A selection of conference and lecture presentations from faculty members of the College of the Pacific at University of the Pacific.

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Submissions from 2007

Building Campus Partnerships in an Academic Seminar, Lou Matz, Peggy Rosson, Mylon Kirksy, and Heidi Goettl

Nature as Articulate and Inspirited: Oficio de tinieblas by Rosario Castellanos, Traci Roberts-Camps

Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo: (In)visibility and the Female Body, Traci Roberts-Camps

Soviet Influences on Chinese Agriculture: State Farms and the Rise of Chinese Agribusiness, 1949-2006, Gregory Rohlf

State Building as a Feminine Process: The Case of China, Gregory Rohlf

Queer Eye for the Ascetic Guy? Homoeroticism, Children, and the Making of Monks, Caroline T. Schroeder

Women in Anchoritic and Semi-Eremitic Monasticism, Caroline T. Schroeder

Actigraphy and Heart Rate Monitoring for Characterization of Post-Exertional Malaise in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Harnoor Singh, Travis L. Stiles, Staci R. Stevens, Christopher R. Snell, and J. Mark Van Ness

Using a reaction time paradigm to assess neurocognitive function in CFS, Christopher R. Snell, Staci R. Stevens, Lucinda Bateman, Travis L. Stiles, and J. Mark Van Ness

Conversation Skills Training with Adults with Schizophrenia, S. H. Spearman, T. Fabian, and Carolynn S. Kohn

Post-exertional malaise following an exercise challenge., Staci R. Stevens, Christopher R. Snell, Lucinda Bateman, Travis L. Stiles, and J. Mark Van Ness

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Intravenous saline administration improves physical functioning., Travis L. Stiles, Staci R. Stevens, Christopher R. Snell, Lucinda Bateman, and J. Mark Van Ness

Monetary rewards contingent on abstaining from alcohol: A feasibility study, Corey S. Stocco and D. D. Holt

A literature review for prompting procedures used to teach skills to children with autism, Corey S. Stocco and Kevin P. Klatt

Metabolic and immune responses to exercise testing, J. Mark Van Ness, Christopher R. Snell, Staci R. Stevens, Lucinda Bateman, and Travis L. Stiles

Comparing the effects of single target and multiple target trials on acquisition, generalization, and maintenance, Nicholas R. Vanselow, Corey S. Stocco, Sara M. Weinkauf, M. Newquist, and J. Ogle

Tutorial: The Evolution of Skinner's Thinking about Verbal Behavior, Julie Vargas and Ernest Vargas

The use of prompting strategies to teach skills to children diagnosed with autism, Sara M. Weinkauf, Julie A. Ackerlund, Corey S. Stocco, Jennifer Lynn Bechtold, Claire Anderson, Nicholas R. Vanselow, Carrie Haessly, and Kevin P. Klatt

Negative attitudes toward women: Relations with prematurity stereotyping, Marion E. Young, Jessica Stoltzfus Grady, and Katherine Karraker

Negative attitudes toward women: Relations with prematurity stereotyping, Marion E. Young, Jessica Stoltzfus Grady, and Katherine Karraker

Submissions from 2006

A Hill of Beans, Ken Albala

A Hill of Beans: A History of the World's Most Ubiquitous Peasant Food, Ken Albala

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A Renaissance Dream Banquet, Ken Albala

Catalunya/Naples/Rome: The Foundations of Italian Cuisine from Rupert of Nola to Martino of Como, Ken Albala

Creative Genius in Renaissance Cuisine: Cooking from Scappi’s Opera, Ken Albala

Jewish Food in 15th Century Spain, Ken Albala

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Ovophilia in Renaissance Cuisine, Ken Albala

Research on Beans, Ken Albala

The Question of Obesity, Renaissance to The Scientific Revolution, Ken Albala

The Truth About Luxury Dining, Ken Albala

Thomas More’s Utopia, Ken Albala

Vasselli and Baroque Cookery, Ken Albala

Wonder Drugs of the New World: Sassafras, Sarsaparilla and Guaiac, Ken Albala

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Can Patriotism Be Carved in Stone?, Teresa Bergman

