TURLOCK – California State University, Stanislaus faculty, who are engaged in research and creative activities all over the world, will put their work on display the week of October 5-9.
Anthropology and Geography Professor Ellen Bell spent the summer conducting archeological research in the Mayan city of Copan in Honduras where ancient royal tombs have been discovered. Biological Sciences Professor Marina Gerson focuses her work on horned lizards in the Central Valley and turtles in a CSU Stanislaus lake. Nursing Professors Mechelle Perea-Ryan, Luzmaria Alcala-Van Houten, and Judy Keswick have teamed with College of Health and Human Sciences Dean Gary Novak and visiting Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Giovambattista Presti of Italy on a “Food Dudes” project at local elementary schools and pre-schools that fosters increased student consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables.
Their work will be among the 35 faculty displays included in the Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Week activities at California State University, Stanislaus. The event will feature a variety of daily presentations, panel discussions, tours, and special programs.
Highlights will include a poster display each day in the University Union Event Center featuring faculty research and creative activities; a keynote address by award-winning Psychology Professor Dr. Harold Stanislaw at noon on Friday, October 9 in the Event Center; noontime seminars with faculty experts; tours of CSU Stanislaus research laboratories and facilities; faculty panel discussions and seminars; and an Astronomy Night at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7; and a concluding recital featuring Music faculty clarinet player John Weddle at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 9 in Snider Music Hall.
All of the programs, which start with an opening social and talks at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, October 5 in the Event Center, are free and open to the public. For more detailed information and a schedule of programs, see the University Web site at
www.csustan.edu/events/rsca/. For more information, call (209) 667-3493.
Keynote speaker Stanislaw, who has brought nearly a million dollars in grant funding to CSU Stanislaus for his research projects, was named the University’s Outstanding Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Professor in 2009. He will talk about research opportunities and cite some personal examples of his studies that have ranged from traffic safety and industrial inspection to autism treatment methods and medical research regarding diabetes detection in pregnant mothers and birth weight processes.
A complete schedule of programs and exhibitors is included separately with this release.
Research,, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Week Schedule of Events
Schedule
Monday, October 5 – Friday, October 9
RSCA Week Displays in the Event Center (Monday 5:30 pm – Friday noon)
Fine Arts – Faculty display of new works in the JSRFDC (M-F 8-5)
Fine Arts – Faculty display of new works in the JSRFDC (M-F 8-5)
Monday
Afternoon – Campus Area Tours
1:45-2:15 pm Biology Field Site Tour (next to Naraghi Hall)
4:00-5:00 pm Kinesiology Lab Tour (Field House Annex T106)
Evening – Kick-off Social and faculty talks (Event Center) – 5:30-7:00 pm
5:30 pm Welcome
5:40 pm Jamie Norwood, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
6:00 pm Dean De Cocker, Art
“From Pearl to Sea”
6:30 pm Clayton Everett, Theatre
“A Rainforest Adventure at the Stanislaus County Fair”
Tuesday
Lunch – Brown Bag Lunch Seminars (Lakeside Conference Room) – 12-1:00 pm
12:00-12:30 pm Maryann Hight, Library
“Library Resources”
12:30-1:00 pm Carolyn Martin, Nursing
“Faculty Mentored Research”
Afternoon – Campus Area Tours
1:00-3:30 pm Naraghi Hall of Science Lab Tours (Naraghi Hall)
3:30-4:00 pm Faculty Multimedia Lab Tour (JSRFDC)
4:00-5:00 pm Sustainability Garden Tour (near JSRFDC)
Evening – Community Partners Evening (Event Center) – 5:30-7:00 pm
5:30 pm Kelvin Jasek-Rysdahl, Economics
“Engaging Community Members to Conduct Research”
6:00 pm Panel Discussion: Working with Community Partners
Wednesday
10:00 am-2:00 pm Campus Technology Day (MSR Lobby)
Lunch – Brown Bag Lunch Seminars (Lakeside Conference Room) – 12-1:00 pm
12:00-12:30 pm Ashour Badal, Management, Operations, and Marketing
“Office of homeland Security and CSU, Stanislaus Collaboration on
Counter Terrorism/Radicalization”
12:30-1:00 pm Marjorie Sanchez-Walker, History
“Motherhood, Like Green Rice, Is Timeless: Connecting Tradition,
War, New Economies and Population Control in Vietnam”
Afternoon – Campus Area Tours
1:00-1:30 pm Central California Information Center Tour (Bizzini Hall C-205A)
1:30-2:00 pm Biology Field Site Tour (next to Naraghi Hall)
1:30-5:15 pm Naraghi Hall of Science Lab Tours (Naraghi Hall)
3:30-5:00 pm Faculty Voices Project: Reflections on Teaching & Learning
(JSRFDC 118)
Evening – Faculty and Staff RSCA Display Evening (Event Center) – 5:30-7:00 pm
7:30 pm Astronomy Night
Thursday
Lunch – Brown Bag Lunch Seminars (Lakeside Conference Room) – 12-1:00 pm
12:00-12:30 pm Anne Pingenot, Nursing
“Connecting Across Communities: Department of Nursing Research”
12:30-1:00 pm Taylor Marcell, Kinesiology
“Kinesiology; Research in the Field”
Afternoon – Campus Area Tours
2:00-3:00 pm Geospatial Resources Lab Tour (Library 110G)
3:00-5:00 pm Celebration of Faculty Tenure and Promotion (hosted by FDC)
3:30-4:30 pm Kinesiology Lab Tour (Field House Annex T106)
4:30-5:00 pm Nursing Simulation Lab Tour (MSR 40)
Evening – Tools’n’Tech Evening (Event Center) – 5:30-7:00 pm
5:30 pm Melanie Martin, Computer Science
“Processing natural language: an overview and current tools”
6:00 pm Panel Discussion: Tools and technology for Academics
Friday
Outstanding RSCA Professor Keynote Presentation (Event Center) – 12-1:00 pm
12:00-1:00 pm Harold Stanislaw, Psychology
“Translational Research in the CSU: Opportunities and Some
Personal Examples”
Evening
7:30 pm Faculty Recital in Music – John Weddle, clarinet (Snider Hall)
Contributed Faculty and Staff RSCA Displays – Event Center
Available for viewing in the Event Center, Monday 5:30 p.m. through Friday noon
Faculty and Staff will be available for conversation Wednesday evening from 5:30-7 p.m.
