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This week (Saturday 21st January) Laura Dekker, 16-year-old Dutch/New Zealander solo sailor, quietly sailed between islands in pleasant seas into the Dutch island of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean, completing a solo odyssey around the world in a year and a day.
Stepping onto shore at the end of her circumnavigation - photo Telegraph UK
There were merely dozens, not thousands, of people at the wharf to greet her, including members of her family. Her father Dick Dekker, who has supported her quest throughout, made his third appearance, after being in both Darwin and Capetown to meet her and ensure her safety.
Laura has cut more than six months off the unofficial record set in 2010 by Australian teenager Jessica Watson, who was days away from her 17th birthday when she completed her own non-stop voyage.
There was no sign of Dutch officials at the wharf however, after fears were raised that the authorities may not yet have lost interest in her. Truancy officers reportedly issued her father a summons to appear before them late last year, after a newspaper quoted her admitting that she hadn't been able to pay full attention to her correspondence course because she had to concentrate on sailing through a series of storms.
Laura Dekker arrives Sint Maarten 6 - Photograph courtesy of www.HeliPhotoCarib.com
Constantly dogged by the Dutch government and child welfare agencies since she was thirteen and sailed the English Channel solo, Laura has learned many things, many of them about sailing, but also about the difficulties that one faces once the bureaucracy has you in its sights.
Laura, born on a boat in New Zealand during a sailing circumnavigation by her parents, spent all her early years living on a boat and sailing back to the Netherlands.
While her parents are divorced and her mother, Babs Muller was not, at first, in favour of allowing her to undertake the circumnavigation, she admits her daughter's skill. 'She sails like a devil', she says.
Her grandfather agrees, 'She's a stoic', he says.
The lawyer for the family, Peter de Lange, is more explicit: 'She will keep a cool head in the most extreme of situations, and she has tremendous will power and ambition'.
'Her wish to do this was something that came from her heart and soul and no one was going to stop her,' he added after the completion of the voyage.
Of course, Dekker's record as the youngest sailor to complete a round-the-world voyage will forever remain unofficial, because Guinness World Records and the World Sailing Speed Record Council will never verify the record, saying they no longer recognise records for youngest sailors in order to discourage dangerous attempts.
The teenager covered more than 27,000 nautical miles on a trip with stops at ports including the Canary Islands, Panama, the Galapagos Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Bora Bora, Australia, South Africa and finally St Maarten, from where she set out on 20 January 2011. She spent many long sojourns at sea, the longest being 47 days to cross the Indian Ocean, a distance of 6000 nautical miles.
Laura's voyage most resembled that of Zac Sunderland, seventeen-year-old American sailor who, in a 36ft Islander cruising boat, for a short period became the youngest solo sailing circumnavigator in 2009 (eclipsed by Britain's Mike Perham) and is still America's youngest circumnavigator.
Zac intentionally stopped along the way in many ports unlike Mike Perham, who set out to complete a non-stop circumnavigation but was forced to stop for technical reasons.
Dekker also undertook a cruising journey, stopping along the way to wait for the seasons and use the time to conduct repairs and maintenance on her 38ft ketch, a Jeanneau Gin Fizz called Guppy.
Australia's Jessica Watson completed a 210-day non-stop solo voyage around the world in an S&S 34 cruising boat (mainly in the southern hemisphere making it slightly shorter than records require) at the age of 16. She was greeted by many thousands of people on her return, including Australia's Prime Minister, and has since been made Australia's Young Australian of the Year - among many other accolades.
Abby Sunderland, younger sister of Zac Sunderland, at the age of 16 attempted a similar non-stop voyage in an attempt to beat Jessica's record, but had to be rescued in the middle of the south Indian Ocean when her Open 40 racing boat, judged by many to be unsuitable for such a journey, was dismasted during an Indian Ocean storm.
Dekker's stated intention is now to keep sailing through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific once again - to settle in either New Zealand or Australia, as her experiences with the Dutch authorities have left such a bad taste in her mouth.
She has repeatedly expressed her love of being at sea alone, and many a reader has commented to Sail-World that she is reminiscent of Bernard Moitessier, French solo sailor who could not face the publicity associated with his round-world exploits and kept on sailing to Tahiti where he spent the rest of his life, never returning to France and fame.
Keep reading Sail-World Cruising for more information about the different journeys undertaken by recent teen sailors including this remarkable, and intensely private, young sailor.
In the meantime here is a rather shaky amateur video of the yacht as it ties up in Sint Maarten


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by PinkButterfly24 on 3/10/2010 11:02:56 PM
most guys do this to get the feeling that they have power over people. ik it sounds disgusting, but for most guys, its true.
it's completly wrong and i feel horrible for the girls that experience: even if it's only happened to them once.
no girl on this planet deserves that kind of treatment.
by gretathegreat on 3/6/2010 10:50:28 PM
phew no guyz in my school harrass us they say perverted stuuf which isnt much better
by absf on 3/5/2010 5:28:27 PM
Tell the guidance consoleur immediatly! In my experience, that has been the way to solve it. Especially because after the school has the person on record for doing something like that once, if they do it again they will get in HUGE trouble! It alerts the school of this and they keep a watch out for the person.
by jedzia on 2/20/2010 2:16:21 PM
Thats sad, boys are stupied
by leslied335 on 2/15/2010 3:32:01 PM
okayy, thanks!
by dancera16 on 2/3/2010 5:54:09 PM
by dancera16 on 2/1/2010 9:06:36 PM
hey umm i wanted 2 say tat tat happened 2 my bff 2.these 2 boys would slip thier hands in her pants and her shirts and the teacher would never notice. once they made her go into the boys bathroom and they made her have sex with them their then sent her out in a knee lenght clear skirt so everyone could see her thong and tampon and they also made her wear a clear piece of cloth round her boobs so her nipples could still be seen.then they took her to their group and started to stick their fingers in her vagina and since she hasnt started shaving they yanked out the hair tats above the vagina and shaving it snd waxing it. then they started playing with her hymen and boobs. 5 guys put their penises in her vagina and butthole.then they saw hair on her nipples and they shaved and waxed it. then they took off all her clothes and made her run a full lap 2 make the blood from her vagina splatter everywhere then took her in the middle of the school and everyone saw her naked with her having her period.and they threatened us not to tell anyone or dare to try and stop her or else we would be next its reaallly scary and i want to help her but i dont kno how to without me or my friends being next.
by sagarika on 1/9/2010 2:04:35 AM
I was in a situation eerily similar to that. Everything worked out though because the next time that guy touched her she socked him and sent him sprawling. He never did that again to my BFF!
by solosinger7 on 12/30/2009 1:05:16 PM
oooh! that is NOT good! she lets them??? i would turn around and slap that sicko in the face and report him! she needs help! i hope those boys get in serious trouble!
by hermionemania on 12/22/2009 7:10:04 PM
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by sagarika on 12/20/2009 8:47:30 PM
OMG! good 4 u for noticing the signs! if she's not strong enough, u need to b there 4 her! it might be tough but you guys will make it through!
Send her our best wishes!
