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Craig Persiko provided guidance to the CCSF Computer Science student team, which placed 13th out of 77 teams at the 2002 Pacific Northwest ACM programming contest! This contest pitted our team against teams from Cal, Stanford, USF, SFSU, and the like. For full standings, go to: http://www.acmcontest-pacnw.org/2002/standings.htm

Guy De Primo, Mathematics instructor, accepted a plaque honoring his 2002 Teaching Excellence Award at the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges.

Bie Han Tan, Mathematics instructor, received the 2002 "Teacher of the Year Award" from the California Association on Postsecondary Education and Disability (CAPED). The award recognizes an outstanding instructor (outside of Disabled Student Programs) who recognizes her responsibility for the education of all learners and has made extraordinary efforts to meet the needs of the learner with a disability in their classroom through the use of innovative instructional techniques and accommodations.

Amily Shiu-I Huang has joined the faculty of the Architecture department. She earned a B.A. in Architecture with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also received an honorable mention Eisner Prize in creative arts. Her Master of Architecture degree was earned at Columbia University, New York. She is fluent in Mandarin and Taiwanese.

Andrew Chandler, AIA has an M. ARCH from Virginia Tech and a B.Design from the University of Florida, and has been teaching in higher education since 1989. He joins us from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) where he was the new graduate program coordinator. His private architectural practice has garnered local, state, and regional design awards from the American Institute of Architects. He has significant interest in collaborative works and has joined with other professionals and students to stage such works as Stravinski¹s "L¹histoire du Soldat" and directed an original architectural installation celebrating the defining moments of the last millennium. He is keenly interested in pedagogical design and hopes to bring his experience in this arena to CCSF. He also loves gravity and plywood. Dr. E. Simon Hanson is a scientist, science educator, writer and performer. His Ph.D. in endocrinology is from the University of California, San Francisco His bachelor degrees in psychology and biopsychology were obtained at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Phi Beta Kappa and an ARCS scholar. Renee Liu earned a BA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an MA from the University of California at Berkeley. Sara Peterson earned a BA from Webster University in St. Louis Missouri and an MA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her experience in Industry includes managerial positions at Noetic Technologies and Charles Schwab. Jason Schatz received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Davis. After completing his undergraduate studies he worked as an engineering consultant in the Bay Area on PG&E natural gas pipeline projects. He returned to U.C. Davis in 1997 to do graduate work in Computer Science, and graduated with a M.S. in 1999. He moved to San Francisco and worked with a number of software companies developing Java desktop applications. . He primarily teaches programming language classes in C++ and Java.

School of Science and Mathematics faculty members elected to the Academic Senate in the Spring of 2002 are: Gonzalo Castro-Gonzalez, Mathematics, Darrell Hess, Earth Sciences, and, serving as President of the Academic Senate, David Yee, Physics.

Astronomy Instructor Melinda Weil was featured on the Discovery Channel and Scientific American websites in an article about her presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society in May 2002.

Astronomy Chair Lancelot Kao co-authored a paper for a workshop held by The European Southern Observatory on The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift in Venice, Italy in October of 2001.

Biology department instructor Carole Toebe has been elected to the Delta Omega National Honor Society in Public Health as an alumni member for her contributions to public health. Dr. Toebe teaches Microbiology and The Biology of HIV to allied health professionals. She also organizes the free public noontime Biology Seminars.

Chemistry department instructor Tim Su has recently been appointed to the Web Committee, an important committee of the Division of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society.

Dr. William McInerny's recent publications in the Journal of Chemical Education include Fraction of Molecules Exceeding a Given Energy in the June 2001 issue (abstract), and Probability and the H-Atom in the March 1999 issure (abstract)

Earth Science department Chair and Physical Geography instructor Darrel Hess is co-author of the seventh edition of Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation. He also wrote the companion study guide. The textbook comes with a CD-ROM containing virtual field trips, and has its own website: http://www.prenhall.com/mcknight/. In the preface to the book, an explanation of the title is given: “The authors of this volume believe that a useful definition of geography is "landscape appreciation" and have prepared the book with that theme in mind. “ Landscape" is considered to include everything one senses by sight, sound, and smell when looking out of a window. "Appreciation" in this context means understanding: Any proper exposition of geography should serve to heighten one's understanding of all that is seen, heard, and smelled through actual experience at a nearby window or vicarious experience of a window on the other side of the world. It is the purpose of this book to make the landscapes of the world more understandable to the reader, at least at an introductory level.” More information about the book can be found at http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0130404683,00.html

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