Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
New article in Sculpture Digest entitled "Easy Hardware Store Sculpture Molds"
Sondra Schwetman has been accepted into an international exhibition entitled "100% Woman" at the Stichting White Cube Gallery in Alkmaar, the Netherlands in October of 2019.
The Academic and Career Advising Center's Career Clothing Closet was featured on KIEM-TV. "Walking into an interview, first impressions are important. At Humboldt State University, local community members cleared their closets to help students look the professional part...."
Professor Lucy Kerhoulas and Research Associates Allyson Carroll and Jim Campbell-Spickler are featured in a five-year exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences called "Giants of Land and Sea." The exhibit features their research on redwood trees. Read more about it here: https://www.kqed.org/science/1926434/the-giants-of-california-how-redwoods-and-whales-got-so-big
Julie Alderson and Kim Vincent-Layton co-published an article in POD Speaks, titled "Starting a center for teaching and learning". It can be viewed at: https://podnetwork.org/content/uploads/PODSpeaksIssue3_StartingCTL.pdf
Dr. Laura Johnson published a research article in Gender, Place and Culture, titled "Becoming ‘enchanted’ in agro-food spaces: Engaging relational frameworks and photo elicitation with farm tour experiences." It can be viewed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/mTAjiir83NYpVqkkaTvq/full?target=10.1080/0966369X.2018.1541867
International Studies Program Leader Alison Holmes, together with Professor Paul Amar of UC Santa Barbara, was asked to conduct an external review of the CSU-Long Beach International Studies Program - a flagship in the CSU system and model in the country.
Published paper in Physical Review D: Cosmic string and black hole limits of toroidal Vlasov bodies in general relativity.
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.024012
Spanish edition of new book, Atrapando la lluvia, hit number 1 new release in Environmental Studies on Amazon.
Poster. ADJUSTMENTS TO EELGRASS LEAF AREA INDEX IN HUMBOLDT BAY BASED ON DESICCATION AND WASTING DISEASE LESIONS. Western Society of Naturalists, Tacoma, WA.
http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WSN_2018_Short_Pro…
Poster. SEAWEED COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ALONG ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS IN AN OCEAN-DOMINATED ESTUARY. Western Society of Naturalists, Tacoma, WA.
http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WSN_2018_Short_Pro…
Poster: SPATIAL DIFFERENCES IN EELGRASS BED CONDITIONS IN HUMBOLDT BAY, CA THAT COULD AFFECT THE CO2 DRAW-DOWN FUNCTION OF THE PLANT. Western Society of Naturalists, Tacoma, WA.
http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WSN_2018_Short_Pro…
Presented poster: VARIABILITY OF INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES AMONG EELGRASS BEDS IN HUMBOLDT BAY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CO2 DRAWDOWN. Western Society of Naturalists, Tacoma, WA.
http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WSN_2018_Short_Pro…
Seventeen students competed in teams in the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling over a four day period in January. Students were challenged to analyze, clarify and write solutions to an open and timely problem. Students come from departments across the CNRS and were hosted in the Mathematics Department.
Jeff Kane was invited to give a seminar entitled "Litter flammability of North American trees: Ecological insights and management implications" as part of the forestry seminar series at Purdue University on January 29th, 2019.
In the last month, Jared Larson has had two articles published. The first, "La identidad ibérica frente a la identidad europea: Huellas iberistas en Señas de identidad, A jangada de pedra y Sostiene Pereira," published by Romance Notes (a comparative literature journal based at UNC-Chapel Hill), examines Iberian political culture through three 20th-century novels. The second, published online in SAGE's Research Methods Cases series, considers “Using Contextual Variables in the Comparative Historical Analysis of the Politics of Migration in Spain and Portugal.”
Dan Aldag with jazz great Matt Wilson and the HSU Jazz Orchestra, presented a clinic at the Jazz Educators Network national conference entitled "Getting Off The Page: Moving Your Big Band Beyond Written Arrangements"
The Learning Center was recently granted International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC) through the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). The certification qualifies the Learning Center's training program to grant participants an internationally-recognized tutor credential.
Publication: Shelbie A. Christensen and Robert W. Zoellner; "Chemistry with a Capital Z: The superheavy elements. Oganesson: Superheavy element 118: A review"; The Hexagon of Alpha Chi Sigma 2018, 109(4), 51-53,61.
Invited paper in the Tansley Review series published by the journal New Phytologist: "Mosaic modularity: an updated perspective and research agenda for the evolution of vascular cambial growth"
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.15640
Invited Presentation at the Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Qatsrin, Israel entitled "Apparent Competition, Hyperpredation, and Spillover in Ecological Restoration: The tales of two lupines and a fish"
Certificate of Merit for the paper entitled "Classfiers for Predicting Undergraduate Computer Science Performance" presented at the 2018 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering in London, U.K.
Invited Presentation at the Northern California Botanist Symposium: "Restoring a population of Applegate's milkvetch (Astragalus applegatei): lessons learned for conservation"
Publication in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.
https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.11022
Published paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology: Methods for determining key components in a mathematical model for tumor–immune dynamics in multiple myeloma.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519318304259
Published "An Analysis of Recycling High Density Polyethylene with Limited Resources" in the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Vol 13 No. 2.
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/ijsle/article/view/11621
Paper presented at the national meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Rochester, Minnesota: "Fossil plants at the intersection of evo-devo and phylogeny: celebrating the contributions of Gar W. Rothwell to biodiversity and evolution"
"A Bridge to the future for stem cell students" highlights HSU STEM alumni.
