Latest Achievements

Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff

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Justin Luong, Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Dr. Justin Luong received CSU Agricultural Research Institute funding to assess how solar micro grids affect coastal prairie plant communities and soil properties. The study aims to determine land use strategies that maximize ecosystem services for native plant biodiversity, sheep forage, and solar energy. The project involves mentorship and training for undergraduate (Gabriel Abundis, Claudia Alfaro-Hernandez, Logan Holey) students and a graduate student (Angelina Garcia) to improve retention of diverse natural resource managers and scientists in rangeland sciences. Results of this study will inform California policy related to rangeland management and solar energy, as well as natural resource management. 

Cynthia Le Doux-Bloom, Fisheries Biology

Dr. Cynthia LeDoux-Bloom received a $145,000 grant from the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to develop a monitoring strategy for improving the effectiveness of water quality, sediment, and flow monitoring efforts throughout the Elk River (Humboldt Co.) watershed. The monitoring strategy will be developed in conjunction with the Science and Coordinated Monitoring Workgroup composed of government agencies, non-profit agencies, and landowners. Findings shall serve as the basis for a monitoring plan.

John Meyer, Politics

John Meyer, with co-author Sherilyn MacGregor of the University of Manchester, recently published an open-access article titled “How (Not) to Politicize the Climate Crisis: Beyond the Antipopulist Imaginary.” The article is part of a special issue on “The Antipopulist Moment” published by Politische Vierteljahresschrift, the German Political Science Quarterly. 

Logan Holey, Angelina Garcia, Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Angelina Garcia and Logan Holey received competitive research grants from the California Native Grassland Association (CNGA) to conduct research with Dr. Justin Luong. Logan will examine how local solar microgrid energy developments influence physical rangeland characteristics that result in microhabitats for plant communities, and Angelina will explore how targeted invasive species removal on affects rangeland soil health.

Sarah Jaquette Ray, Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies Chair Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray will moderate a discussion with Joe Hendersen, Nikki Hoskins, Jade Sasser, Rebecca Weston, and Finn Does on how the climate crisis has been mobilized in service of authoritarian nationalism, anti-immigrant xenophobia and misogyny.  Learn more and register here: https://www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshops-and-talks-aNVzu/unnaming…

Claire Till, Matthew Hurst, Ben Freiberger, Chemistry

Chemistry faculty Claire Till and Matt Hurst, along with alumni Ben Freiberger, led a paper just published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. This paper came from their fieldwork at sea off the coast of California and Oregon, and is compares the chemical reactivity and distribution of the essential nutrient iron with a potential tool to study it: scandium

Till, C.P., Hurst, M.P., Freiberger, R.B., Ohnemus, D.C., Twining, B.S., Marchetti, A., Coale, T.H., Pierce, E. (2025). Contrasting the marine biogeochemical cycles of iron and scandium in the California current system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(4), doi:10.1029/2024JC022087.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/UKXCXGUBBP3U4KJWPE4Q?target=10.1029/2024JC022087

Pascal Biwole, Environmental Resources Engineering

Two research articles were recently published in international journals.

Amer Bakkour, Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine, Pascal Biwole, Sofiane Amziane,
Modeling heat and moisture transfer in bio-based wall structures using the finite element method: Application to straw walls in varied climatic conditions, Journal of Building Engineering, Volume 104, 2025

Mahdi Ibrahim, Fatima Harkouss, Pascal Biwole, Farouk Fardoun, Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine, Multi-objective hyperparameter optimization of artificial neural network in emulating building energy simulation, Energy and Buildings, 2025, 115643
 

Justin Luong, Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Led by a previous undergraduate student mentee, Dr. Justin Luong co-published a paper in American Journal of Botany. The paper uses eDNA to explore microbial communities in the rhizosphere of an endangered species, Lupinus nipomensis, and characterizes differences in different field microhabitats. The study also looks at how microbial communities differ in field and greenhouse conditions.

