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 Steven Church (English) has had his essay "I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part" nominated by Fourth Genre for a Pushcart Prize. The essay was included in the Fall edition of “Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.” “The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses,” is an annual anthology of work from the nation’s publishers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
 Jill Fields (History) was interviewed and her book, “An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie & Sexuality,” reviewed favorably in Australia. The book also will be featured on LA Cityview 35, a community-access TV channel in Los Angeles. “An Intimate Affair” has attracted newspaper and broadcast attention in the United States, Canada and Peru since its publication in July.
 Paulette Fleming (Art and Design) was awarded the Outstanding Visual Art Educator of the Year Award by the California Art Education Association at the organization’s November conference in November.
 Victor Davis Hanson (Classics, Emeritus) was awarded a National Humanities medal by President Bush in ceremonies last month at the White House. Hanson, who is a military historian, author and columnist, was cited “for scholarship on our civilization’s past and present. He has cultivated the fields of history and brought forth an abundant harvest of wisdom for our times.” Hanson is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he teaches courses in military history and classical culture.
 George B. Kauffman (Chemistry, Emeritus) published “Solar Energy Prophet Giacomo Luigi Ciamician” (with Giorgio Nebbia, professor of merceology, Università di Bari, Italy, pictured), The Armenian Weekly (Watertown, Mass.) Sept. 22), “Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932-2007): The Newton of Our Time”(with Jean-Pierre Adloff, honorary professor, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France); “Prophet of Solar Energy: A Retrospective View of Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857-1922), the Founder of Green Chemistry, on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth” (with Nebbia); “Pharmaceutical Biotechnology;” “Chemical Technology;” “Integrated Approach to Coordination Chemistry;” all in The Chemical Educator (Oct. 1); “Martini Chemistry” Chemical & Engineering News (Oct. 8); “Valley Voices: Local students make good in chemistry world [National Chemistry Week 2007]," The Fresno Bee (Oct. 20).
Rose Marie Kuhn (Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures) presented a refereed workshop, “Comprendre, lire et préparer la lecture et la discussion de tout texte en classe de français,” at the annual fall conference of the Central Valley Foreign Language Association. She also gave a lecture, “Discovering French Guiana: Heaven or Hell?,” for the Alliance Française and chaired a review panel assessing the French program at the University of the West Indies-Cave Hill Campus, in Bridgetown, Barbados.
 Dan Nadaner (Art and Design) had a work of video art shown at the Arte Digital Festival in Rosario, Argentina in November, 2007. His film "Stripes" will be shown December 26-Jan. 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
 Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi (Africana Studies) presented a research paper, “Are private religious universities and colleges the answer to Ghana’s problems of access and equity in tertiary education?,” at the eighth International Conference on Education Research New Challenges in Higher Education in Seoul, South Korea. His book, “African Families at the Turn of the 21st Century,” has been published in paperback by Kendall/Hunt. It examines family dynamics from a historical perspective and critically analyzes the interplay of the African-indigenous, Arabic-Islamic and European-Christian cultures on the continent.
 Bruce Thornton (Classics) is the author of “Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow Motion Suicide” (Encounter Books; $21.95). Thornton’s book examines changes in Muslim influence in Europe and the impact of that on the United States.
 Steve Yarbrough (English) has one of his stories included in the “New Granta Book of the American Short Story,” edited by American novelist Richard Ford. Among the other authors included in the just-published collection are Eudora Welty, Annie Proulx, John Updike and John Cheever.
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