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Candidate Vita

Risa Ileen Palm

June, 2009

University Administrative Experience

2006 - Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, State University of New York (SUNY)

This position is a system-level position to provide academic leadership for the campuses of the State University of New York.  The State University of New York serves approximately 430,000 students at 64 campuses.  The system is comprehensive and complex, including four research universities of which two are AAU members (Buffalo and Stony Brook), four "statutory" colleges within Cornell University, two free-standing medical centers, 12 comprehensive colleges offering master's degrees, 30 community colleges, 8 technology colleges, and specialized centers and colleges such as the Maritime College, College of Optometry, the Levin Institute, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.  The provost's office, with a current budget of $182 million,  is responsible for overall academic master planning, program review and approval, international studies, leadership development, enrollment management and marketing, student life, university-wide functions such as the SUNY Press, the SUNY learning network and the SUNY library system, the promotion of diversity and educational equity, institutional research, the development of curricular initiatives such as course redesign and a system-wide professional science master's degree, articulation and transfer, and P-16 programs within the state.  This office is also the liaison with several committees of the Board of Trustees.

Among the accomplishments:

• Re-organized and streamlined operation of the provost's office; recruited senior managers who had previous research university experience as academic administrators; eliminated duplicative or non-productive practices.  Assumed responsibility for student life, admissions, enrollment marketing, and office of international affairs.
• Allocated funding and worked with campus provosts to recruit 65 outstanding senior faculty members to our research institutions through the Empire Innovation Program.  These new faculty members have been transformative in spurring new levels of research productivity at their various campuses.
• Worked with the Governor's Commission on Higher Education to promote one of its final recommendations that SUNY be allocated funding to hire 2000 additional faculty members over the next several years to increase its competitiveness. 
• Negotiated a complex system for seamless transfer and articulation that met the goals of the Board of Trustees, the presidents of community colleges as well as faculty governance of the state-operated campuses.  This included setting up a website that now lists all courses that transfer from one campus to another, establishing a faculty appeals committee to hear from campuses that are not satisfied with the placement of their courses, and establishing a student appeals system.
• Established an Office of Diversity and Educational Equity that has, in turn, developed a Faculty Diversity hiring initiative (funding junior faculty throughout the system), a post-doctoral program for diversity students in STEM, and funding for advisement of returning veterans to ease their transition into college. 
• Developed a week-long summer leadership program for mid-level academic administrators within SUNY and its campuses.
• Established new system-led academic programs involving multi-campus collaboration such areas as Professional Science Master's program (funded by Sloan) and dual degree programs with Turkey and Spain
• Initiated and funded a series of disciplinary round-tables bringing together faculty from our various institutions to share research and teaching ideas
• Initiated conversations among our university librarians, chief academic officers and faculty around the topic of open access to scholarly materials that will eventually lead to a SUNY-wide position on faculty control of intellectual property

2003 - 2006 Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Louisiana State University

The position of Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost combines the roles of the chief operating officer and the chief academic officer.  Louisiana State University is a campus with approximately 31,000 students and more than 1600 faculty in colleges including agriculture, art and design, arts and sciences, basic sciences, business administration, education, engineering, library and information sciences, mass communication, music and dramatic arts, social work, coast and environment and veterinary medicine, with a budget in 2007 of $397  million.

The strategic plan for the University, titled the "Flagship Agenda", includes several bold steps to improve academic quality including the hiring of additional faculty members, the reduction in part-time and temporary staff, the enhancement of interdisciplinary research, and the enrichment of the student first-year experience.

