Phi H. Su receives the Lowell Overton Scholarship Award during the annual Honors Luncheon (click here to see more).
In the 2007-2008 academic year we welcomed Assistant Professors (from left to right) Dr. Erika DeJonghe (Clinical Psychology), Dr. Jack Fong (Sociology), and Dr. Juliana Fuqua (Social Ecology/Developmental Psychology) to the department.
Dr. Bettina Casad was just awarded a one year grant for approximately $110,000 by the Army Research Institute, with possible renewals for two additional years. She will be hiring two Cal Poly Pomona student research assistants and appointing interns. The title of the grant is Leadership Development of Women and Ethnic Minority ROTC Cadets: The Potential Barrier of Stereotype Threat and Resiliency as a Buffer. This is in addition to her ongoing project with the National Science Foundation's Program for Research on Gender in Science and Engineering, in which she and co-investigators Dr. Faye Wachs and Dr. Patricia Hale, a math educator, are conducting a study about math-based stereotypes and effects on middle-school girls and ethnic minorities. They were recently interviewed about this project on CNN. Dr. Casad was also invited to be on a grant review panel for the National Science Foundation for the 2008-2009 round of grants awarded by the Research on Gender in Science and Engineering program.
Dr. Mary Danico serves as our associate chair and has successfully launched the department's peer mentoring program. She serves on the advisory board for the Korean Policy Institute, and serves as a committee member for its October conference at U.C. Berkeley, Korean Unification and U.S. Policy. Dr. Danico is the chair-elect of the Asian American section of the American Sociological Association, is serving on the Association for Asian American Studies board, and will co-chair the 2009 AAAS conference in Hawaii. She will present on the Korean American Diaspora in July at the National University of Singapore's conference Return Migration in Asia.
Dr. Erika DeJonghe is a 2008 recipient of the Provost's Teacher-Scholar award. This program provides outstanding assistant and associate professors support and mentoring toward their continued professional development.
Dr. Jack Fong has a forthcoming book (April, 2008): Revolution as Development: the Karen Self Determination Struggle against Ethnocracy from 1949 to 2004, with Universal Publishers. He also just had an article accepted in the peer-reviewed journal Qualitative Sociology Review, titled American Cultural "Reminders" of Citizenship after September 11, 2001: Nativisms in the Form of the Ethnocratic Retractability of American Identity.
Professor Marcia Lasswell conducted a Pre-Conference Institute Approved Supervisor Refresher Course with Clarence Hibbs at the annual conference of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy in Long Beach, October 11.
Dr. Dennis Loo's Declare it Now campaign was named the year's most valuable crusade by The Nation's John Nichols. Many of the orange ribbons were seen at the Oscars.
Dr. Stacy McGoldrick's grant from the Office of the Department of National Intelligence has been renewed. There are three summer-abroad slots available for students. Dr. McGoldrick and Dr. Wachs have been selected as the CSU Field Poll Faculty Fellows for 2008-2009, allowing them to place 12 questions on a field poll and providing a stipend and services.
Dr. Jeffery Mio is serving as the interim chair of the Institutional Review Board on campus for Fall and Winter quarters while Dr. Adams is on sabbatical.
Dr. Jill Nemiro's new book was just released (March, 2008): The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries (Jossey Bass). Also, her article, Appreciative Inquiry Faculty Focus Group Findings kicked-off the first (Fall, 2007) issue of the CPP newsletter ADVANCE Topical.
Dr. Susan Siaw will be presenting a paper entitled, "How Psychology Students View Self," at the C.S. Lewis Foundation Conference, The Self and the Search for Meaning, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, this summer.
Dr. Felicia Friendly Thomas and Dr. Lori Barker Hackett have expanded the services provided by the Ennis W. Cosby Friendmobile with the involvement of predoctoral interns from U. La Verne. Cal Poly Pomona students interested in gaining experience and course credit as volunteers should contact Dr. Thomas.
Dr. Faye Wachs and Dr. Shari L. Dworkin have a new book in press: Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Marketing of Fitness, which will be available at the end of the year from NYU Press. Dr. Wachs and Dr. McGoldrick have been selected as this year's CSU Field Poll Faculty Fellows.
Dr. Wayne Wooden had an article titled, "Social-Cultural and Critical Responses to Brokeback Mountain," recently published in the National Social Science Journal (Volume 29, Number 1, 2007). He also will be presenting, along with student researchers Jessica Burton and Hovsep Agop, a paper titled, "The Virginia Tech Massacre from the British Press Perspective," at the April 2008 meetings of the National Social Science Association in Las Vegas, Nevada.
