Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 1 SPRING 2009 Message from the Dean

APPLIED MATH A Tale of Robots, Burglaries, and Rapunzel’s Hair

Volume 18 Number 3 Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 1 SPRING 2009 Message from the Dean

Dear Graduate Student,

In recent years, an interesting dichotomy has developed between the so-called STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—and the arts and humanities: languages, music, literature. The general thinking seems to be that if you understand the science culture, you’ll be lost in the humanities, and vice versa. At its worst, that dichotomy is played out in a way that turns science and mathematics into phobias of the mainstream culture. “I don’t know much about science and math” quickly becomes “I don’t like science and math,” which is magically transformed into “If I don’t like it, it’s not important and maybe even strictly of interest to nerds.” At universities, we are justifiably concerned about how these attitudes among 10-year-olds can play out in the competitive position of American science and technology two or three decades from now. In a much more benign difference, we nevertheless have UCLA’s North Campus and South Campus. Of course, at UCLA, we’ve learned what wonderful discoveries lie in the territory of what we don’t know or don’t understand or don’t think we’ll like. You’ll find plenty of those wonderful discoveries in this issue. Graduate students in applied mathematics are working on everything from the flow and curl of an animated Rapunzel’s long tresses to improved medical images that can help doctors diagnose and treat illnesses—and sometimes they’re enlisting robots as lab assistants. Postdoctoral scholars are winning awards for their work in mathematics, engineering, and physical, biological, and social sciences. It’s my hope that graduate students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences will take this opportunity to learn about and marvel at the extraordinary cutting edge work under way at UCLA. In the same way, we have in the past and will in the future offer graduate students in the sciences an opportunity to learn about and marvel at the equally fascinating work being done by their peers in other fields: making documentary films about the Southern California community, building a virtual ancient Rome, exploring the politics of gender in Muslim reform movements, or studying hip hop broadcast- ing in Botswana. One of our goals at the Graduate Quarterly is to celebrate the great work of graduate students and to display it for all the world to see—especially those closest to home. A world-class university like UCLA offers many additional ways to pursue something of a liberal arts education while engaged in the typically narrow focus of a graduate project. The opportunities to accomplish this include lectures and symposia, graduate student journals in many fields, and your own graduate student colleagues—make a friend in a field opposite to your own and exchange notes. Please join us in celebrating graduate student achievements.

Claudia Mitchell-Kernan Vice Chancellor Graduate Studies Dean, Graduate Division

2 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Graduate Quarterly Contents Spring 2009 a publication of the UCLA Graduate Division

FEATurES Vice Chancellor Graduate Studies Dean, Graduate Division Claudia Mitchell-Kernan 4 Applied Math Cutting edge research uses math for ap- Assistant Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies plication in health science, social science, Samuel Bersola and cinema.

Associate Dean 13 UC Presidents Fellows Carlos V. Grijalva Five the winners of the UC Office of the Associate Dean President’s fellowships for recent doctoral Ross Shideler graduates, whose academic careers will help to promote diversity and access in Associate Dean higher education. M. Belinda Tucker 18 Postdoc Profile Assistant Dean, Graduate Admissions/ Student and Academic Affairs Libby Lewis, a postdoctoral scholar in the NEWS Daniel J. Bennett Ralph J. Bunche Center for African Ameri- can Studies and a former journalist, writes Director, Graduate Budgets and Personnel about race and the media. Chancellor’s Award for Christine Y. Wang 22 Postdoctoral Research Walking in LA 20 Winners Director, Graduate Outreach, Graduate students from the Diversity & Fellowships UCLA postdoctoral scholars were Students of Color for Public Health Chérie Francis honored at the 2009 Postdoc- assess the walkability of Palms. toral Scholars Reception for their Director, Graduate Student Support important contributions to the Ana Lebon interrelated missions of research, ON THE COVER: The teaching, and public service. Graduate Quarterly’s first robot cover model comes from the robotics laboratory in the Depart- 24 Graduate Student Editor, Designer and Photographer ment of Mathematics and the Accomplishments Mary Watkins research of Postdoctoral Fellow Writer Dr. Yanina Landa (below). Jacqueline Tasch

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Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 3 Applied MMATHATH A Tale of Robots, Burglaries, and Rapunzel Hair

by Jacqueline Tasch

y any number of measures, the applied math- founding member of the California Nanosystems Institute. ematics program at UCLA has followed an Professor Caflisch is director of the Institute for Applied ascending trajectory in recent years. Not that long Mathematics (IPAM), which draws scholars from all over the ago they got word that the program• had moved world with its program of conferences, seminars, and fellow- up to third place in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, one of ships. IPAM’s mission is to strengthen ties between mathematics several assessments of graduate program quality. “This is quite an and other sciences. honor for us,” says Andrea Bertozzi, director of the applied math- Professor Bertozzi notes that scholars in applied mathematics ematics program, which is part of the Department of Mathematics, also “have to learn enough about the application area in science or “and we feel it’s long deserved.” engineering to make original contributions.” Thus, applied math- Then this spring brought news that two of the department’s ematics is the quintessential interdisciplinary program. A bonus professors have been elected to the elite American Academy of is that a single research finding may have diverse applications: “A Arts and Sciences, recognizing their “preeminent contributions to small twist might allow us to solve some problem in another area,” their disciplines and to society at large.” Stanley Osher, an applied Professor Bertozzi says. mathematician who has done three decades of ground-breaking work The program or its faculty members have research grants from a in image processing, is also a member of the National Academy of variety of government and industrial partners, including the Depart- Sciences. The second, Terence Tao, works in pure mathematics and ment of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, Intel, Raytheon, was among Discover magazine’s “20 Best Brains Under 40.” That and Lockheed Martin. The applied program has a $1.3 million grant group also included Joseph Teran, a recent addition to the applied from the National Science Foundation for a research training group mathematics faculty whose work ranges from virtual surgery to and was instrumental in bringing a $5 million NSF VIGRE training cinematic special effects. grant to the Department of Mathematics. Professor Bertozzi points out that Professors Osher and On the pages that follow, we spotlight some of the diverse research Teran belong to “an exciting group of faculty” that also includes now under way among the dozen or so full- and part-time faculty Professors Luminita Vese and Tony Chan, who established the and introduce readers to a sampling of apprentices drawn from more UCLA Center for Computational Biology, and Russ Caflisch, a than 20 postdoctoral scholars and more than 50 doctoral students.

4 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Andrea Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Applied Mathematics program Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 5 So while he insists that he “can’t do algebra or basic mathematics any better than your average person,” he has considerable expertise in algorithms and partial differential equations. If you know all about that stuff, you might as well turn the page and read about some of the graduate students who are changing the world with mathematics. If you don’t, here are some general explanations. A nonlinear partial differential equation is the mathematics you would use to describe a kind of physical process that’s evolving in time in a way that’s not linearly predictable. Examples are waves, climate, disease—or in the case of UCLA projects, brain structure, blood flowing through the heart, crime patterns, and Rapunzel’s hair. An algorithm is a detailed process for solving a problem; algorithms are often computer programs. Often, the challenge is to fill in missing data—something that’s obscured by an object in a satellite photograph, for example, or a blurred spot on an MRI. Building an algorithm is not unlike restoring an old painting; you use what you can see and other knowledge The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics you’re able to gather to fill in the missing or damaged information. When researchers in this field talk about noise, they’re not refer- ring to a loud radio or low-flying jets. “Noise” in applied mathematics is Some Background... anything that gets in the way of a clear image, from blurring to corrupted data. You get rid of the noise not by “turning down the volume” but rather For Non-Math Majors by cleaning up the image or de-noising it. While numerical mathematics still aims to solve problems and provide proofs with algorithms, computational mathemat- “In high school, I hated math,” says graduate stu- ics—it relies on computer use—involves developing algorithms based dent Jacob Bedrossian. “I thought it was really dumb”—and he didn’t get on good intuition as much as rigorous theory. It’s a process that’s at very good grades. Starting as a physics major at Case Western Reserve least partly experimental. University, however, he found out that “all the coolest things I liked about As a result, Jacob’s mediocre skills in high school math are physics were coming from the math. Mathematics was about reducing more or less irrelevant. As he points out, “It’s not like I ever have things to their fundamentals and then being able to draw conclusions.” to add anything.”

6 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Yanina Landa Robots!!!

uPPOSE yOu’rE ON make your way through the stacks to find Professor Andrea Bertozzi and a junior vAcATION in Paris, it? To model these problems Dr. Landa member of the engineering faculty. “It’s and when you get to the is using partial differential equations: a unusual for a math department to have a world-famous Louvre, Helmholtz equation for the acoustic waves lab,” Professor Bertozzi says. Her research they’ve run out of maps. (bird singing) and a Poisson equation for a group uses it to study the “cooperative How can you make sure steady state of a diffusion problem (smelly motion of robots—many robots working you see every single painting in the museum cheese). Both problems can be classified as together to solve a problem.” without wandering the marble halls forever inverse because “the locations of the sources Dr. Landa had studied math and Sand ever? must be deduced from the observed signal.” physics in her native Ukraine, and she This is the problem Yanina Landa Her lab assistants in this research are “missed the rigorous problem solving” turned into her dissertation in applied robots the size of matchbox cars, making after a couple of semesters at UCLA as a mathematics at UCLA. And yes, Virginia, their way across tiles colored different major in design/media arts, so she added there is a solution, Dr. Landa says. “Fol- shades of gray to represent the strength of a major in math, “resting from one while lowing our algorithm, your path would the auditory or olfactory signal. “It’s almost doing the other.” A summer research terminate in finite time, and you would like a game,” she says. A game with some project at the Institute for Pure and Ap- see the entire environment.” very serious applications. While only a very plied Mathematics put her solidly into Now a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Landa hungry student might care about smelly applied mathematics for graduate work. has taken on a new project, which you could cheese, knowing how to evade mines is a “What I like about applied math,” says call “bird in the woods” or “smelly cheese life and death issue for soldiers. Dr. Landa, “is that it has connections to in the library.” If you hear a bird singing, The robotics laboratory came to the the real world, and you can talk about it how do you navigate around the trees to Department of Mathematics as a result of to ordinary people”—at least if you have get to it? If you smell cheese, how do you a joint project, now concluded, between her gift for interesting metaphors.

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 7 A “Funky Way” to Improve Medical Imaging

HIS MAy BE NEWS TO beam of radiation through tissue. Ultrasound sult from motion. He’s also trying to get the yOu: The MRI, the CT does the same thing with high-frequency best image in the least time. Patients don’t scan, and ultrasound, the sound and its echoes. In all cases, the results want to lie in an MRI for hours, and doctors three stalwarts of modern are fed into a computer, where software has and technicians can’t wait forever for diag- medical imaging, don’t to make sense of what graduate student Tom nostic images. Based on compressed sensing take actual pictures in the Goldstein calls “a weird mishmash of data.” theory, Tom’s algorithms take a smaller same way a digital camera does. Instead, Tom is one of three young men helping amount of data than traditional programs, the machines collect various kinds of data, to build UCLA’s world reputation in image using a spiral sample rather than a Euclidean whichT computer software translates into processing with new applications related square. It’s “sort of a funky way that allows images. For example, an MRI measures to these three basic tools. Because nobody you to achieve much more high-resolution small oscillations in the magnetic field can remain perfectly still inside the MRI reconstruction of images,” he says. around your body caused by protons in the machine, one of his tasks is to clean up “the Now here’s the scary thing. Without molecules of your tissue. A CT scan shoots a noise”—fuzziness or blurring that might re- cutting the patient open, there’s no way to

