Professional Announcements

Elizabeth Burch, Communication Studies, presented her research at the San Francisco International Communication Association conference in May 2007. Her paper is entitled “Globalization and Caribbean New Identity: How Jamaican Health, Science and Environmental Reporting Competes."  Burch’s findings can be viewed in the magazine Environmental Journalism under the article called “Island Nation at Risk” (http://www.ejmagazine.com/2007a/jamaica.htm).  The research is based on a Fulbright Burch conducted spring 2006. She lived in Kingston, Jamaica during a professional leave from SSU. Her leave (not a sabbatical) was supported in part by the SSU Department of Communication Studies. While in Jamaica she taught at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communications.

Gerald Haslam (Emeritus English) has been named the Levan Scholar-in-Residence at Bakersfield College.  Earlier, he was named to that school's Track/Cross-country Hall of Fame.  His short story "Mal de Ojo" has just been reprinted in "As Hard as Walnuts, As Soft as Music" edited by Artsvi Bakhchiny for the Armenian Public Organization of Cultural Cooperation with Foreign Countries.