Nguyen PV, Luong JC, Wishingrad V, Stratton LC, Loik ME, Meyer RS. 2024. Soil Biome Variation of Lupinus nipomensis Eastw. in Wet-Cool vs. Dry-Warm Microhabitats and Greenhouse Conditions. American Journal of Botany. e70020. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70020

Sean Stewart, Kerry Byrne, Environmental Science & Management

Sean Stewart has published the first chapter of his thesis in the journal Restoration Ecology. For this research, Stewart and his M.S. advisor, Dr. Kerry Byrne, compared long-term demographic data and survival of transplanted (9 year) and extant (7 years) individuals of Applegate's milkvetch within the same population. Applegate's milkvetch is a Federally Endangered plant species found only near or within the city limits of Klamath Falls, Oregon. The results of this study suggest that population reinforcement can be a successful conservation tool for Applegate's milkvetch under the right conditions and the study may be used as a tool to inform conservation strategies for other imperiled herbaceous perennial plant species.

Stewart S. M. and K. M. Byrne. 2025. Is reinforcement a viable conservation strategy for the endangered perennial herb, Astragalus applegateiRestoration Ecology 33: e14314. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14314

Sean returned to Humboldt State as a non-traditional student and earned his B.S. and M.S. in the ESM Department. He was the 2021 recipient of the McCrone graduate student fellowship award. 

Kerry Byrne (ESM), Justin Luong (FFRM), Environmental Science & Management

Drs. Kerry Byrne (ESM) and Justin Luong co-led a manuscript published in the journal Ecosphere. The study describes the results of a 4-year drought experiment in southern Oregon on two understudied sagebrush species. They found that severe drought had divergent effects on two adjacent plant communities with differing dominant sagebrush species (low sagebrush and silver sagebrush).

Byrne, K.M.*, J. C. ​​Luong*, and K. Kaczynski. 2025. Divergent drought responses in two cold desert shrublands. Ecosphere 16(3): e70211. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70211
*co-first authors

 

Drs. Brandilynn Villarreal (CPS), Rafael Cuevas-Uribe (CNRS), Jose Marin Jarrin (CNRS), and Maria Iturbide (CPS),

Drs. Brandilynn Villarreal (Psychology), Rafael Cuevas-Uribe (Fisheries Biology), Jose Marin Jarrin (Fisheries Biology), and Maria Iturbide (Psychology) along with colleague Margarita Otero-Díaz (ESCALA Educational Services, Inc.) co-authored a publication titled The Story of Creando Conciencia: A Latinx Student-Focused Professional Learning Community published in the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal. https://doi.org/10.24974/amae.19.1.515

Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Dr. Paul Michael L. Atienza was chosen to join the Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Research Community Network (RCN), which seeks to form a scholarly community for social scientific, humanistic, and socio-technical researchers of HIV/AIDS broadly situated within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). He will participate in the second of three annual workshops in late March focused on forms of expertise that emerged in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. In addition to the workshops, KOA-RCN seeks to develop a robust online community, support research collaborations, and create a mentorship program.

Armeda Reitzel, Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel gave an invited presentation titled "The Triple A’s of Ancillaries: Advancing Academic Achievement" on March 4, 2025 at the LibreTexts Open Education Week 2025 conference.

Amy Rock, Geography

Dr. Amy Rock recently published a chapter entitled Community-Based Learning as Experiential Learning in Geography. The chapter is part of a new book from Springer in Experiential Learning in Geography: The World as Our Classroom, edited by Jonathan Wessell, and compiling domestic and international examples of engaging geography students with local communities.   A Meet the Authors session will be held at the upcoming American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Detroit, March 24-28.

Kauyumari Sanchez, Psychology

Kauyumari Sanchez, PhD published the article Cross-modal matching of monosyllabic and bisyllabic items varying in phonotactic probability and lexicality in Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 1488399. https://doi.org/10.3389/flang.2025.1488399

Ethan Gahtan, John Steele, Emma F. Jones, McKay Gog Butler, Darina Trendafilova, Mayra S Mendez, Luke A. Jernigan, Psychology

Professors Ethan Gahtan (Psychology) and John Steele (Biology) along with students from psychology, biology, and chemistry developed a new transgenic zebrafish line in the Behavioral Neuroscience Research Lab. This development was first described in 2022 in the Journal of Comparative Neurology. They developed a zebrafish fluorescent reporter line to track neuronal chloride (Cl-), KCC2, expression in vivo during early brain development. "KCC2 regulates neuron excitability and development". Then in 2024 the team contributed this genetics resource to the Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC) to make it available to external researchers. Article reference: DOI: 10.1002/cne.25411 ; ZIRC entry: https://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-221018-26#summary 

Ricardo Paredes, Dance, Music & Theatre

Congratulations to Music Education major and saxophonist, Ricardo Paredes, who has been selected to receive a 2024-25 Presser Foundation Undergraduate Scholar Award.  This national award provides $3,000 to recipients in recognition of their outstanding achievements in musical and academic performance, leadership and service, and contributions to building inclusive communities.