8 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 “I realized that geometry is beautiful, but I’m more interested in something connected with the real world.” Yu Mao tell for sure that the final cleaned-up image is a totally accurate representation of actual body parts. One way to test for accuracy is to use “phantoms.” For example, Tom takes an MRI of a circular block that has holes in it of different sizes. Using compressed sensing, “you can see the smallest holes,” he says, “holes that aren’t visible on a conventional MRI.” The good news: If the algorithm turns out accurate images of the phantom, it’s probably doing a pretty good job on your body parts, too. Tom’s colleague, Yu Mao, is applying Political Science Graduate Student Ryan Enos the same theory to CT scans. Compressed A CT scan of a human head. The conventional method, on the left, is grainy. Yu Mao’s, on the sensing lets him work with as few as a third right, is cleaner. of the measurements required by traditional image processing software. Here, a crucial is crucial. Traditional ultrasound is often not effects. His three graduate students have element is the radiation dose: “You want to detailed enough to show where the point of helped in his most recent findings on com- reduce the radiation dose and still keep the the needle is, so doctors “have to poke several pressed sensing. quality of the image,” he explains. times to find the right spot—you can imag- Tom started doing medical imaging as Bin Dong juggles a couple of projects. ine how much that would hurt.” Bin found a undergraduate math major at Washington In one, he’s worked with a postdoctoral a way to enhance imaging of the tip of the University, helping to program blood flow fellow in radiology to get better pictures of needle so doctors know exactly where it is. mapping. Bin was studying for a master’s the brain. “From the raw data, the surface All three graduate students are drawing degree in mathematics in Singapore, when of the brain is really jagged,” he says. “It’s on what Bin calls “the stuff Stan invented,” Professor Osher and Tony Chan gave a series not nice looking.” Using the tools developed Stan being Professor Stanley Osher, their of talks on their work. Yu started out in by Professor Osher and his colleagues, he’s mentor. Twenty years ago, his work with pure mathematics, and in particular general able to get an image clear enough to help Lenny Rudin, applying work on shock waves geometry, at Peking University. “I realized doctors “capture and calculate the volume to image processing, helped revolutionize that geometry is beautiful, but I’m more of a lump.” digital imaging. The two built a company interested in something connected with Another project involves images cap- on the new research, called Cognitech, in the real world,” he says. But he still reads tured with ultrasound, a primary tool in which Professor Osher no longer has an geometry books—“just for fun.” emergency rooms. If a doctor is using a interest. A level set method he co-developed needle to get a sample of a tumor or draw out earlier has been widely used, for example, fluid from inside the body, proper placement to create Academy award-winning special

In the lobby of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (from left to right) : Yu Mao, Professor Stanley Osher, Bin Dong, and Tom Goldstein

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 9 Jacob Bedrossian, Assistant Professor Joseph Teran, Aleka McAdams Virtual Surgery & Animation

L E k A M c A D A M S both kinds of projects are in his own resume. Finding herself working in film was a bit spent her summer vaca- Professor Teran has already developed a of serendipity for Aleka, and her plan is “to see tion helping the folks at working model for some types of virtual where everything takes me.” Although Jacob Disney make Rapunzel’s plastic surgery, and he is a regular consultant began his college work in pure mathematics, golden hair look more on Disney’s animated films. he moved to applied math for his master’s flowing and natural when Aleka’s newest project provides evidence degree and doctoral work, thinking that in she drops it over the side of the tower where of the intersection. Using inverse constitu- the applied field, “people can get to the cut- a witch has imprisoned her—so the hand- tive modeling, she’s developing a way to add ting edge research a lot faster.” No kidding. someA prince can climb up for a visit. bulging muscles or rippling fat to a cartoon Her fellow graduate student, Jacob character whose general activities—moving Bedrossian, has been busy creating computer his arm or getting hit, for example—have models of how flowing blood interacts with a been sketched by a human animator. The heart valve and the heart wall. The eventual same programming will help doctors read new goal: a program that will allow surgeons to time-sequence MRIs of human bodies and learn by doing virtual heart surgery, hold- identify the material properties of the tissue. ing actual instruments, feeling the kind of As for Rapunzel, Aleka points out that resistance tissue would give, and seeing the it would be hard “to have an animator draw virtual outcomes of their work. At some what every single hair does.” Her computer point, the simulation might be tailored to program used a two-fold process, treating a particular patient. the hair something like a fluid for the first According to Joseph Teran, the assistant step and then adding details for some indi- professor who is adviser to both graduate vidual hairs. An article based on her work students, the underlying mathematics for with Professor Teran will be published in an Aleka McAdams’ computer-generated hair on both tasks is remarkably similar. Indeed, upcoming issue of journal. Siggraph an animated test character from Disney.

10 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 New Frontiers in Math

PPLIED MATHEMAT- Paul Thompson and other LONI re- IcS, by definition, is searchers were impressed with the results— applied to something and so was the Information Processing in else—usually something Medical Imaging conference, which ac- in the physical sciences. cepted the work for a poster presentation As a result, researchers and conference proceedings paper. need to know not just their math but also Yunho started at UCLA in pure math- the chemistry, physics, or biology in the ematics, and he was drawn to Professor Aapplication—at least well enough to make Vese’s research group because it was doing original contributions. That makes it a both pure and applied projects. “I thought Math Professor Luminita Vese natural interdisciplinary program. I could use my knowledge of pure math to routine coming and going of residents, of- UCLA’s applied mathematics program do something else,” he said. fenders, and police—could explain how “an works with various other researchers on cam- offender who needs money finds the criminal pus. Yunho Kim’s work with the Laboratory Crime and Mathematics opportunity to exploit.” of NeuroImaging (LONI) is fairly typical Using old data on residential burglaries of such linkages, while Nancy Rodriguez’s In his work as an archaeologist, P. Jeffrey and a system of partial differential equa- research on crime forges a new connection Brantingham was studying how long-ago tions—and taking “small, very deliberate with the social sciences. hunter-gatherers searched and found food, steps,” Professor Brantingham says—the water, and shelter in ancient China. He interdisciplinary team he assembled has “Cleaning up” the Brain wondered if similar physical patterns—the come up with a model that can identify a

LONI researchers have been developing computational methods to find fiber tracks Math Graduate Student Yunho Kim in the brain from data obtained by the so- called HARDI method, a new kind of MRI that measures how much water molecules diffuse in given directions through the brain; this is a way to assess the quality of the myelin believed to be associated with intelligence—or at least with how fast the brain works. To provide better images of what HAR- DI is uncovering, LONI turned to Professor Luminita Vese and her graduate student, Yunho Kim. Yunho used partial differential equations, probability approaches, the calculus of variations, and computer science to create images with better quality than the original noisy images by “taking into ac- count the geometric structure present in the data to help other researchers tracking the fibers in the brain more accurately,” he says.

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 11 Associate Professor of Anthropology P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Math graduate student Nancy Rodriguez

small area of high risk where 40% to 45% of the crimes occur—a much better predictive Densities of Residential Burglaries record than other models. Graduate student Nancy Rodriguez in the Mid-San Fernando Valley, April-June 2005 has the unglamorous but essential role of making sure the model they’re using is theoretically sound. “If there’s some condi- tion in which it won’t work,” she says, “then the model isn’t very good.” Working with her adviser, Professor of Applied Mathemat- ics Andrea Bertozzi, she’s also comparing simpler but similar models “to see if I can modify them to apply to our model.” Professor Brantingham says her work “is really heavy lifting.” She has “been spearheading work on what we think of as mathematical proofs of the model, show- ing internal consistency and vetting all of the fundamental internal mathematical assumptions.” Nancy was working toward an engineering degree when she found she liked the required math courses more than engineering itself. She came to UCLA in part because “I enjoy being able to collaborate with my fellow students rather than trying to compete with them,” something the crime project has certainly facilitated. red = high density, blue = low density

12 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 UC President’s Fellows Diversity in Access and Research

Jackelyn Alva he UC Office of the President awards 20 postdoctoral BS, PhD, UCLA fellowships each year to recent doctoral graduates whose T academic careers will help to promote diversity and ac- Mentor: April Pyle, Professor of Microbiology, cess in higher education. Assistant Provost Sheila O’Rourke, the Immunology and Molecular Genetics. program’s director, describes President’s Fellows as “people who will be engaged in service efforts that will advance equitable access in higher education or who are doing research that focuses on popula- eing a single mother hasn’t deterred Jackelyn Alva from tions that have been historically underserved by academic research.” achieving a doctoral degree in molecular biology or from The program has become a national model, in part because of Bdoing the postdoctoral work that will prepare her for a key its remarkable success in achieving its goal. In the last six years, close academic position. to 70 recipients of the fellowship have obtained faculty appointments Besides an infant son, Dr. Alva brought to her undergraduate at UC campuses. That record, added to the $50,000 to $60,000 per studies at UCLA an interest in science that began when she was in year package of stipend and research funds, is quite attractive to junior high school. DNA, RNA, cells, and organelles—“that just new PhD recipients seeking support for their postdoctoral work. really fascinated me,” she says, “but I wasn’t sure at first that I wanted This year, 477 applications were reviewed to fill the 20 positions. Kimberly Adkinson, the program’s manager, says applications are to pursue science.” A year of sampling UCLA’s wide range of cur- routed electronically to 100 faculty reviewers; another 50 faculty ricular offerings settled her course on molecular biology: “Nothing meet at UCOP headquarters to make the final selections. The initial else sparked my interest.” award is for one year, but it can be renewed for a second year with She stayed at UCLA for graduate studies, in part because “I evidence of progress. needed the help of my family” in caring for her son and a little Besides financial support, UC President’s Fellows get the profes- brother born while she was an undergraduate. Grants paid tuition, sional development they need to qualify for faculty positions in the the boys attended free UCLA day care, and Dr. Alva also lived with UC system and at other prestigious universities. A key element is her mother for a time to save money. A Howard Hughes Predoctoral their mentor. Candidates must find a UC faculty member to spon- Fellowship paid for five years of graduate studies, and she has a UC sor their work, and that professor must write in support of their application, addressing the level of departmental support. Mentors President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship to cover as much as two years are asked to be active participants in the fellow’s postdoctoral career. of postdoctoral work. And a new element in the support team is the growing number Dr. Alva’s research involves the basic biology of human embry- of program alumni now working as UC faculty, Assistant Provost onic stem cells (hESCs): Why do they sometimes self-renew as stem O’Rourke says. “We have a large cohort of new faculty who are cells and why, in other cases, do they differentiate into other types wonderful mentors for our fellows.” Here are profiles of five of the of cells? She is examining the role of PTEN, a tumor-suppressor current UC President’s Fellows working at UCLA. gene, in this process. Preliminary work suggests that when PTEN is missing from a stem cell, it is more likely to self-renew and less likely to differentiate. Another aspect of her work is related to cancer. PTEN is a well- known regulator of tumorigenesis. Mutations of PTEN may give a selective growth advantage and result in hESC transformation, which can lead to cancer progression , This propensity could be a disadvantage if stem cells were used in therapy. Understanding deregulated PTEN activity in hESCs may yield insight into the mechanisms that cause hESC transformation. Besides proposing a research agenda, applicants for the UC President’s Fellowship must show evidence of a commitment to diversity. In Dr. Alva’s case, she can point to mentoring activities and to outreach efforts telling students at local high schools and colleges about research careers. In one case, she spoke to pregnant teenagers at her son’s high school to tell them how an academic career can be sustained with a young family. “It is difficult,” she says, “but if you have determination and help, it can be done.”

