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Mary Barakzai
(Central California Center for Excellence in Nursing) is the author of a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners that concluded cultural differences in how Mexican-Americans report illness symptoms could lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment.
 Honora Chapman
(Classics) presented a paper, “What Josephus Sees: The Temple of Peace and the Jerusalem Temple as Spectacle in Text and Art,” at Cambridge University in England.
 Barlow Der Mugrdechian
(Armenian Studies) led a group of seven students on this year’s Armenian Summer Study Trip, which included a visit to Holy Etchmiadzin (the headquarters of the world Armenian Church) and an audience with Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. The group stayed in Yerevan, the capital, and visited Fresno State’s sister university, Yerevan State.
Rose Marie Kuhn
(Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) presented a refereed workshop, “Destination Dakar: A Cultural Voyage to French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa,” at the annual conference of the California Language Teachers Association. She presented a paper at the annual convention of the Conseil International d’Études Francophones in French Guiana and was elected to the organization’s board of directors. Kuhn also joined the editorial board of Scientific Journals International.
Dan Nadaner
(Art and Design) traveled to Marseille, France, where two of his works were screened at an international festival of experimental video.
Segun Ogunjemiyo (Geography) and Hernan Maldonado (Engineering)
were selected as E. (Kika) de la Garza Fellows by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Hispanic-Serving Institutions National Program. Participants in the summer fellowships collaborated with the federal agency on food security, biotechnology, landscape horticulture and agribusiness. Ogunjemiyo was one of three science fellows and Maldonado one of 15 education fellows from the nation’s Hispanic-serving institutions, which are degree-granting colleges whose enrollment is at least 25 percent Hispanic
 Devendra Sharma
(Communication) was a consultant to the United Nations for its project to raise HIV/AIDS awareness. He worked with local partners to design and implement a pilot folk performance/electronic media campaign to combat the disease in Bihar, a state in India.
 William Skuban
(History) has published “Lines in the Sand,” about a frontier dispute between Peru and Chile in the early 20th century. The University of New Mexico Press is the publisher. Click here for details.
Steve Yarbrough’s
(English) novel, “The End of California,” has been published in paperback by Vintage Press ($13.95), a year after its hardcover release. The book traces events in the life of a Fresno State football star who returns to his native Mississippi after 25 years away and finds people from his past haven’t changed at all.
George B. Kauffman
(Chemistry, Emeritus) published “William Ramsay, Scottish Chemist 1852-1916,” “Rubber,” “Frederick Soddy, English Radiochemist 1877-1956,” “Chaim Weizmann, Russian-Born Chemist, President of Israel 1874-1952,” “Alfred Werner, French-born Swiss Chemist 1866-1919,” all at chemistryexplained.com. He also published “The Troubled Story of Polonium: An Early Controversy in Radiochemistry” (with Jean-Pierre Adloff, honorary professor, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France); “The Periodic Table: Into the 21st Century” (with Professor Michael Laing,University of Natal, Durban, Republic of South Africa); “Discovery of the Elements: A Search for the Fundamental Principles of the Universe;” and “Condensed Chemical Dictionary,” all in The Chemical Educator (April 1); and “Discovery of the Elements,” in Chem 13 News (May).
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