Dr. Bori Mazzag (CNRS) Arianna Thobaben (Learning Center), and Su Karl (Learning Center), Mathematics

Dr. Bori Mazzag, CNRS Associate Dean; Arianna Thobaben, Supplemental Instruction Coordinator & Lecturer in Education; and Su Karl, Learning Center Director, co-authored a publication with colleagues from multiple CSU campuses on Peer Instruction in Mathematics: A Survey of the California State University. Their article was published in PRIMUS (Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies), a leading journal about teaching collegiate mathematics. The paper arose from a colloquium series in Spring 2021 for the CSU Math Council, a consortium representing all Departments of Mathematics and Statistics in the California State University System.  

Peer Instruction in Mathematics: A Survey of the California State University

Glass, J., Karl, S., Mazzag, B., Negri, L., Pilgrim, M. E., Shanbrom, C., & Thobaben, A. (2025). Peer instruction in mathematics: A survey of the California State University. PRIMUS. Published online February 13, 2025. 

Amanda Coorey, Dance, Music & Theatre

Amanda Coorey, a theatre major from Temecula, CA, in her Junior year at CPH, took part in a public presentation of her Scenic Design work at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, held in Mesa Arizona on February 11 -15 2025. Amanda's design for the play Here We Are, by Dorothy Parker, was presented before a panel of 6 design faculty from various Colleges and Universities, who praised her work and chose it as a finalist from nearly 150 Design and Technology student submissions. This was Amanda's first Scenic Design - and the first time she publicly presented her work! 

Congratulations, Amanda!



 

Pedro Peloso, Biological Sciences

Dr. Pedro Peloso co-authored a publication with colleagues from multiple institutions focused on the evolutionary history and biogeography of the largest genus of Treefrogs in the Americas (Dendropsophus). They also assessed the evolution of egg deposition mode (aquatic vs. terrestrial). The paper was published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Whitcher, C., Orrico, V. G. D., Ron, S., Lyra, M. L., Cassini, C. S., Ferreira, R. B., Nakamura, D. Y. M., Peloso, P., Rada, M. A., Rivera-Correa, M., Sturaro, M. J., Valdujo, P. H., Haddad, C. F. B., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Lemmon, A., and Lemmon, E. M. "Phylogenetics, Biogeography, and Life History Evolution in the Broadly Distributed Treefrog Genus Dendropsophus (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 204 (2025): 108275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108275.

Sara K. Sterner, Education

Dr. Sara K. Sterner was recently chosen to serve on the award selection committee for the Children's Literature Assembly Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts. The seven-member national committee reviews texts written for young people in grades K-8, reading 700-1,000 books annually. Each year the committee selects 30 books that best exemplify the criteria established for the Notables Award.  The role is a three-year appointment.

Dr. Loren Cannon , Philosophy

Dr. Loren Cannon (Philosophy), was interviewed and quoted in an NPR article entitled Trump's anti-trans effort is an agenda cornerstone with echoes in history by Odette Yousef. The online version of the article was published on February 6th. Additionally, he was interviewed and quoted by French Journalist, Camille Ribot, for her article L’obsession anti-trans de Donald Trump which was published February 19th in the French publication, “La Croix.”   Both journalists contacted Dr. Cannon due to his expertise in analyzing the recent politicization of trans persons and the role the current federal administration is taking in targeting this population. Dr. Cannon’s book, “The Politicization of Trans Identity: An Analysis of Backlash, Scapegoating, and Dog-whistling From Obergefell to Bostock,” published in 2022, serves as the basis of his analysis.

Destiny Saucedo, Cameron Piper, Deirdre Replinger, Sierra Olsen, Patience Brennan, Joseph Meihak, Daniel Meng, and Sam Strich, Dee Naranjo, BreeLynn Butler, Emma Leininger, Alex Lewis, Wildlife

Undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Wildlife at Cal Poly Humboldt were recognized at two recent professional conferences for their academic achievements. 