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 13 Michelle Armstrong-Partida BS, Texas A&M, PhD, University of Iowa Mentor: Teofilo Ruiz, Professor of History

etween her undergraduate years at Texas A&M and her Arab baths, and best of all, the historical documents that are the graduate studies at the University of Iowa, Michelle Arm- data for her dissertation. Bstrong-Partida experienced a rather substantial change of Looking at local clergy through the reports of visiting bish- scholarly heart, abandoning marine biology for the study of sex and ops, she found that it was very common in rural parishes for violence among parish priests in 14th-century Catalonia. “a local woman to become the priest’s concubine and to have After completing her science degree, she took a backpacking trip a family,” she says. Moreover, “quite often I read accounts of through Europe, spending much of her time in Spain and discover- priests carrying swords and beating up parishioners”—clearly ing a growing fascination for monasteries, abbeys, cathedrals, and “engaging in behaviors that the church has prohibited.” Instead castles. Returning home to test her interest in history classes at the of meeting the ideal of the celibate priesthood, priests were University of Texas, El Paso, she found that the subject “came more adopting the markers of masculinity common among laymen naturally to me than science, and I always enjoyed writing.” She of the time. went on to doctoral studies at the University of Iowa, where she also During the term of her UC President’s Fellowship, Dr. Arm- volunteered as a Spanish interpreter for a university medical outreach strong-Partida hopes to turn her dissertation into a publishable book. program, working with migrant women seeking health care. She came to UCLA because of the large community of Iberian scholars Based on her backpacking travels, Dr. Armstrong-Partida would in California, where she can “be part of the intellectual exchange have loved to do her doctoral work in Seville, but “my sources with those leading the field in the history of medieval Spain.” She weren’t in Seville, and I couldn’t make them appear there.” Instead was also attracted by opportunity to participate in weekly workshops she worked in Girona, a city in northeastern Spain that is pretty and seminars at UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies much off the tourist track. Dating to pre-Roman times, it has a and at the thrice-yearly medieval seminar at the Huntington Library, well-preserved medieval old town, an interesting cathedral, some where she will present her work in May.

14 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Wesley G. Moons BA Boston College; PhD, UC Santa Barbara Mentor: Shelley E. Taylor, Distinguished Professor of Psychology

hen people ask Wesley Moons what he does as a post- In his dissertation research, Dr. Moons did a similar study, in doctoral fellow, he tells them “I collect saliva.” What which Participant A had to deliver some potentially bad news to WDr. Moons wants to know is how much of the stress Participant B: that he or she had an average score on a test predicting hormones cortisol and alpha amylase are contained in the saliva, as career success. What he was testing is how A’s expectations about a measure of how stressed the individual is. how B would react would determine B’s actual response to the news. And this is part of a still more complicated experiment. In perhaps the most interesting finding, Dr. Moons found that In Dr. Moons’ postdoctoral research, participants will be recruited when Participant A “tried to be particularly supportive or uplifting, in pairs. Participant A will have five minutes to prepare a speech that actually induced the other person to feel worse.” A realistic ap- about his or her qualifications for a job, then another five minutes proach to delivering the news—with no positive spin or expressions to deliver it to Dr. Moons and Participant B. Finally, Participant A of support—seemed to produce the best outcome for the recipient will be asked to count backward from 2,057 by 13s: 2,044, 2,031, of the news. 2,018, and so on. His postdoctoral direction was clear. UCLA Professor of Psy- There’s not much question that Participant A will experi- chology Shelley Taylor is a renowned expert in social support and ence stress, measured not only by the stress hormones in saliva the stress response. Working with her offers the opportunity to but also by blood pressure and heart rate. But Dr. Moons will extend his study into biological measures and “to learn the new be running the same physiological tests on Participant B, the techniques required,” he says. Being at UCLA provides another observer, and is actually more interested in how much stress bonus: a diverse student body that will allow Dr. Moons to explore the observer feels. possible cultural differences in stress responses.

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 15 Lilia Soto BA, UC San Diego; PhD, UC Berkeley Mentor: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor of Chicana/o Studies

ilia Soto drew the inspiration for her doctoral research from tion and uncertainty of the move and a childhood where their father her own life experience, coming north every summer from was absent for long periods. LMexico to visit her father, who worked most of the year in They understood “their father’s departure as some sort of com- Napa, California. Then, when she was 10, the family was able to mute,” or going back and forth to work, Dr. Soto says. “It was an in- move to California permanently. teresting way that the girls explained their departure.” Life in Mexico Teaching for a few months after her undergraduate degree at went on in some fashion when their fathers were away. Nevertheless, UC San Diego, Dr. Soto met many young women who shared her Dr. Soto argues, “migration and the possibility of migration places experience. At UC Berkeley for doctoral studies, she started read- these girls in a state of uncertainty and interruption and anticipation ing the literature on immigration, and she realized that she and the that expands their immigrant journey so that it begins before they others had spent years “in a continuous state of waiting for someone cross the border, and in some cases, before they are born.” to send for them.” She began to wonder: “What is life like as they Completing the first year of a UC President’s Fellowship, Dr. wait their turn to migrate?” Soto has completed an article about her research and is now seek- By happenstance, Napa was not so far from campus, and Dr. ing a place to publish. If she is renewed for a second year, she will Soto interviewed 20 Mexican immigrant girls there, girls who had work on a book-length manuscript based on her interviews. She grown up in transnational households, with their father or mother chose UCLA so that she could work with Professor of Chicana/o or both at work in Napa while they remained in Mexico. Once in Studies Abel Valenzuela, Jr., whose work on the different experi- the United States, the girls responded in various ways—happy to be ences of immigrant boys and girls had provided background for here, longing for home—but they all had experienced the anticipa- her dissertation.

16 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor BA, Tufts University PhD, UC Santa Barbara Mentor: Cheryl Harris, Professor of Law

n the years leading up to the Civil War, black slaves travel- Dr. Pryor’s dissertation deals with the hundred or so freed African ing abroad with their masters could carry a U.S. passport, but Americans who traveled to Europe in the first half of the 19th century, Ifreed African Americans paradoxically were denied the same a journey that might include rail or stagecoach and then an ocean documents because they were not—and could not become—U.S. voyage. “Each time free persons of color insisted on getting first-class citizens. Looking into the legal aspects of this linkage between accommodations—sometimes they did, but very often they didn’t— travel and citizenship brought Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor to UCLA they were making a statement about citizenship,” Dr. Pryor says. for postdoctoral work in the Law School. The significance of their transit status was underscored by the In the 1830s through 1850s, Dr. Pryor says, free meant simply African Americans themselves. “They always pointed to their treat- “unchained, not free to participate in the body politic.” Thus, how to ment on public transportation as a symbol of the difference in racial treat free African Americans was the subject of considerable debate. treatment between the United States and Great Britain,” she says. If citizenship was defined by the right to vote, for example, freed “That’s how profound the impact was.” African Americans in Massachusetts were citizens—but not those Another kind of travel accommodation has had an impact on in other states. White women, who couldn’t vote, got “disabled Dr. Pryor. When Smith College, where she will begin a tenure track citizenship,” but even this was denied to African Americans. In ad- appointment this coming fall, invited her east to give a lecture, dition, mobility—freedom to move from place to place at will—has they included travel costs for her two young children, 7 and 10. “always been a huge part of American identity,” Dr. Pryor says, and Throughout her graduate studies, she has found that motherhood an implied right of citizenship. African Americans were barred from is “accepted and respected,” Dr. Pryor says, in an academic environ- migrating to Illinois and Ohio. ment “that can see me as a mother and a scholar at the same time.”

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 17 StudentPostdoc Profiles

18 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Libby Lewis A Former Journalist Writes About Race and the Media

IBBy LEWIS APPLIED FOr literature, she spent her doctoral years not it came time to look for a postdoctoral po- doctoral work in the African in the research library but back out on the sition, she knew where she wanted to go. Diaspora Studies program at streets reporting, “beginning to build an Dr. Lewis is just completing a year-long UC Berkeley to help her under- archive,” she says. “It was more grueling, it fellowship sponsored by UCLA’s Institute of stand the marginalization she was more challenging, but it was so much American Cultures, assigned to the Bunche andL other Black journalists were experienc- more rewarding, and it was something that Center for African American Studies, where ing as reporters and anchors on in network needed to be said.” Professor Hunt is director. news. After assignments that ranged from How to say it, though, brought her to a Fulfilling the mission that brought her northern California to Mississippi, and from halt midway in the writing. How could she to doctoral studies, Dr. Lewis has nearly reporting to anchoring and even a short term give scholarly credibility to what might oth- finished a book based on her dissertation. as a weatherperson, Dr. Lewis says, “I found erwise be dismissed as personal anecdotes? She’ll be looking for an academic position myself in a tailspin.” She found part of her answer in work by where she can teach, and she has a couple of She had witnessed treatment that ranged UCLA Professor of Sociology Darnell Hunt, other publication projects in mind. “I write from having to get her hair straightened to ideas about raced ways of seeing that in- for my own survival,” she says. “I know that seeing a colleague passed over for an assign- cludes an examination of how the pronouns sounds dramatic, but it’s true.” ment because his accent was considered too people use can reveal their inner attitudes. heavily influenced by Latin America, from Going back to her interviews, Dr. hearing about Asian colleagues who had Lewis found a conversation with a talent surgery to widen their eyes to observing agent, who had used I and you when he The IAc Fellowship the isolation of non-White reporters on was talking about his work for a client. and Grant Program weekend and graveyard shifts. At gather- When she asked why having her hair The Institute of American Cultures, ings of minority journalists, “conversations straightened was an important part of which builds links between UCLA’s four about how we were being treated in the the hiring process, “he slipped up,” she ethnic studies centers, sponsors a com- newsroom” were common parlance, she says, says. He said: “We find if you wear your petitive fellowship and grant program but not many risked speaking up outside of hair a certain way, we find it distracting,” each year to support student and faculty that circle. clearly teaming up with the news manag- research. Libby Lewis is this year’s only That was the task Dr. Lewis took up at ers instead of his client. postdoctoral fellow. To learn more about Berkeley: “to examine representations of After that, Dr. Lewis says, “the writing the IAC and how to apply for support, go “Blackness” in television news and use that flowed.” At the time, she sent Professor to http://gdnet.ucla.edu/iacweb/iachome. htm or call (310) 206-9791. as a springboard to talk about the broader Hunt a thank you note, but later, she was issues.” Finding little in the academic encouraged to send him her work, and when

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 19 Walking in L.A. Graduate Students from the Students of Color for Public Health Assess the Walkability of Palms

By Malia Jones, with Jacqueline Tasch Photography by rosa calva

rE THE SIDEWALkS smooth or still full of cracks from the last earth- quake and bumps from haphazard repairs? At intersections, are there lowered curbs to make crossing easy for people with strollers, walkers, or wheel- chairs?A Is the traffic signal timed so you can make it across the street without imitating the Road Runner? These are just a few measures of something the experts call walkability: the quality of the environment from the perspective of pedestrians. Beyond sidewalk conditions and motor vehicle safety, it includes the availability of potential destinations like restaurants and shops, as well as aesthetic qualities like trees, art, trash, and graffiti. UCLA graduate students share an interest in the walkability of the Palms neighborhood with its many other residents because it has good bus access to campus and contains several buildings in the UCLA exactly what and where the problems are, so After the training, the volunteers went graduate student housing network. So, on solutions can be targeted. out into the streets of Palms for four hours, a recent Saturday, graduate students from On the day of the event, 18 walk- performing a block-by-block assessment Students of Color for Public Health joined ability study volunteers participated in of more than 30 walkability-related items in a walkability assessment with community a two-hour training session led by Malia (see box for a sample). Working in pairs, volunteers and the Palms Neighborhood Jones, MPH, doctoral student and SCPH’s they covered more than 60% of the streets Council, which has made improved walk- director of communications. During the and intersections of Palms in one day, and ability one of its top priorities for neighbor- training, the volunteers learned about a second assessment event is planned for hood action in 2009. Residents know that the meaning of walkability and its effects this summer. walkability in Palms isn’t perfect, and the on community health, as well as how to The data will be compiled into a Pe- goal of this community event was to find out complete the assessment. destrian Environmental Quality Index, a

20 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Walkability Quiz Does Your Neighborhood Pass?

WALKABILITY ASSESSMENT PARTICIPANTS: Standing up: Emmanuel Masongsong, Carlos ow walkable is your neighborhood? Bello*, Janelle Commins, Pauline Stout, Dee Olomajeye, Patty Smith, Marcus Blakely, Amy Here are some questions you Webber, Chikarlo Leak*, Rosa Calva, Hsin-Chieh Chang*, PhuongThao Le*, Allen Suh*. Front row: Brendan Kelly, Brian Kelly, Sandy Varga, Malia Jones*. * UCLA Graduate Students Hcan use to rate it. Or contact the Students of Color for Public Health, which is measure developed by the San Francisco looking for other neighborhoods in which to perform this kind of assessment. If you are Department of Public Health in 2008.1 interested in getting involved, e-mail scph@ The Index is a walkability score, which ucla.edu or visit Palms Neighborhood Council will be used with geographic information on the web at www.palsmla.org. systems (GIS) technology to create a walkability map of Palms, highlighting the areas 1. Are there curb cutouts at crosswalks most in need of improvements. The Palms at pedestrian intersections? Neighborhood Council, which paid for the study, plans to use this map to set priorities 2. If there is a traffic signal, how long and focus the City’s services. does it give pedestrians to cross? Walking is a good, affordable, and How wide is the street? easy form of physical activity, but most Americans get far less than the recom- 3. Are there cracks or bumps in the mended amount of physical activity for sidewalk? Temporary or permanent good health—3.7 million Californians get obstructions? no physical activity at all in a typical week.2 Low physical activity is related to overweight and obesity as well as 5 of the top 10 4. Are trees or gardens plentiful? leading causes of death in the United States.3 1. http://www.sfphes.org/HIA_Tools_PEQI.htm What’s more, walking reduces reliance 5. Are there places for pedestrians to sit on automobiles. About 28% of all car trips 2. UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Ask- and rest? CHIS. http://www.chis.ucla.edu/ are less than one mile4—a distance that could easily be walked. If everyone walked 3. Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding 6. How about retail stores, public art, or for short trips, there would be far less traffic JL. Actual Causes of Death in the United States, historical sites to attract passersby? congestion, air pollution, and injury from 2000. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/10/1238 motor vehicle accidents. But in order for 7. Do you see illegal graffiti? Litter? people to feel safe and comfortable walking, 4. National Household Travel Survey, 2001. http:// Abandoned buildings? there must be good sidewalks, safe intersec- nhts.ornl.gov/publications.shtml tions, and a safe and pleasant environment for pedestrians.

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 21 FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Vice Chancellor Graduate Studies, and Dean, Graduate Division Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Jérôme Darbon, Eileen Lueders, Chancellor Gene D. Block, Rupa Sridharan, Jesse Clark, Sungkyu Seo Jesse clark MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

CHANCELLOR’S “Dr. Clark is focused, motivated, intelligent, energetic, and productive (what more can I say?). His papers are important contributions AWARD FOR to the research literature. I have the greatest confidence he will be one of the next generation of leaders against the HIV epidemic.” POSTDOCTORAL –Thomas J. Coates, Professor in Residence, Department of Medicine

RESEARCH Jesse Clark has found an almost exclusive link between male same-sex sexual contact and HIV infection in a representative sample of low-income men in Lima and other coastal cities in Peru. UCLA postdoctoral scholars were honored at the 2009 Going one step further, he also noted a strong association between Postdoctoral Scholars Reception for their important role during sexual intercourse (as activo/Insertive or pasivo/receptive; contributions to the interrelated missions of research, mediated by sexual identity) and prevalence of HIV, HSV-2, and syphilis. Through interviews and focus groups, Dr. Clark confirmed teaching, and public service. Of the 1,089 registered the mediating relationship between sexual identity and sexual role. UCLA postdoctoral scholars, 15 were chosen as mem- His findings suggest that sexual identity is based on an interaction of bers of a select group of nominees for the Chancel- gender, sexuality, and social context, creating an unstable foundation lor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. The nominees for designing prevention interventions to diseases like HIV and STIs. represent virtually every discipline at UCLA, from the In contrast, sex role practices are simple, clearly understood, and an basic and applied sciences to the professional schools, important social component for prevention efforts in Latin America. Dr. Clark’s goal is to develop culturally specific interventions that the social sciences, and the humanities. bridge behavioral and biomedical approaches to prevention.

22 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Jérôme Darbon Sungkyu Seo PhD in Computer Science, École Normale PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France Texas A&M University

“Dr. Darbon has been working with many of us on speeding up our “Dr. Seo is an incredibly productive and creative scholar and has an favorite algorithms, and his impact on our research program has been exceptional set of communication and leadership skills. Given all of this, enormous. Although he is very young, I predict an outstanding re- I have absolutely no reservations about his eventual success in estab- search career for him. In fact, I would say he already has such a career.” lishing an independent and competitively funded research laboratory.” –Stanley Osher Professor of Mathematics –Aydogan Ozcan, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Jérôme Darbon has helped to develop fast algorithms that may revolutionize the way the numerical community looks at nonlinear Sungkyu Seo has developed a powerful and innovative on-chip elliptic equations arising from variational problems. Collaborating cell characterization platform termed LUCAS (Lensfree Ultra-wide with UCLA’s applied mathematics group in the design of efficient Cell monitoring Array based on Shadow Image) to detect and char- algorithms for solving problems arising in imaging sciences, Dr. acterize various cell types—red blood cell, white blood cell, platelet Darbon also provides tools for specific communities to facilitate or micro-organisms such as E. coli bacteria and yeast—without any their scientific discoveries. With researchers at the Center for lenses. Unlike other imaging modalities, LUCAS relies only on dif- Computational Biology, for example, he applied his techniques fraction signatures of the target cells captured by an opto-electronic to biomedical images for detecting and modeling their essential device. Therefore, it can provide a much faster, cheaper, and smaller features. He proposed an efficient algorithm to remove noise in cell characterization platform, one that could be integrated with a electron cryomicroscopy, a technology that allows discoveries at the regular cell phone, enabling tele-health care. Dr. Seo’s work has been subcellular scale. His algorithm speeds up the process by a factor of published in five peer-reviewed scientific journal/magazines, and the 50 and a UCLA patent has been filed. Dr. Darbon has a grant from same topic received an outstanding paper award at the Biomedical the U.S. Navy for conducting his research. Engineering Society’s fall meeting in St. Louis. The work was also highlighted by various mainstream media. Eileen Lueders PhD in Neuropsychology, University of Zurich rupa Sridharan PhD in Immunology, UCLA “Dr. Lueders possesses extraordinary skills in applying state-of-the- art tools to analyze the anatomy of the human brain. Combining “Dr. Sridharan is smart, full of drive and energy, and she gets things these skills with tremendous knowledge, an immensely creative done. In addition to having good hands, she has made major intel- spirit, and a dedicated work ethic, she has risen to the forefront of lectual contributions to all the ongoing projects in my lab. I strongly cognitive neuroscience.” value her input, and I can’t imagine having a lab without her.” –Arthur W. Toga, Professor of Neurology –Kathrin Plath, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry

Eileen Lueders has shown that while men have bigger brains Rupa Sridharan has developed a way to reprogram somatic cells overall and also a larger volume of brain tissue, women have brain into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells which behave like embry- regions of increased cortical thickness, cortical gray matter, and onic stem (ES) cells. The iPS cells provide a potential new source of cortical complexity. This might indicate a neuronal compensation pluripotent cells that can be transplanted back into the patient’s own mechanism for their smaller brains. Dr. Lueders’s analyses in more body to replace diseased or injured tissue. The iPS cells were first than 10 separate studies of healthy men and women were based on obtained from murine fibrolasts upon expression of the transcription magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Her most recent studies included Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc, which leads to a complete erasure of the correlation analyses to establish relationships between individual epigenetic memory in the fibroblast genome and the establishment intelligence quotients (i.e., full-scale IQ) and specific brain features of an epigenetic state similar to that of ES cells. Dr. Sridharan was (i.e., callosal thickness and brain surface convolution). Interestingly, subsequently involved in the application of transcription-factor- men and women also slightly differ with respect to how their intel- induced reprogramming to human fibroblasts. Besides their clinical ligence is reflected in brain anatomy, although both genders show applications in replacing diseased and damaged tissue, human iPS exclusively positive correlations. cells could provide a new platform to study how complex diseases progress at the cellular level. The work on iPS cells will also further the understanding of the ES-cell state and allow the discovery of mechanisms that underlie pluripotency.

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 23 Graduate Student Accomplishments

AFrIcAN AMErIcAN STuDIES 107 th Annual Meeting of the American Patricia Turner: “Grammar and Epistemics in Anthropological Association, November, 2008, Question Construction: After-hours Calls to an Dalena E. Hunter: [1] (Moderator) “New San Francisco, CA. [7] (Session Chair and Co- On-call Physician.” Presented at the American Destinations in Revolutionary Voices: 41st and organizer) “Remembering, Experiencing, and Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Performing Self and Community in Post-Socialist Denver, CO, March, 2009. Panthers.” Southwest Oral History Association Vietnam.” 107th Annual Meeting of the American - New Destinations in Oral History, Los Angeles, Anthropological Association, November, 2008, viviana unda: [ 1 ] ( F i r s t a u t h o r ) CA, March, 2009. [2] (Moderator) Leimert Park San Francisco, CA. “Teachingmedialiteracy.com. A Web-Linked Walking Tour and Film Screening. Southwest Guide to Resources and Activities by Richard Oral History Association - New Destinations Beach.” Book review in Issues in Applied Linguistics, in Oral History, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2009. APPLIED LINGuISTIcS & TESL vol. 16, pp. 89-91, April, 2009. [2] (First author) “The Discursive Exercise of School Leadership: Netta r. Avineri: [1] (Panelist) “Language and Construction of Events by a Principal through ANTHrOPOLOGy Gender: The Mass Media’s Portrayal of Two U.S. Talk and Nonverbal Communication.” American Presidential Candidates.” Presented at Thinking Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Matthew M. Gervais: “Does the absence of Gender 2009, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2009. Denver, CO, March, 2009. ‘positive’ make a ‘negative?’ Contempt as a [2] “Language and Gender: The Mass Media’s wedge in intergroup relations.” Presented at the Portrayal of Two U.S. Presidential Candidates.” Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology: Presented at the 2009 American Association of ArT Workshop on Emotion in Conflict, Halle, Applied Linguistics Conference, Denver, CO, Germany, January, 2009. March, 2009. [3] “‘This is the Language that Matthias Merkel Hess: Work included in the Unites Us’: The Cultural Context of Yiddish in College Art Association MFA Exhibition at Lana S. Martin: Recipient - Graduate Research Southern California.” Poster presented at Vox USC, held in conjunction with the College Fellowship Program. National Science California, Santa Barbara, CA, April, 2009. Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Foundation, April, 2009. February, 2009. Hongwen cai: “Clustering to inform standard Merav Shohet: [1] (Session Organizer and Chair) setting in an oral test for EFL learners.” Presented Mitsuko Ikeno: Recipient -The 2008 Biennial “Death as a Way of Life: Grief, Mourning, and at the Language Testing Research Colloquium Kay Nielsen Memorial Award for the Best Mortuary Rituals in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.” 2009, Denver, CO, March, 2009. Drawing by a UCLA Student. The Grunwald Joint Biennial Meeting of the Society for Center, Hammer Museum, November, 2008. Psychological Anthropology and Society for the Jeanne katzman: [1] (First author) “Learning Anthropology of Religion, Asilomar, CA, March, communicative strategies—Comparison of Jane Jin kaisen: [1] (Director) “Tracing Trades.” 2009. [2] “A Good Death? Limits to Inscription sequences of problematic conversation of healthy Presented at the Association for Asian American Rituals and the Moral Imaginary When Managing elderly couples, and couples where one member Studies 2009 Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, Bereavement in Central Vietnam.” Joint Biennial has Alzheimer’s.” Presented at the American April, 2009. [2] “Amnesia Ritual for Trans- Meeting of the Society for Psychological Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Born.” Performance at The 2009 Los Angeles Anthropology and Society for the Anthropology Denver, CO, March, 2009. [2] “Lessons Learned: Asia Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, of Religion, Asilomar, CA, March, 2009. [3] Analysis of caregivers’ attempts to normalize May, 2009. [3] (Co-presenter) “The Borders.” (Co-presenter and Second Author) “Everyday conversation when one member has Alzheimer’s Exhibit of Amelie Wallace Gallery, New York, Life and the ‘Medical Need’ for a ‘Horrible, Disease.” Presented at the Gerontological Society NY, March, 2009. [4] (Moderator) 10th Open Disgusting Habit.’” Joint Biennial Meeting of America, National Harbor, MD, November, International Performance Art Festival. Beijing, of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 2008. [3] “How Families Work to Maintain China, September, 2009. and Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Conversational Coherence During Interactive March, 2009, Asilomar, CA. [4] “Achieving a Dinner Time Talk.” Presented at the International Good Death? Mortuary Rites and Moral Limits Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease, Chicago, IL, ArT HISTOry to Bridging Borders between Tragedy and July, 2008. Regeneration When Managing Bereavement in ramela G. Abbamontian: (Producer) “Man’s Central Vietnam.” 12th Annual Harvard East Jinhee Lee: “Gender and Distribution of the Inhumanity to Man: Journey Out of Darkness…” Asia Society Meeting: Bridges and Borders in Allomorphs of Korean Sentence Enders.” Poster Exhibit of City of Glendale, Glendale, CA, East Asia, Cambridge, MA, February, 2009. [5] presented at American Association for Applied April, 2009. “What’s in a Morpheme? Indexing Sacrifice and Linguistics, Denver, CO, March, 2009. Respect through Language and Interaction in Lisa c. Boutin: “Cultivating Classical Identities: Central Vietnam.” Languages of Southeast Asia Elisa Pigeron: “‘Here’s the deal’: Socialization into The Maiolica Services of Isabella d’Este and Conference, Los Angeles, CA, January, 2009. [6] morality through negotiation of media time use.” Federico II Gonzaga.” Presented at the “Biers and Tiers: A Political Economy of Emotions Presented at the International Communication Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, in the Flux of Post-Socialist Relationships.” Association Conference, Chicago, IL, May, 2009. CA, March, 2009.