Among the accomplishments of the office over that period of time:

• Initiated a new program to integrate incoming first year students into the academic life of the university.  This program included a common summer reading, a new academic convocation at which the author of the summer reading was the speaker, introductory sessions with faculty members, and a partnership with the Baton Rouge community for reading and discussion. 
• Reallocated budget resources from the Evening School, the conversion of instructor lines, and the addition of an Academic Excellence Fee to permit the hiring of a total of 60 additional faculty members. 
• Initiatives in research/pedagogy involving China (business, public policy, economics, Asian Studies, geography, history) and quantitative systematic biology. 
• Recruited outstanding new deans in the School of Coast and Environment, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Basic Sciences, the College of Art and Architecture, the College of Engineering, and the College of Education.
• Initiated a program to increase the graduation rate of undergraduate students by ensuring the offering of key gateway courses, modifying the degree audit system, and simplifying the pathways through various majors.
• Initiated an orientation program for new faculty to acquaint them with Louisiana that included a field trip ("Tiger Trek").  The purpose of this program was not only to acquaint faculty with the environments from which the in-state students came, but also to contribute to the sense of community among beginning faculty members.
• Worked with student government to initiate a program to honor favorite professors at a special luncheon sponsored by Academic Affairs
• Initiated a parent's weekend designed to highlight the faculty.

1997 - 2003   Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

During these years, the College of Arts and Sciences employed over 700 faculty in 58 departments, programs, centers and institutes.  It included the General College, the common point of entry for all first- and second- year students at the University.  It therefore enrolled 100% of the first and second year students, and approximately 70% of the third and fourth-year undergraduates at UNC-CH.  Its total budget was approximately $140 million in 2002-3.  Private fund-raising was a major responsibility of this position, and in the six years in this position, the dean raised more than $170 million in private gifts and pledges.   Major initiatives included:

• Financial organization, budget planning and capital
  • Re-organized the Dean's office functions, and recruited new personnel who put in place new systems of financial accountability and personnel management, including use of web-based reporting systems.
  • Established "permanent" budgets for constituent departments to enable longer-term planning and appropriate budgeting.
  • Initiated a college capital campaign with a goal of $350 million, as part of the university-wide capital campaign.  About $170 million of this target was raised during my deanship, including several major ($3-5 million) gifts that I solicited to support endowed chairs and a faculty retention pool.
  • Organized plans for interdisciplinary building complexes including a new science complex, an international center and an arts quad that were funded through a combination of state bonds and private contributions.
• Undergraduate Education
  • Established the program of first-year seminars to permit greater access to senior faculty for our first year students. The defining characteristic of these seminars were that they emphasized the research interests of the faculty members, and permitted first year students to see the workings of a research faculty. By 2003, about half of all first years students were enrolled in these seminars.
  • Established an Office of Undergraduate Research in the 99-00 academic year. By 2003, this program served almost 30 percent of all undergraduate students.
  • Launched the first major review of the undergraduate curriculum since the early 1980s. This process involved discussions with faculty, students and alumni about the nature of liberal arts education, and resulted in a new set of general education requirements.
  • Improved the advising program. In the new program, all advisors received thorough training, and new cross-disciplinary advising teams were established. Student satisfaction with advising has risen so that by 20034 Chapel Hill was ranked first among the system campuses instead of last-ranked as it was in 1996.
• Globalization and International Studies
  • Reform and expansion of Study Abroad
  • Establishment of a new undergraduate curriculum in International and Area Studies
  • Closer integration of Study Abroad into the academic curriculum

1991-1997   Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon

During this period, the College of Arts and Sciences was the largest college, accounting for about half of the total faculty and almost seventy percent of the student credit hours.  In 1997, the College employed over 400 tenure-track faculty members in 24 departments, 19 interdisciplinary programs, 10 centers and institutes and the Honors College.  Its 1997 annual E&G budget was about $42.5 million, with an additional $25 million in federal grants and contracts.

The most important context that affected administration at the University of Oregon in the early 1990s was the passage of Ballot Measure 5 that mandated a state property tax reduction of 20 percent per year in three successive biennia.  In this context of budget stringency, my primary accomplishments were:

• Developed new programs designed to recruit and retain students - such as a new degree program in environmental studies, the establishment of an "honors track" to supplement places within the Honors College, and a "faculty calling project" to compensate faculty to phone students to encourage them to accept places at Oregon.
• Raised over $32 million in private gifts over the six years that I was dean, a new level of success in private fund-raising.
• Recruited  external department heads in several areas to private enhanced leadership - - in History, Philosophy, Computer Science, Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, and Asian Studies.

