Inside: 2 Presentations and Publications 3 Honors and Awards 4 Tribute to CSUN Volunteers 6 Research and Sponsored Projects 7 FYI 8 Frank del Olmo Book Signing Vol. IX · No. 8 December 6, 2004 Campus Celebrates Big Win for Valley Performing Arts Center Community Leaders Join with University at Ceremony Marking City Council Endorsement al State Northridge President culture is very big and it’s a very Jolene Koester, City Councilman important part of our lives here in C Greig Smith and a trio of com- the Valley,” Smith said. “With this munity leaders led a celebration on 1,600-seat facility, we will be able to November 15 marking the Los Angeles bring major performances into the City Council’s endorsement of the Valley that will be enjoyed not just future 1,600-seat Valley Performing by the San Fernando Valley, but by Arts Center project at the campus. the whole city of Los Angeles as well Councilman Smith, who rep re s e n t s as our neighboring communities.” the 12th Council District that includes Joining President Koester and the university, presented President Councilman Smith at the campus Koester with the formal resolution of celebration for the Valley Performing support that was unanimously adopted Arts Center project were a trio of by the Los Angeles City Council on community leaders: Bruce Ackerman, Friday, Oct. 29. The university also president and chief executive officer marked the occasion by erecting the of the Economic Alliance of the San first project sign for the future arts Fernando Valley; industrial parks center. developer Sanford “Sandy” Paris, “I want to welcome you to a very who also is a member of the CSUN historic moment in the history of Foundation Board of Directors; and Ca l i f o r nia State University, Northridge— Clyde Porter, a longtime arts activist but more importantly, a historic Displaying the resolution of City Council support, President Jolene Koester is joined at the and promoter in the Valley. moment for the San Fernando Val l e y , ” site of the future Valley Performing Arts Center by (from left) Bruce Ackerman, president Although the Valley currently has and CEO of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley; industrial parks developer said President Koester, adding that Sanford Paris, City Councilman Greig Smith and Valley arts activist Clyde Porter. a number of smaller performing arts the PAC project “is going to fan the venues, including several at Cal State flames for the cultural and creative Performing Arts Center project “an the entire city of Los Angeles.” Northridge, none are large enough to spirit of the San Fernando Valley.” important thing not just for Northridge, “One of the things I’ve always support large-scale performances Councilman Smith, noting that not just for the California State heard is, ‘There’s no culture in the such as a Broadway-style show or a “there’s an excitement around CSUN University system, but for the whole Valley.’ With this building, we will symphony orchestra. Thus, the these days,” called the Valley San Fernando Valley and truly for make a very strong statement that Valley Performing Arts Center continued on page 2. Cal State Northridge Salutes Volunteers in Annual Tri b u t e Al and Sherry Lapides, John Guarrera Earn Highest Volunteer Honors at Campus Ceremony l and Sherry Lapides, longtime to Cal State Northridge that, between by an emeritus or retired member of organization’s Millennium Medal for university supporters, and John them, goes back 30 years. the faculty, was presented to John outstanding contributions to the field A Guarrera, former director of the In 1974, Al Lapides helped develop Guarrera. of electrical engineering. Center for Research and Services in a career goal mentoring program for Gu a r r era is credited with saving the In 2003, Guarrera joined with family the College of Engineering and undergraduates before moving on to College of Engineering and Computer and friends in creating a $100,000 Computer Science, received Cal State scholarship and special projects fund- Science more than 30 years ago, when endowment to provide students with Northridge’s highest volunteer honors raising work with the President’s the college was threatened with firsthand experience in state-of-the- at a campus ceremony in November. Club—now the President’s Associates. elimination in a move to streamline art technology, with an eye toward President Jolene Koester and A member of the Foundation Board system-wide academic offerings. A successful careers in the field. The Alumni Association President Gene since 1990, he served as vice chair past president of the Institute of first Guarrera scholarship was awarded Detchemendy led the assembly of through its formative years, and Electrical and Electronics Engineers, this year. (See pages 4 and 5 for more more than 300 faculty, staff, alumni became an advisor to the Family Inc. (IEEE), he has earned the on the tribute to CSUN volunteers.) and friends who saluted the top award Business Center at its inception. winners and 21 other active volunteers Lapides received his business degree at the annual Volunteer Service in 1968 and his teaching certificate in Nonprofit Org. Awards ceremony and brunch. 