24 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Jean Murachanian: “The Duality of Léon BIOMEDIcAL ENGINEErING cLASSIcS Tutundjian’s Biomorphism: The Quest for Life and the Burden of Survival.” Presented at the robert LeMoyne: [1] (First author) Book Michael E. Brumbaugh: “Making the Hymn: College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, chapter: “The merits of artificial proprioception, Mesomedean narrative and the interpretation of a CA, February, 2009. with applications in biofeedback gait genre.” Presented at the Hymns as Narrative and rehabilitation concepts and movement disorder the Narratology of Hymns Conference, Lampeter, characterization,” in the book Recent Advances in Wales, May, 2009. ASIAN LANGuAGES Biomedical Engineering. ISBN 978-953-7619-X- & cuLTurES X, July, 2009. [2] (First Author) “ Quantified robert W. Groves: “Heliodorus and Ancient deep tendon reflex device for response and latency, Bilingualism: Fiction and Facts.” Ancient Lindsey E. DeWitt: (Panelist) “An Iconographical third generation.” Published in the Journal of Cultures in Contact: Catalysts for Change Comparison of Two Tōdaiji Icons.” Presented at the Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 8, No. 4, Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2009. 18th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference 491–506, December, 2008. [3] (First author) on East Asia, New York, NY, February, 2009. “Wireless accelerometer assessment of gait for quantified disparity of hemiparetic locomotion.” cOMMuNITy HEALTH Lujing Ma: (Panelist) “Publishing ‘Amusement’: Forthcoming in the Journal of Mechanics in Medicine ScIENcES Print Culture, Popular Magazine and an and Biology. [4] (First author) “Quantification Alternative Modernity, 1922-1932.” Presented at of Parkinson’s disease characteristics using Maria N. koleilat: “Birth Weight and Childhood the Conference on Modern Printing Industry and wireless accelerometers.” Presented at the IEEE Overweight among WIC Participants.” Poster Cultural Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, March, 2009. International Conference on Complex Medical presented at 136th American Public Health Engineering, Phoenix, AZ, April, 2009. [5] Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, karen Muldoon-Hules: “Kacangala Avadana: (First author) “Wireless accelerometer system October, 2008. Tracing a Trajectory.” American Oriental Society for quantifying gait.” Presented at the IEEE Conference, Albuquerque, NM, March, 2009. International Conference on Complex Medical Eunice N. Muthengi: [1] (Co-author) “Erulkar Engineering, Phoenix, AZ, April, 2009. [6] (First AS, Muthengi E. Evaluation of Berhane Hewan: Maya Stiller: [1] (Co-author) “Why did Korean author) “Evaluation of a wireless three dimensional A Program to Delay Child Marriage in Rural monk portraits travel across East Asia? On the MEMS accelerometer reflex quantification device Ethiopia.” Published in International Perspectives on interregional aspects of Korea monk portraiture.” using an artificial reflex system.” Presented at Sexual and Reproductive Health. vol. 35 (1), pp. 15 - Conference Proceedings- Buddhism across Asia: the IEEE International Conference on Complex 20, March, 2009. [2] (Co-presenter) “Educational Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Medical Engineering, Phoenix, AZ, April, 2009. Attainment and the Timing of First Birth in Exchange, Singapore, May, 2009. [2] “The travel [7] (First author) “Quantified Deep Tendon Amhara Region, Ethiopia.” Poster presented at of monk portraits across East Asia—on the Reflex Device for Evaluating Response and Population Association of America Conference, interregional aspects of Korean monk portraits.” Latency Using an Artificial Reflex Device.” Poster Detroit, MI, May, 2009. Presented at the UCLA Department of Asian presented at the 38th Society for Neuroscience Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Conference, Washington D.C, November, 2008. Tainayah W. Thomas: “Survey of Immigrant and Colloquium Series, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2009. Minority Health.” Presented at the Southern [3] (Co-presenter) “You are not me, I am not you – Argus M. Sun: “Disulfide bonds play an essential Sociological Society Conference, New Orleans, on the inscriptions on Korean monk portraits from role in the binding of secreted phosphoprotein-24 LA, April, 2009. the Choson period.” Presented at the Conference to bone morphogenetic protein-2.” Poster of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe presented at Tech Forum 2009, Los Angeles, CA, Jacqueline M. Torres: (Co-author) “Pathways to (AKSE), Leiden, The Netherlands, June, 2009. April, 2009. Health Risk Exposure in Adult Film Performers.” Published in the Journal of Urban Health, vol. 86, Nina A. yoshida: “An Analysis of Modal pp. 67-78, January, 2009. Nominalized Predicate Constructions in BIOSTATISTIcS Japanese.” Presented at the The 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS Erik W. Bloomquist: (First author) “Unifying cOMPArATIvE LITErATurE 35), Berkeley, CA, February, 2009. Vertical and Non-Vertical Evolution.” Poster presented at the Statistical & Applied Mathematics Tamar M. Boyadjian: [1] (Panelist) “The Female Sciences Institute Molecular Evolution and City and its Textual Functions: Lament over the BIOMATHEMATIcS Phylogenetics Workshop, Research Triangle Park, Capture of Jerusalem by Catholicos Grigor Tlay.” NC, April, 2009. Presented at the Society for Armenian Studies 35th Mary E. Sehl: [1] (First author) “Associations Anniversary Conference, UCLA, March, 2009. between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Erica J. childs: [1] Recipient -Ruth L. Kirschstein [2] (Panelist) “An Armenian Princess, a Mongol (SNPs) in Double Strand DNA Repair Pathway National Research Service Awards for Individual King, and a Conversion Tale: the Middle English Genes and Familial Breast Cancer.” Published Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Didactic Romance, King of Tars, and its Analogs.” in Clinical Cancer Research, vol. 15, pp. 2192- Diversity in Health-Related Research. National Presented at the University of Michigan- Ann 2203, March, 2009. [2] (First author) “Single Institutes of Health, March, 2009. [2] “MFG Arbor Armenian Studies Program, Ann Arbor, nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA repair Maximized: Testing for Disease-Related Maternal- MI, April, 2009. pathway genes may play a role in breast cancer.” Fetal Genotype Incompatibilities Using the Poster presented at American Society of Human Software Package Mendel.” Poster presented Myrna A. Douzjian: [1] (Panelist) “Challenging Genetics 2008 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, at American Society of Human Genetics, Social and Literary Norms: Sexual Agency in PA, November, 2008. Philadelphia, PA, November, 2008. Violet Grigorian’s Poetry.” Armenian Studies at a Threshold: Society for Armenian Studies Jin Zhou: (First author) “A heterozygote- Lei Qian: (First author) “Bayesian mixtures for 35th Anniversary Conference, Los Angeles, CA, homozygote test of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.” modeling the correlation of longitudinal data.” March, 2009. [2] (Panelist) “Madness, Memory Published in European Journal of Human Genetics, Poster presented at the Eastern North American and Forgetting in Post-Soviet Emptiness: Aghasi April, 2009. Region of International Biometric Society Ayvazyan’s Props and Gurgen Khanjyan’s The Meetings, San Antonio, TX, March, 2009. Gaurd of Ruins.” Workshop on Armenian Literary

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 25 Identity: Text and Transmission, Ann Arbor, MI, Security Foundations Symposium, Port Jefferson, Published in Molecular Ecology, vol. 18, pp. 545- April, 2009. NY, July, 2009 552, February, 2009.

