Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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  Scenic Design for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"

  Andrea Bechert

  I was the Scenic Designer for the musical production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on November 29, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.

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  Singular Spaces II: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments

  Jo Farb Hernandez

  This groundbreaking study of art environments created by self-taught artists across Spain introduces 99 sites featuring idiosyncratic sculptures, homes, and gardens, most of which have never been previously published and analyzed. Detailed case studies of each are contextualized with historical and theoretical references to a broad range of interlocking fields, including art history, anthropology, vernacular architecture, Spanish area studies, and folklore; each chapter is complemented with compelling visuals. Breaking down the standard compartmentalization of genres, Hernández reveals how these creators fuse their work with their daily life in a way generally unmatched in any other circumstances of making art.

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  Smart Breast Pump

  Lin Jiang

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  Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistics Landscape

  David Malinowski

  This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy, and culture learning in the linguistic landscape of visible and audible public discourse. Written from conceptually rich and disciplinarily varied perspectives, its ten chapters address methodological and practical problems of relating language learning to the lived and rapidly changing places of the late modern world.

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  Specialty Crops for Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies for Enhanced Food Security by Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

  Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted for 18.44 % of the $433.569 billion in agriculture cash receipts collected in 2021. In 2020, that ratio was 21.47% of the $363.464 billion. Specialty crops are gaining increasing attention across nation as demonstrated in the 2018 farm bill (Agricultural Act of the 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334)) with the increased number of provisions addressing specialty crop issues, reflecting their growing role in the global economy. The cultivation of Specialty crops, nevertheless, has its own challenges. Specialty crops are generally more sensitive to climatic stressors and require more comprehensive management compared to traditional row crops. Specialty crops face significant financial risks threatening US$1.6 Trillion global market due to their higher water demand. The mission of the book is to prepare current and future software engineering teams, agriculture students, economists, macroeconomists with the skills and tools to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, climate patterns, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve Specialty crops and economic sustainability, through improved productivity for years to come and ensure enough food for the future of the planet and generations to come!

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  Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the Jim Crow South

  Travis D. Boyce

  Steady and Measured chronicles the life, and reassesses the career, of Benner C. Turner, an African American collegiate president at South Carolina State College, a historically black college in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Although critical of civil rights activism on campus, he championed black education through the pragmatic leadership of his struggling institution.

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  Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish

  Avizia Long

  This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic structures, and learner characteristics, which is reflected in the contributions in this volume. This diversity of approaches illustrates how the second language development of sociolinguistic variation during study abroad depends crucially on a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors and can be measured in distinct ways. Thus, this collection will be an indispensable resource to researchers and students of second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in language development during study abroad.

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  Synaptic Array for Field-Training-Capable In-Memory Computing Using Non-Volatile Memory Technologies

  Binh Quang Le

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  The Early Works of Luis Miguel Valdez in El Excentrico Magazine: El Machete Critiques of American Society

  Rosanna Alvarez and Gregorio Mora-Torres

  With his scathing criticisms of American society and its institutions, the published collection of Luis Miguel Valdez’s early writings as “El Machete” in El Excentrico Magazine are timely and important. A series of contributor essays reflecting on the themes and social, political, and cultural implications of the early writings of Luis Miguel Valdez accompanies the collection.

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  The Latinx Guide to Graduate School

  Magdalena L. Barrera

  In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current students with a roadmap for surviving and thriving in advanced degree programs. They document the unwritten rules of graduate education, demystifying and clarifying the requirements for navigating graduate school for students who are often the first in their families to walk that path. Topics include finding the right program, developing a graduate student identity, nurturing relationships, and mapping a career plan. Equal parts how-to guide, personal reflection, and manifesto, this book gives a culturally resonant perspective for the unique Latinx graduate student experience.

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  The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of California's Maritime Cultural Landscapes

  Marco Meniketti

  The book offers insights into cultural landscapes of California that reaches beyond the confines of waterfronts to include Indigenous practices of maritime -oriented tribes to the Portuguese shore whalers, Italian fishermen, Chinese abalone harvesters, ship breakers, and logging schooners. The book uses an archaeological lens to examine the social relationships and material culture the diverse communities that lived on California's long shore.

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  Tips for Writing Well: Research-Based Principles

  Scott Alkire

  This handbook for academic writers asks, Do you have something to say? Do you know what you are talking about? Do you have credible sources? Can you say what you have to say as clearly as possible? Can you avoid cliches and ready-made phrases? The principles embedded in these questions, along with 20 more, comprise this book. Two essays putting into action the principles for good writing set forth conclude the volume.