1969, both from San Fernando Valley U.S.Postage “While we acknowledge unique State College, now CSUN. PAID contributions among this group,” Lapides’ wife, Sherry, began her California State said program narrator D.G. “Gray” fo r mal CSUN volunteer service arou n d 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, California 91330 University Mounger, assistant vice president for 1990 as a member of the President’s Northridge alumni relations, “each is integral to Associates. Active with the Dean’s the vitality of our campus.” Council of the College of Arts, Media, The Dorothea “Granny” Heitz Awa r d and Communication, she has joined for Outstanding Volunteer Leadership with her husband in volunteer services is awarded to alumni who serve as to Northridge Hospital. role models for CSUN’s large corps Residents of Northridge since the of volunteers. Named for the alumna 1950s, the couple in 1972 helped found whose self-styled “spirit squad” members Replacement Parts Industries, now we r e unofficial CSUN ambassadors in under the direction of their son, Ira. the 1960s, the award was presented The 2004 Emeriti Merit Award, to Al and Sherry Lapides for service recognizing support of the university Presentations and Publications Presentations “Prepared to be a change agent at Ability of Children with Severe Multiple at the Annual Biomedical Research Larry Allen (Biology) presented a your institution?” at the 29th annual Disabilities,” at the American Academy Co n f e r ence of the National Institute of paper titled “Documenting the return conference of the Professional and of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental General Medical Sciences in Dallas, of a fishery? Abundance of juvenile Organizational Development (POD) Medicine’s annual meeting in Texas, in November. white sea bass (Atractoscion nobilis) Network in Higher Education in September. off southern California 1995–2003” at Canada. Sembiam Rengarajan (Electrical and the American Society of Ichthyologists Antonio Machado (Environmental Computer Engineering) pr esented the and Herpetologists meeting. Steve Dudgeon and Janet Kübler and Occupational Health) presented following papers: “Microstrip Reflec- (B i o l o g y ) pr esented their res e a r ch on a poster titled “Synergism among tarrays with Multi-Layer Substrates and G. Mi c hael Barne s (Computer Science) the hypothesized effects of fertilization Arsenite, Cadmium and Retinoic Ac i d Superstrates” at the National Radio presented a description of CSUN’s rate on the evolution of algal life in the Production of Birth Defects” at Science Meeting in Colorado, “Analysis computer graphics course offerings at histories at the Benthic Ecology the annual meeting of the University of a Dual Frequency Microstrip the Computer Society meeting in Meetings in Alabama, where Peter of California Toxic Substances Research Reflectarray” at the URSI Electro- Thousand Oaks. Edmunds (Biology) also gave a talk. and Teaching Program in San Diego, magnetic Theory Symposium in Italy, Dudgeon also was invited to participate in April. and “Microstrip Reflectarrays Consisting Ronald Borcz o n (M u s i c ) co - p re s e n t e d in the third Corona Conference on of Multilayer Stacked Patches” at the “Digital Innovations: Expanding Music trans-Atlantic taxa in Plymouth, England. Sabina Magliocco (Anthropology) IEEE International Symposium on Therapy Horizons Through New ch a i r ed a panel titled “Syncretism and Antennas and Propagation and National Technology” and led “A Psycho- David Gray (Biology) co-presented a Mixed Adhesion to Religious Practice” Radio Science Meeting in Monterey. therapeutic Classification of Music poster titled “DNA divergence among at the meeting of the Societé Inter- All papers were published in the pro- Therapy Improvisation: A Continuum parasitoid fly populations utilizing national d’Etnologie et Folklore ceedings of the symposia. Rengarajan of Procedures” at the sixth annual different cricket host species” at the (International Society for Ethnology also chaired three sessions in the URSI American Music Therapy Association Animal Behavior Meetings in Oaxaca. and Folklore Studies) in Marseilles, EM Theory symposium in Pisa, Italy. (AMTA) meeting in Austin. He also gave a talk at the Southern France, in April. Magliocco recently was Ca l i f o r nia Animal Behavior Conferen c e interviewed on BBC Radio Cornwall. Ge r ry Simila, Kathleen Marsag l i a , Vick i Mi c hael Brys o n (E n g l i s h ) pr esented a on “Distinguishing modes of selection Pedone,Doug Yule ,Karen Savage, paper titled “The Negation of ‘God’: on courtship interactions: Sexual Judith Marti (A n t h ro p o l o g y ) de l i v e re d Craig Scott,Elizabeth Nagy-Shadman, Samson Agonistes and Negative selection versus species isolating a paper titled “Romanticized and Ka r olanne As mu s , (Geological Sciences) Theology” at the 2004 Midwest Meeting functions.” Vil i fi ed: Latin American Women Ven d o r and Melony Walsh (Biology) made of the Conference on Christianity Identity in Literature and Art” and presentations including mentoring and Literature at Notre Dame.