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How to Remember The Alamo, Teresa Bergman

Rabbit in the Moon, Teresa Bergman

You Were on Indian Land: Remembering and Forgetting Native Americans on Alcatraz Island, Teresa Bergman

El amor en los tiempos de castas: Angeles del Abismo de Enrique Serna, Martín Camps

Parábolas posmodernas: La señora de la fuente de Luis Arturo Ramos, Martín Camps

Good Faith and Fair Dealing: The Implied Duty to Meaningfully Educate the Athlete, Margaret E. Ciccolella and K. Krueger

In and Of Itself': Faulkner’s Mules and Southern Singularity, Cynthia Dobbs

Comparing the effectiveness of two interventions in decreasing agitative behavior in an elderly adult with dementia, B. A. Dodson and Carolynn S. Kohn

Quantum Computation for Quantum Chemistry: Electronic Structure Calculations using Quantum Algorithms, Anthony D. Dutoi

Inclusion of Long-range Exchange in TD-DFT: Towards a Quantitative Charge-transfer Model, Anthony D. Dutoi, Andreas Dreuw, and Martin Head-Gordon

Increasing Activity Level and Socialization in the Elderly, E. Fry, Monica T. Francisco, T. Webb, and Carolynn S. Kohn

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A Beautiful Mind, Christopher D. Goff

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Is Hollywood Good for Mathematics? (a brief discussion)., Christopher D. Goff

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Movie Math: Mathematical Talent = Mental Illness, Christopher D. Goff

Mathematics and Popular Culture, Part I, Christopher D. Goff and Sarah J. Greenwald

Mathematics and Popular Culture, Part II, Christopher D. Goff and Sarah J. Greenwald

Search for New Oligosaccharide Labels, Olga Goltvyanitsa, Nandkishor S. Chindarkar, and Andreas H. Franz

Synthetic Pichia pastoris promoters based on AOX1 regulatory elements, Franz S. Hartner, Claudia Ruth, Geoff P. Lin-Cereghino, Joan Lin-Cereghino, James Cregg, and Anton Glieder

Creating a Safe Space: Black Sororities and Racialized Space, Marcia D. Hernandez

Honoring African American Women, Marcia D. Hernandez

Morphological Evolution And Mimicry In Ithomiine Butterflies (Nymphalidae), Ryan I. Hill

Morphology and locomotor mimicry in ithomiine butterflies (Nymphalidae), Ryan I. Hill

Night waking in 6-month-old infants: Relations with maternal depressive symptoms and family characteristics, Katherine Karraker, Marion E. Young, and Jessica Stoltzfus Grady

Dead Religion and Contemporary Perspectives: Using Mesopotamian Religion Pedagogically in Religious Studies, Alan Lenzi

Secrecy in The Book of Daniel and a Polemic with Mesopotamian Scholarship, Alan Lenzi

Development of the G418 Resistance Gene as a Primary Selectable Marker for Pichia pastoris, Geoff P. Lin-Cereghino and Joan Lin-Cereghino

G418 Resistance as a Selectable Marker for Multicopy Expression in Pichia pastoris, Joan Lin-Cereghino

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The perspectival challenge to representationalism, Michael Madary

What neural representations mean for the philosophy of perception, Michael Madary

Pacific Mentor Program: Connecting Liberal Learning and Citizenship, Lou Matz

Renovating Pacific’s Full-First Year Mentor Program, Lou Matz, Gary Miller, Dave Chase, and Douglas Tedards

The Unusual Chemical Structure of a Carbohydrate-Quinic Acid Compound, Quy Lam Nguyen and Andreas H. Franz

Old wine in new bottles: Science, quackery, and autism, Matthew P. Normand

Why nature vs nurture should just go away, Matthew P. Normand

Why nature vs. nurture should just go away, Matthew P. Normand

Improving child compliance: An evaluation of antecedent-based interventions, Matthew P. Normand, L. Beaulieu, David Wilder, A. Marcus, and K. Zonneveld

Intravenous saline improves physical capacity and improves extracellular water mass in a patient with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, David Pratt, Travis L. Stiles, Courtney D. Jensen, Staci R. Stevens, and J. Mark Van Ness