Lilit keshishyan: “Sexual Perversion as Political uri Schonfeld: (First author) “Sitemaps: Above Melissa M. Gray: (First author) “Linkage Allegory in Gurgen Khanjian’s Hivandanots.” and Beyond the Crawl of Duty.” 18th International Disequilibrium and Demographic History of Society for Armenian Studies 35th Anniversary World Wide Web Conference., Madrid, Spain, Wild and Domestic Canids.” Published in Conference: “Armenian Studies at a Threshold,” April, 2009. Genetics, vol. 181, April, 2009. Los Angeles, CA, March, 2009. catherine H. Nguyen: (Panelist) “The Spectral EArTH & SPAcE ScIENcES EDucATION Brother of the Vietnamese Diaspora, A Voice that Bridges Absence and Present.” Presented at the Megan L. cartwright: Outstanding Student Jose Manuel Aguilar-Hernandez: [1] Northeast Modern Language Association 40th Paper Award. American Geophysical Union, Space (Moderator) “Graduate Student Research in Convention, Boston, MA, February, 2009. Physics and Aeronomy Section, San Francisco, CA, Chicana/o Studies.” The National Association December, 2008. for Chicana and Chicano Studies Southern Sarah M. Older Aguilar: “Post-dictatorship California Foco: 40 Years of Chicana/o Studies, Media Fables: Juan José Saer’s Analytical Detective christine Gabrielse: (First author) “Timing and Claremont, CA, February, 2009. [2] (Moderator) Story Remake.” American Comparative Literature localization of near-Earth tail and ionospheric “Future Directions in Chicana/o Studies.” The Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA, signatures during a substorm onset.” Published National Association for Chicana and Chicano March, 2009. in Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 114, pp. Studies Southern California Foco: 40 Years of doi:10.1029/2008JA01, January, 2009. Chicana/o Studies, Claremont, CA, February, Theri A. Pickens: [1] “Pinning Down the 2009. [3] (Panelist) “Transformative Critical Race Phantasmagorical: Discourse of Pain and the catherine A. Macris: (First author) Outstanding Historiography: Analyzing the Counterspaces in Rupture of Posthumanism.” Chapter published Student Paper Award. Presented at the 2008 the 1993 Hunger Strike for Chicana and Chicano in the book Blackness and Disability. [2] “Review American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Studies at UCLA.” Presented at the 36th Annual of Prejudice in Harry Potter’s World.” Published Francisco, CA, December, 2008. National Association for Chicana and Chicano in Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 29.1, 2009. [4] Studies Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, April, “The Power of the Jinn.” Published in Al-Jadid, rachel L. Smith: [1] (First author) “High- 2009. vol. 13-14, pp. 58-9, 2009. [3] (Panelist) “Mic precision C17O, C18O and C16O measurements Check: Can You Hear Me?: Suheir Hammad in young stellar objects: analogues for CO self- Lauren I. Jones: [1] (First author) “Searching and Politics of Spoken Word.” Presented at shielding in the early solar system.” Presented at for Conscientização: Mentoring Field Work the Collegium for African American Research, the 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, in International Service Learning.” Published Bremen, Germany, March, 2009. [4] (Panelist) The Woodlands, TX, March, 2009. [2] Lunar and in Reconstruction: Fieldwork and Interdisciplinary “Ain’t No Love (In the Heart of the City): Planetary Institute Career Development Award. Research, (electronic journal) vol. 9.1, February, Straddling the Color Line in the American 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2009. [2] “The Theology of the People, the Metropolis.” Presented at the Crossing Borders The Woodlands, TX, March, 2009. [3] (Co- Education of the People: Latin American Women Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2009. chair) “Early Nebula Processes and Models.” in Religion, Faith, and Social Movements.” Presented at the 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Presented at the American Educational Research Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki: [1] (First author) “Birth Conference, The Woodlands, TX, March, 2009. Association, San Diego, CA, April, 2009. [3] of a New Nation: The Emergence of the New “Searching for Conscientização: Mentoring Man in Richard Wright’s The Outsider.” USC: Marissa F. vogt: Outstanding Student Paper Fieldwork in International Service Learning.” Crossing Borders: 7th Annual Graduate Student Award. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Presented at the American Educational Research Ethnic Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Union, San Francisco, CA, December, 2008. Association, San Diego, CA, April, 2009. [4] March, 2009. [2] (Panelist) “Birth of a New (Chair) “Higher Education and Forty Years of Nation: The Emergence of the New Man in Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” Presented at the Six Post-WWII African American and Iranian EAST ASIAN STuDIES Californian Association of Freirean Educators Anticolonial Novels.” Presented at the UC Irvine (CAFE) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2009. Iranian Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, Helen H. Hwang: [1] Classical Chinese Workshop. [5] “Searching for Conscientização: Mentoring Irvine, CA, February, 2009. [3] (Moderator) Academy of Korean Studies, Budang, Kyonggi- Fieldwork in International Service Learning.” “Dialogue with Persis Karim.” Presented at the do, South Korea, June, 2009. [2] (Co-Editor) Presented at the XXVIII International Congress Iranian American Writers in Dialogue conference, “Trivia: Voices of Feminism.” Published in of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Los Angeles, CA, April, 2009. Trivia: Voices of Feminism (www.triviavoices. Janeiro, Brazil, June, 2009. net), vol. 9, April, 2009. [3] Convener and Jordan A. yamaji Smith: “What Japanese Authors presider for two Goddess Studies special sessions. Gooyong kim: (Co-author) “YouTube, Politics, Mean Outside of Japanese: Translationscapes American Academy of Religion Western Region, and Pedagogy: Some Critical Reflections.” and the Notion of the Oeuvre across National San Jose, CA, March, 2009. [4] (Panelist) “Old Chapter published in the book Media/Cultural Languages.” Presented at the American Tradition as New Revelation: Magoism and its Studies: Critical Approaches. Pp. 615 – 636, 2009. Comparative Literature Association National Nostalgic Ethos Expressed in Pan-East-Asian Conference, Cambridge, MA, March, 2009. Primary Sources.” The 4th International Congress cheryl E. Matias-Padua: [1] Keynote Speaker: of Korean Studies, Bundang, Kyonggi-do, South Teaching from the Heart. Pacific Oaks College Korea, September, 2009. Teacher Education Program Student Conference, cOMPuTEr ScIENcE Pasadena, CA, April, 2009. [2] (Panelist) “Where are you REALLY from? Action Research on Nishanth chandran: [1] (Co-author) “A Public EcOLOGy & EvOLuTIONAry Learning Critical Lessons on Race and Racism and Key Encryption Scheme Secure against Key BIOLOGy its Effect on the Symbiotic Development of Racial Dependent Chosen Plaintext and Adaptive Chosen Identities.” Presented at the National Association Ciphertext Attacks.” eurocrypt 2009, Cologne, of Ethnic Studies, San Diego, CA, April, 2009. chris L. chabot: (First author) “Global population Germany, April, 2009. [2] (Co-author) “A Secure structure of the tope (Galeorhinus galeus) inferred Cryptographic Token Interface.” IEEE Computer by mitochondrial control region sequence data.” Oiyan A. Poon: [1] “Haunted by Negative Action: Asian Americans, Admissions, and Race in the

26 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 ‘Colorblind Era.’” Published in the Harvard Asian Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration ETHNOMuSIcOLOGy American Policy Review Journal, forthcoming. [2] (VLSI) Systems, January, 2009. [6] IBM Invention (First author) “Countering Master Narratives of Achievement Award. IBM, January, 2009. Nolan M. Warden: (Co-performer) “La Pasión the ‘Perpetual Foreigner’ and ‘Model Minority’: [7] (First author) “EMPIRE: An Efficient and Según San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov.” Canary The Hidden Injuries of Race.” Chapter published Compact Multiple-Parameterized Model Order Islands Music Festival, Las Palmas de Gran in the book Standing on the Outside Looking In: Reduction Method for Physical Optimization.” Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands Underrepresented Students’ Experiences in Advanced IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (Spain), February, 2009. Degree Programs, 2009. [3] (First author) “The (VLSI) Systems Conference, March, 2009. State of Asian American Businesses.” UCLA Asian American Studies Center, February, 2009. Jitkomut Songsiri: (First author) “Maximum- FrENcH & FrANcOPHONE [4] “Struggling for Critical Consciousness and Likelihood Estimation of Autoregressive Models STuDIES Literacy: A Critical Race Theory Case Study of with Conditional Independence Constraints.” Asian Americans and ‘Critical Mass.’” American IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Julin E. Everett: [1] (Co-chair) “Nulle Oeuvre Education Research Association, San Diego, CA, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, N’est Une Ile: Collaborative Practices in the April, 2009. April, 2009. French-Speaking World.” UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies 13th Annual Sai-Wang Tam: [1] (First author) “A Dual Band Graduate Student Conference, Los Angeles, CA, ELEcTrIcAL ENGINEErING mm-Wave CMOS Oscillator with Left-Handed October, 2008. [2] “The Art of the Actant: Resonator.” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Studio Portraits of Wearers of the Yellow Star.” Bahar khadem Hosseinieh: (First author) Circuits Symposium, Boston, MA, June, 2009. Presented at the Performances and Performatives “Differential Near-field Microscopy for Nano- [2] (First author) “A Simultaneous Tri-band of the Holocaust: French and North African Imaging.” Poster presented at the 2009 Henry On-Chip RF-Interconnect for Future Network Acts of Resistance, Collaboration and Testimony Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science On-Chip.” Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Kyoto, Conference, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2009. [3] Commencement Awards/Honors, May, 2009. Japan, June, 2009. “The Homoerotics of Empire: Male Desire and Domination in Francophone Colonial and younghun kim: [1] “NAWMS: Nonintrusive Postcolonial Literature.” Presented at the The Autonomous Water Monitoring System.” The 6th ENGLISH Graduate Student Colloquium, Los Angeles, Association for Computer Machinery Conference CA, February, 2009. [4] “Loving the Alien: on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Stacie cassarino: “Zero At The Bone.” Published Homoerotic Desire and Domination of the Raleigh, NC, November, 2008. [2] Best Paper in New Issues Press, May, 2009. African Immigrant in Ousmane Sembene’s Le Award for the paper “NAWMS: Nonintrusive Docker Noir.” Presented at Policing Sexuality: Autonomous Water Monitoring System.” The 6th Lisa Mendelman: [1] (First author) “Resonant Exploitation, Resistance and Censorship in French Association for Computer Machinery Conference Silence: Love, Desire, and Intimacy in Suzan- and Francophone Culture at the City University on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys Lori Parks’ Venus.” Published in GRAMMA: of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY, 2008), Raleigh, NC, November, 2008. Journal of Theory and Criticism, 2009. [2] (First November, 2009. author) “Resonant Silence: Love, Desire, and Nicholas H. Mastronarde: (First author) Intimacy in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus.” Stony Mina F. Soroosh: “On the Self in Pierre Charron’s “Automated Bidding for Media Services at the Brook Graduate English Conference, New York, De La Sagesse (1601).” Presented at the Renaissance Edge of a Content Delivery Network.” Published NY, February, 2009. Conference of Southern California, San Marino, in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 11, pp. CA, February, 2009. 543-555, April, 2009. ENvIrONMENTAL ScIENcE cong Shen: [1] (First author) “Dynamic & ENGINEErING GEOGrAPHy Spatial Spectrum Access with Opportunistic rd Orthogonalization.” 43 Conference on Fredrick W. Gerringer: (First author) Nicholas B. Bauch: [1] “Land, Body, and Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), “Characterization of the Changes in the Polarity Molecules in Late Nineteenth-century Science: Baltimore, MD, March, 2009. [2] (Co-author) and Size of Natural Organic Matter During The Case of the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise.” “Throughput Scaling Laws for Dual-radio Water Treatment.” Published in the Journal of Presented at the Humanities Education and rd Random Wireless Networks.” 43 Conference Environmental Engineering and Management, vol. Research Association: Nature and the Humanities on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 19, pp. 11-20, January, 2009. Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2009. [2] (Chair) Baltimore, MD, March, 2009. “Geography of Science.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, yiyu Shi: [1] Best Paper Finalist. Asian and EPIDEMIOLOGy NV, March, 2009. South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Yokohama, Japan, January, 2009. [2] (First Hozefa A. Divan: “Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure Pablo Fuentenebro: [1] “Libraries: Flagship author) “Stochastic Current Prediction Enabled to Cell Phone Use and Behavioral Problems in Architecture and the Rise of a Global Frequency Actuator for Runtime Resonance Children.” Presented at the International Society Phenomenon.” Presented at the Association Noise Reduction.” Asia and South Pacific Design for Environmental Epidemiology Conference, of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Automation Conference, Yokohama, Japan, Pasadena, CA, October, 2008. Las Vegas, NV, March, 2009. [2] “Une approche January, 2009. [3] (First author) “Incremental évènementielle : l’exemple du Fridays off the 405 and On-demand Random Walk for Iterative Thuong v. Nguyen: (First author) “Correlation dans le Getty Center, Los Angeles.” Presented Power Distribution Network Analysis.” Asia Between HIV and Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, at the L’évènementiel et les villes touristiques and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Trichomoniasis and Candidiasis Among Female - Association des Géographes Français, Paris, Yokohama, Japan, January, 2009. [4] (Co-author) Sex Workers in a Mekong Delta Province of France, December, 2008. “Worst Case Timing Jitter and Amplitude Noise Vietnam.” Published in AIDS and Behavior, in Differential Signaling.” IEEE International e-publication, December, 2008. Juan c. Garcia-Ellin: “Where are they from? Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, San The Hispanic Domestic Migration to Florida.” Jose, CA, March, 2009. [5] (Co-author) “Thermal Presented at the Race, Ethnicity and Place Via Allocation for 3D ICs Considering Temporally Conference IV, Miami, FL, November, 2008. and Spatially Variant Thermal Power.” IEEE

