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Conference:
ISCAR 2008, San Diego
September 8 - 13, 2008

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Liz Floyd and Gayle Aruta were recognized as Academic Affairs Star Performers for their nomination as Exemplary Staff Employees of the Year.

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Jericho Burg completed her PhD on July 2, 2008.
Her dissertation, titled "Fixing Famine: The Politics of Information in Famine Early Warning." combines ethnographic, interview, and documentary data gathered in Ethiopia to analyze famine early warning systems – large-scale information systems combining climate, food production, market, and public health data, which have become a major focus in international famine prevention efforts since the 1970s.
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Carol Padden is traveling to Israel to continue her research studying a new sign language used by a community of hearing and deaf Bedouins in southern Israel.

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LCHC - UC MEXUS-CONACYT Collaborative Grant Project
This project linked researchers and students from six different colleges and universities in México and the United States. The researchers and students in the Yucatán carried out a series of investigations to better understand the linguistic practices in the childrens classrooms and homes and the attitudes towards Mayan language and culture characteristic of the childrens parents and teachers. The Mexican team participated in regular Internet-mediated videoconferences with researchers and students from four different U.S. universities.