia on April 4, 2012, as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

He also presented lectures on “Microstrip Reflectarrays” at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Feb. 2012 and at a Techcon meeting sponsored by Engineers Council at CSUN on April 20, 2012 and at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, Calif., sponsored by IEEE APS LA Chapter on April 24, 2012.

Sembiam Rengarajan ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Rengarajan presented a paper entitled “A Study of Piece-Wise Planar Parabolic Reflectarrays” at the National Radio Science Meeting held in Boulder, Colo., in Jan. 2012.

He also chaired a technical session on Reflectarrays at the same conference.

Matthew Des Lauriers ( Anthropology )

Des Lauriers hosted a lecture titled “Island of Fogs: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation of Isla Credos, Baja California” at the Nature Center at Avalon Canyon, Catalina Island on Aug. 6, 2011., as part of the Summer Archaeology series presented by the Catalina Island Conservancy and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Marie Cartier ( Gender and Women's Studies )

Cartier presented a lecture titled “Baby You are My Religion: Butch Femme-Gay Women’s Bar Culture from the 1940s to 1980s” at The Center Long Beach as part of the organization’s monthly “QSpeak” series on June 25, 2011.

Francoise Regnant ( Music )

Regnant joined Chamber Music San Juans as a pianist for their 20^th season of classical music concerts.

Honors & Awards

Judith Trost-Cardamone ( Communication Disorders and Sciences, Emeritus )

Trost-Cardamone, Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, was honored on April 19, 2012, with the Distinguished Service Award at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA). Trost-Cardamone was honored for her exceptional service and contributions to the ACPA for activities that have promoted greater public and professional acknowledgement of the goals and programs of the ACPA on behalf of children and adults with cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial anomalies. Trost-Cardamone continues her work as an instructor in the CDS Distance Learning Masters Degree Program, speech consultant for the Ventura County Medical Center and international volunteer as a clinical teacher and visiting professor in underserved regions of the world.

Lydia Chowa ( Family and Consumer Sciences )

Chowa was the recipient of the Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award from the American Dietetic Association.

Barbara Tabachnick ( Psychology )

Tabachnick has won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western Psychological Association and will be honored on April 27, 2012 in San Francisco.

Cecile Bendavid ( Computer Science )

Bendavid is running for the Democratic Party County Committee in the 45th Assembly District.  She has been on the county committee for the past eight years in the 41st Assembly District where she serves as the chair of the committee.  Due to redistricting, she has been redistricted to the 45th Assembly District.

Amy Levin ( Social Work )

Levin has received $1,210,536 from UC Regents in continuing support of a project entitled “Title IV-E Social Work Training Program (California Social Work Education Center/CalSWEC).”