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 27 Ana Paula Giorgi: [1] (First author) “Using Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Arthur Robinson’s calling to bring genetics Species Distribution Modeling to Identify Studies, Santa Fe, NM, March, 2009. into medicine.” Presented at the ISHPSSB - Occurrences of Pyrrhura lepida (Psittacidae) in the International Society for the History, Philosophy Brazilian Amazon Support for Species Taxonomic chris Bray: [1] “‘Every Right to be Where She and Social Studies of Biology, Brisbane, Australia, Studies and Conservation.” Presented at the Was’: The Legal Reconstruction of Black Self- July, 2009. Association of American Geographers Annual Defense in Jim Crow Florida.” Published in The Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March, 2009. [2] Florida Historical Quarterly, Winter 2009 (Vol. Joshua M. Stein: (Recipient) Bernard and Irene (Recipient) “Utilizing remote sensing to identify 87, No. 3), pp. 352-377. [2] “‘An Healing Evil’: Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship. The New priorities for restoration and connectivity in the Settler Paramilitaries, Nascent State Institutions, School University and the New York Historical Atlantic Forest of Brazil.” 2009-2010 Brazilian and the Revolutionary Legacy in the Early Society, September, 2009. Education Bureau Fellowship (CAPES). United States.” University of Alabama Graduate Conference on Power and Struggle, Tuscaloosa, Timur W. Hammond: The Body in Place: Alabama, March, 2009. [3] “Back From Iraq and INFOrMATION STuDIES Representations of Faith, Place and Identity in Afghanistan: Memoirs of soldiers who experienced the Mughal Atelier.” Presented at the Duke/UNC- war as a way to grow up.” Book review in The Dan Haley & kim Anderson: Edited and Chapel Hill Graduate Islamic Studies Conference, Washington Post Book World, February, 2009. collaborated on the publication supported by Chapel Hill, NC, April, 2009. World Intellectual Property Organization & Elizabeth Everton: [1] (Panelist) “‘Toutes les LIENIP (Russia) “Traditional Knowledge & Wesley J. reisser: [1] “Self-Determination and Femmes de France’: Female Political Mobilization Indigenous Peoples.” (2009) the Difficulty of Creating Nation-States – The and the Ligue Antisémitique Française, 1899.” Transylvania Case.” Published in Geographical Thinking Gender, the UCLA Center for the Study vivian L. Wong: [1] (Panelist) “Engaging Review, vol. 99, April, 2009. [2] “The U.S. of Women Graduate Research Conference, Los Community: Methods and Values in Community Cannot Drill Its Way Out of Energy Dependence.” Angeles, CA, February, 2009. [2] (Panelist) “‘Par Informatics.” Presented at the iConference Published in The Guardian Newspaper, March, le Revolver ou par la Loi’: Female Defense of Honor 2009~iSociety: Research, Engagement, Education, 2009. [3] “The Myth of Energy Independence.” during the Dreyfus Affair.” Annual Meeting of Chapel Hill, NC, February, 2009. [2] (Panelist) Presented at the Association of American the Society for French Historical Studies, St. Louis, “Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity: LIS Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, MO, March, 2009. Research/Education and Studies of ‘the Other.’” NV, March, 2009. [4] (Moderator) “National Presented at the Transforming LIS Education for Geography Bowl Finals.” The Association of Aaron Freeman: (Panelist) “Religious Fetishism the 21st Century: i-CREATE, Association of Library American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las and Philosophical History in the French and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Vegas, NV, March, 2009. Enlightenment.” Society for French Historical Conference, Denver, CO, January, 2009. [3] “The Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, March, 2009. Chinatown Library Digital Archive Project.” Poster presented at iConference 2009~iSociety: GErMANIc LANGuAGES Leon Garcia G.: [1] “Inquisitorial Fire and the Research, Engagement, Education, Chapel Hill, High Abode of the God of Rain: The Trial of Don NC, February, 2009. Brenna r. Byrd: [1] “Hot Potatoes Quiz-Tool Carlos Ometochtli and the Scramble for Mount Software.” Presented at Language Technology Tlaloc in Early Colonial Mexico.” The American Bootcamp, Pomona, CA, April, 2009. [2] “Media Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Annual Meeting, ISLAMIc STuDIES Representations of Turkish-German and Hip-Hop Eugene, OR, November, 2008. [2] (Panelist) Language as a Uniform Ethnolect.” Presented at “The Franciscan Assault on Native Poygyny in Said F. Abdelrahman: (Panelist) “Eastern Fatwa, SALSA XVII, Austin, TX, April, 2009. [3] “The Early Colonial Mexico.” American Historical Western Followers: Redefining Islamic Law for rd Rise of Stylized Turkish German as an Urban Association 123 Annual Meeting, New York Muslim Minorities.” Paper presented at the 6th Resistance Vernacular through the Medium of City, NY, January, 2009. [3] “Ehecatl en la Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference, Hip Hop.” Presented at IASPM-US (International Catedral: Una Teofanía indígena en México a mediados Chapel Hill, NC, April, 2009. Association for the Study of Popular Music), San del siglo XVI, según los Anales de Juan Bautista.” Diego, CA, May, 2009 Published in Contrapunto: historia, política, sociedad, Eric J. Bordenkircher: (First author) literatura, arte. Número 9, vol. 3, Año 3, pp. 32- “Understanding Foreign Intervention in Lebanon: Eric A. kristensson: [1] “Ingmar Bergman’s 49, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, December, 2008. A Cross Systems Model.” Presented at the Theory of Love: Såsom i en spegel.” Presented at International Studies Association, New York, NY, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Joseph Holt: (Panelist) “Savages Among February, 2009. (SAMLA), Louisville, KY, November, 2008. [2] Philosophers: The Politics of Progress and the th “Ingmar Bergman’s Fictional Science: Through Scottish Enlightenment’s Science of Man.” 40 Belen vicens Saiz: “Between Africa and Europe: a Glass Darkly as Negative Image of a Genre.” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Representations of Islam and North Africa by Presented at the 2008 Film & History Conference Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA, Catalan Intellectuals at the Turn of the Twentieth (Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and March, 2009. Century.” Presented at the 2nd International Beyond), Chicago, IL, November, 2008. Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, Matthew k. kelly: “A Light Unto the Nations: Greece, April, 2009. Developments in Israeli Sociology and Their HISTOry Lessons for the Lobby Controversy.” Presented at th the 9 Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in ITALIAN Norman D. Apter: (Panelist) “From Charity to Middle Eastern Studies: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March, 2009. Welfare: Restructuring Child Relief in the Early Erika M. Nadir: (Panelist) “Teneste la Promessa… People’s Republic of China.” Presented at the Not! Strains of La Traviata in Divorzio all’Italiana.” Daniella G. Perry: [1] (Co-chair) “The Southern Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Arts & Humanities Research Council International California History of Science Colloquium.” UCLA Chicago, IL, March, 2009. Conference on Italian Cinema, Kings College, History of Science, Los Angeles, CA, April, University of London, May, 2009. Bradley T. Benton: “Montezuma’s Nieces: 2009. [2] (Co-chair) “UCLA History of Science Colloquium.” UCLA History of Science, Los Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Noble Women Heather r. Sottong: (Panelist) “Pietro Germi’s Angeles, CA, January, 2009. [3] “Understanding from Tetzcoco, New Spain.” Presented at the Feminist Perspective: Divorzio all’italiana and Clinical Care out of Laboratory Research:

28 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 Sedotta e abbandonata.” Presented at the American MOLEcuLAr & MEDIcAL Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference, PHArMAcOLOGy Gwyneth Bravo: [1] “Music and War: Hearing New York, NY, May, 2009. Walter Braunfel’s Die Vögel in the Landscapes Xiaoxiao Li: [1] (First author) “Investigating and Soundscapes of Post-World War I Europe.” Therapeutic Approach of IBD Using Recombinant Presented at the Los Angeles Opera/ Opera for LATIN AMErIcAN STuDIES Mucin.” Poster presented at Experimental Educators, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2009. [2] Biology 2009, New Orleans, LA, April, 2009. (First author) “Viktor Ullmann.” Published in Sara ramirez Galindo: [1] “Arte y Acracia en [2] (First author) “Identifying Diagnostic Markers Orel Foundation, February, 2009. Chile: a look at the muro-activism, performance and Studying Etiologic Factors of Inflammatory.” and acrata politics of Chilean Youth and Feminist Poster presented at Experimental Biology 2009, Hyun kyong chang: [1] “Diaspora, Korean Collectives.” Presented at the XXIX ILASSA New Orleans, LA, April, 2009. [3] (First Christianity, and Tradition: Changing Attitudes (Institute of Latin American Studies Student author) “Identifying Diagnostic Markers and toward Ethnic Difference among Christian Korean Association) Student Conference at the University Studying Etiologic Factors of Inflammatory.” Americans.” Presented at the Claremont Graduate of Texas - Austin. February, 2009. [2] “Latin Poster presented at FOCIS (Federation of Clinical Student Conference, Intersecting Histories: American creadoras: visual and political proposals Immunology Societies) 2009, San Francisco, CA, Identities, Places, and Beliefs, Claremont, CA, from contemporary Bolivian and Chilean anarchist June, 2009. April, 2009. [2] “Korean Americans ‘Back’ and autonomous feminists.” Presented at in Korea: Drunken Tiger and the Politics of “The Micropolitics of Change: A discussion Belonging.” Presented at the International on anarcha-feminist principles and alternative MOLEcuLAr, cELLuLAr & Association for the Study of Popular Music-United ways of applying them in a changing society.” INTEGrATIvE PHySIOLOGy States, San Diego, CA, May, 2009. March, 2009. California State University, Northridge. [3] “Propuestas Ácratas: from Latin rachna ujwal: [1] (First author) “Crystal structure Zarah S. Ersoff: “Succumbing to the Orient: American autonomous feminisms to anarchist of the mouse Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel Decadent Anxieties in Ravel’s Shéhérazade.” people of color in the U.S.” Presented at “The at 2.3 Å resolution.” Presented at the West Presented at the Feminist Theory and Music 10, Autonomy and Radical Change in Latin America” Coast Protein Crystallography Workshop 2009, Greensboro, NC, May, 2009. Conference. April, 2009, Pitzer College, Pacific Grove, CA, April, 2009. [2] (Recipient) Claremont, California. “Runner Up For Best Oral Presentation - Crystal Loren y. kajikawa: [1] “The Sound of Struggle: structure of the mouse Voltage-Dependent Anion Asian American Jazz in the 1980s.” Cal State Channel at 2.3 Å resolution.” West Coast Protein University, Fullerton, New Music Festival LINGuISTIcS Crystallography Workshop 2009, Pacific Grove, Composer-Performer Symposium, Fullerton, CA, April, 2009. CA, March, 2009. [2] “‘Let Me Ride / Straight Isabelle charnavel: [1] “Caractéristiques syntaxiques Outta Compton’: Producing G-Funk in Post-Riot de la parenthèse en latin: linéarisation, délimitation Los Angeles.” International Association for the et insertion.” Published in Discours (electronic MOLEcuLAr BIOLOGy Study of Popular Music, Annual U.S. Meeting, journal), vol. 3, January, 2009. [2] (First author) San Diego, CA, May, 2009. “The Online Processing of French Reflexives: Sean P. Sherman: (First author) “Integrated Alexandra c. roedder: [1] “Moon Revenge”: Cross Modal Lexical Priming experimental Chemical Genomics Reveals Modifiers of Survival Tokugawa Era Morality and Sailor Moon. Presented evidence for their unaccusativity.” Presented in Human Embryonic Stem Cells.” Published in at the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, at the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Stem Cells, vol. 27(3), pp. 533-542, March, 2009. Tokyo, Japan, March, 2009. [3] “The problem of LA, April, 2009. [2] (Sole performer) Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello, by Benjamin Britten. Los Angeles quantifiers in object position: a new experimental Jason Tchieu: (First author) “Role of the murine Cello Society Honors Recital, Santa Monica, CA, evidence against the extra computation that they reprogramming factors in the induction of March, 2009. are supposed to trigger.” Presented at the Tokyo pluripotency.” Published in Cell, vol. 136(2), pp. Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo, Japan, 364, January, 2009. March, 2009. [4] (First author) “Reactivation Mandy Suzanne Wong: Honorarium for Best of two different VP-internal subject positions Student Paper. College Music Society - Pacific Southwest Chapter, Northridge, CA, April, 2009. (unergative verbs vs unaccusative and reflexive MuSIc verbs): processing evidence from French.” Poster presented at CUNY, Davis, CA, March, 2009. [5] Allen W. Menton: (Composer) Mirrors of the White “Anaphoricity, logophoricity and intensification: Moon, for wind quintet. Performed by Ensemble the puzzling case of son propre in French.” Presented Green, Pasadena, CA, January, 2009. at the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Tucson, AZ, March, 2009. [6] “On the Help Your Department! intensifierpropre (‘own’) in French: a counterpart of MuSIcOLOGy même (‘self’) in possessive DPs?” Presented at the Submit an Accomplishment SALT19, Columbus, OH, April, 2009. Alexandra M. Apolloni: [1] “Performing the to the Graduate Quarterly Beehive: Dusty Springfield, Amy Winehouse, and the Politics of Race and Voice.” Presented Have you made a presentation, published MANAGEMENT at the Hawaii International Conference on the an article or premiered your original Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January, work recently? Help your department Suresh Muthulingam: [1] (Recipient) Dissertation 2009. [2] “In the Beginning, There Was advertise its achievements to the uni- Proposal Award. The Aspen Institute’s Center for Rhythm: Embodiment, divinity, and punk rock Business Education, November, 2008. spirituality in the music of The Slits.” Presented versity and beyond. at the Thinking Gender 2009, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2009. [3] “Blues Legacies and Punk Submit your accomplishments online at: Politics: How Beth Ditto Envoices the Fat Body.” www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/ Presented at the 2009 Joint Conference of the accomplishments National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, New Orleans, LA, April, 2009.

