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Sudarshan Kapoor (Social Work Education) was presented the Free Speech Award at the Fresno Free College Foundation and KFCF 88.1 FM 2003 Annual Banquet on Sept. 13. more

Honora Chapman (Classics, Humanities) delivered a talk in August on Paul, Josephus and the Judean Imperialist Policy of Forced Circumcision to the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association annual meeting. more

Gerald Davoli (Health Science) has been appointed by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to the Alcohol & Drug Advisory Board. His term will expire in 2007.

Sasan Fayazmanesh (Economics) published “The Politics of the US Economic Sanctions against Iran” in the Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2003.

Diane Blair (Communication) has been asked to serve on the National Task Force on The Presidency and Democratic Deliberation. more

Benjamin Boone and Gary Gilroy (Music) are recipients of awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. The ASCAP awards are granted by an independent panel and based upon the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions, as well as recent performances.

Isabel Kaprielian (History) presented a paper in Galway, Ireland, in June at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Her paper was entitled "Children and Genocide: Armenian Orphans in Canada."