The following students earned recognition and award money for "Best posters":

1st:  Destiny Saucedo, graduate student; Cameron Piper, graduate student

2nd: Deirdre Replinger, graduate student

3rd:  Sierra Olsen, undergraduate student

The Conclave Team won first place in the Quiz Bowl competition. The team included students Patience Brennan, Joseph Meihak, Daniel Meng, and Sam Strich, with Dee Naranjo as an alternate, and supporting crew BreeLynn Butler and Emma Leininger. Graduate student Alex Lewis also supported the team.

Rick Golightly, Wildlife

Dr. Rick Golightly received grant funding to support years 31 to 35 of a long-term project aimed at restoring and monitoring vulnerable seabird populations along the central California coast. Human use and disturbance at coastal areas where seabirds establish nests and raise their young has prompted a need for nest and human activity monitoring, which this work will address. Findings will inform programs that can minimize or eliminate disturbance, and ultimately conserve seabirds and their nesting colonies. 

James F. Woglom , Art + Film

James F. Woglom, an instructor in the Art Department and School of Education, developed a comics-based chapter with co-author Stephanie Jones "The Jam: Speculative-Mutant Pedagogies, Aesthetic Education Theory, and Becoming Joy with Children in a What If World", that was published in the most recent issues of Teachers College Record

Kimberly Vincent-Layton, Center for Teaching & Learning, Jeffrey White, Biological Sciences

Dr. Kimberly Vincent-Layton and Dr. Jeffrey White co-authored a publication with their research team colleagues across all three California public higher education systems in a Special Issue on Online Faculty Professional Development focused on The Humanizing Online STEM Academy program that many Humboldt faculty and CTL staff participated in over the last 6 years. This research highlights faculty experiences in the Academy, its role in promoting humanizing and inclusive teaching, and its impact on teaching. 

Yu, D., Liu, Y., Shea, Z.M., Vincent-Layton, K., White, J., & Pacansky-Brock, M. (2025) Humanizing college online instruction: The effects of professional development on faculty perceptions and instructional practicesThe Internet and Higher Education, 65, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2025.100998

Geoffrey Ostrove, Communication

Faculty Geoffrey Ostrove, Communication

Published the article, Theme parks, labor, and the Dark Lord: A political economic critique of the Walt Disney company’s relationship with the City of Anaheim. International Communication Gazette, 87(1), 60-70. Ostrove, G. (2025)

https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/22JATYHNJKMRRJQMRGAD/full


 

Pascal Biwole, Environmental Resources Engineering

Professor Pascal Biwole co-authored the following recently published original research papers:

James Floss, Communication

James Floss, who taught Oral Interpretation of Children’s Literature at HSU for 3 decades recently gave a workshop called “Dynamic Read-Alouds for Children” to future K-3 teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, for the 25th Anniversary of the “Escuela Normal Bilinguae e Intercultural de Oaxaca.” 

Kathleen Mercury, Education

Kathleen Mercury presented "CreAItivity: The Creative Process, AI, and the Place Between," at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Transformative Play in the Human Computer Interaction Institute. The presentation used hands-on tabletop game design experiences to model the struggle for creativity and the impact of AI on the creative process. Kathleen is a teacher and designer of tabletop and games-based learning experiences.

Benji Salisbury, Stephan Chittenden, Garrit Rensink, Jayden "Spooky" Rocha, Michael Thomas, Dance, Music & Theatre

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival has recognized multiple students for their work in Voices of a Silent Stage, our Fall 2024 original physical theatre production directed by Michael Thomas. Benji Salisbury won a Meritorious Achievement Award for his work as the Stage Manager.  Spooky Rocha, Gerrit Rensink, and Stephan Chittenden were all nominated to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship auditions at the upcoming KCACTF Region conference in Arizona.  

John Gerving, Dan Aldag, Piet Dalmolen, Dance, Music & Theatre

The Cal Poly Humboldt Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Dan Aldag was recently awarded Second Prize in the Doug Davis Composition and Performance Endowment 2024 Performance Awards for their recording of Doug Davis's composition "B. and Me". In addition, pianist John Gerving was recognized for an Outstanding Performance on the recording. The Jazz Orchestra's performance was recorded and mixed by Piet Dalmolen, Lecturer in Music and the Music Department's Audio Technician.

Kendall Pargot, Biological Sciences

Kendall Pargot, Master's student in Biology (advisor Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy) was awarded a conservation grant from the Northern California Herpetological Society to support her thesis research. The funds will be used to purchase cameras to record the nocturnal behavior of salamanders.