Spring 2009 GRADUATE QUARTERLY 29 NEAr EASTErN LANGuAGES PSycHOLOGy of Science Concepts.” Poster presented at Society & cuLTurES for Research in Child Development Conference, cynthia D. Fast: (First author) “The Role Denver, CO, April, 2009. kyle H. keimer: “The Bronze and Iron Age of Hidden Events in Positive and Negative Fortifications at Jaffa.” Annual Conference of the Patterning in Rats.” Presented at the 16th Xiaoyang yang: (First author) “Quantifying American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, Annual International Conference on Comparative with precision a stereokinetic percept.” Poster MA, November, 2008. Cognition, Melbourne, FL, March, 2009. presented at Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting, Naples, FL, May, 2009. George A. Pierce: “The Late Bronze Age Leonardo F. Fernandino: [1] (First author) Bichrome Ware of Jaffa.” Annual Conference “Are pre-motor maps based on body parts or of the American Schools of Oriental Research, coordinated actions? Implications for embodied PuBLIc HEALTH Boston, MA, November, 2008. semantics.” Forthcoming in Brain and Language, 2009. [2] (First author) “Modulation of linguistic Jennifer Toller Erausquin: [1] (Co-author) ryan N. roberts: “Copying for Clarity: event-related potentials in non-anomalous “A worksite obesity intervention: Results from 4QDeutk2 and its ‘Variants.’” Presented at the sentences.” Poster presented at Annual Meeting a group-randomized trial.” Published in the Southwestern Regional Meeting of the Society of of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, American Journal of Public Health. [2] (First author) Biblical Literature, Santa Clara, CA, March, 2009. October, 2008. [3] (First author) “The Human “Increasing the reach of HIV testing to young Pre-Motor Cortex Contains a Map of Commonly Latino MSM: Results of a pilot study integrating Executed Actions.” Poster presented at Human outreach and services.” Published in the Journal PHySIOLOGIcAL ScIENcE Brain Mapping, San Francisco, CA, June, 2009. of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

Ali Izadpanah: (Co-presenter) “Effect of a Omar G. Gudino: [1] (First author) Sayaka Takaku: (First author) “Dynamic Sampling Short-term Diet and Exercise Intervention in “Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Method for Diacetyl and Acetoin Using Tenax TA Overweight Children on Serum-stimulated Youth Mental Health Services: Do Disparities Solid Sorbent and (2,3,4,5,6-Pentafluorobenzyl) Human Monocytes.” Presented at the American Vary by Problem Type?” Published in the Journal Hydroxylamine Hydrochloride (PFBHA).” College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, vol. 17, pp. Presented at The American Industrial Hygiene Seattle, WA, May, 2009. 3-16, March, 2009. Conference and Expo, Toronto, Canada, June, 2009. virginia W. Huynh: [1] (First author) “Ethnic POLITIcAL ScIENcE Discrimination and Physical Health During the Elizabeth S.c. Wu: [1] (co-presenter) “Verbal Transition to Adulthood.” Poster presented at working memory contributions to creativity.” Society for Research on Child Development, th kuyoun chung: [1] “Dictatorial Peacekeeping Poster presented at the 37 Annual Meeting of Operation: Analyzing Motivation of Authoritarian Denver, CO, April, 2009. [2] (Recipient) the International Neuropsychological Society, Regime’s Participation in UN Missions.” Poster “Millennium Scholars Junior Mentor.” Society Atlanta, GA. February 2009. [2] (Co-presenter) presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO, “Schizotypy and Lifetime Creative Achievement in International Studies Association, New York March, 2009. a Large Healthy Adult Sample.” Poster presented th City, NY, February, 2009. [2] “Does It Deliver at the 37 Annual Meeting of the International What It Promises? Assessing Alliance Reliability Amy M. Jimenez: [1] (First author) “Temperament Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta, GA. with Veto Player.” Presented at the 2009 Annual as a discriminating marker of genetic liability February 2009. [3] (Co-presenter) “Cognitive and Meeting of International Studies Association, New for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.” Personality Predictors of Creative Achievement.” th York City, NY, February, 2009. Poster presented at International Congress Poster presented at the 37 Annual Meeting of on Schizophrenia Research, San Diego, CA, the International Neuropsychological Society, March, 2009. [2] (Co-author) “Developmental yogi H. Hendlin: (Co-author) “Competing Atlanta, GA. February 2009. [4] “Elf-Rights initiatives: a new tobacco industry strategy to disruptions in neural connectivity in the and Werewolf Legislation: Designing Public oppose statewide clean indoor air ballot measure.” pathophysiology of schizophrenia.” Published Health Interventions and Social Welfare Policies in , vol. 20(4), pp. Published in the American Journal of Public Health, Development and Psychopathology to Apply to the Wizarding and Muggle World.” vol. 99 (3), pp. 1-9, March, 2009. 1297-1327, December, 2008. Lecture presentation abstract accepted for the 2009 Harry Potter Symposium in San Francisco, robert P. Spunt: (First author) “Aversive and Mark J. kaswan: [1] “The Political Economy CA (July 2009). [5] “The Passion of Severus of Happiness: William Thompson’s Social(ist) avoidant indecisiveness: Roles for regret proneness, Snape: The Role of Self-Mythology, Masochism, Utilitarianism.” Presented at the Two Centuries maximization, and BIS/BAS sensitivities.” and Espionage in Achieving Redemption and of Utilitarianism, organized by the Centre Published in Personality and Individual Differences, Reinvention.” Panel discussion abstract accepted Bentham, Paris, Rennes, France, June, 2009. April, 2009. for the 2009 Harry Potter Symposium in San [2] “Happiness, Well-Being, and William Francisco, CA (July 2009). Thompson’s Social(ist) Utilitarianism.” Presented A. Janet Tomiyama: [1] (First author) at the ISUS X: The Tenth Conference of the “Consumption after a diet violation: Disinhibition International Society for Utilitarian Studies, or compensation?” Forthcoming in Psychological PuBLIc POLIcy Berkeley, CA, September, 2008. Science. [2] (Recipient) APA Dissertation Research Award. American Psychological Association, Jonathan M. Beutler: [1] (Chair) “A panel 2008. [3] (First author) “Triggers of Eating in yuki yanai: (First author) “Japan’s Distributive discussion with Consuls General of Brazil, Korea, Politics after the Electoral Reform: Differentiation Everyday Life.” Published in Appetite, vol. 52, and other international trade policy experts.” of Voters under the Mixed-Member Electoral pp. 72-82, 2009. International Trade Roundtable event, Torrance, System.” Presented at the The Annual Meeting CA, April, 2009. [2] Appointed to the Board of of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Haley A. vlach: [1] (First author) “Fast Mapping Directors of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, IL, April, 2009. and Retention: Memory Mechanisms Support San Pedro, CA. Children’s Ability to Retain Learned Words.” Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Denver, CO, April, 2009. [2] (First author) “The Role of Lesson Timing in Children’s Acquisition and Retention

30 GRADUATE QUARTERLY Spring 2009 SOcIAL WELFArE Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April, of Climate Change Go Down.” Presented at the 2009. [2] (Producer) “Dislocated Writing: Association of Environmental Professionals, San katrina A. Dornig: [1] (Co-author) “Barriers Luso-Hispanic Literature Beyond Borders.” Francisco, CA, March, 2009. to service use for postpartum depression among UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese low-income ethnic minority mothers in the U.S.” Graduate Student Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Published in Qualitative Health Research, vol. 19, April, 2009. WOrLD ArTS AND cuLTurES pp. 535-551, April, 2009. [2] (First author) “‘You gotta start thinking like a parent’: Hopes, covadonga Lamar Prieto: [1] (First author) cedarBough T. Saeji: [1] (Panelist) “The dreams, & concerns of ethnic minority adolescent “Fuentes clásicas y medievales para explicar la existencia Cultural Property Protection Law and the parents.” Published in Families in Society, vol. 90, de América en el Tratado del descubrimiento de Suárez de Second Generation of Korean Traditional pp. 52-60, February, 2009. Peralta.” III Seminario de Estudios Literarios de la Performance Professionals.” Presented at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Colorado University East Asia Graduate Student Sacha M. klein: [1] “A Spatial Analysis of the España, December, 2008. [2] (First author) Conference, Boulder, CO, March, 2009. [2] Relationship Between Early Care & Education “La conjuración de Martín Cortés en la ‘Monarquía (Panelist) “Analysis of a Korean Drama: The Services and Child Maltreatment.” Presented at indiana’ de fray Juan de Torquemada.” Published Grandmother Scene in Hwanghae and Gyeonggi the Society for Social Work & Research, Thirteenth in Archivum: revista de la Facultad de Filología, vol. Mask Dance Dramas.” Presented at the Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, January, 57, pp. 91-122, 2009. for Ethnomusicology, Regional Conference for 2009. [2] (Moderator) “Sexuality and Family Southern California and Hawaii, Los Angeles, CA, Planning for Transition-Age Youth.” Presented Gabriela venegas: (Co-author) “La visión femenina February, 2009. [3] (Panelist) “Female Tricksters at the California Wellness Foundation, Conference ante el amor, la naturaleza y la historia: Una charla in Korean Popular Culture: The Heroines of on Transition-Age Youth, Los Angeles, CA, con Gioconda Belli.” Published in Mester. Special Hallyu.” Presented at the International Society November, 2008. Issue. Writing and Rewriting: The Dynamics of for Popular Music Research, San Diego, CA, May, Competing Voices, vol. 37, pp. 85-98, April, 2008. 2009. [4] (Co-chair) Korean Studies Graduate Jennifer S. Payne: (Co-presenter) “Bridging Gaps: Student Colloquium (Series), 2008-09. [5] Clergy Approaches and Interventions To Domestic (Panelist) “Protection of Intangible Performance Violence and Depression.” Presented at the urBAN PLANNING Arts in Korea: Challenges to Second Generation Society for Spirituality and Social Work Annual Members of Group Performance Arts.” 8th Annual Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Zoe Elizabeth: (Co-presenter) “A Spoonful of Korean Music Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, Angeles, CA, June, 2009. Sugar: Communication that Helps the Medicine February, 2009.

Dawn k. robertson: (Recipient) Education in Health Care Stipend. Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care, January, 2009.

SOcIOLOGy kathryn M. coursolle: (First author) “The association between retirement and emotional well-being: Does prior work-family conflict matter?” Presented at the Population Association of America Conference, Detroit, MI, April, 2009.

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Argelia E. Andrade: (Recipient) Distinguished Teaching Award. UCLA Academic Senate, April, 2009.

Bethany r. Beyer: [1] “Constructing the Quilombo: Historical, Cinematic, and Literary Representations.” Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference: “Global Languages, Local Cultures”, Cambridge, MA, March, 2009. [2] (Co-author) “La visión femenina ante el amor, la naturaleza y la historia: Una charla con Gioconda Belli.” Published in Mester, vol. 37, pp. 85-98, 2008. Experience the Moment! Daniel H. Brown: “Readers and Counter- Discourse in De tal palo, tal astilla.” Presented Doctoral Hooding Ceremony Commencement at The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April, 2009. Thursday, June 11, 2009 vanessa M. Fernandez: [1] “Dos viaje poéticos: 7:00 PM La presencia de la tecnología en ‘5 metros de poemas’ y ‘Veinte poemas para ser leídos en un tranvía’.” Thursday, JuneRoyce 15, 7:00 Hall PM, Auditorium Royce Hall Auditorium Presented at the 62nd Annual Kentucky Foreign

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