Ellen Bell, Anthropology & Geography
“On the Edge of the Maya World: Identity, Interaction, and Administrative Strategies in the El Paraíso Valley, Department of Copan, Honduras”
Marjorie Chan, Management, Operations & Marketing
“How to Rein in Executive Compensation?”
Matthew Cover and Ida Bowers, Biological Sciences
“A Student-Powered Food Waste Composting Program on the CSU Stanislaus Campus”
Chris De Vries, Physics, Physical Science, & Geology
“The Molecular Virtual Observatory”
Sue Eastham, Kinesiology
“California Physical Education Teachers Physical Fitness Test Administration Practices”
Betsy Eudey, Ethnic and Gender Studies
“Activism and Service Learning in Online Courses”
Clay Everett, Theater
“A Rainforest Adventure at the Stanislaus County Fair”
Marina Gerson, Biological Sciences
“Diversity of Introduced Turtles in Willow Lake”
Marina Gerson, Biological Sciences
“Protected and Managed: a Viable Population of Blaineville’s Coast Horned Lizard in the Great Central Valley of California”
Iris Haapenen, Teacher Education
“Navajo Identities at Monument Valley at Utah”
Peggy Hauslet, Anthropology & Geography
“Employing Sampling Techniques to Analyze Historical Plant Cover Change on Santa Rosa Island, California”
Diane Katsma, Nursing
“Nursing Errors: A Concept Analysis”
Marcella LaFever, Communication Studies
“Measuring cohesion and perceptions of task quality in group communication: Does it all come down to experience?”
Fan-Yu Lin, Advanced Studies in Education
“Use of Learning Channels in Instructional Design”
Taylor Marcell, Kinesiology, Dawn Strongin, Psychology, and Carolyn Martin, Nursing
“Defining Successful Aging: The Falls & Disability Prevention Trial”
Carolyn Martin, Nursing
“Wellness WORKs! A Community Based Wellness-To-Work Program”
Melanie Martin, Computer Science
“Automated Team Discourse Modeling: Test of Performance and Generalization”
Melanie Martin, Computer Science
“Reliability of Information on Medical Web Pages: Toward a User Interface”
John Mayer, Theater
“Readings from Galileo”
Carol Miner, Great Valley Writing Project
“Migrant & English Learner Writing Academies”
Petra Nebel, WPST
“Lederhose: The Leather trousers of the Bavarian People – History & Trend”
Mechelle Perea-Ryan, Luzmaria Alcala-Van Houten and Judy Keswick Nursing, Elizabeth Breshears, Social Work, and Gary Novak, Psychology
“Food Dudes”: Increasing fruit and Vegetable Consumption in a second grade Dual Immersion Class
Giovambattista Presti and Gary Novak, Psychology & Child Development
“International cooperation in fighting child obesity: The Food Dudes Programme and Projects”
Chris Roe, Noelle Won, and Anne Weisenberg, Teacher Education
“Mismatch of a Teacher Preparation Program and Teaching Practices”
Chris Roe and Mildred Murray-Ward, Teacher Education
“Teacher Recruitment & Retention: Then and Now”
Pamela Roe, Biological Sciences
“The Mystery of Bent Tails among Deep-Sea Pelagic Nemerteans”
Julia Sankey, Physics, Physical Science, & Geology
“Sharks, sea levels, and the Late Cretaceous greenhouse event”
John Sarraillé, Computer Science
“Fractal Dimension Estimation Software”
Kenneth G. Schoenly,
Biological Sciences
“No Carrion Before Its Time: Univariate and Multivariate Statistical Results Confirm Between-Site Repeatability of Colonization Order in Carrion-Arthropod Assemblages”
Nancy Jean Smith, Teacher Education
“Passport to University – A Service Learning Project”
Harold Stanislaw, Psychology & Child Development
“Optimal Design of Signal Detection Theory Studies”
Harold Stanislaw, Psychology & Child Development
“Risky Driving Varies with Physical Aggression, Not Sex”
Flora Watson and Mark Grobner, Biological Sciences
“The effects of cigarette smoke on apoptotic processes in the spleen and thymus of Swiss Webster Mice”
Flora Watson, Biological Sciences
“Birth outcomes and socioeconomic trends in pregnant women exposed to second-hand smoke in Shanghai, China”
Jim Youngblom, Biological Sciences
“DNA Studies in Cerebratulus lacteus”
