Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
Dr. Seafha Ramos, NSF postdoctoral fellow in biology, and collaborators developed a series of 5th grade science lessons that incorporate Traditional Ecological Knowledge and a simulated wildlife survey. All lessons are available for free download at https://www.stemtradingcards.org/teklessons.
Dr. Leslie Rossman and Dr. Aaron Dondaldson presented their paper, "Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions”: The emergent rhetorical possibilities and collective labor power of the California Faculty Association’s lecturer faculty during Covid-19" at the annual National Communication Association Conference.
Shortly after the recent presidential elections in the U.S., Dr. Larson was interviewed for a "conversatorio" on Qué Vaina, a media group by and for Venezuelans in Europe. The interview was done in Spanish and viewed at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1KmWLUAuc
Shannon Morago, lecturer in the School of Education, has published a chapter entitled "Learner-Centered Facilitation in Lesson Study Groups" in the book Stepping up Lesson Study: An Educator’s Guide to Deeper Learning.
Matthew Derrick, chair of the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, published an article titled "Beyond the Territorial Trap? The Geographic Examination of Sovereignty" in the peer-reviewed Journal of Geography, Politics, and Society.
Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies, presented his lecture “Reflections of the Past in the Present: Landscape, People, and Narrative,” as part of the Evening with an Expert speaker series at the Imperial Valley Desert Museum in Ocotillo, California (November 14, 2020)..
The Special Education Teacher Residency Program, which provides funding for teacher residency completing their Education Specialist credential, has been featured in the webinar and report form the Learning Policy Institute "Closing California’s Opportunity Gap: Ensuring All Students Have Access to Fully Prepared Teachers." The program is a collaboration between the HSU School of Education and the Humboldt County Office of Education. The program at HSU led by professor David Ellerd and program coordinator Bernie Levy.
Sara K. Sterner (Education) was invited to facilitate a professional development session for Secondary English Language Arts Educators in Minneapolis Public Schools in conjunction with the Minnesota Writing Project on November 10. The workshop, entitled Dismantling White Supremacy in Reading Practices: From Self-reflection to Action, kicked off the PD series as the teachers work toward curriculum transformation based in antiracist texts and practices.
The night of the recent presidential elections, or the following morning in Spain, Dr. Larson was a guest on Bos Días, a morning news program in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. The segment opens with an explanation of the electoral college. Dr. Larson's participation begins at about nine-and-a-half minutes into the link below:
https://www.crtvg.es/tvg/a-carta/bos-dias-9-00-4636904?t=589
Christian Trujillo (Environmental Science & Management) was invited to speak at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities' Earth and Environmental Science Department colloquium on October 19. Christian spoke about Ciencia Para Todos, a student organization he co-founded to teach Environmental Science in Spanish. This student-run organization aspires to uplift bilingual students by implementing culture in science programs.
Madison Lalica (Botany) was awarded first place in Plant Sciences/Botany category at the 2020 national Society for the Advancement of Chicano/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference for her work "Early Devonian Glomeromycotan Spores in the Battery Point Formation (Quebec, Canada)." Madison is mentored by Dr. Mihai Tomescu.
Nievita Bueno Watts presented her work "Methods for Incorporating Identity, Place, and Culture into a Virtual Undergraduate Research Experience: The REU on Sustainable Land and Water Resources During the COVID 19 Pandemic" at the national Geologic Society of America (GSA) conference. This work was part of a week long series of presentations discussing Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)in the geosciences.
Nora Wynne, School of Education lecturer and local K-12 Spanish Teacher, has been named 2021 California Teacher of the Year. This is a great honor that is only awarded to 5 teachers across the state each year. The School of Education would like to extend our congratulations to Nora for this accomplishment!
Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies, was the keynote speaker for the screening of “Gather: The Fight to Revitalize our Native Foodways” sponsored by the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education and the Model United Nations at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. His address connected the underpinnings of genocide and survivance with food sovereignty, cultural and traditional resilience, and as a vital response to COVID-19 pandemic.
Graduate student Sarah Scholer published a paper in the journal "Ecology & Evolution" stemming from her Master's thesis with co-authors from HSU, Cal Poly SLO, and the National Museums of Kenya, "Shade trees preserve avian insectivore biodiversity on coffee farms in a warming climate."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6879
Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies, book chapter “Remembrance and Renewal at Tuluwat: Returning to the Center of the World” was published in the edited volume Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence, edited by Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic and Laura Kromják, and published by Routledge. The volume explores the ways in which remembrance and forgiveness have changed over time and how they have been used in more recent cases of genocide and mass violence.
Sociology faculty Lori Cortez-Regan co-wrote an article that was published in the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. The name of the article is "'If Extended Family Can't Deal...' Disclosing Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Children's Identity".