1987 - 1991 Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of The Graduate School, University of Colorado, Boulder.

The Associate Vice Chancellor for Research was the chief research officer for the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado and was charged with enhancing scholarly work and research activities on the campus.  In my last year in that position (1990-91), the faculty received about $95 million dollars in external contracts and grants each year, most of which were from such federal sources as the National Institutes for Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. 

As Dean of the Graduate School, I was responsible for eight organized research units and forty faculty members rostered in the Graduate School either from these units or other interdisciplinary programs.   I set salaries and reviewed for promotion and tenure any faculty associated with the Graduate School through these institutes and programs.  The institutes included the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, the Institute of Behavioral Genetics, the Institute of Cognitive Science, the Institute for Behavioral Science, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.  As Graduate Dean I was also responsible for initiating and supporting the development of new interdisciplinary research and teaching programs including atmospheric sciences, global change, and telecommunications.

I was also responsible for the academic progress of 3,800 M.A. and Ph.D. students in more than fifty programs.  My office provided funds to departments and programs for fellowships, some teaching assistantships, recruitment activities, advising activities and a graduate teacher training program.  My particular emphasis within the Graduate School was in the area of minority student recruitment and retention.  The Graduate School also administered a Graduate Teaching Program designed to train graduate students as instructors.  Particular emphasis was placed on international teaching assistants, and issues of cross-cultural differences.

1984-87 Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder
      
In this position, I was responsible for the Program Review process on the Boulder campus, enrichment of undergraduate academic efforts, the administration of the campus Summer Session program, the administration of Continuing Education, academic policies for ROTC, and other duties as assigned by the Vice Chancellor.

1981-1984 Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder

This position supervised space management for a college of 37 departments and about 600 faculty members.  It also was responsible for managing the summer session budget and curriculum. 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

EDUCATION

                        B.A., History with a minor in French, University of Minnesota
                        B.S., Social studies education, University of Minnesota
                        M.A., Geography, University of Minnesota
                        Ph.D., 1972, Geography, University of Minnesota

PROFESSORIAL POSITIONS

      2006 -          Professor, University at Buffalo (SUNY) (tenure)
      2003-2006    Professor, Louisiana State University (tenure)
      1997-2003    Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (tenure)
      1991-1997     Professor, University of Oregon (tenure)
      1982-1991    Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder (tenure)
      1977-1982    Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder (tenure)
      1972-1977    Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

PUBLICATIONS  (selected)

Books or Monographs

Palm, Risa and John Carroll, 1998.  Illusions of Safety: Culture and Earthquake Hazard Response in the US and Japan. (Boulder: Westview Press).
Palm, Risa, 1995.  Earthquake Insurance: A Longitudinal Studies of California Homeowners.  (Boulder: Westview Press).
Palm, Risa and Michael Hodgson, 1993.  Natural Hazards in Puerto Rico: Attitude, Experience and Behavior.  (Boulder: University of Colorado, Natural Hazards Applications and Information Center Monograph # 56.).
Palm, Risa and Michael Hodgson. 1992.  After a California Earthquake: Attitude and Behavior Change.  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
Palm, Risa, Michael Hodgson, Denise Blanchard and Donald Lyons, 1990. Earthquake Insurance in California: Environmental Policy and Individual Decision-Making (Boulder: Westview Press)
Palm, Risa. 1990.  Natural Hazards: An Integrative Framework for Research and Planning (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)
Palm, Risa,  with Sallie Marston, Patricia Kellner, David Smith and Maureen Budetti, 1983. The Response of Lenders and Appraisers to Earthquake Hazards (Boulder: University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Behavioral Science Monograph #38).
Palm, Risa, 1981.  Real Estate Agents and Special Studies Zones Disclosure (Boulder: University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Behavioral Science Monograph #32).
Palm, Risa, 1981.  The Geography of American Cities (New York: Oxford University Press).
Moen, E., E. Boulding, J. Lillydahl and R. Palm, 1981.  Women and the Social Costs of Economic Development: Two Colorado Case Studies (Boulder: Westview Press (Social Impact Assessment Series, No. 5).
Lanegran, David and Risa Palm, eds., 1978.  Invitation to Geography, 2nd edition (New York: McGraw-Hill).  1972.  First edition. 
Palm, Risa, 1976.  Urban Social Geography from the Perspective of the Real Estate Salesman (Berkeley: Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California).

