Professional Announcements

3/07/05

Gillian Conoley, English, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for all of her poems published in literary magazines for the year 2004. Her fifth book, "Profane Halo," is just out with Verse Press. In addition, a chapbook, "Fatherless Afternoon," is out with Ferris Editions. Conoley read on March 3 at the Albany Library, and will read on campus as part of the Campus Author's Events program in Schulz 3001 at noon on April 20. New poems of hers have appeared recently in The American Poetry Review, Fence, Jubilat, Verse, American Letters & Commentary, New American Writing, Electronic Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Conduit, How 2, Jacket, Mary, New Review of Literature, Pool, Overland, Slope, 26, and Verse.

Amra Stafford, Community-Based Learning, presented a day-long workshop entitled "Applying Cross-Cultural 'Organizing Principles' to Peace and Conflict Work" at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia on Feb. 26. The workshop was hosted by the Alliance for Conflict Transformation. Stafford was a guest lecturer on the same topic on Feb. 24 at American University in Washington, D.C.

Robert Train, Modern Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Ideologies and ‘realities’ of language and foreign language education in the US: a critical perspective on the Native Standard Language" at the Colloquium on Teaching Foreign Languages in Multilingual, Multicultural Environments, held at the University of California, Berkeley on Feb. 12-13. This colloquium was part of an on-going international research collaboration between the Berkeley Language Center and the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures. It explores multilingualism and multiculturalism in language teaching. The colloquium brought together researchers and language practitioners from Canada, Europe, Australia and the U.S who come from various disciplines: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and educational linguistics.

Michael Pinkston, Counseling and Psychological Services, has been elected for a two-year term as a board member for the Board of Directors for the California Psychological Association. He served in this position previously from 1992-2004. As a member of the Board, he represents the interests of psychologists in Sonoma County by assisting in making policy decisions for a professional association of psychologists in California.

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Updated 3/07/05
Jean Wasp