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by Labluver1996 on 12/14/2009 8:12:02 PM
I'm sorry that you're friend is being sexually harassed. my freshman year of high school I was sexually harassed.
by sixteengirl93 on 12/14/2009 4:51:01 PM
by mommagirl on 12/9/2009 8:32:34 PM
i need help please help me im in 6th grade now and when i was in third grade i was sexually harassed i know it sounds wierd but its true. ther was a boy who would touch my butt and boobs every day more then once a day and he would come up to me and say hey sexy and at that time i was afraid if i told on him that it would be tattle telling so i let it go on for about a month and a half. i finnally told my before and after school counslour when it had driven me to tears. now one of my guy friends got in trouble for sexuall harassment and im am so scared and nervous sometimes i cant sleep because im worried it will happen again.PLEASE HELP ME I CRY MY SELF TOO SLEEP SOMTIEMES BECAUSE IT SCARES ME SO MUCH
by guy crazy 5000 on 12/8/2009 1:54:07 PM
i'm like 11 and last year in 6th grade (basically everyone was 11) so its like some girls in my class don't really act with dignity so its like on our way to art these guys start chasing a gir in my class and are just grabbing her boobs and squeezing them and all she's doing is laughhing and playfuly trying to take their hands off. if it was me i'd have just slapped them
by emygirl11 on 12/6/2009 4:27:46 PM
OK how creepy is this?
some guy came over to my friends at school while they were playin basketball. this dude came up to them and asked them to play basketball at his house. then he hugged one of my friends and he started to play basketball w/ them and got hi-contact. a cop questioned them during science class, expect this in the news baby.
by ajago12598 on 12/3/2009 10:44:25 PM
by barrelracingchick on 12/3/2009 10:18:38 PM
This totally happened to me.
Only, i was the one being sexually harrassed.
It was bad though, this kid was big and i wud hit him and smack him away, but i just wasnt strong enough!
so, one day during spanish class, i decided i'de had enough, so as he reached over to grab my butt, i stood up from my chair (in the middle of class) and yelled "STOP TOUCHING MY BUTT ALREADY!!"
lets just say he never tried it again.
by katgrlnj on 12/3/2009 12:43:32 AM
ugg that happened to my friend but it was worse, so that friend and another of my friends decided to join this community service club run by a friend of my moms. it was fun untill we found out that the boy was also in that club and i had never seen him so i was like wow thats the boy who did all that nasty stuff to u ???????!?!?!?!?" he seemed so innocent !@ we quit btw, i was scared of him!
by football playa 4eva! on 11/25/2009 6:33:07 PM
wow.thats bad.who will go around just to touch butts.im lucky my class don`t.
by naqaila on 11/21/2009 2:56:30 PM
by sad_girl on 10/27/2009 3:27:32 PM
Thank you Caitlin!!
by karikaylee on 10/23/2009 8:53:17 PM
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by karikaylee on 10/23/2009 2:51:35 PM
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by heathermag on 10/5/2009 8:24:50 PM
by heathermag on 10/5/2009 8:21:04 PM
OMG OMG OMG SO SORRY GIRLS LIFE I GOT way to over my head, i looked at the wrong page, and i found my comments on a dif page. woops
by mycoda on 9/24/2009 8:17:07 PM
OMG OMG OMG!!! NONE OF MY COMMENTS ANYWERE GO THROUGH ANYWERE!!! ITS SOOO ANOYING!!!!! SO SEROUSLY GIRLS LIFE DO YOU HATE ME????? jk not in a mean way or any thing... but really???
by mycoda on 9/24/2009 8:14:46 PM
Ooo. You have to get through to her somehow....
by AcePrincessGal on 9/24/2009 5:07:36 PM
something like that happened in my last grade. not saying who not saying when and not saying what grade.
by PicturePerfect on 9/6/2009 11:45:25 PM
its great that ur concerned about ur bff!
by aussie1300 on 9/6/2009 1:18:12 AM
Ummm. yeah, why are new comments in the front?
by cats-r-the-best on 9/5/2009 11:41:29 PM
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by thealphacouncil on 9/3/2009 4:48:02 PM
its happened to me... i minded then but it wasnt as big of a deal as your saying....
this one guy i know touches all of the girls' buts when he hugs them..
but no one cares.!
by lindsayislove on 9/2/2009 2:17:21 AM
by kgirlpanda on 9/1/2009 6:52:27 PM
Hun, you need to tell a teacher. This was happening in our class and we told our homeroom teacher after class one day. She was super understanding about it. If that doesn't work then tell your principal or even talk to the guy yourself. You are a strong capable young woman
by hollygolightly on 8/31/2009 1:13:53 PM
by hoodie_obsessed on 8/29/2009 8:18:40 PM
ya i would totally tell her she should stick up for herself. maybe even tell the guys they should stop but if that doesnt work tell an adult!!
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ok we are getting 2 new guys in my class and i am hoping they are cute cause we have no cute guys in my school is that wrong?
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by Back 2 School Club on 8/29/2009 4:36:43 PM
i would never let a boy do that. if he ever did anything physical like that to me i would get physical back by punching him in the face ant then kicking him. he would SO regret it.
by Pinkdramaqueen<3 on 8/29/2009 4:00:11 PM
by NewportLiving777 on 8/29/2009 1:36:32 PM
if i was her i would be so mad at thouse boys
by horsesgirls246 on 8/29/2009 1:57:05 AM
guys in my class do that to this one girl but she encourages them she likes it!!!
im goin to a new school and like the paragraph said i want to be able to twist his arm or something if i need to physically protect myself in the new public school, my first since kindergarten. where should i go to learn this??
by hoodie_obsessed on 8/28/2009 8:21:13 PM
Well my friend was like that and let guys do whatever they wanted with her. It got out of control by the end of the year like she would sit across from a guy and he would shove his hand down her pants and stuff, you could tell she was unhappy but she didnt admit it. She finally talked to a counserler ad got it straightened out!
by alliegrl101 on 8/28/2009 5:32:01 PM
yeah, that's tough. I'd definitely be angry and tell. Kids can get suspended or even expelled for stuff like that because it makes students feel insecure in their school environment
by soccerbee683 on 8/28/2009 1:10:44 PM
You should definitley tell an adult! Your friend might be mad at you at first, but trust me, she will thank you a couple years from now, and know you just wanted to protect her because you really care for her!
by dancerhn on 8/27/2009 9:47:10 PM
If I were your friend i would smack that boys hand away, go to a teacher, and say "(so and so) just grabbed my butt!"
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by musicrox on 8/26/2009 3:23:16 PM
Ooh, that's tough. Tell her to stand up for herself. If you want you could confront the guys, but that could be scary, so talk to your parents, your friend's parents, and the school guidance counselor IMMEDIATELY.
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Cho K, Hsu K, Kwon DN, Green T, Lim D, Lee YK, Greenhalgh DG. Cosegregation of CD14 locus and polymorphic alleles of glucocorticoid receptor and protocadherins into CD14 knockout mouse genome. Shock. 2008 Jun;29(6):724-32.