Refereed Journal Articles

Palm, Risa, 2010.  "American Metropolitan Evolution."  Geographical Review, Vol. 100.
Palm, Risa. 2008.  "Recollections of Gilbert F. White in Colorado."  Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 32, pp. 459-461.
Palm, Risa. 2003.  "Textbooks that moved generations: Abler, Adams and Gould, Spatial Organization."  Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 27, pp. 515-8.
Palm, Risa.  2002.  "1970s Urban Geography: A Personal History."  Urban Geography. Vol. 23, pp. 403-7. 
Palm, Risa.  2002.  "International Telephone Calls: Global and Regional Patterns", Urban Geography , Vol. 23, pp. 750-770.
Palm, Risa and Michelle Danis. 2002.  "The Internet and Home Purchase."  Tidschrift fur Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 93, pp. 507-517.
Palm, Risa and Michelle Danis, 2001, "Residential Mobility: the impacts of web based information on the search process and spatial housing choice patterns."  Urban Geography, Vol. 22, pp. 641-655.
Palm, Risa, 1999.  "Perceived risk and the earthquake insurance purchase decision."  Journal of Risk Research, Vol. 2, pp. 289-94. 
Palm, Risa, 1998.  "Urban earthquake hazards: the impacts of culture on perceived risk and response in the US and Japan."  Applied Geography, Vol. 18, pp. 35-46.
Palm,  Risa, 1995.  "Catastrophic Earthquake Insurance: Patterns of Adoption"  Economic Geography. Vol. 71, pp. 119-131.
Palm, Risa, 1994.  "Confronting Natural Hazards: when does a society respond?"  Sistema Terra, Vol. 3, No. 2.
Palm, Risa, 1994.  "Erdbebengefahrdung in Kalifornien."  Geographische Rundschau, Vol. 46, pp. 434-439.
Palm, Risa and Michael Hodgson, 1993. "Natural Hazards in Puerto Rico"  Geographical Review, Vol. 83, pp. 280-289.
Palm, Risa and Michael Hodgson, 1992 . "Earthquake Insurance: Mandated Disclosure and Homeowner Response", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, pp. 207-222.
Hodgson, Michael and Risa Palm, 1992. "Attitude Toward Disaster: A GIS Design Human Response to Earthquake Hazards."  Geo Info Systems Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 40-51.
Palm, Risa, and Claire B. Rubin, 1987."National Origin and Earthquake Response:  Lessons from the Whittier Narrows Earthquake of 1987."  International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 347-355.
Palm, Risa,1986. "Racial and Ethnic Influences on Real Estate Agent Practices," Social Science Journal, Vol. 23, pp. 43-53.
Palm, Risa, 1986.  "Coming Home," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 76, pp. 469-479.
Palm, Risa,1985. "Ethnic Segmentation of the Urban Housing Market by Real Estate Agents," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 75, pp. 58-68.
Palm, Risa, 1985.  "Home Mortgage Lenders and Earthquake Hazards," Papers of the Regional Science Association, Vol. 57, pp. 139-153.
Palm, Risa and James N. Corbridge.  1983.  "The Unintended Impacts of Anti-Redlining Legislation," Journal of Environmental Systems, Vol. 12 (4), pp. 341-350. 
Palm, Risa,1981. "Public Response to Earthquake Hazard Information," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 71, pp. 389-399.
Palm, Risa, 1981. "Women in Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Time-Budget Survey," Environment and Planning A, Vol. 13, pp. 373-378.
Palm, Risa,1980. "Real Estate Agents and the Dissemination of Natural Hazards Information in the Urban Area," Valuation, Vol. 26, pp. 173-182.
Palm, Risa, 1978. "Spatial Segmentation of the Urban Housing Market," Economic Geography, Vol. 54, pp. 210-221.
Palm, Risa,1977. "Homeownership Cost Trends," Environment and Planning A, Vol. 9, pp. 795-804.
Palm, Risa, 1977.  "Spatial Variation in Housing Price Trends: The Role of Financial Disinvestment and Real Estate Agent Evaluation," Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Geographical Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 255-264.
Palm, Risa, 1976. "Real Estate Agents and Geographical Information," Geographical Review, Vol. 66, pp. 266-288.   Reprinted in L. S. Bourne, ed., Internal Structure of the City, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.), pp. 287-300.
Farrington, John and Risa Palm, 1976. "Telephone Use in New Zealand Inter-City Contacts: The Businessman's View," Area, Vol. 8, pp. 139-142. 