Link (Read Only): https://hsu.link/ZUG
Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy and co-authors published a paper "A New Perspective on Female-to-Male Communication in Salamander Courtship" in Integrative and Comparative Biology. The paper can be viewed at https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa087
Eve Robinson (Department of Biological Sciences) and Nicholas Som (Department of Fisheries Biology; USFWS) co-authored an article in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management, titled "Prevalence of infection in hatchery-origin Chinook Salmon correlates with abundance of Ceratonova shasta spores: implications for management and disease risk”. Their research was motivated by questions the State raised about potential linkages between hatchery fish and disease risk, and results from this work were published earlier this year in time to be used by decision-makers in timing the release of hatchery smolts in the Klamath River.
HSU History Professor Robert Cliver is interviewed about his new book, Red Silk, in this month's issue of the journal, Made in China.
https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n7524/pdf/book.pdf
HSU History Professor Robert Cliver featured in this month's Association for Asian Studies Member Spotlight.
https://www.asianstudies.org/member-spotlight-robert-cliver/
Libbi Miller, Heather Ballinger, Sarah Green of School of Education, and James Woglom of the Department of Art presented their paper "Plan-Do-Study-Act: Utilizing Improvement Science Methods to Identify and Dismantle Systemic Inequities in Teacher Education Admissions and Recruitment" at the virtual California Council of Teacher Education.
Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies, has been named a Public Fellow in Religion and the American West at the New-York Historical Society. During this two-year fellowship he will conduct research on the role of religion and spirituality in the history of 19th century U.S. westward expansion focusing on the Indian Shaker Church in the Pacific Northwest. The fellowship is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation to support emerging scholars in Religious Studies and History whose work complements the N-YHS exhibit Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West. He will share his research at the exhibits opening in the Fall of 2022.
School of Education lecturer and Secondary Education Program Leader, Heather Ballinger, successfully passed her qualifying exams at UC Davis where she is earning her doctoral degree in education. She research focuses on clinical fieldwork and the student teaching experience in schools for K-12 teacher candidates.
The following students will be presenting the results of their summer research at the SACNAS conference next week: Stephen Galindo (Geology) mentor Dr. Meagan Gonnea USGS; Caleb Sandoval (Wildlife) mentor Janene Lichtenberg, Salish Kootenai College; Cody Henrikson (Marine Biology) with Clair Windecker and mentor Dr. Sean Craig; Alexis Hernandez (Marine Biology)with Floyd Clark (Environmental Science & Management)and mentor Dr. Jim Graham and Dr. Nievita Bueno Watts; Madison Lalica (Botany) mentor Dr. Mihai Tomescu; Joshua Maldonado (Physics & Astronomy) mentor Dr. Ruth Saunders; Christian Trujillo (Environmental Science & Management) mentor Dr. Catherine Bowman, Arizona State University
Oscar Vargas, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, published a paper in the journal Evolution:"Patterns of speciation are similar across mountainous and lowland regions for a Neotropical plant radiation (Costaceae: Costus)" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.14108
Marshelle Thobaben, Professor Emerita, published, "People of Turkish Heritage", in Textbook for Transcultural Health Care: A Population Approach, Editors: Larry D. Purnell and Eric A. Fenkl, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
Joshua Frye, Professor of Communication, was recently featured on a panel of experts from universities across the US to provide career guidance for recent college graduates in the Communication field. The career advise website Zippia was founded in 2015 by bringing together experts in technology, marketing, and engineering passionate about providing customized tools and resources to help improve career outcomes. Zippia has been featured in outlets such as Forbes and the New York Times. Frye was featured in an article titled, "Job Market Trends for Recent Grads" and can be found on Zippia's expert opinion page:https://www.zippia.com/mass-communications-professor-jobs/trends/
Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, published her paper “We Are a Part of the Land and the Land Is Us”: Settler Colonialism & Genocide in California” in the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/hjsr/vol1/iss42/4/
Sara K. Sterner created and facilitated a Workshop on October 6 for the Minnesota Writing Project Teacher Workshop series. The workshop entitled, White Supremacy in Reading Practices: Exploring Reading Whitely through a Reading Inventory, explored dominant reading experiences through a guided process of self-reflection and discussion. Participants engaged in conversations about texts and white supremacy as a means to promote equity-based literature selection practices that disrupt white supremacy.
Kerri J. Malloy, Native American Studies presented his paper “Tuluwat: Remembrance, Reconciliation, and Restitution at the Center of the World,” at the The 7th Global Conference on Genocide sponsored by the International Network of Genocide Scholars(virtually)on October 3, 2020.
Chris Aberson, Professor of Psychology was recently named Associate Editor of Collabra Psychology. Collabra is an official publication of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Collabra, published by the University of California Press, is open access and committed to open and transparent science. Dr. Aberson has been HSU faculty since 2000. He primarily teaches statistics and research methodology. His research focuses on intergroup contact, implicit bias, statistical power (including power for complex designs such as multiple regression and mediation), how the Smiths are better than the Cure, and interactive tutorials for teaching core statistical concepts.
