Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
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…
Over the summer, Dr. Larson contributed an essay entitled "Coronavirus and the Contagion of Illiberal Democracy" to a collaborate series called "Quarantined Across Borders," published by Media Rise and Texas A&M University. The piece can be read at:
https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/188100/Jared%…
Ahmed Foggie, lecturer in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, recently published an article title "Why the Translantic?" in the 2020 (Vol. 59) edition of the California Geographer, the flagship peer-review journal of the California Geographical Society.
Amy Rock, along with co-author James Taber, recently published "Home Tweet Home: Can Social Media Define a Community?", in the Journal of Appalachian Studies. The study used Twitter data to investigate whether the boundaries of a cultural region could be identified from geotagged tweets and hashtags. (Spoiler alert: it can!)
ESM professor Alison O'Dowd and co-authors published a paper entitled "Characterizing benthic macroinvertebrate and algal biological condition gradient models for California wadeable streams, USA" in the journal Ecological Indicators.
In July, Rae Robison was elected to the National Board of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She will serve a three year term as the Design, Technology & Management Member at Large. This is a prestigious position as there are only 2 national "at-large" members on the board at any time.
Wendy Willis and Matt Johnson (Dept of Wildlife) published a paper, "Political Ecology of Shade Coffee: Perspectives from Jamaican Blue Mountain Farmers" in the journal Conservation and Society stemming from Wendy's thesis in HSU's interdisciplinary Environment and Community program.
A team of faculty and staff published a paper documenting the effects of the first three years of the Klamath Connection placed-based learning community entitled, "Effect of a Place-Based Learning Community on Belonging, Persistence, and Equity Gaps for First-Year STEM Students" in the journal Innovative Higher Education. The article is open-access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-020-09519-5
Matt Johnson, professor in the Dept of Wildlife, and HSU alum Dr. Sacha Heath co-organized a symposium, "Protecting and restoring bird habitat in the agricultural matrix: net benefits for birds and farmers" with 10 invited speakers held at the 2020 North American Ornithological Conference, August 14, 2020.
Deven Kammerichs-Berke, graduate student in Wildlife, presented results from his thesis, "Community Composition and Foraging Selectivity of Insectivorous Bird on Central Kenyan Shade Coffee Farms," at the North American Ornithological Conference, Aug 12, 2020.
Kerri J. Malloy, Native American Studies presented his paper “Rising from the Terminal Narrative: Rhetoric of anti-Indian violence in the United States,” at the Violence and Society International Conference virtually at the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, London, August 22, 2020.
Kerri J. Malloy, Native American Studies was invited by the Holocaust Education Center of the Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation to present a lecture, “Genocide in Guatemala and Central America,” to fifth, eighth, and tenth-grade teachers. The workshop was part of a series to enhance or introduce teachers to content knowledge and materials to better prepare them for the development of a curriculum, unit plan, or specific lesson plans on the teaching of Holocaust and Genocide as described within the Illinois State mandate (Public Act 86-780) for the teaching of Holocaust and Genocide.
Katie Raby and Mark Colwell published a paper in Wader Study, an international journal dedicated to conservation of shorebirds. Their 15-yr analysis show that Snowy Plover nests survived better on restored beaches of Humboldt County, CA compared with unrestored areas.
Dan Barton published an open-access article "Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on field instruction and remote teaching alternatives: Results from a survey of instructors" in the journal Ecology and Evolution. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6628
ACAC is pleased to announce that Amy Martin, Job Location and Development Coordinator, was selected to receive an MPACE (Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges and Employers) Membership Renewal Scholarship. This scholarship will assist Amy in her continued service on the MPACE Planning Committee throughout the 2020/21 academic year.
Rae Robison has been elected by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre organization to serve a 3 year term as the Design, Technology, and Management Member at Large. This position acts as a liaison to the 8 regions and serves as 1 of 2 national member posititons.
Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, published two entries in the Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights: "Taken from the Earth: Fishing, Hunting, and Gathering Rights" & "The Debate about Responsibility for Land"
Librarian Katia G. Karadjova and student Amelia Towse have presented on "Recent Trends in Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy in Higher Education: The Brain Booth Initiative" at the California Academic & Research Libraries annual conference, CARL 2020.
Meghann Weldon co-authored an article about CSU libraries data of interest.
Christopher Lee & Meghann Weldon (2019) An Unmediated Consortia Interlibrary Loan Service: The Data and Discovery of CSU+, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, 28:5, 175-182, DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1072303X.2020.1752878
Bri Hagen, Kimberly Stelter, Tim Miller, and Garrett Purchio, co-authored a book chapter. The book is titled Games and Gamification in Academic Libraries and our chapter is titled Make Your Escape: Experiences with Gamified Library Programming. Their chapter focuses on the Open Access Week escape rooms we have offered in previous semesters, as well as other efforts to gamify information literacy in the library.
Gave an invited presentation to the U.S. Forest Service, Six River's National Forest, Forest Leadership Team (FLT) Meeting, on May 18th titled: "An Introduction to Tethered Harvesting Systems."
Dr. Larson, who in addition to teaching in the Politics Department at HSU is also a non-resident research associate at the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (www.igadi.gal), in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, contributed to IGADI's report. His piece, translated as "Contaminated Liberal Democracy: Questioning the Model," can be read in Galician here:
https://www.igadi.gal/web/analiseopinion/a-democracia-liberal-contaxiad…
Bori Mazzag and Kamila Larripa each received a CSU PUMP grant to mentor students in mathematical research for the 2020/2021 academic year. Mazzag will investigate calcium dynamics using differential equations and graph theory with Viri Macias and Megan Johnson, and Larripa will model the interaction between Sars-CoV-2 and the host's immune system, working with Ana Sammel and Emma Villegas.
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Librarian Garrett Purchio gave a presentation titled “Rising to the Challenges of Being A First-Generation College Student: A Librarian-Faculty Partnership to Promote Student Success” at the LOEX Conference, held online May 5-8.
Steven Railsback (adjunct faculty, Mathematics) and Bret Harvey (adjunct, Fisheries Biology) just published the book "Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals", volume 63 in the prestigious Princeton Monographs in Population Biology series. The book presents a new kind of theory for adaptive behavior of individual organisms (e.g., when and where to forage, considering both growth and predation risk) that works in complex individual-based population models. The book builds on HSU's long tradition in individual-based ecological modeling. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691195285/modeling-populations-of-adaptive-individuals
Kamila Larripa coauthored the paper "A Tutorial Review of Mathematical Techniques for Quantifying Tumor Heterogeneity" which was accepted for publication. The work considers intra-tumor and inter-patient heterogeneity and mathematical models for precision medicine. It will appear in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.