Sara K Sterner, Education

Dr. Sara K. Sterner successfully presented at the 2024 National Council of Teachers of English annual conference in Boston, MA, in November. Presentations included an individual paper entitled Preparing Literacy Educators with Heart: Enacting Ginsberg’s Model for Challenging Traditional Classroom Spaces with YA Literature at the Undergraduate Level, a panel session: Finding Hope in the Nudge: Equity-oriented Consciousness Raising in Teacher Preparation Pedagogies and Literacy Practices with Drs. Megan Van Deventer (Weber State) and Laura Lemanski (MCAD), and the co-facilitation of the Children's Literature Assembly Expert Class with Drs. Mary Ann Cappiello (Leslie) and Kathy Short (University of Arizona).

Andrew P Kinziger, Fisheries Biology

Coauthored and edited a special issue in Molecular Ecology Resources titled:  skúkum tílixam: Uniting to Support Indigenous Contributions to Molecular Ecology

 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998/current

James M. Floss, Communication

The purpose of the JAMES M. FLOSS SCHOLARSHIP FUND is to support students majoring or minoring in Dance, Music, and Theatre Arts or other performing arts, with a focus on Theatre Arts including acting, directing, and storytelling. A $2,000 award will be given annually for a period of five years. Recipients can receive the award only once. Recipients will be selected by the Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre, and awarded by the Financial Aid office. Donations can be made to the fund at https://giving.humboldt.edu/james-m-floss-theatre-arts-fund-0

Daniel Barton, Wildlife

Dan Barton (Faculty, Wildlife) chaired the scientific program of an international joint conference between the Pacific Seabird Group and the Waterbird Society, held in San José, Costa Rica, in early January 2025. The bilingual meeting featured over 300 scientific presentations on seabird and waterbird biology and conservation by authors from over 40 countries.

Kamila Larripa, Anca Radulescu, Mathematics

Kamila Larripa and collaborator Anca Radulescu had their paper accepted to the Journal of Theoretical Biology.  The paper is titled "A Mathematical Model of Microglia Glucose Metabolism and Lactylation with Positive Feedback" and links cellular metabolism with epigenetic modification.  This work was supported by the National Science Foundation.

Barbara Clucas, Wildlife

Dr. Barbara Clucas received Bureau of Land Management funding to support collaborative research with Texas A&M that will investigate common raven presence in Gunnison sage grouse (GUSG) habitat in Colorado. The GUSG is listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act, and this project seeks to understand what habitat features influence ravens, which are potential GUSG nest predators. Results of this study will inform more efficient and effective management of GUSG and their predators. 

Project collaborators include Israel Parker of Texas A&M and Aaron Facka of Wildlands Network and Cal Poly Humboldt Wildlife graduate student Leah Roll.

Alison Ruth Holmes, Politics

Professor Alison Holmes (Politics) has passed the Yurok Bar Exam and was sworn into the Yurok Tribal Court Bar by Chief Judge Abby Abinanti in January. She is now Yurok Bar #97.  

Marshelle Thobaben , Nursing

Published the chapter, Chapter 33: People of Turkish Culture in Handbook for Culturally Competent Care. 2nd ed. 2024. Ed E. Fenkl, L. Purnell, pp. 445-460.

Cheyenne Ty, Amanda Case, Emmanule Mezzulo, Abigail Penland (students) and Kamila Larripa (faculty), Mathematics

Mathematics Cheyenne Ty, Amanda Case, Emmanuel Mezzulo, Abigail Penland, and Kamila Larripa had their research paper published in the Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics. The paper is called "An Agent-Based Model of Microglia and Neuron Interaction: Implications in Neurodegenerative Disease" and explores the role of a type of immune cell in the brain through modeling.

Todd Larsen, Enterprise Services

Todd Larsen, Senior Executive Director for Enterprise Services, recently passed the Certified Auxiliary Services Professional (CASP) exam through the National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS). 

The CASP designation is the only benchmark certification that measures the needed competencies of college and university executives who oversee multiple auxiliary services. CASP provides specialized education and exposure to resources that one can’t gain from a degree or professional experience in one-to-few auxiliary service areas. It provides an accelerated track for a high-performing candidate to obtain the cross-functional knowledge that is necessary to perform at an executive level.

