SJSU News Archive
Date: 04/07/2009
Career Center Director Cheryl Allmen-Vinnedge reported employers continue to recruit San José State students despite the faltering economy. Her office hosted over 100 business, technical and government employers at the Career and Internship Expo 2009. Employers said SJSU students were well prepared, and soft skills remain as important as academic prowess.
Associate Professor Daryl Eggers spoke at the USA-Mexico Workshop in Biological Chemistry: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Protein Folding in Mexico City. Undergraduates Elisa Aguilar, Phil Calabretta and Lana Whitmer also attended. The workshop assembled young scientists from throughout the Americas and initiated international collaborations.
Associate Professor Michael Gorman is one of 45 educators nationwide to receive a 2009 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. He is the first from the School of Social Work, which has a strong interest in international and comparative education. Gorman will join a Middle East seminar.
Associate Professor Claire Komives received a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant for the Bioengineering Educational Materials Bank, a Web site that hosts solved problems to integrate biological applications into the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum.
Vice President for Administration and Finance Rose Lee was recently named one of 100 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. The honorees "exercise power and influence within their industry and throughout the valley and serve as role models for future generations of leaders," the newspaper said.
Associate Professor Scott Myers-Lipton received a 2009 San José/Silicon Valley National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Annual Freedom and Friendship Award. Myers-Lipton headed a national movement urging federal support for Gulf Coast residents rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
Kinesiology Chair Shirley Reekie said the department was selected by Santa Clara County to temporarily operate Timpany Center, a San José fitness center primarily for the disabled. The Easter Seals ran the site for years. The county is searching for permanent replacement.
CommUniverCity San José Executive Director Dayana Salazar said the organization received a YMCA/Project Cornerstone 2009 Asset Champions Award in the Community Values Youth category. More than 800 people representing local governments, businesses, schools, community organizations and the faith community attended a breakfast honoring all award winners.
Professor Guna Selvaduray gave the keynote address in the risk management session of the International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering in Tokyo, Japan. He co-authored "Communication to Overcome Barriers to Mitigation" with Associate Professor of Sociology James Lee based on research funded by the city of San José.
Political Science Lecturer Larry Sokoloff received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach journalism and political science at the Moscow Higher School for Economics in spring 2009.
Associate Professor Scott Sublett premiered "Bye-Bye Bin Laden" at the South Beach International Animation Festival. Assisted by a student crew, Sublett directed the animated satire. "We're absolutely a comedy, but we have very serious things to say about war, the media, women's rights, and most of all, religious extremism," he said.
Read more on USA-Mexico Workshop.
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