Summer,
2008 . . .
Morana Alac published: "Working with Brain Scans: Digital Images and Gestural Interaction in fMRI Laboratory", Social Studies of Science, 38, 2008, pp. 483-508.
Summer,
2008 . . .
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant and Jorge Ferrer interviewed santero Obá Ernesto Pichardo. Interview.
Summer,
2008 . . .
Yael Warshel defended her dissertation "How do you Teach Children that Terrorists, Armies and the Police Can Live Together Peacefully?: A Peace Communication Assessment Model".
Summer,
2008 . . .
Jericho
Burg defended her dissertation "Fixing
Famine: The Politics of Information in Famine Early
Warning" on June 6, 2008
Spring,
2008 . . .
Congratulations
to Patricia Davis, who received a President's
Dissertation Year Diversity Fellowship for next year!
Spring,
2008. . .
Wayne
J.R Osborn defended his Dissertation titled: "The
Type of Calligraphy: Writing, Print, and Technologies
of the Arabic Alphabet" on May 5, 2008.
Spring, 2008. . .
Mari
Castañeda has been elected Chair/President of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.
Spring, 2008. . .
Ryan Ellis won
the Rita Lloyd Moroney Award sponsored by the United States
Postal
Service in recognition of outstanding historical scholarship
focusing on the history of the U.S. postal system with his
paper titled "Binding the Nation Together: The Politics of Postal Service".
More info about the award can be found at: http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/moroney.htm
Winter, 2008. . .
Yael Warshel accepted a faculty position with American University, based in Washington D.C. Her new position will be as an Assistant Professor of International Communication in their School of International Service.
Winter, 2008. . .
BLOG-BASED PEER REVIEW PROJECT
Noah Wardrip-Fruin's launched
a blog based on his forthcoming book "Expressive Processing".
It is a collaboration between the MIT Press, the Institute for the Future of the Book, UCSD's Software Studies initiative, and the blog to which he contributes, Grand Text Auto. introduction to project . . .
Winter, 2008. . .
Fall, 2007. . .
Jen Vernon received the award 'top student paper' to the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association, for the 2007 meeting in Chicago this November.
Congratulations
Fall, 2007. . .
"Ricardo Guthrie was selected to be a Visiting Researcher at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Black Studies Research for 2007-08. He will be focusing his research on Black newspaper publisher Dr. Carlton Goodlett and his newspaper, the San Francisco Sun-Reporter, and preparing a book manuscript and journal articles. He is also working with Prof. George Lipsitz at UCSB on the Center's new ethnic studies journal.
In August, Ricardo was also appointed
to a three-year term to UC San Diego's Board of Overseers.
The UCSD Board of Overseers advises Chancellor Marye Ann
Fox on campus/community issues, policies, and activities."
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