Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. To share faculty news, email ucpa@csudh.edu.
College of Business Administration and Public Policy
Larry Press, professor emeritus of information systems, participated in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers online forum that addressed options and plans for extending high-speed internet access to under-served areas of New Hampshire. Press has followed internet satellite projects since the first generation of low earth observation constellations.
College of Education
Anthony H. Normore, professor emeritus of graduate education, Antonia Issa Lahera, professor of school leadership in Graduate Education, and Julie Jhun, assistant professor of School Leadership in Graduate Education, recently published the chapter “When Leaders Grow, They Grow Others: Overcoming Immunity to Change” in the book “The School Leadership Survival Guide: What to do when things go wrong, how to learn from mistakes, and why you should prepare for the worst.” The book serves as a bridge between research and day-to-day school leadership, and is intended to help leaders and school communities improve in areas they routinely avoid, and is meant as a “go to” resource for principals, those who train and teach them, and scholars.
Anthony H. Normore, professor emeritus of graduate education, and Brian Jarrett, professor and director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Department, have published their collaborative research, “Implementing Restorative Processes to Mediate Conflict and Transform Urban Schools,” as a chapter in the book “Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom.” Their piece discusses the global rise of restorative justice in the education context, and explores how school systems use them – with specific emphasis on victim-offender conferencing.
College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sarah Lacy co-authored the article, “Between a rock and a cold place: Neanderthal biocultural cold adaptations,” for the journal Evolutionary Anthropology. The piece reviews the current state of knowledge of Neanderthal cold adaptations along morphological, physiological, and behavioral lines.
Kenneth Seligson, assistant professor of anthropology, has co-authored the article “Lidar survey of ancient Maya settlement in the Puuc region of Yucatán, Mexico.” The article focuses on the application of lidar remote-sensing technology and how it has revolutionized the practice of settlement and landscape archaeology, with a particular focus on his research in the Maya lowlands in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
Samantha Leigh, assistant professor of Biology, has written the article “Gut microbial diversity and digestive function of an omnivorous shark” for the journal Marine Biology. The piece focuses on the only known omnivorous shark, the Bonnethead Shark.
She also penned the feature article “A shark’s eye view on ocean ecology” as a guest writer for the Southern California Newspaper Group, which includes the Daily Breeze.
Recent quotes and/or interviews in the media from faculty
Anne Soon Choi, associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, was interviewed for the Kyodo News article “FOCUS: Rise in anti-Asian attacks rooted in U.S. history, bias.” During the interview, Choi said she feels many white people have no chance to “learn anything uncomfortable that challenges” their own position within a system built on white supremacy. Adding the element of racial grievance among such people. “We are seeing the worst outcome of that.”