Palmieri TL, London JA, O'Mara MS, Greenhalgh DG. Analysis of admissions and outcomes of verified and nonverified burn centers. J Burn Care Res 29: 208-212, 2008
Greenhalgh DG. All of the King's Soldiers. The 2007 ABA Presidential Addresses. J Burn Care Res 29: 2-11, 2008
Greenhalgh DG. Burn Resuscitation. J Burn Care Res 28: 555-565, 2007
Greenhalgh DG. Consequences of excessive scar formation: Dealing with the problem and aiming for the future. Wound Rep Regen 15 (Suppl): S2-S5, 2007
Kowalske KJ, Greenhalgh DG, Ward SR. Hand Burns. J Burn Care Res 28: 607-610, 2007
Latenser BA, Miller SF, Bessey PQ, Browning SM, Caruso DM, Gomez M, Jeng JC, Krichbaum JA, Lentz CW, Saffle JR, Schurr MJ, Greenhalgh DG, Kagan RJ. National Burn Repository 2006: A ten year review. J Burn Care Res 28: 635-658, 2007
Lee, Y-K, Chew A, Fitzsimon L, Thomas R, Greenhalgh D, Cho K. Genome-wide changes in expression profile of murine endogenous retroviruses (MuERVs) in distant organs after burn injury. BMC Genomics 8: 440-448, 2007
O'Mara MS, Reed NL, Palmieri TL, Greenhalgh DG. Central venous catheter infections in burn patients with scheduled catheter exchange and replacement. J Surg Res 142: 341-350, 2007
Palmieri TL, Lee T, O'Mara MS, Greenhalgh DG. Effects of a restrictive blood transfusion policy on outcomes in children with burn injury. J Burn Care Res 28: 65-70, 2007
Greenhalgh DG, Saffle JR, Holmes JH, IV, Gamelli RL, Palmieri TL, Horton JW, Tompkins RG, Traber DL, Mozingo DW, Deitch EA, Goodwin CW, Herndon DN, Gallagher JJ, Sanford AP, Jeng JC, Ahrenholz DH, Neely AN, O'Mara MS, Wolf SE, Purdue GF, Garner WL, Yowler CJ, Latenser BA (The American Burn Association Consensus Conference on Burn Sepsis and Infection Group). American Burn Association Consensus Conference to Define Sepsis and Infection in Burns. J Burn Care Res 28:776-790, 2007


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MMSEQ vs. RSEM scatterplots. Normalized simulated expression vs. log ratio between simulated and estimated normalized expression for RSEM (left) and MMSEQ GS (right) (note the difference in the scales of the y-axes). The RSEM estimates tend to underestimate some low-to-medium expression values and set them very close to zero, which translates to large negative log ratios. This also applies to MMSEQ EM estimates. The posterior means estimated using MMSEQ Gibbs sampling are less biased except for a slight upwards bias for very lowly expressed transcripts.
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fyi is the official faculty-staff newsletter for the Santa Clara University community. It is designed to keep faculty and staff informed about campus news and information. It is compiled, written and published by the Office of Marketing and Communications.
Sanjiv Das (finance) co-authored a study about how investors wrongly assume that stocks they analyze over a short stock chart are safer than stocks analyzed over a longer period.
Fred Foldvary (economics) spoke about the state of the real estate market at a meeting held by the SCU real estate network.
Karen Fraser (art and art history) wrote an article title "Studio Practices in Early Japanese Photography: The Tomishige Archive," which was published in the most recent issue of the journal History of Photography. She also received a travel grant from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies to conduct research in Japan.
JoAnne Holliday (computer engineering) and Godfrey Mungal (School of Engineering) attended the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education in Seattle where the SoE received its Certificate on Information Assurance from the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) headed by the National Security Agency (NSA).
The Ignation Center for Jesuit Education received a $2,000 contribution from the Morgan Stanley Foundation from its Volunteer Incentive Program. This contribution was granted on behalf of the volunteer efforts of Ignatian Center Advisory Board member, and employee of Morgan Stanley, Michael Hack.
Francisco Jimenez (modern languages and literatures) received Bank of America's 2009 Neighborhood Excellence Initiative Award for helping to create a better Silicon Valley. He was also awarded a $5,000 grant to a nonprofit organization of his choice, ALearn, which helps underrepresented students get to and succeed in college.
Pancho Jimenez (art and art history) exhibited his sculpture in a two-person show titled "Ceramica de la Tierra" at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona. He also exhibited his sculpture in a solo exhibition titled "Contemporary Ceramics" at CLAY MIX Gallery from July to August in Fresno.
Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering) and graduate and undergraduate students from the Robotics Systems Laboratory and collaborators at NASA Ames published two papers at the AIAA Conference on Small Satellites: "Initial Flight Results from the PharmaSat Biological Microsatellite Mission," and "The IRIS Nanosatellite Autonomous High Spectral Resolution Earth Imaging Mission."
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) gave a presentation called "New statistical downscaling techniques for California and the West" at the 6th Annual California Climate Change Research Symposium in Sacramento in September.
Russell Skowronek (anthropology) was the principal investigator in a decade-long study of ceramic production during California's Spanish and Mexican periods (1769–1848). El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park is featuring the period artifacts and reproduced pottery in an exhibit called "Ceramics Rediscovered: Science Reshapes Understanding of Hispanic Life in Early California."
Click here for more updates on faculty publications, honors, awards, grants, etc.
More grants, awards, and publications from September, October, and November will appear in the next edition of fyi.
Dale Larson (counseling psychology) and Jerrold Shapiro (counseling psychology) have been elected as Fellows in the American Psychological Association (APA), both for a second consecutive time.
John Mooring (biology) wrote a paper titled "An Eriophyllum lanatum (Asteraceae) for the Hybrid Zone," which was published in the Madroño.
Susan Morse (Law School) received a grant of $1,500 to support work on a project called, "Selling a Value Added Tax: The Ethical Limits of Government Persuasion."
David Pleins (religious studies) received a grant of $2,335 for his project titled, "Charles Darwin and the Golden Rule: Evolution, Creation, and the Moral Sense."
Terry Shoup (mechanical engineering) has been named Chairman of the Board for the ASME Foundation.
David Sloss (Law School) received a $2,500 grant to support work on a conference to be held next spring at the SCU Law School called, "Corporations and International Law."
Bill Stover (political science) received a $35,000 grant from the Foundation for Global Community for his project and research called Conflict Resolution Simulation Middle East.
Shannon Vallor (philosophy) received a grant of $4,027 to support work on her project called "Human Enhancement Technologies and the Virtues."
More grants, awards, and publications from the summer will appear in the next edition of fyi.
Andre Delbecq (management) received two awards at the 36th Annual OBTC Teaching Conference for Management Educators and the Society's "Legacy Award" for sustaining the torch of learning through a legacy of contributions to Management Education. He was also named a Fellow of the Society.
Drazen Fabris (mechanical engineering), Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering), Aaron Melman (applied mathematics), Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering), and Mahmud Rahman (electrical engineering) received the 2009 Kuehler Undergraduate Research Grants.
Robin Hayes (ethnic studies/political science) received $1,500 to support her work on a project entitled, "A Diasporic Underground: African Liberation and Black Power," which examines the role of the African diaspora in shaping the ideas of racial justice that inspired black power organizations in the U.S. in the late 20th century.
Tim Hight (mechanical engineering) received a Technology Steering Grant in the amount of $22,180 for "Solar Decathlon 2009: Instrumentation and Control."
John Ifcher (economics) received $1,500 to support his work on a project called, "The Happiness of Single Mothers After Welfare Reform." He's using the social scientific tool called the "difference in difference model" to study how the welfare reforms of the last decade have affected the subjective well-being of single mothers.
Susan Morse (School of Law) received $1,500 to support her work on a project called, "Selling a Value Added Tax: The Ethical Limits of Government Persuasion." It examines the ethical constraints on government efforts to persuade the public to accept a value-added tax, which is considered by some experts to be necessary in light of the size of current federal budget deficits.
Rich Barber (physics) received additional subcontract funding of $17,636 from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to support "Oxides, Interfaces and Disorder."
Marco Bravo (Education) received $46,218 in subcontract funding from the UC Berkeley National Science Foundation to support "The Role of Educative Curriculum Materials in Supporting Science Teaching Practices with English Language Learners."