Chapters in Edited Books 

Palm, Risa 2007 .  "The Public University and Human Capital Building/Training for Emerging Industries."  In Michael Crow, University Design Toolkit Book.  Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University.
Palm, Risa, 2006.  Perspectives from the Dark Side: The Career Transition from Faculty to Administrator." In Ronald Henry, Transitions Between Faculty and Administrative Careers.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 59-65.
Palm, Risa, 2005.  "A Personal History." In Brian J. L. Berry and James O Wheeler, eds., Urban Geography in America, 1960-2000: Paradigms and Personalities.  New York and London: Routledge,  pp. 138-144.
Palm, Risa, 2004.  "Creating and Maintaining Strong and Healthy Departments."  In M. Duane Nellis, Janice Monk and Susan Cutter, eds., Presidential Musings from the Meridian.  Morgantown:  West Virginia University Press, pp. 77-79.
Palm, Risa, 2004.  "Diversity Issues."  In M. Duane Nellis, Janice Monk and Susan Cutter, eds., Presidential Musings from the Meridian.  Morgantown:  West Virginia University Press, pp. 97-101.
Palm, Risa, 1998 .  "Demand for Insurance".  In Kunreuther, Howard, ed., Paying the Price:  The Status and Role of Insurance Against Natural Hazards in the United States.  Washington, D.C., National Academy of Sciences : Joseph Henry Press, pp. 51-68.
Palm, Risa, 1998.   "Environmental Hazards: Earthquakes."  In Willem Van Vliet, Ed., Encyclopedia of Housing.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, pp. 151-2.
Palm, Risa, 1997.  "Geography and Law".  In Gary L. Thompson, Fred M. Shelley, and Chand Wije, Eds., Geography, Environment and American Law.  Boulder: University Press of Colorado,  pp. 15-29.
Palm, Risa 1994.  "Earthquake Hazard Mitigation in California and Japan: A Review.  In S. Heratha and T. Katayama , Eds., Towards Natural Disaster Reduction: Proceedings of VII Pacific Sciences Association Workshop.  Tokyo: Institute of Industrial Sciences, University of Tokyo. pp. 57-66.
Palm, Risa  and Anthony J. Brazel, 1992.   "Applications of Geographic Concepts and Methods" in Geography's Inner Worlds: Pervasive Themes in Contemporary American Geography.  Edited by Ronald Abler, Judy Olson and Melvin Marcus.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. 342-362.
Palm, Risa , 1992.   "The San Andreas Fault: the human dimension"  In Don Janelle, ed., Geographical Snapshots of North America.  New York and London: The Guilford Press, pp. 150-154.
Palm, Risa, 1989.    "The Geographer as administrator - perspectives on survival for geography departments," in Martin Kenzer, ed., On Becoming a Professional Geographer, Columbus, OH:  Merrill, pp. 203-211.
Palm, Risa, 1982. "Earthquake Hazards Information: The Experience of Mandated Disclosure," in D. T. Herbert and R. J. Johnston, eds., Geography and the Urban Environment, Vol. 5 (Chichester: John Wiley), pp. 241-277.
Palm, Risa, 1982. "Homebuyer Behavior in Response to Information Content," in W. A. V. Clark, ed., Migration, Mobility, and the Search for Housing (London: Croom Helm), pp. 187-208.
Warnes, Anthony and Risa Palm, 1982.  "The Social Consequences of Migration with Reference to Economic Recession," in B. T. Robson and J. Rees, eds., Geographical Agenda for a Changing World (London: Social Science Research Council), pp. 7-26.
Palm, Risa,1979. "Financial and Real Estate Institutions in the Housing Market: A Study of Recent House Price Changes in the San Francisco Bay Area," in D. T. Herbert and R. J. Johnston, eds., Geography and the Urban Environment, Vol. 2 (Chichester: John Wiley), pp. 83-123.
Pred, Allan and Palm, Risa,1978. "The Status of American Women: A Time-Geographic View," in D. Lanegran and R. Palm, eds., An Invitation to Geography, 2nd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill), pp. 99-109.