Kamila Larripa and co-authors had their paper accepted to the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The paper is entitled "Bifurcation and sensitivity analysis reveal key drivers of multistability in a model of macrophage polarization" and investigates how a specific immune cell responds to cytokine signals.
Drs. Dominic Corva (HIIMR), Josh Meisel (Sociology), Whitney Ogle (Kinesiology and Recreation Management), and Ronnie Swartz (Social Work) gave presentations on "Using Cannabis Data to Improve Public Health and Promote Social Equity" as part of a Data Fair hosted by the Inter-Consortium for Political Social Research on September 24. Their presentations can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU4af8mO49c&list=PLqC9lrhW1VvYJIhgtk9QlAYxLSwbF7Bf2&index=2
Dr. Laura Levy, in collaboration with 11 co-authors, published "Multi-phased deglaciation of south and southeast Greenland controlled by climate and topographic setting" in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. This comprehensive study tracked the timing of retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the last ice age in an area of Greenland that is especially sensitive to climate change.
Dr. Sarita Ray Chaudhury, faculty in School of Business published the article ““For the Gram”: An Exploration of the Conflict between Influencers and Citizen-Consumers in the Public Lands Marketing System” in the Journal of Macromarketing with coauthors Dr. Nafees and Dr. Perera. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146720956380
Dr. Oshun gave an invited talk at the 1ST INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHY CONGRESS OF APURIMAC IN SOUTHERN REGION PERU on August 28th. The title of the talk was, "Bonanza en los Andes: Estudio de los recursos de agua y desarrollo en colaboración con la comunidad de Zurite, Anta," and focused on Dr. Oshun and Dr. Lang's water development project in Perú. Successes so far include the construction of 1.5 km of irrigation canals, 4 student presentations at international geology conferences, and over 20 involved undergraduate and graduate students from HSU.
On September 16, Matthew Derrick, chair of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis and program leader of International Studies, delivered an invited talk titled "Monumental Mosques of Post-Soviet Central Eurasia" for the Geography Colloquium at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Dr. Laura Johnson, faculty in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, published a poem for these times titled 'Intersections at the Site of Breath.'You can read it here: https://medium.com/@goodgriever/intersections-at-the-site-of-breath-701ca7665e37
Lisa Tremain (English), Jessica Citti (Writing Studio/Learning Center), Natalie Giannini (English), Libbi R. Miller (Education), Nancy Pérez (CRGS), and Corrina Wells (DHSI Education Grant) published an article about the development of HSU's Creando Raíces Learning Community. The program profile, "Creando Raíces: Sustaining Multilingual Students’ Ways of Knowing at the Developing HSI," appeared in Promoting Social Justice for Multilingual Writers on College Campuses, special issue of Composition Forum (vol. 44, summer 2020). https://compositionforum.com/issue/44/hsu.php
Dave Woody made photographs for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, of local school's "first day of school". These photos encompassed some distance learning and some face-to-face learning.
Here is a link to the story:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/11/magazine/covid-school-re…
Jim Woglom from the Art Department was awarded "Outstanding Higher Education Visual Art Educator of the Year" for 2020 by the California Art Education Association.
Gwynnevere Cristobal(‘20) and Dr. Troy Lescher (Theatre, Film & Dance) published the “Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2020” report for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education [ATHE].
Dr. Amy Rock was invited to speak at the quarterly (virtual) meeting of the Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals this summer. She gave a short talk based on her book, Mapping with ArcGIS Pro - you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDpWIYYrM4&feature=youtu.be (talk begins at 1:30).
ESM professor Alison O'Dowd and former NR graduate student Lara Jansen published a paper in the journal River Research and Applications entitled, "A comparison of benthic algal and macroinvertebrate communities in a dammed and undammed Mediterranean river (Eel River watershed, California, USA)."
As editor of The California Geographer, Matthew Derrick guided the 2020 edition (Vol. 59) of the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the California Geographical Society to completion and publication this past summer.
Matthew Derrick, chair of the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, was invited to the First International Congress of Geography of Apurímac and South
of Peru, College of Geographers of Peru, where he delivered a talk titled "Adventures and Applicability in Geographic Research: Faculty-Undergraduate Collaboration at Humboldt State University" on August 30, 2020.
Was featured in a two part podcast "Talking Timber" by the Pacific Logging Congress, about his experiences in the forest industry and teaching at Humboldt State University.
Part 1:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/381c8114/dr-hunt…
Part 2:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/34e7de73/dr-hunt…
Recently published the single-authored paper "Graded Coherence of Certain Extensions of Graded Algebras" in Communications in Algebra, June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2020.1775844
The paper studies when the coherence property is inherited by certain extensions of algebras.
In early June, Dr. Larson, who is also a Research Associate for the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional, based in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, was interviewed by Nós Diario about the Trump presidency, the pandemic, police violence, and the upcoming elections in the U.S. The interview, published in Galician, can be read here:
https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/internacional/violencia-policial-nos…