Rance DeLong (computer engineering) and his co-authors received the Best of Conference recognition from the 27th Digital Avionics Systems Conference for their paper titled "The MILS Component Integration Approach to Secure Information Sharing." DeLong also wrote an article titled "High Assurance: Provably Secure Systems and Architectures," which was published in the Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security.
Kirthi Kalyanam (marketing) wrote an article titled "From Volume to Value: Managing the VAR Channel at Cisco Systems, Inc.," which will be published in the California Management Review this summer.
Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering) and graduate student Ignacio Mas wrote an article on their multi-robot motion control technique titled "Cluster Space Specification and Control of Mobile Multirobot Systems" for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
Geri Lamble (computer engineering) will lead a Birds of a Feather session titled "NonTrads: Women Following a non-Traditional Path in Pursuit of a Technical Degree and Career" at the 2009 Grace Hopper Conference.
Nam Ling (computer engineering) served as a panelist for the discussion on "Managing Projects Across International Boundaries" at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Taipei, Taiwan.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student, Wally Kozacky, wrote a paper titled "A Frequency-Domain Adaptive Filtering Algorithm with Constraints on the Output Weights," which was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on circuits and Systems in Taipei, Taiwan. Ogunfunmi also co-authored a paper titled "An Adaptive Nonlinear Filter for System Identification," with Ph.D. student, Ifiok Umoh. It will be published in Eurasip Journal.
Kieran Sullivan (psychology) co-authored an article with SCU alumna Tara Cornelius titled "Participation in Prevention Programs for Dating Violence: Beliefs about Relationship Violence and Intention to Participate." It will appear in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence in June.
Keith Warner (Religious Studies/CSTS) received year 3 funding of $34,098 from the National Science Foundation to support "Managing Risk in the Public Interest: How Ethics and Values Shape Biological Control Practice and Policy."
Sarah Kate Wilson (electrical engineering) gave a presentation at the University of Washington, Electrical Engineering 2008-2009 Colloquium Series titled "Shine a light: Diffuse Optical Wireless Transmission and OFDM."
Geoffrey Bowker (CSTS) has received a $25,000 subcontract supplement from New York University to support "Collaborative Research: SoD-Team at Play Integrating Social Factors into Design."
Michael E. Engh, S.J., (president) was mentioned in the AASHE Bulletin, because sustainability and environmental justice were major topics of his inaugural address. Engh issued a proposal for SCU to become a leading center for "just sustainability." Click here to watch his speech.
Shoba Krishnan (electrical engineering) received a volunteer recognition award from the Junior League of San Jose at the 40th Volunteer Recognition Luncheon on April 24.
Dan Lewis (computer engineering) authored the first part of a two-part article titled "Attracting the Next Generation of Students to Computing." It was published on the front page of the May 2009 issue of CSTA Voice, a national newsletter for K-12 computer science teachers.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) participated in the inaugural workshop of the Global Change Center of the Universidad Catolica de Chile, titled "Climate Change and Public Policy." It was held April 23 in Santiago. His presentation was titled "Uncertainty in Projections of Climate Change Impacts." He also gave a technical seminar at the School of Engineering at the Universidad Catolica titled "Downscaling Global Climate Models for Water Resources Impact Assessment in a World of Uncertainty" on Friday, April 24.
Aaron Melman (applied mathematics) had a paper published in the Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics titled "Some Properties of Newton's Method for Polynomials with All Real Zeros." He also gave a talk in the Linear Algebra/Optimization seminar of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University on April 29.
Craig Stephens (biology) has received a $9,000 Research in Undergraduate Institutions (REU) supplement to his National Science Foundation award, "RUI: Function of LacI-type Transcription Factors in Caulobacter."
Katie Wilson (electrical engineering) gave a talk to the Women in Electrical Engineering (WEE) group at Stanford on April 29.
Wendelin Wright (mechanical engineering) received $50,000 from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories to support "Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Metallic Foams."
Toshishige Yamada (Center for Nanostructures) co-authored a paper with Drazen Fabris (mechanical engineering), Cary Y. Yang (electrical engineering), and T. Saito '10, titled "Electrothermal Analysis of Breakdown in Carbon Nanofiber Interconnects," for IEEE Electron Device Letters. Yamada gave an oral presentation, "Modeling of Heat Transport along Horizontal Carbon Nanofiber Bridging Two Electrodes," at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco in April. Later that month, he gave a second oral presentation titled "Modeling of Electrothermal Performancefor Carbon Nanofibers," at the US Airforce/Taiwan Nanoscience Workshop in San Francisco.
Glenn Appleby (mathematics, computer science) has been selected to receive the Santa Clara Valley Mathematics Association's 2009 "Teacher of the Year Award."
Elizabeth Dahlhoff (biology) has received an award of $95,691 from the National Science Foundation to support "Collaborative Research: RUI: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Environmental Change in Sierra Nevada Populations of a Montane Willow Beetle." This is first-year funding of an anticipated five-year award.
Marilyn Edelstein (English) has recently published an article titled "Love, Politics, and Ethics in the Postmodern Feminist Work of bell hooks and Julia Kristeva" in the book Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy. Edelstein also authored an article titled "Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Preface" in the book Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices, edited by Brian Richardson.
Francisco Jimenez (modern languages and literatures) received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award from the National Council for the Social Studies for his book Reaching Out.
Francisco (Pancho) A. Jimenez (art and art history) exhibited his sculpture at UC Merced: Head Games, a solo show of his larger-than-life ceramic busts that will run through May.
Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering) has received a one-year award of $55,000 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to support "IRIS: Intelligent Response Imaging Spacecraft." This is first-year funding of an anticipated two-year award.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) co-authored an article titled "Assessing Reservoir Operations Risk under Climate Change," which appeared in the latest issue of Water Resources Research, published by the American Geophysical Union.
William Stover (political science) was recognized for excellence in teaching by the Northern California Association of Phi Beta Kappa.
Applied Materials has made a $100,000 commitment to Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts for the 2009 Solar Decathlon.
Ruth Davis (computer engineering) was named the "2009 Alumna of the Year" by the Academy of Our Lady of Peace in San Diego. Her many achievements will be celebrated at a special event in May.
Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering) has been reappointed as the Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics for a period of two years.
Ignacio Mas (mechanical engineering graduate student) traveled to Bangkok to present a paper entitled "Error Characterization in the Vicinity of Singularities in Multi-Robot Cluster Space Control" at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics. The paper was authored by Mas, Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering), and two graduate students, Jose Acain and Ognjen Petrovic.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) is a co-author in a newly released report titled "Climate Change Scenarios and Sea Level Rise for the California 2008 Climate Change Scenarios Assessment," which was published in the Public Interest Energy Research Program Reports, sponsored by the California Energy Commission.
Bioengineering has received a commitment of $200,000 in funding, to be received in December, which will support laboratory and equipment needs through the generosity of the Fletcher Jones Foundation. Margaret McCarthy (development) in soliciting this donation.
Barry Z. Posner (Leavey School of Business) has been named a recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award by the American Society for Training and Development, an international organization for training efforts in the workplace. Posner, along with his writing partner, James Kouzes (leadership), will be recognized at the organization's international conference in Washington, D.C., on June 1.