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  Device to Measure Early Shrinkage Strain of Concrete

  Akthem Al-Manaseer

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  Omnidirectional Bubble Trap with Centrally Immersed Ports in Closed Reservoir

  Anand Ramasubramanian and Sang-Joon (John) Lee

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  Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT)

  Ahmed Banafa

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  Introduction to Quantum Computing

  Ahmed Banafa

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  Mystical Theology and Renaissance Platonism in the Time of Cusanus: Essays in Honor of Donald F. Duclow

  Jason Aleksander

  Edited by Jason Aleksander, Sean Hannan, Joshua Hollmann, and Michael Moore, "Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus" engages with the history of mystical theology and Neoplatonic philosophy through the lens of the 15th century philosopher and theologian, Nicholas of Cusa. The volume comprises nineteen essays that break down the barriers between medieval and Renaissance studies, reinterpreting Cusanus’ place in the history of thought by exploring the archive that informed his thinking, while also interrogating his works by exploring them from the standpoint of their later reception by modern philosophers and theologians.

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  Introduction to Blockchain Technology

  Ahmed Banafa

  This book explores the fundamentals and applications of Blockchain technology. Readers will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, distributed ledger, and the trust model that defines Blockchain technology. They will also be introduced to the basic components of Blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain), its operations (hashing, verification, validation, and consensus model), underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Private and public Blockchain networks similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum will be introduced, as will concepts of Smart Contracts, Proof of Work and Proof of Stack.

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  Advances in Global Leadership (Volume 15)

  Joyce Osland

  Advances in Global Leadership (a blind-reviewed book and journal) collects insights from leading scholars and practitioners, as well as newcomers to the field. In addition to accepting chapters on traditional research, Volume 15 promoted the under-researched topic of power and global leadership. In the final chapter, Dr. Osland and co-editors synthesized the books' insights and identified research directions and gaps for other scholars in "Power and Global Leadership: Marking the Transition and Suggesting Future Directions." For this volume, Dr. Osland also co-authored two chapters with research teams: "Leading Effective Global Change: Three Design Imperatives That Support Success" (Johnson, Ludema & Osland, 2023) and "A Model of Trigger Events and Sensemaking in the Intercultural Context: A Cognitive Approach to Global Leadership Effectiveness" (Osland, Bird, Reiche & Mendenhall, 2023). Furthermore, she interviewed one of the field's founders: "Asking Big Questions That Matter: An Interview with Nancy Adler" (Osland, 2023) and co-edited the book.

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  Antibiotic Adjuvants and Applications Thereof (Joint w/ Princeton)

  Laura Miller Conrad

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  Weight of Dreams

  Irene Carvajal

  Inspired by Carvajal’s own immigrant journey and objects found in her family home back in Costa Rica, the Weight of Dreams is a site specific kinetic installation comprised of cast porcelain bells and laser cut objects suspended and interconnected by monofilament. The sounds and fragmented images created by the installation serve as a metaphor to the memories and echos of an immigrant’s past. One of 42 art installations selected to be part of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT exhibition (September-October 2023) in Athens, Greece. Curated by Kostas Prapoglou.

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  Scenic Design for "Steel Magnolias"

  Andrea Bechert

  I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Steel Magnolias" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts June 7, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.

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  Scenic design for "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"

  Andrea Bechert

  I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on March 8, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.

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  San Jose.STL

  Yoon Chung Han

  San José.STL is the culmination of a San José State University-based project that included two creative learning workshops intended to introduce community members to the technology and creative potential of 3D printing. Offered in partnership with Chopsticks Alley Art and the San José Museum of Art, the first workshop took place at the Olinder Community Center in March 2023, and was led by artist Behnaz Farahi. The second workshop, led by UK-based artist Michael Eden, was held at the San José Museum of Art a month later. The free workshops were organized by SJSU Professor Yoon Chung Han, and served a broad cross section of San José’s diverse community. The exhibition is not only a celebration of the outcome, but of curiosity and creativity, community connections, and the power of collaboration.

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  Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education

  Elena Klaw, Andrea Tully, and Elaine K. Ikeda

  This book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. The book describes innovative models, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense of the tensions and rewards inherent in the work. Guidance, examples, and benchmarks provided are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest.