SJSU News Archive
Date: 05/12/2009
This is the last issue of SJSU This Week for spring 2009. Honors & Accolades submissions made after today will be saved until classes resume this fall.
More than 200 colleagues and friends gathered recently at the Valencia Hotel to honor Susan Meyers, retiring dean of the Connie L. Lurie College of Education. Provost Carmen Sigler and San José Councilmember Sam Liccardo attended the event.
SJSU students Emmanuel Amador, Mario Keener and Kevin Givan received Foster Youth Leadership awards from Honoring Emancipated Youth for demonstrating leadership and giving time in service to others.
Chemical engineering major Meriber Gonzalez won first place at an International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers poster contest for her work, "Analysis of the Ketalization Reactor for the Production of Artemether." She competed against several University of California campuses, and won an all-expense paid trip to the society's global competition.
The SJSU Research Foundation received a $100,000 grant for its Silicon Valley Math Initiative from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Sixteen organizations received a total of $1.1 million, which will enable 350 teachers to receive focused professional development. The principal investigator is Joanne Rossi Becker, professor of mathematics.
The Workforce Planning Team received the 2009 Excellence in Human Resource Practices Award from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, Western Region. The team includes Dennis Hungridge, Brenda Lohry, Marcela Bolanos, Sheila Uganiza, Maggie Carrera, Rosario Gaspar, Amy Ruiz and Tony Garcia.
SJSU Career Center Assistant Director Julie Sedlemeyer and WorkAbility IV employment specialist Melodie Cameron presented "Disability and Employment" to Safeway human resources corporate staff, recruiters and hiring managers to increase awareness of disability employment law and etiquette.
The University Library's Mengxiong Liu will be a seminar presenter for "Think Globally, Act Globally," an Institute of Museum and Library Services program that will offer professional development in the United States and China.
"Bye-Bye Bin Laden," an animated satire by Associate Professor Scott Sublett and his students, was named Best Feature at the South Beach International Animation Film Festival.
Assistant Professor Leslie Speer and her industrial design class were featured online by Bike Radar, which profiled student work with Morgan Hill-based Specialized Bicycle Components. Coached by Specialized executives, the young designers developed human-powered vehicles for farmers in Cameroon, Africa.