Chris P. Weber (physics) co-authored a paper titled "Emergence of the Persistent Spin Helix in Semiconductor Quantum Wells," which has been scheduled for publication in Nature on April 2.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering) was an invited faculty speaker at the XVII Annual Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation/UCLA Voice Conference on Neurological Voice Disorders: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes. The title of her presentation was "Acoustic and Imaging-based Analysis of Voice Contributes to the Understanding and Differential Diagnosis of Neurological Dysphonia and Mimicking Disorders." Yan is also one of the three investigators in a proposal titled "High-Contrast Imaging of Single Molecules in Live Cells," which was recently awarded $220,842 by the National Institute of Health for a four-year period. Lastly, Yan co-authored a paper titled "Implementation of a Virtual Laryngoscope System Using Efficient Reconstruction Algorithms," which was accepted for publication in Medical Science Monitor.
Francisco Jimenez's (modern languages and literatures) book, Reaching Out, received the Pura Belpre Honor Book Award by the National Library Association. The award will be presented at the ALA annual conference in July. The book is about his college career and his decision to become a teacher.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) co-authored an article in the journal Ecology titled "Projected Climate-Induced Faunal Change in the Western Hemisphere." By assessing the impact of climate change on thousands of species of birds, mammals, and amphibians, the authors found local loss of at least 10 percent of the vertebrate fauna over much of North and South America.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student, Jeoong Sung Park authored a paper that has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) taking place in Taipei, Taiwan, in April. The paper is titled "A New Hardware Implementation of the H.264 8x8 Transform and Quantization."
The School of Engineering received five grants. Congratulations to Toshishige Yamada, "Modeling of quantum capacitance and kinetic inductance in nanostructures"; Xuhui Sun, "Fabrication of carbon nanofiber via interconnect structures"; Tim Healy and Mahmud Rahman "Photovoltaic measurements laboratory"; Silvia Figueira, "Increasing the accuracy and improving the data-processing mechanism in clinical trials"; Weijia Shang, "Register allocation and instruction scheduling" and "Visualization of processes in compiler optimization."
The Center for Advanced Study and Practice of Information Assurance (CASPIA) has once again been recognized by the National Information Assurance Education and Training Program of the National Security Agency. CASPIA is an interdepartmental institute in the School of Engineering whose purpose is to promote research, education, and good practice in information security and information assurance.
The California Legacy Project, a partnership between Santa Clara University and Heyday Books that promotes the literature of California's past, was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two new books in the California Legacy series were published last fall.
Kirk Hanson (ethics) co-authored an article titled, "Let's Heal Ourselves First." It was co-authored with Richard Norling, the CEO for Premier Healthcare Alliance.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) and Peter Kareiva (ESI, director of conservation and policy programs) were co-authors on a new journal article titled "Projected Climate-induced Faunal Change in the Western Hemisphere" that was published by the Ecological Society of America. Other contributors to the article were Lawler, J.J., S.L. Shafer, D. White, A.R. Blaustein, and P.J. Bartlein.
Russ Skowronek (anthropology) published a book titled HMS Fowey Lost and Found: Being the Discovery, Excavation, and Identification of a British Man-of-War Lost off the Cape of Florida in 1748. The book, which he co-authored along with George R. Fischer, was published by the University Press of Florida.
A Faculty Awards Ceremony honored 2008 awardees: Mark Aschheim (civil engineering) Researcher of the Year; Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering) Award for Teaching Excellence; Santanu Dutta (electrical engineering) Term Lecturer of the Year; and Nirdosh Bhatnagar (applied mathematics and computer engineering) Gerald E. Markle Award in recognition for excellence in the teaching of engineering and applied mathematics.
Gregory Baker (management) and Kirk Hanson (ethics) co-authored an article titled "Greene Gardens" for the Journal of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association.
Iris Stewart-Frey (environmental studies) published a paper in Hydrologic Processes titled "Changes in Snowpack and Snowmelt Runoff for Key Mountain Regions."
Dan Lewis (computer engineering) received an award from the National Science Foundation that provides $71,883 to support "Attracting a New Generation of Students to Computing." This award provides first-year funding of an anticipated five-year award.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) published an article titled "Climate Model Based Consensus on the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change to the Rio Lempa Basin of Central America" for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Science. This article represents a collaborative effort with co-authors from Washington State University and 3Tier Group in Seattle and benefited from the assistance of colleagues at the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador.
Thomas Plante (psychology) authored a book titled Spiritual Practices in Psychotherapy: Thirteen Tools for Enhancing Psychological Health, published by American Psychological Association.
Tom Savage (education) and Marsha Savage (education) published a new book with Sage Publications titled Successful Classroom Management and Discipline.
Shauna Shapiro (counseling psychology) published a paper titled "Meditation and Positive Psychology" in The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology.
Elizabeth Thompson (Career Center) and Dave Feldman (counseling psychology) co-authored an article titled "Let Your Life Speak: Assessing the Effectiveness of a Program to Explore Meaning, Purpose, and Calling with the Millennial Generation" that will be published in the Journal of Employment Counseling.
Michael Whalen (communication), whose most recent film "Christmas in Tent City" received the 2008 Accolade Award in December, was also honored with the Broadcast Education Association's Award of Excellence. The film premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival on March 1 in downtown San Jose.
Wendy Wright (mechanical engineering) gave an invited presentation at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco entitled "Shear Band Activity During Micropillar Compression Testing of Bulk Metallic Glasses." On Wednesday, she chaired a session in the same symposium on Structures and Modeling of Bulk Metallic Glasses.
Leslie Gray (environmental studies) has received third-year funding of $39,014 from the National Science Foundation to support "RUI: Cotton, Poverty and the Environment in Africa." The award with this amendment now totals $127,981.
Lucila Ramos-Sanchez (counseling psychology) published an article in the Journal of Counseling & Development entitled "The Relationships Between Mexican American Acculturation, Cultural Values, Gender, and Help-Seeking Intentions." The article was co-authored with Donald R. Atkinson. Ramos-Sanchez also presented her research entitled "The Psychosocial Stressors of Undocumented College Students," at the
National Multicultural Conference and Summit in New Orleans.
Susan Leigh Star (Center for Science, Technology, and Society) has published an exciting new book entitled Standards and Their Stories. This work is a major contribution to the study of information science and was published by Cornell University Press this month. Click here for more information about the book.
William Stover (political science) published an article entitled "Sovereignty over Jerusalem: A Legal Solution to a Disputed Capital." The article was co-authored with Marina Mankaryous, an undergraduate at Santa Clara University, and was published in the International Journal on World Peace in December 2008.
Christopher Weber (physics) has received a two-year award from Research Corporation that provides $44,570 to support "Ferromagnetic Exchange in (Ga, Mn) As: Microscopic, Time-Resolved Study by Transient-Grating Spectroscopy."
Sarah Kate Wilson (electrical engineering) was named the new editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Letters, beginning this year. The announcement was made at GlobeCom (one of the two main IEEE Communications Society conferences).
Cary Yang (Center for Nanostructures/electrical engineering) has received $1,328,000 in continuation funding from the U.S. Army to support "Thermal and Electrical Nanoscale Transport." The award now totals $4,355,998.
Frank Farris (mathematics and computer science) begins the year as the editor of Mathematics Magazine, an official publication of the Mathematical Association of America and one of the most widely circulated mathematics journals in the world. He served in this position from 2001-05 and stepped in as the interim editor for much of 2008.
Fred Foldvary (economics) wrote a book review that was published in the January 2009 issue of CHOICE, a journal for librarians. The reviewed book is by Roger Lowenstein and is entitled, While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis.
