By: Nancy L. Stake

Date: 08/25/2003

E. Michael Gorman, assistant professor in social work, met with Brazilian social and behavioral scientists and HIV/AIDS experts about comparative United States and Brazilian HIV/AIDS policy. Gorman gave a talk at the Institute for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre. He also met with faculty at the Latino American Center for the Study of Human Rights and Sexuality at the Institute for Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Contact Gorman at emfg@hotmail.com.

Rona Halualani, assistant professor of communication studies, was asked to write a Web site essay on mainland Hawaiians for the PBS and POV film, "American Aloha," which aired earlier this month. Halualani and her research team also had an article accepted by the top-tier national journal, Journal of Communication, in which they analyzed intercultural contact among the Bay Area's multiversity student population. In addition, she reports that her book, In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics, was published this month.

Contact Halualani at halualani@yahoo.com.

Tom Layton, professor of anthropology, and some of his students, spent two weeks diving and mapping the Frolic Shipwreck, his research project which is being filmed by the history channel for an hour-long program in mid-November.

See www.mcn.org/1/pointcabrillo/abouttom.html.
Contact Layton at tnlayton@email.sjsu.edu.

Professor of English Scott Rice will be interviewed on National Public Radio's Morning Edition with Renee Montaigne, which will air on Thu., Aug. 28, at 5 a.m. and again at 7 a.m. on 88.5 FM. In connection with a series on armchair travel, Rice will talk about the English Department's "Literary Locales" Web site at www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/places.htm.

Contact Rice at rices@email.sjsu.edu.