Short Articles and Research Reports

Palm, Risa, 2004.  "The role, importance and need for multidisciplinary research in the disaster field: challenges and opportunities.  Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary Research Conference, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware.
Palm, Risa, 1999.  "Can Japan and the US Share Earthquake Mitigation Policies?".  Proceedings of 6th Japan/United States Workshop on Urban Earthquake Hazard Reduction.  Institute of Social Safety Science, Paper US-5-3.  With Jeffrey Hanes.
Palm, Risa, 1997.  "Earthquake Hazard Response in the United States and Japan: Surveys of Shizuoka and Kanagawa Prefectures and California Suburbs in 1994 and 1995".  Newsletter of INCEDE, University of Tokyo.
Palm, Risa, 1990. "Issues  related to earthquake insurance and earthquake hazard mitigation: insurability of earthquake hazards" in Earthquake Hazard Mitigation and Earthquake Insurance, Hearings before Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives.  Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: Serial No. 101-168, pp. 777-793. 
Palm, Risa, 1990.  "Geography in Cuba: A Status Report", Professional Geographer, Vol. 42, p. 378-380.
Palm, Risa,1988.    "Alquist Priolo Legislation on Active Fault Zones" A Review of Earthquake Research Applications in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program: 1977.-87, Proceedings of Conference XLI,  USGS Open File 88-13-A, pp. 225-230.
Palm, Risa, 1987. "Perspectives and Discussion of What was Learned from the California Experiences," Proceedings of Workshop on US Geological Survey's Role in Hazards Warnings, USGS Open File 87-269, pp. 86-99.
Palm, Risa, 1984. "Increasing Hazard Awareness and Personal Preparedness," Proceedings of Workshop on Geologic Hazards in the Virgin Islands, USGS Open File 84-762, pp. 64-69.
Palm, Risa, 1984.  "How to Develop an Effective Program of Public Education and Increased Hazard Awareness," Proceedings of Workshop on Geologic Earthquake Hazards in Puerto Rico, USGS Open File 84-761, pp. 113-116.
Palm, Risa,1983. "Urban Geography: City Structures," Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 7, pp. 87-93.  Translated and reprinted in Grzegorza Weclawowicza, ed., Postepy geografii spolecznej i ekonomicznej w krajach anglosaskich (Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk, 1984.), pp. 79-88.
Palm, Risa,1983. "Improving Hazard Awareness," Proceedings of Conference XX: A Workshop on "The 1886 Charleston Earthquake and Its Implications for Today," USGS Open File 83-843, pp. 55-61.
Palm, Risa,1983. "How to Gain the Attention and Commitment of Business and Industry to Take Action to Lessen the Effects of a Destructive Earthquake: The Role of the Home Mortgage Lender," Proceedings of Conference XIX: Workshop on "Continuing Actions to Reduce Losses from a Damaging Earthquake in the Northeastern United States," USGS Open File 83-844, pp. 61-68.
Palm, Risa,1982. "Public Response to Mandated Earthquake Hazards Disclosure by Real Estate Agents," B. G. Jones and Miha Tomazivic (eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference: The Social and Economic Aspects of Earthquakes and Planning to Mitigate Their Impacts.  Skopje, Yugoslavia: Institute of Earthquake Engineering, University "Kiril and Metodij," pp. 219-231.
Pred, Allan and Risa Palm, 1974. "A Time-Geographic Perspective on Problems of Inequality for Women," Research Paper No. 236, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley.  Translated and reprinted as "Una Perspectiva Geografico-Temporal de los Problemas de Desigualidad de las Mujeres," in Maria Dolares and Garcia Ramon (eds.), Teoria y Metodo en la Geografia Humana Anglosajona (Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Ariel, S.A., 1985.), pp. 107-131.

MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS (Selected)

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Honors Award, Association of American Geographers, 1983
National Defense Education Act, Title IV Fellowship, 1967-69
Visiting Professor, King's College, University of London, 1989-90
John Devar Drinko Scholar, Marshall University, 1996
Golden Key, National Honor Society, 1999
Lifetime Achievement Award, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers, 2001
Evelyn Pruitt Lecture, Louisiana State University, March 2004
Phi Kappa Phi, 2005

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Association of American Geographers

President, 1984--85
Vice President, 1983-84
American Geography: Synthesis and Survey Task Force, 1985-86
Nominating Committee, Chair, 1981-82
Committee on Status of Women Geographers, 1979-81
National Councilor-at-large, 1976-79
Long-Range Planning Committee, 1977-78
National seminar for department chairs, 2004, 2006

American Geographical Society

Councilor, 1987-94
GENIP steering committee, 1988-94

Consortium of Social Science Associations

President, 1985-87
Board of Directors, 1985-9

National Academy of Sciences

Committee on Research Priorities in Geography at the U.S. Geological Survey, 2000 - 2002
Survey Steering Committee for Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, 2004.
National Research Council/National Academy of Engineering Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects, 2006.
Reviewer for methodology section, National Research Council assessment of doctoral programs, 2008.

National Science Foundation

Geography and Regional Science Panel, 1986-88
Task Force on "Directions for the 21st Century", Directorate of Biological, Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1990-91
Earthquake Center Panelist, 1997, 1998
Advisory Committee, Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, 1998-2001
Panel member, US-Japan cooperative research in urban earthquake disaster mitigation program, 1997-2002
US-Japan Initiative: Joint Technical Committee member, 1998-2002

Editorial Boards

AAG Resource Paper Series, 1980-83
Urbanism, Past and Present, 1980-85
Geography and the Urban Environment (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons), 1978-84
Urban Geography, 1983-91
Annals, Association of American Geographers, 1987-91
Progress in Human Geography, 1986-97
Geographical Review, 2006 -

Association of Graduate Schools

Executive Committee, 1989 - 1992

Western Association of Graduate Schools

Executive Committee, 1989 - 1991

Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences

Symposium for new deans, participant, 1991, Williamsburg, VA
Annual meeting, discussion leader, 1991, San Diego
Symposium for new deans, instructor, 1992, Williamsburg, VA

AAU Arts and Sciences Deans - Public Universities

Meeting convener (founding meeting), February, 1992, Chicago.
Host university, Chapel Hill, 2000.

AAU Arts and Sciences Deans - Private Universities

Invited speaker, Case-Western University, May, 1999; University of  Southern California, May, 2003
Host University, University of North Carolina, April 2002

National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges

Council on Academic Affairs, Executive Committee, 2003-6
Voluntary System of Accountability, System Design and Information Task Force, 2007
NASULGC-Sloan National Commission on Online Learning, 2007 - 2009

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities of the Commission on Colleges and Universities

University of Washington, Decennial Evaluation Committee, 2003.

Southeastern Conference (SEC)

Executive Committee, Provosts, 2004 -6

TIAA-CREF

Institute fellow, 2007-
Institute advisory board, 2007 -

SUNY Research Foundation

Board of Directors, 2006 -

American Council on Education

Institute for Chief Academic Officers, presenter, 2007, 2008

LEADERSHIP SEMINARS ATTENDED

Troutbeck Invitational Seminar for Chief Academic Officers, August, 1992. Sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Foundation.
Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership at the Peak, April, 1999.
American Council on Education (ACE) institute for Chief Academic Officers, 2005-6.
TIAA-CREF Institute Conferences on higher education