Francisco Jimenez (modern languages and literatures) and Alma M. Garcia (sociology) received the Oral History Association's 2008 Elizabeth B. Mason award for their oral history project, "Legacy Oral History Project of Mexican American Community Activists in San Jose, CA, 1960-2000."
Shauna L. Shapiro (counseling psychology) published an article in the Journal of Positive Psychology entitled, "Intensive Mindfulness Training-Related Changes in Cognitive and Emotional Experience." This article was co-authored with Kevin Orzech and Kirk Brown. Shapiro published another article in the Journal of Science and Healing, entitled, "Mindfulness Meditation and CBT for Insomnia: A Naturalistic 12-Month Follow-up." This article was co-authored with Jason Ong and Rachel Manber.
Andy Tsay (OMIS) co-authored "Engineering a Lower Tax Bill," for CPO Agenda, which is a publication for Chief Procurement Officers. This piece was co-authored by Corey Billington and Francois Jager. Tsay also published "Reaping What You Sow?" for the International Commerce Review, along with co-authors Aleda Roth, Madelaine Pullman, and John Gray.
St. Vincent de Paul would like to thank all the Santa Clara University Alumni who volunteered to help make Thanksgiving food boxes for local churches to give to those in need.
Christine Bachen and Chad Raphael (communication) published a journal article in Political Communication entitled "Civic Engagement, Pedagogy, and Information Technology on Web Sites for Youth." They had another article accepted for publication in Games and Culture entitled "Games for Civic Learning: A Conceptual Framework and Agenda for Research and Design." Both articles were co-publications with students Kathleen M.-Lynn, Kristen Mckee, and Jessica Baldwin-Philippi.
Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (Center for Science, Technology, and Society) have received a three-year award from the National Science Foundation that provides $193,905 to support "Collaborative Research: AOC: Monitoring, Modeling and Memory: Dynamics of Data and Knowledge in Scientific Cyberinfrastructures."
Rebecca Black (English) has just been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Melissa Gilbert and Dennis Smithenry (education) were invited speakers at the November 6-7 Teacher In-Service Program Training Workshop for Region Six of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in San Francisco. Their presentation was entitled "Challenges and Opportunities in California Schools."
John Hawley (English) has just edited a three-volume encyclopedia called LGBTQ America Today for the Greenwood Press. He also co-edited the creative writing issue of the South Asian Review and has been elected to a five-year term on the Modern Language Association's executive committee on postcolonial approaches to literature.
Francisco Jimenez (modern languages and literatures), whose book The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child was translated into Italian by Dr. Victor Vari (modern languages and literatures), received the Premio Internazionale Bonifacio VIII from the Catholic Community in Anagni-Alatri, Italy. His children's book, La Mariposa, has been adapted for the stage by the Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle and has been touring schools, libraries, and community centers throughout Washington state this past fall.
Lucila Ramos-Sánchez (counseling psychology) chaired a symposium entitled "Mental Health of Undocumented Latinos" and presented a paper entitled "Psychological Stressors of Undocumented Latino College Students" at the National Latina/o Psychological Association in Costa Mesa.
SunWolf (communication) was awarded the National Communication Association's Ernest Bormann outstanding scholarly book award for her 2007 book Practical Jury Dynamics2: From One Juror's Trial Perceptions to the Group's Decision-making Processes at their annual conference in November.
Tim Urdan (psychology) has co-edited two new books: The Ones We Remember: Scholars Reflect on Teachers Who Made a Difference, through Information Age Publishing; and Advances in Motivation and Achievement, v. 15: Social Psychological Perspectives, through Emerald/JAI press.
Betty Young (physics) has received supplement subcontract funding from Case Western Reserve University that adds $36,000 to support "Super CDMS 25 kg Experiment." The revised award total is $489,169. The National Science Foundation provides the funds for this collaborative award.
Charlie Ambelang (human resources) was listed as one of the Top Practitioners in Leadership Development on Leadership Excellence Online in an article by Ken Shelton entitled "The Excellence 100 Top Thought Leaders for 2008-2009."
Barbara Colyar (international programs) received the IES Professional Development Award. Santa Clara University was the first full IES Abroad Consortium Member and, due to Colyar's efforts and those of her faculty colleagues, the partnership has grown and become increasingly productive.
Diane Jonte-Pace (religious studies) has co-edited a book with William Parsons and Susan Henking, titled Mourning Religion, published by the University of Virginia Press.
Sally Lehrman (communication) published a chapter entitled "Cops, Sports and Schools: How the News Media Frames Coverage of Genetics and Race" in the book Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, edited by Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soon-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson. The book was published by Rutgers University Press as part of a series on medical anthropology.
Jim Purcell (university relations) will be awarded the J. Barry McGannon, S.J., Award from the Jesuit Advancement Administrators at their next annual conference in Seattle in June. The McGannon Award is the highest honor bestowed by JAA. It is presented biennially to an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to Jesuit higher education and to Jesuit advancement. It is a unique honor reserved for individuals whose service to one or more Jesuit institution of higher education has been exemplary and who is acknowledged by colleagues nationally as meriting recognition.
Meir Statman (finance) has won the 2008 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing, along with his co-author Denys Glushkov of Barclays Global Investors. The pair won the award from the Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Their winning study, "The Wages of Social Responsibility," demonstrated that socially responsible investors can do both well and good by investing in companies that score high on social responsibility characteristics, such as good employee relations and environmental stewardship, while not nixing outright companies associated with products such as tobacco and weapons, which some socially responsible investors consider objectionable.
William Stover (political science) was recognized as "an extraordinary educator in Political Science" by the American Political Science Association for his teaching involving information technology and international relations.
Andy A. Tsay (Operations & Management Information Systems) spoke at UC Berkeley in a conference called "Holding China Accountable? Strategies for Protecting Consumers in a Globalized World." The conference was underwritten by the Travers Program on Ethics and Accountability in Government and cosponsored by the Commonwealth Club of California.
Sara Soledad Garcia (education) published a paper entitled, "Spanish-English or English-Spanish in California: The Dialectics of Language in a Sociocultural Historical Context," in the Forum on Public Policy, a journal of the Oxford Round Table. It was published in the spring 2008 online edition of the Forum.
Dale Larson (counseling psychology) gave a keynote presentation titled, "A Person-Centered Approach to End-of-Life Care: Learning from our Mistakes," for the European Association of Client-Centered Psychotherapy and the Person-Centered Approach in Naples, Italy, on Oct. 10.
Sally Lehrman (communication) published an article entitled, "The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist," for the October issue of Scientific American.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) presented the Dawdy Lecture in Hydrologic Sciences at San Francisco State University on Oct. 14. The title of the seminar was, "California's Changing Hydrologic Landscape: Dealing with Uncertain Climate Change Impacts."
Godfrey Mungal (engineering) presented an invited lecture entitled, "Jet Diffusion Flame Stabilization via Pulsed Plasma Forcing," at the 61st Gaseous Electronics Conference in Dallas in October.
Robert Parden (engineering management) was presented with a plaque for his 50-plus years of dedicated service to the School of Engineering at the school's first Big Bash on Oct. 18.
Kathy Potter (Career Center) participated in a panel discussion for the Castilleja Alumni Parent Association in Palo Alto on Oct. 25.
