Date: 12/13/2004

Papers by four of computer engineering professor M.E. Fayad’s graduate students were accepted and presented at The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration in Las Vegas, Nevada, last month. Two of the accepted papers were recommended by the conference to be published in the IEEE CS Transaction journals. Contact Fayad at m.fayad@sjsu.edu.

Susan Griffin, tutorial coordinator at the Learning Assistance Resource Center, has an essay in Feminism in Literature, a collection published by Thomson Gale. The essay, "Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek," was originally published by Garland Press in Ethnicity and the American Short Story in 1997 and also was reprinted earlier this year in Short Story Criticism, another Thomson Gale publication. Contact Griffin at susan.griffin@sjsu.edu.

Nursing Professor Coleen Saylor presented a paper on "The Circle of Health, a Health Definition Model," at the Conference of Australian College of Holistic Nurses, in Brisbane, Australia. Contact Saylor at csaylor@son.sjsu.edu.

Guna Selvaduray, director of the Collaborative for Disaster Mitigation, organized the fifth annual conference on Recovery Planning in Silicon Valley, which was held in San Francisco. The conference was co-sponsored by the City of San José Office of Emergency Services. The conference provides a forum for information acquisition and exchange among industry professionals involved in business continuity planning. Contact Selvaduray at gunas@email.sjsu.edu.

Andrew Wood, associate professor of communication studies, talked about his state-by-state tour guide books to offbeat destinations and nostalgic stopovers at the Easy Going Travel Shop and Bookstore in Berkeley. Contact Wood at wooda@email.sjsu.edu.