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This article announces the 2009 Annual Meeting for the "Journal of Finance," which will be held in San Francisco, California, from January 3, 2009 to January 5, 2009, the results of the 2008 election, which includes Jeremy Stein, Darrell Duffie, and John Cochrane, and that the AFA and the Department of Finance at Ohio State University have entered into a joint venture to maintain and enhance the finance faculty directory held on the OSU Web site.

This essay provides an overview of the 11th International Conference of the Greening of Industry Network held in San Francisco, USA, on 12–15 October 2003. The conference gave Greening of Industry Network (GIN) members the opportunity to debate issues around the theme of Innovating for Sustainability in a location central to technological innovation in the United States. This special issue of Business Strategy and the Environment focuses on the diverse interpretations of innovation and their impacts on the different strands of sustainability. The conference was timely in its debates about the nature of innovation from system level to product level, and from technological innovation to innovations in the management of a wide range of stakeholders and the resulting impacts on environmental, economic, social and ethical sustainability. This essay briefly discusses the relationship between innovation and sustainability, and considers the factors that either facilitate progress towards a more sustainable future, or present barriers to achieving sustainability. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information on the 107th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, California on November 19 to 23, 2008 is presented. Topics include migration and transnationalism, human-animal relationships, and the ethics of field work encounters. The meeting featured anthropology experts and speakers including Emmanuel Levinas, Karen Barad, and Jake Kosek.

The article presents information on a research paper, titled "A Social Approach to Grammar Teaching," and the upcoming 1980 TESOL Convention. The purpose of the said research paper is to try to develop a curriculum covering basic grammar points based on a social approach to learning. The idea is that a theoretical framework of this sort will provide the basis for a coherent program of study. In recent years, several new methods of grammar teaching are developed in order to: encourage active student participation; engage the students on an emotional level; and make language learning a more dynamic process of interaction. It is suggested that techniques to encourage the acquisition of language through social interaction should be treated as central to ESL teaching programs. The Teaching English Abroad/Special Interest Group (TEA/SIG) of TESOL, reportedly, has to conduct the 1980 TESOL Convention in San Francisco, California. Proposals and submissions are being invited by the TEA/SIG.

The article recounts the events of the ICN2006 Congress in San Francisco, California hosted by the American Association of Neuropathologists and the Canadian Association of Neuropathologists. The author observed that the symposia were well-attended and covered a full gamut of topics in neuropathology including prion diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and multiple sclerosis. He stated that the congress has focused on development of selective therapies particularly for brain tumors.