Shauna Shapiro (counseling psychology) has three peer-reviewed papers in press: "Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for the Treatment of Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatients: A Randomized Clinical Trial" for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; "Mindfulness Meditation and CBT for Insomnia: A Naturalistic 12-Month Follow-up" for The Journal of Science and Healing; and "Cultivating Mindfulness: Effects on Well-Being" for the Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Marian Stetson-Rodriguez (engineering management) and Richard Lowe of WorldWork, London, presented the research and case study, "Building Trust in Global Teams," at the SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) Europa annual conference on Oct. 24 in Granada, Spain.
Wendelin Wright (mechanical engineering) and William Nix (Stanford) have had a paper accepted for publication in the March 2009 Focus Issue on Indentation Methods in Advanced Materials Research in the Journal of Materials Research. The paper is entitled, "Storage and Loss Stiffnesses and Moduli as Determined by Dynamic Nanoindentation."
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering) co-authored a paper that has been accepted for publication called "Optimum RC Column Reinforcement Considering Multiple Load Combinations," for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. He co-authored another paper that was recently published called "Theorem of Optimal Section Reinforcement," for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.
JoAnne Holliday (computer engineering) participated in "Western Conversations" October 17-19 at University of San Francisco. She also gave a presentation on Information Assurance to the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Old Crows September 10.
John Jameson (Center for Nanostructures), Cary Yang (Center for Nanostructures, electrical engineering), and Thorsteinn Adalsteinnson (chemistry) have received an award from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $229,999 for the purchase of a Nanomanipulator System for Collaborative Undergraduate Research at SCU.
Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering) has received a one-year subcontract award of $200,000 from the University of Alaska Fairbanks to support "RETINA: Robotic Exploration Technologies in Astrobiology." The University of Alaska Fairbanks award was funded by NASA.
Nam Ling (computer engineering) and PhD student Maria Pantoja presented their paper, "Transcoding with Quality Enhancement and Irregular Sampling," at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, in San Diego, October 12-15. Ling was recognized as one of the new IEEE Fellows during the opening ceremony of this major conference in image processing. Ling also presented "Simplified Fast Motion Estimation: Simplified and Unified Multi-Hexagon Search (SUMH) with Context Adaptive Lagrange Multiplier (CALM)," to the IEEE Rio de Janeiro Chapter at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on September 12.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) gave an invited lecture to faculty and students at Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Howard University, Washington DC on his research into nonlinear adaptive filters in September. Ogunfunmi and Ph.D. student, Thomas Paul, had a journal paper titled "Evolution, Insights and Challenges of the PHY Layer for the Emerging IEEE 802.11n Amendment" that was accepted in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He was also a delegate from the Santa Clara Valley Section to the 2008 IEEE Sections Congress in Canada.
Meir Statman (finance) won the Moskowitz prize for best paper on socially responsible investing.
Kieran Sullivan (psychology) has published a journal article "Incorporating Religious Practice in Marital Interventions: To Pray or Not to Pray?" in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and co-authored a chapter with SCU alumna Tara Cornelius entitled "Prevention Programs for Relationship Distress and Violence: Importance, Exemplars, and Strategies for Recruitment" in the book Psychological Counseling Research Focus.
Katie Wilson (electrical engineering) gave a seminar at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden on August 26. The talk was titled "Transceiver techniques for bit-loading for asymmetrically-clipped optical wireless OFDM."
Michael Axelman (counseling psychology) gave several talks last spring: "Appreciating Your Strengths as a Parent" to Kids on Campus (Parent Meeting) at SCU; "Relational Pragmatism: From Case Conceptualization to Treatment Planning" to the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists in Los Gatos; "Counseling Challenging Adolescents" to the Graduate Student Association, Case Seminar at SCU; and "Working with Difficult Adolescents" at Kaiser Santa Teresa in San Jose.
Elsa Chen (political science) published an article, "The Liberation Hypothesis and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Application of California's Three Strikes Law" in the fall issue of The Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.
Ruth Cook (education) has received $199,966 from the U.S. Department of Education to support, "Joining Forces to Meet the Challenge: Preparing Special Educators who Will Also Be Able to Meet the Needs of Young Children with Autism Spectrum." The award with this amendment totals $791,207. This is the fourth and final year of the award.
Fred Foldvary (economics) reviews The Three Trillion Dollar War by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Blimes in the September 2008 issue of Econ Journal Watch, www.econjournalwatch.org.
Jorge Gonzalez (mechanical engineering), Tim Hight (mechanical engineering) and Mark Aschheim (civil engineering) have received a one-year $30,000 award from the National Science Foundation to support, "Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Sustainable Engineering Systems." This proposal integrates the activities from three institutions: Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, and California College of the Arts.
Francisco Jimenez (modern languages and literatures) authored Reaching Out, which was published this year by Houghton Mifflin. The Circuit, written by Jimenez and first published in 1997, was selected by the Peninsula Public Library System for their 2008 One Book Community Reads Summer Program.
Michael Kevane (economics) and Leslie Gray (environmental studies) co-authored an article entitled "Darfur: Rainfall and Conflict" in Environmental Research Letters.
Terri Peretti (political science) presented a paper on "Polarized Politics and Constitutional Law" at a conference at Oregon Law School in September.
Shauna L. Shapiro (counseling psychology) recently published, "Cultivating mindfulness: Effects on Well-Being," along with D. Oman, T. Plante, C.E, Thoresen, and T. Flinders in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Dennis Smithenry (education) co-authored "Whole-Class Inquiry Assessments; Students Work Together to Solve Problems and Form a Scientific Community" in The Science Teacher, National Science Teachers Association's peer-reviewed journal for secondary science teachers. Smithenry, along with Ruth Davis (computer engineering), Melissa Gilbert (education), Craig Stephens (biology), and Atom Yee (arts & sciences) has also received a five-year $750,000 award from the National Science Foundation to support, "Santa Clara University Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program."
Craig Stephens (biology) has received $136,851 from the National Science Foundation to support, "RUI: Function of LacI-type Transcription Factors in Caulobacter." This is year-one funding of an anticipated three-year award.
William Stover (political science) this year authored, along with Michael Lynch, "A Turbulent Transition: The Army National Guard and Army Reserve's Movement to an Operational Reserve" in the Journal of Political and Military Sociology.
Andy Tsay (OMIS), along with A.V. Roth, M.E. Pullman, and J.V. Gray, published "Unraveling the Food Supply Chain: Strategic Insights from China and the 2007 Recalls," in the Journal of Supply Chain Management.
Fred White (English) wrote a book, The Daily Writer: 366 Meditations to Cultivate a Productive and Meaningful Writing Life, which has just been published by Writer's Digest Books. It is also a featured selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club.
Sally Wood (electrical engineering) has received an additional $95,000 in subcontract funding from Southern Methodist University to support, "High-Tech Eyes—an Adaptive Agile Thin Imaging Sensor." Total funding for this subcontract award is $203,139. SMU's award is funded by the U.S. Army.
Ruth Cook (education) has received $196,007 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education to support, "Joining Forces to Meet the Challenge: Preparing Special Educators Who Will Also Be Able to Meet the Needs of Young Children with Autism Spectrum." This is second-year funding of an anticipated four-year award. The two-year award total is $391,511.
Betty Young (physics) has received $53,653 from the National Science Foundation to support "Detector optimization for superCDMS and other experiments." This is year-one funding of an anticipated three-year award.


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wow, great news! – One of my top 5 favorite drummers. He is just so effort less and care free when he drums, its amazing to watch especially with such an interesting set up and technique. i have a few fav grooves from #41, rapunzel, lying in the hands of god, and others. I'm excited [...]