Alison Holmes, Politics

Dr. Alison Holmes (PSCI) served as Vice Chair of International Research on the organizing committee of the CSU International Forum (Dec 12-13) at CSU Chico. She has been instrumental in extending the reach of what has been an annual staff event (hosted by the Chancellor's Office) to now include faculty. The goal is to better connect CSU faculty doing international research as well as staff and faculty supporting students going abroad and international students on our campuses. She also presented a paper on the continuing rise of sub-state/international politics particularly in CA and in the aftermath of the US election. 

Todd Larsen, Division of Enrollment Management & Student Success

The CASP designation is the only benchmark certification that measures the competencies needed by college and university executives who oversee multiple auxiliary services. NACAS created CASP so universities can responsibly prepare for leadership succession planning, benefit from operational efficiencies, and stay current in auxiliary-related practices that must adapt to emerging technologies and trends. CASP provides specialized education and exposure to resources that one can’t gain from a degree or professional experience in few auxiliary service areas. It provides an accelerated track for a high-performing candidate to obtain the cross-functional knowledge that is necessary to perform at an executive level.

Elisabeth Harrington, Ash Quintana, Dominic Trezza, Jei Farmer, Savanna River, Avery Alexander, Music

During finals week, the Opera Workshop class took Bear Hug, a children's opera, on tour to Morris Elementary,  Winship Middle , Alice Birney Elementary , Redwood Montessori, and Pacific Union Elementary schools.  Professor Elisabeth Harrington led students Ash Quintana (Theatre Arts, '24), Dominic Trezza (Biology, '25), Jei Farmer (Chemistry '28), and Savanna River (Environmental Science, '27) and staff pianist Avery Alexander (Music, '20) in performances that were enthusiastically received by the children.  One Alice Birney 3rd grader said "I liked the Spanish Brown Bear because he's hyper like me!  And he held the spider."

Griffin Mancuso, Brad Butterfield, Dezmond Remington, Journalism & Mass Communication

The Lumberjack nabbed three national awards from the Associated Collegiate Press in November. LJ fall editor-in-chief Griffin Mancuso placed second in the nationwide best illustration category. Investigative reporter Brad Butterfield earned an honorable mention as one of the nation's Reporters of the Year. Spring 2024 co-editor Dezmond Remington won a national honorable mention for his column writing.

ACP Individual Awards honor the nation’s best collegiate journalism. There are 53 contests in eight divisions representing the best of the best from Ivy League schools to scrappy state polytechnics in Northern California.

Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray, Environmental Studies

Dr. Ray joined grief scholars and movement leaders Breeshia Wade, Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz, Myrtle Sodhi, Jennifer England and host Viyda Shah on the podcast, Hospicing Leadership. This episode focused on questions such as "How do leaders create a vision for hospicing grief in the midst of crisis?" You can listen here: https://www.yorku.ca/edu/unleading/podcast-episodes/hospicing-leadershi…

Dr. Nievita Bueno Watts, COMPASS/INRSEP

Ecological forecasts can be used to predict changes in ecosystems and subsequent impacts on communities. Scientists at the Ecological Forecasting Initiative are working to advance the field through a process that enables them to continually update model predictions with observed data in order to improve our ability to foresee what may happen in the future. Through a recently published paper in Nature Climate Change Dr. Nievita Bueno Watts, in conjunction with researchers at @eco4cast are calling for greater investment in ecological forecasting to mitigate climate change. Learn more by reading the press release or the Nature Climate Change paper. 

Noelani Anderson, Alanna Armstrong-Penney, Maryanne Casas-Perez, Justin Crittenden, Maya Davis, Nauselle Gleglaud, Liam Hodgson, Em Madrid, Nicholas Nielsen, Katy Pate, Marisabel Perez Moreno, Alex Votaw, Desmond West-Hedlund, Learning Center

In December 2024, Noelani Anderson, Alanna Armstrong-Penney, Maryanne Casas-Perez, Justin Crittenden, Maya Davis, Nauselle Gleglaud, Liam Hodgson, Em Madrid, Nicholas Nielsen, Katy Pate, Marisabel Perez Moreno, Alex Votaw, and Desmond West-Hedlund fulfilled the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) International Tutor Training Program Certification requirements and are now Level I Certified Tutors. Achieving certification means that tutors and writing consultants have met CRLA’s high standards for participation in training, direct peer support, and evaluation in the Learning Center’s tutoring and writing assistance programs. The Learning Center has been a CRLA-certified program since 1999.