May 20th ~ 9:30 A.M. - 10:15 A.M.

Jackie Kegley

Jackie Kegley received her B.A. from Allegheny College, her M.A. from Rice University and her PhD. from Columbia University. She is author of Genuine Individuals and Genuine Communities (Vanderbilt, 1997) editor and author of Genetic Knowledge (Paragon House, 1998), and author of numerous chapters and articles on biotechnology and human values and American philosophy. She served as Chair of the CSU Academic Senate from 2000-2003 and received both the CSU Outstanding Professor Award and the Wang Award.

Roy LaFever

Roy LaFever is a native Californian and has spent most of his life on the west coast. He worked as a meteorologist while in the U.S military which included three years on an aircraft carrier and three years in southern Spain. After the military he received a bachelor's in Chemistry from Humboldt State University followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Washington State University. He spent three years at Oregon State University as a National Institute of Health Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and was appointed to the CSUB chemistry department in 1996. He continues to be active in plant natural products research and serves as a coordinator for the National Science Foundation's biannual program in plant biochemistry.

Geri Mohler

Geri Mohler, Assistant Professor Reading/Literacy and
Graduate Literacy Program Coordinator, was awarded a $600,000 grant from ChevronTexaco to implement an early literacy project in eight Bakersfield City preschools with 500+ children and 22 teachers. The program consists of providing training and supervision of literacy coaches who will be placed in the preschools. Coaches will be responsible for some assessments, modeling literacy strategies for teachers, and assisting teachers in using assessments to guide instruction. Preschool teachers will receive college credit for participation and training in early literacy acquisition. This project represents a unique collaboration of public school, university, and private corporation involvement. It also includes an in-kind donation of training provided by Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company and its new preschool literacy program.
 

Robert Yohe

Robert Yohe received his B. A. in Anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino in 1983, and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside in 1990 and 1992, respectively. From 1990 to 1993, he served as Assistant Director and then Director of the Cultural Resources Facility at California State University, Bakersfield and was an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In 1993, Dr. Yohe was appointed the State Archaeologist and Administrator of the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office. He also served as Director of the Archaeological Survey of Idaho and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. During this same period he taught anthropology courses at Boise State University. In 1996, he was appointed Interim State Historic Preservation Officer, a position he held until his departure in late 1999 to join the faculty at CSUB as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology. He is now an Associate Professor of Anthropology and also serves as the Director of the Museum of Anthropology at CSUB and Coordinator of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Historic Resource Information Center. In mid-2003, he was made Director of the Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences at CSUB. Dr. Yohe has conducted research in the deserts of western North America for the past 25 years. More recently, he has conducted excavations in Middle Egypt to recover mummies dating to the Roman period.

May 20th ~ 10:30 A.M, - 11:15 A.M.

Mohsen Attaran

Professor Attaran is president of the National Tax Sheltered Accounts Association Educational Institute and serves as an educational consultant for the National Institute for Pension Administrators. He has planned and conducted numerous workshops and seminars for several public and private organizations. Dr. Attaran is now involved in providing e-Business solutions to local and national firms. His research interests include e-Business strategy, management of technology, operations strategy, project management, and managing the total quality transformation.

Douglas Davis

A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Tennessee studying with David Van Vactor, Doug Davis received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and went on to complete his Ph.D. from Harvard University where he studied with Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner. At Harvard, he was selected by Leonard Bernstein as the student member of the Norton Lectures Discussion Group. Recent performances include “Psalm of an Orange Angel” by the Hungarian Symphony and “Token” for voice and orchestra featured at the Ukrainian “Contrasts” festival. Several of his compositions have been recorded by jazz greats including Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, and Bennie Wallace. Dr. Davis is a Professor of Music at California State University, Bakersfield. He is the Director of the Bakersfield Jazz Festival, Legends of Jazz series, and the Guest Composers series. In 2003, he received the Wang Award, selected from the faculty of the entire 23 campuses of the California State University system. Monies received from this award now endow a scholarship dedicated to the creation and performance of new music.

Michael Flachmann

Michael Flachmann is a Professor of English and Director of University Honors Programs at California State University, Bakersfield. He has written eight books--most recently "Beware the Cat: The First English Novel" and "Teaching Excellence"--plus over fifty scholarly articles. He is currently completing a Shakespeare anthology for Prentice Hall entitled, "Shakespeare: From Page to Stage." Dr. Flachmann has also worked for many years in the world of professional theatre, serving as dramaturge for more than eighty Shakespeare productions at such prominent west coast theatres as the Utah and Oregon Shakespearean Festivals. In 1993, he was selected as Outstanding Professor for the entire CSU System; in 1995, the Carnegie Foundation named him United States Professor of the Year; and in 1999, he was given a $20,000 Wang Family Excellence Award for superior undergraduate teaching by the CSU Chancellor’s Office. Dr. Flachmann’s avocations include Judo, a sport in which he holds a fourth degree black belt, and tennis.

Elizabeth K. Jackson

Dr. Elizabeth Jackson hails originally from Compton, California. She received a B.A. in psychology from UCLA, an M.A. in clinical psychology from Fisk University, and an M.A./Ph.D. from Northwestern University in communications. A professor in the Department of Communications at California State University, Bakersfield for the last 16 years, she is back from a recent 13-country tour, inclusive of a visiting professorship with the University of Pittsburgh’s Semester-at-Sea program. Dr. Jackson’s travels, which included a rare four-hour audience with Cuba’s Fidel Castro and a close-up look at other Communist countries, including Vietnam and China, will eventually be the subject of a documentary entitled, “A Colored Girl’s Odyssey.” An award-winning television and video producer, Dr. Jackson won the Hollywood Black Film Festival’s 2000 award for Best Documentary for “Surviving Abyssinia,” an underground video that examined her life as a volunteer in Ethiopia at the onset of the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict.

Oliver A. Rink

Oliver A. Rink was born in Texas but grew up in California where he attended the University of Southern California for his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in colonial history. He has published two books and several articles on the history of Dutch colonialism in North America in the Seventeenth Century. He is a recipient of both the Outstanding Professor Award and the Faculty Leadership Award. He has taught Interdisciplinary Studies 312 "Plagues and Peoples: A Biohistorical Examination of Humans and Disease" with Maynard Moe since 1979.

Maynard Moe

Maynard Moe was born in Yosemite.  He received his bachelor's and master's from California State University, Fresno, and a Ph.D. in Botany from UC Berkeley. After two years in the University of Alberta, he moved to Bakersfield in fall 1976. He is a field botanist continuing to work on the plants of Kern County, especially plant inventories for public lands such as Ft. Tejon State Historic Park, Tule Elk State Reserve, and Edwards Air Force Base. He is a recent recipient of the Faculty Leadership Award. He has taught Interdisciplinary Studies 312 "Plagues and Peoples: A Biohistorical Examination of Humans and Disease" with Oliver A. Rink since 1979.