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2019/01/22/a-bridge-to-the-future-for-stem-cel…
Asst. Professor Pamela H. Bowers was recently appointed as Co-Chair of the "Teaching Methods and Learning Styles" Track for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) for a 3-year term.
Appointment is listed here: https://www.cswe.org/Events-Meetings/2019-APM/Proposals/2019-APM-Tracks/Teaching-Methods-and-Learning-Styles.aspx
Kamila Larripa was accepted to the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics's Collaborative Workshop in Mathematical Biology at UCLA.
MSW students Ruby Aguirre, Katelyn Harris, Molly Rose Hilgenberg, and Melody Soper had a literature review published in *Contemporary Social Work*.
The review was written for the SW 582 class taught by Social Work Professor Pam Bowers and it was recently accepted in this journal:
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/crsw/vol9/iss1/13/
MORE INFO HERE:
Abstract - Sex trafficking is a pervasive threat across the globe and all fifty states of the United States, especially for underage female youth. However, there is a dearth of literature and awareness in domestic rural areas. Sex trafficking is a form of human trafficking that threatens all communities, including rural areas. This extended literature review looks closely at recent studies, and the grey literature to garner a better understanding of the implications for rural social work practice. The review concludes with recommendations and implications for future research, policy, and practice.
John Veit (SOC MA 2018) published a book reviewed in High Times of “Where There’s Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana (University of Kansas Press 2018, which featured two chapters written by Dr. Silvaggio and one by Sociology lecturer Karen August.
https://hightimes.com/culture/book-review-where-theres-smoke-will-light…
Dr. Anthony Silvaggio presented his research on the environmental impacts of cannabis in Vienna, Austria on December 8, 2018. Silvaggio opened a two-day conference on cannabis sustainability sponsored by FAAAT (For Alternative Approaches to Addiction, Think & do tank). The conference followed the 61st meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at the United Nations Vienna headquarters. His presentations was featured in High Time Magazine in an article written by a recent HSU Sociology MA graduate Jon Veit.
https://hightimes.com/news/world/un-drug-commission-delays-thc-reschedu…
Keynote Presentation, "Canvas and the World: Inspire, Innovate, Impact" at CSU Fresno Technology, Innovations, and Pedagogy Conference, January 2018
On Friday, January 11, the Arcata Bay String Quartet (Cindy Moyer and Karen Davy, violins; Sherry Hanson, viola; and Garrick Woods, cello) performed quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumman, and Claude Debussy on the Redding Performing Arts Society Concert Series. Their trip to Redding also included performances for music students at Sequoia Middle School and University Preparatory School.
Jeff Dunk and 17 co-authors (9 of whom were HSU alumni or faculty) published a peer-reviewed paper in PLOS ONE (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.02106…). The paper summarizes the use of modern conservation planning applied to the northern spotted owl's critical habitat designation process.
Mark Colwell, Katie Raby and Lizzie Feucht published a paper in Wader Study (https://www.waderstudygroup.org/publications/wader-study/), an international journal dedicated to shorebird ecology and conservation. Their paper summarizes the efficiency of plovers breeding at various locations in Humboldt County over the past 18 years, with the aim of improving conservation and management practices.
Based on her current research project, International Studies Program Leader Alison Holmes published an open letter on the USC Center for Public Diplomacy blog to the new governor on the day of his inauguration about the need for a 'new globalism' for California (https://www.uscpublicdiplomacy.org/tags/open-letter). It was was picked up and republished by the Pacific Council (https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/new-globalism-open-letter-calif…).
2018 HSU Distinguished Alumni Awardee, Brandie Wilson,(SOC BA 2009; SOC MA 2011) was recognized in New York Times as a memorable person of the year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/us/18-memorable-people-in-2018.html?…
Published, jointly with Alice Fialowski (ELTE, Budapest) a new peer reviewed paper in Linear Algebra and it's applications. The full text of the article is temporarily available at https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1YFcD5YnCXqL3
Published book chapter: Carter, A. S., Hundhausen, C. D., & Olivares, D. (2019). IDE-Based Learning Analytics for Computing Education: A Process Model, Critical Review, and Research Agenda. In The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Cambridge University Press.
Accepted to American Insitute of Mathematics research program
https://aimath.org/programs/squares/
Peer-reviewed article in Annals of Botany: "Grimmiaceae in the Early Cretaceous: Tricarinella crassiphylla gen. et sp. nov. and the value of anatomically preserved bryophytes"
https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/121/7/1275/4850661
Peer-reviewed article in American Journal of Botany: "Origin of Equisetum: Evolution of horsetails (Equisetales) within the major euphyllophyte clade Sphenopsida"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1137
Kassandra Weber (‘19) won 2nd place for the Steven Chu Award for best undergraduate research talk at the annual American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting that took place at CSU Fullerton on October 19-20th.
https://www.aps.org/units/cal/awards/index.cfm
Poster presented "Analyzing Taxonomic Diversity of the Human Gut Microbiome Using R"
Published book chapter in Understanding Complex Systems in Mathematics, Springer
Congratulations to Kassandra Weber (‘19) who won 2nd place for the Steven Chu Award for best undergraduate research talk at the annual Far West Section Meeting of the American Physical Society that took place at CSU Fullerton on October 19-20! Kassandra’s talk concerned ongoing research in gravitational physics that takes place at HSU.
Dr. Anthony Silvaggio presented his research on the post-prohibition environmental impacts of cannabis agriculture at the International Cannabis Policy Conference (ICPC) in Vienna, Austria. The ICPC is an overlapping and parallel conference at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND).
Dr. Jeff Kane was invited to give a talk entitled "Ecological insights of litter flammability traits in southeastern US tree species" as part of the Carlton N. Owens lecture series at Mississippi State University.