This newsletter, prepared monthly, provides highlights of the Performance Plan Updates developed by H&SS Department Heads for the monthly reports to President Jackson. Represented here are works accomplished: grant awards, program and curricular initiatives, appointments, publications, performances, conference papers, and the like.

AWARDS

Patricia Search, Prof. in LL&C, was awarded the Editors' Choice Award for her paper "Digital Storytelling for Cross-Cultural Communication in Global Networking" by the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA). This is the second time that Professor Search has been selected for this award which is given for "exemplary works of research and writing" that are published in the IVLA Selected Readings. The award will be presented at the IVLA conference in Brazil.

APPOINTMENTS

Katherine Isbister, Assoc. Prof. in LL&C, was just elected Vice-Chair of the International Communication Association Game Studies Interest Group, a 100 member SIG. She begins a two-year term in May at the annual ICA conference in San Francisco organizing the Game Studies program for the 2008 conference in Montreal and the 2009 conference. She then serves as Chair of the SIG and on the ICA Board of Directors for another two years.

 

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, was elected to serve on the Cognitive Science Society 2007 governing Board, and he was a member of the steering committee at the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2006),Burgos, Spain. 2006.

PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCE, & EXHIBITIONS

John Gowdy, Prof. in Economics, published:  "Evolutionary Theory and Economic Policy with Reference to Sustainability" Journal of Bioeconomics 8, 2006, 1-19; "Environmental Awareness and Happiness" in Ecological Economics 60,  509-516, 2007, with Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell;  "Avoiding Self-Organized Extinction: Toward a Co-Evolutionary Economics of Sustainability" International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14, 1-10, 2007 (invited paper); a review of Nature's Magic, by Peter Corning, in Journal of Bioeconomics 8, 2006, 189-191; and a review of The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism by Geoffrey Hodgson, In the Journal of Economic Issues, December 2006, 1169-1174.

John Koller, Prof. of Philosophy, published Asian Philosophies, 5e. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007.  (Pp.361 + xxi), and a Book Chapter: Religious Violence: A Philosophical Analysis; the lead essay in Douglas Allen, ed., Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006, pp. 1-18.

Pauline Oliveros, Distinguished Prof. in Arts, published "the Arms of Reynols: A Collaboration," in Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 1.

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, published with X. Zhang, and R. Mathews, Modeling meta-cognition in a cognitive architecture.  Cognitive Systems Research, Vol.7, No.4, pp.327-338. 2006.

LECTURES & PANELS

John Gowdy, Prof. in Economics, was an invited member of a plenary session panel celebrating the centennial of the birth of the economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. New Delhi, India, December 18, 2006, and he gave the keynote address to the Association for Social Economics at the American Economic Association meetings in Chicago, January 4, 2006.

Linda Layne, Prof. in STS, gave an invited lecture "A Woman-Centered Approach to Pregnancy Loss" on a panel, "Ignoring Millions of Women, Millions of Children: How the Debate About Abortion and Maternity Care Ignores of Pregnancy Loss and Infant Mortality" she  moderated a Panel, "Environmental Threats to Pregnant Women and Families," she exhibited  Airing: "Preparing for Home Pregnancy Loss: A Conversation with Sandy Maclean of WomenCare,"  and she conducted "Combating the Criminalization of Stillbirth and Miscarriage: A Conversation with Lynn Paltrow, Esq., Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women" National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women, Jan. Atlanta.

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, Ron Sun was an invited speaker at the Workshop on ``Minds in interaction", at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS),  Wassenaar, the Netherlands.

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