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Lillian Faderman (English) is the recipient of the Publishers Triangle Bill Whitehead Award, a lifetime achievement award for exemplary scholarship in lesbian/gay studies. The awards ceremony will be held in New York on May 12.

“Living Well”
Several Fresno State faculty member presented papers at the “Living Well: The Goals of Human Being in Philosophical and Religious Tradition” conference at Tenaya Lodge,  co-hosted by the Department of Philosophy and College of Arts and Humanities.

Don Blakeley (Philosophy) spoke on “Taoist perspectives.”

Honora Chapman (Classics) spoke on “Greek and Homeric perspectives.”

Ann Berliner (Philosophy) spoke on “Asian & Psychoanalytic perspectives.”

Toni Wein (English) spoke on    “Romanticism and the Sublime.” and

Robert Maldonado (Philosophy) spoke on “Biblical perspectives.”

Paul Beare (Dean, Kremen School of Education and Human Development) participated in a conference to discuss how educators will match the expectations of the federal “No Child Left Behind Legislation.” More than 40 administrators, including university presidents, provosts and deans of education from across the nation, attended the conference in April at Sonoma State University. The theme of the discussion was “Promising Practices and Accountability,” and featured key speakers from national and regional education organizations.

Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi (chair, Africana and American Indian Studies) presented a paper, entitled "Structural Influence on Mate Selection: A Contemporary African Case Study" at the National Council for Black Studies 28th Annual International Conference in Atlanta, Ga., on March 19. In this presentation, he examined the cultural and structural factors of mate selection patterns among men and women in contemporary Ghana.

Dickran Kouymjian (chair, Armenian Studies) was interviewed on KQED in San Francisco regarding the new production of William Saroyan's “The Time of Your Life” at the Steppenwolf Theatre.

Matthew Jendian (Sociology) lectured at the St. Nersess Seminary in New Rochelle, N.Y., on “Where and Why Armenians Go To Church.”  His findings are based on survey data he collected from nearly 300 randomly-selected households in Central California containing at least one person of Armenian descent.

Barbara Birch (chair, Linguistics) is the recipient of the first David E. Eskey, Ph.D. Annual Memorial Award from the California Teachers of English Speakers of Other Languages for best practices in teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language reading for her book "English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom" (2002, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

Tommy Miller (Mass Communications and Journalism) received the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors seventh annual Jack Douglas Distinguished Service Award in March at the group's convention in Abilene. The Texas APME is an organization of managing editors and assistant managing editors representing about 70 daily Texas newspapers. Miller, a former president of Texas APME, joined the faculty last August as the Roger Tatarian Chair for Professional Journalism.