Awards
Updated 6/13/08
Judith Hennessey (College of Business and Economics) was among the women nominated for Women in Business awards for the seventh annual honors event hosted June 4 by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.
Philip Rusche (Michael D. Eisner College of Education) was honored by the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley at the seventh annual Steve Allen “Excellence in Education” Awards on May 28. Named for entertainer Steve Allen, the awards recognize recipients’ nationally recognized achievements in the field of education.
Updated 6/06/08
Matt Monroe and Braden Villanueva (Athletics) are author and designer—respectively—of the 2007 Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball media guide, recently saluted by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America as the fifth best guide of its kind in the U.S. The CSUN publication earned top honors in District 8, covering the western United States.
Updated 5/29/08
Alexis Krasilovsky (Cinema and Television Arts) won the “Best of the Fest” Literary Award at the Austin Woman’s Film, Music & Literary Festival—hosted by the Media Arts & Literacy Institute of Austin—presenting her new DVD, “Some Women Writers Kill Themselves: Selected Videopoems & Poetry of Alexis Krasilovsky.” Krasilovsky also won the “Best Women in Cinema” Award for her feature documentary, “Women Behind the Camera,” at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, 2008. She won a Tribute Award “for her many achievements in independent filmmaking” at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, April 2008. Krasilovsky also won the “Best Documentary Feature” award for “Women Behind the Camera” at the 2008 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Krasilovsky’s “Women Behind the Camera” was screened at the Flying Broom International Women‘s Film Festival in May; at the Rochester/High Falls International Film Festival in May; at the Women’s Film Festival in Vermont in March; at the Squardi Altrove Film Festival in Milan, Italy, in March; at the Women in Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada, in March; at the Unifem Women’s International Film Festival in Florida in February and at the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh in January.
Updated 5/22/08
David Ackerman (Marketing), Barbara Gross (Office of the President) and Deborah Heisley (Marketing) have assumed new leadership positions on the board of directors of the Marketing Educators’ Association, the premier international marketing education organization. Ackerman was formally recognized as director of marketing for the association after a one-year period of informal service, Gross was advanced from president-elect to president of the association, and Heisley began a three-year term as western region director. The appointments were announced April 25 at the association’s annual business luncheon in Salt Lake City.
Mary Curren (Marketing) has been honored as co-author of the Marketing Educators’ Association’s annual Conference Paper of the Year Award. Curren’s award was announced at the association’s April 24 awards dinner in Salt Lake City. The winning manuscript, “Building a Marketing Curriculum to Support Courses in Social Entrepreneurship and Social Venture Competitions,” will be considered for publication in the Journal of Marketing Education, cited as the field of marketing education’s most influential journal. It was selected by the organization’s executive board from 48 manuscripts accepted for presentation at the conference.
Joan Maltese (Educational Psychology and Counseling) was awarded the Unforgettable Educator Award by the Chatsworth/Porter Ranch Chamber of Commerce during the organization’s general membership luncheon at the Radisson Hotel Chatsworth. Co-founder of the Child Development Institute, Maltese was honored for her work with at-risk infants and their families, and for a range of accomplishments in her field.
Kathleen Young (Health Sciences) has been elected to a three-year term as a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE), for a term that began in April and continues through April 2011. The largest professional membership organization for health educators, the AAHE strives to “advance the profession while serving health educators and other professionals who strive to promote the health of all people.”
Updated 5/16/08
Nayereh Tohidi (Gender & Women’s Studies) has been invited by the Dialogue of Cultures unit in the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs to participate in a workshop that will lay the groundwork for a fall 2008 conference on “Common Concerns, Shared Solutions: Middle Eastern-European Networks on Eliminating Discrimination, Promoting Citizenship, and Preventing Radicalisation.” Hosted in cooperation with the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Graz/Austria, the preparatory workshop will be held in Vienna in June. Tohidi will join about 20 women scholars from Europe and the Middle East at the workshop, which will focus on “Interreligious and Intercultural Dialog from Gender Perspectives.”
Updated 5/09/08
Carmen Chandler (Public Relations and Strategic Communications) has been nominated for recognition as an outstanding woman in business at the San Fernando Valley Business Journal’s 7th annual “Women Who Mean Business” awards program in June.
Rick Mitchell (English) is the author of “Through the Roof,” named one of two finalists in the national Maxim Mazumdar New Play Contest.
Steve Oppenheimer (Biology) has been invited to participate again on a National Institutes of Health grant review panel for R13 grants for the Office of Scientific Review, National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Kathleen Young (Health Sciences) has been elected to a three-year term as a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE), for a term which began in April 2008 and will conclude in April 2011. The AAHE is the largest professional membership organization for health educators.