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Movie opens eyes
Having just seen the new movie "Bully," a true-life story as seen from the viewpoints of several young people across our nation who have suffered at the hands of bullies at their schools, I'd like to encourage as many others as possible to see this movie as soon as they can.
Bullying is a devastating problem for many children and this movie should open many eyes about the devastating effects in has on its victims. The movie should be seen by legislators, school administrators (one real-life principal in the film makes a fool of herself in her inept dealings with a bullying situation), parents, and all students, especially the ones who do the bullying.
It should also be seen by the victims of bullies, who undoubtedly will feel at least a little better when they realize that the filmmakers cared enough about their horrendous situations to do something about this pervasive problem.
"Bully" is being shown right now at the Rave Theater in Voorhees. Please take the time and trouble to see this important movie.
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AAUW presents Women in the Arts on September 11th from 2:00 to 5:00pm at 140 Round Drive, in Big Bear Lake. The program will feature authors and artists that live in the Big Bear Area. There will be a live and silent auction. Proceeds will benefit the Tech Trek Scholarship programs. For more information or to get tickets call 544-1633. … [Read more...]
AAUW Presents Women in the Arts
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Book signing for School Gardens
Posted on 05/29/2011 Written by Caroline Quintanilla
Beth Gardner, lead author of What Grows in a Garden?, will join Katie Adams, the book's illustrator and a Big Bear High School sophomore, for a book signing on Sun., May 29 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Big Bear Book & Bean in the Village. Published by The Lighthouse Project, What Grows in a Garden? tells the story of Big Bear Elementary students, … [Read more...]
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The models all had a sun-tanned skin, but not of the sun or solarium but with the make-up of MAC.
The models getting dressed by the students of PANSIK, everybody helped for a show to remember!
And let us not forget two new models Valentina and Poco:
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This guy has some of our articles up on his site. Check it out!
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the website is great aside from the fact that it's called nutsac.
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This is a pretty good site, thanks for the link stank.
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Ex-FBI Pleads Guilty to Being AP Source, Sentenced
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A judge has sentenced a former FBI explosives expert to more than three years in prison for possessing and disclosing secret information, which he has said included intelligence he gave to The Associated Press for a story about a U.S. operation in Yemen in 2012.
At the same hearing Thursday in Indianapolis, Donald Sachtleben was given eight years in an unrelated child pornography case.
Before announcing the sentences, U.S. District Judge William Lawrence told the 55-year-old man from Carmel, Ind., "You have betrayed your nation."
In a 20-minute statement, Sachtleben apologized to his former FBI colleagues for "breaking the bonds of trust" with them.
AP spokesman Paul Colford in New York said, "We never comment on who our sources are."
The hearing began with Sachtleben pleading guilty.


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The Human Flashlight
Graves Disease
Howdie Doodie Y'all!
I thought I'd write y'all a short note about how I'm feeling since my radiation treatment last week. Keep in mind that this is very different from radiation that cancer patients receive ( a milder dose, thank God.)
First day in , I had to take a capsule containing a radioactive isotope known as RAI-I123 Technetium-99m Pertechnetate at 4mCi or 4Millicurie which is suspended in Iodine, and is stronger than I131 which utilizes Cobalt and has a value of 4mCi. This was for my "uptake" test, which would measure where my thyroid was in hormone production and just how hyper or hypo I was after a year a therapy with the10Mg of Methimozole I had been taking every day. So after taking this small capsule, off I went for 6 hours until the first tests could be performed...
Back at the hospital and the first tests were done . Now normal absorption measurement of the Iodine takes about 45minutes in a normal healthy thyroid , mine took 11.5 seconds... because of the Graves Disease, everything is accelerated. Normal levels should remain around 2-8% ... mine where at a whopping 67% ... They dismissed me with a smile ... and told me to come back in 18 hours for the next test. So, once again ...
time to wait.....
The next morning back I went to the hospital and my second series of tests... which were worse then the first ones I took 18 hours before.
"My, but you do have a hot thyroid!" said one of the technicians, winking at me.
(Not for nothing, but I took a real delight in reminding this whipper snapper that remarks such as this should be reserved for other parts of the female anatomy and not my thyroid. !!!
Not soon after, the Radiologist finally made his grand entrance.
"Alrighty then..". I thought to myself..."Now I'll get some answers! "
"Yep, looks like yev' got yerself some Graves Disease, I reckon., lil' lady..."
(Lil' lady??? ...was he kidding me?)
"...no shit, Hopalong! Ya' think???" was my astute retort.
(Us Grave's Disease sufferers are given to mood swings every now and then)
"Yep, we gonna order RAI-I123 Technetium-99m Pertechnetate at 12mCi or 12Millicurie ... it should be here in about 2hours...just relax, lil' Missy, won't be long now. ... "
I was lead into a small cubicle sized room with four walls and no windows except for a small 8 inch square slit in the heavy door. There was a small chair in the room which had a shelf connected to it. The chair's shelf and the slit in the door were next to each other at exactly the same height. True to their word, in about 2hours the slit opened with a gliding swack, The Radiologist and his band of merry men announced that my medicine had arrived and actually presented this magical concoction encased in a 6in by 3in stainless steel cylinder, which they put down in front of me with huge yellow rubber gloves and one of those "thingamajig grippers" those savvy store clerks use to grab the cans off the top shelf at the local Safeway though the slit in the door and then proceeded to explain how to open the cylinder which housed another smaller glass vial with a blue rubber seal which I had to break open myself and swallow the contents of the vial without touching the capsule itself. The opening to the rest of mankind slammed shut with a resounding smack and I was alone with my own version of Sanitarium. (Thank the Lord it was not the original CD version... but then, that's another story!) This was their big guns, the radioactive isotope known as RAI-I123 Technetium-99m Pertechnetate at 12mCi or 12Millicuries ... ok, no problem ... I could do this ... after all, I play adventure games...right? I unscrewed the heavily cylinder and took out the glass vial with trembling hands, broke open the blue rubber stopper and downed the contents in one swallow. Done. They warned me to get home as soon as possible as the side effects could start as early as 30minutes after ingesting this stuff. Well , I had a 45 minute ride home and being hyperthyroid as I am... it took 5 minutes before the side effects started.... dizziness, nausea ... headache....... but with the help of Braveheart I made it.
The results will be known in 3 to 6 months, hopefully it will bring my thyroid function down to normal or kill it entirely ... and then the doctors will go from there.
In the mean time...
I'm being a good girl and trying very hard not to cause any nuclear accidents. I feel really nauseated most of the time, but ginger-ale and saltines have really helped me out there. Along with gallons of lemonade and lemon drops. The side effects aren't as bad as I was originally warned about. ( I still have my hair, although it's starting to break off at the ends) I have noticed that my skin has become very dry and itchy and my nails are brittle... no matter, I must strive to keep my sense of humor about all of this and look at the long term plan of what the doctors are trying to accomplish... and not give into my petty vanities. So that all said, I will tell you that I am finding that:
I am incredibly tired and
I am spending most of my waking hours
in my bathroom . wearing my toilet as a hat.
My throat hurts a lot when I swallow and I've noticed that this keeps happening every time I drink something...
I've also seem to have acquired the ability to see in the dark
and no longer have a use for night lights in my hallway ,
The doctors have assured me that these side effects are temporary and that I will not be a human flashlight for very much longer...so as long as I keep my sense of humor and my wits about me, I have really no complaints.
... Inferno
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