Substance use and depression among college students, W. L. Ratto, W. Rieland, Carolynn S. Kohn, and A. H. Haas

The Female Body as Project in Julieta García González’s Vapor, Traci Roberts-Camps

Resettlement of Women and State Building in Western China, Gregory Rohlf

Not so fast, Mr. Pinker: Making the case for human nurture, Henry Schlinger and Matthew P. Normand

Children in the White Monastery and Egyptian Monasticism, Caroline T. Schroeder

Monastic Parenting Practices: Children Endangered and Protected in Early Egyptian Monasteries, Caroline T. Schroeder

Academics v. Athletics: Is Good Faith and Fair Dealing a Remedy?, Linda Sharp and Margaret E. Ciccolella

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Graduate Studies Panel Discussion: The Ups and Downs of Food Studies, Sabrina Small, Richard Wilk, Deanna Pucciarelli, Jennifer Schiff Berg, Ken Albala, Jonathan Deutsch, and Krishnendu Ray

Neurocognitive deficits among pediatric brain tumor survivors treated with surgical intervention alone, L. Taylor, C. Reeves, R. L. Bushardt, T. David Elkin, Scott A. Jensen, and T. J. Boll

Cognitive late effects and the impact of disease versus treatment among pediatric brain tumor patients: An emerging area of research in pediatric psychology, L. Taylor, C. Reeves, M. McCart, Scott A. Jensen, T. David Elkin, R. Brown, T. Boll, K. Simpson, and B. Fortson

Historical Perspective – Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs, J. Mark Van Ness

Using the constant prompt delay procedure to teach interverbal skills to young children with autism, Nicholas R. Vanselow, Jennifer Lynn Bechtold, Claire Anderson, and Corey S. Stocco

An Evaluation of Assessment Procedures for Pica, L. Wasano, Carolynn S. Kohn, and John C. Borrero

Structural determination of the N- and C-terminus in gp41, the predominant glycoprotein in the vitelline envelope of Xenopus laevis eggs, Haiqiang Yu, Ruben T. Almaraz, Jerry L. Hedrick, and Andreas H. Franz

Submissions from 2005

France and European Cuisines of the 16th Century, Ken Albala

The Use and Abuse of Chocolate in 17th Century Medical Theory, Ken Albala

Wine as Medicine, Ken Albala

Improving customer service at a coffeehouse by implementing performance management techniques, K. Baysinger, Carolynn S. Kohn, and P. Kozina

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Submerged Patriotism: A Critical Analysis of the USS Arizona’s Orientation Films, Teresa Bergman

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Two Thousand Years in Thirteen Minutes: A Critical Analysis of Alcatraz Island’s Orientation Films, Teresa Bergman

Folate Conjugated Micellar Carriers for Targeted Drug Delivery, Shiladitya Bhattacharya, Andreas H. Franz, Xiaoling Li, and Bhaskara R. Jasti

Synthesis and Analytical Evaluation of New Oligosaccharide Tags, Nandkishor S. Chindarkar, Olga Goltvyanitsa, and Andreas H. Franz

A Practitioner’s View of SPARTA, the Federal Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act, Margaret E. Ciccolella, L. Lyman, and B. Kuenzinger

Everyday Use: Tradition, Adaptation, and Appropriation in/of African American Culture, Cynthia Dobbs

An Improved Hybrid Exchange Kernel for Charge-Transfer States in TD-DFT, Anthony D. Dutoi

Small Cluster Oligosaccharide Mimetics and Synthetic Oligosaccharide Labels, Andreas H. Franz

The Life Trajectory of An Academic Career, Marcia D. Hernandez

Caregiver knowledge of sickle cell disease and adherence in children: Knowing is not the same as doing, Scott A. Jensen, T. David Elkin, K. Hilker, S. Jordan, R. Iyer, and M. G. Smith

Measuring adherence in pediatric sickle cell disease: Development and factor structure of the Self Care Inventory-Sickle Cell-Revised, S. S. Jordan, K. Hilker, Scott A. Jensen, L. Stoppelbein, and T. David Elkin