Updated 5/02/08
MariaElena Zavala (Biology) served as the chair of the Biological Sciences Panel for the 2008 dissertation and postdoctoral review, as part of the Fellowships Office of the National Research Council applications evaluation process for the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program.
Updated 4/18/08
Ian Barnard (English) has been appointed assistant director of the California Writing Project, CSUN chapter.He also was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association.
Jose Luis Benavides (Journalism) and James David Ballard (Sociology) are recipients of 2008 Faculty Fellowship Awards from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports social science research for Los Angeles.
Annette Besnilian (Family and Consumer Sciences) has been selected as a recipient of the Excellence Award by the American Dietetic Association, which named her an Outstanding Dietetic Educator. Besnilian was cited for her achievements as teacher, mentor and leader in dietetics education, and for her vital role in "leading the future of dietetics."
Robert Carpenter (Biology) will serve as president of the Western Society of Naturalists during 2008-09.
James Decker (Social Work) was awarded the Administrator of the Year 2008 award by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Region G San Fernando Valley Local Chapter. The Department of Social Work's MSW Program in February was awarded national accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education, from 2004-05 through 2012.
Barbara Gross (Office of the President) takes the reins in April 2008 as president of the Marketing Educators' Association, described as "the premiere international organization for faculty development of the marketing professoriate."
Cedric Hackett (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences) was selected as the 2008 recipient of NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education’s Mid-Level Student Affairs Professional Award, and was honored in Boston.
Leilani Hall (English) participated in the Distinguished Alumni, Visiting Poets Series, at Ohio University. She directed two days of graduate student workshops and gave a public reading.
Debra Hammond (University Student Union) was saluted in March by Region 15 of the Association of College Unions International, which renamed its New Professional Staff Recognition Award in her honor. The award, to be known henceforth as the Debra L. Hammond New Professional Staff Recognition Award, was bestowed on Kevin Lizarraga (University Student Union), who has worked under Hammond's mentorship since 1998.
Sharlene Katz and Behzad Bavarian (Engineering) were recognized for their accomplishments and for setting standards for future engineers, at the 53rd consecutive Engineers Council National Engineer’s Week Honors & Awards banquet.
Alexis Krasilovsky (Cinema and Television Arts) directed “Women Behind the Camera”, which won the Best in Category (Documentary Long-Form for films longer than 40 minutes) award in the 2008 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts Faculty Documentary Competition. Her film also received the 2007 Spirit of Moondance Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, and was screened at the Plus Camerlmage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in Lodz, Poland, and at the Muestra Internacional de las Mujeres en el Cine y la Television at the Cineteca Nacional, in Mexico City.
Janet Kubler (Biology) was an invited instructor for the Placerita Canyon Natural Area Annual Volunteer Naturalist Training program.
Lynn Lampert (Oviatt Library) was recognized as one of the "CSU Library Faculty Stars" in the libraries @ calstate newsletter, which indicatd Lampert was among the "talented information professional" who serve as "exemplars in their areas of research and practice."
Liviu Marinescu (Music) will be honored by The Nimbus Ensemble with a performance of his complete trilogy in an April 2008 performance in the Wilshire United Methodist Church. The Ensemble partners with CSUN in "giving emerging composers the opportunity to hear their works rehearsed by a professional ensemble."
Ana Sánchez Muñoz (Chicana/o Studies) has been selected as a visiting scholar in Princeton, New Jersey, on the campus of Educational Testing Services, for June 2008.. She will consult on equity issues for minorities and on biased testing issues.
Peter Nwosu (Urban Studies and Planning) has been selected as an American Council on Education Fellow for 2008-09. Nwosu will be paired with the president of a sister university or college for a year, during which he will learn what is involved at the highest levels of academic decision-making.
Steve Oppenheimer (Biology) was invited by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a part of the National Institutes of Health, to serve on a review panel for R13 grants. He has also been invited to serve on a National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, grant review panel on R15 applications for model research systems in developmental biology.
Louis Rubino (Health Sciences) has been named a guest professor of China’s Kunming Medical University from November 2007 to November 2010.
Jon Stahl and Alexis Krasilovsky (Cinema and Television Arts) were honored by the Broadcast Education Association for their work in writing and producing feature and documentary films. Stahl was cited for his screenplay, "Park Avenue Baseball," and Krasilovsky for her documentary "Women Behind the Camera."