Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
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.
Kerri J. Malloy (Native American Studies) has been invited to join the faculty of the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights, March 11 - 15, 2019 at the former concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation.
This seminar is for US government officials (USAID, FBI, CIA, State, DOJ). He will teach on Risk Factors in Deeply Divided Societies drawing on Native American representations and experiences in history, how it is remembered, taught, processed, and understood to help understand some of the deep divisions that remain in American society.
On November 29, Professor Robert Cliver of HSU's History Department presented a paper titled "Institutional Continuities across Wartime, Postwar, and Communist Regimes - The Case of the China Sericulture Company" at the British Academy in London for the conference, How Maoism was Made: Analysing Chinese Communism beyond the Totalitarian Lens, 1949-1965.
Nicole Jean Hill's photo series of amateur MMA and boxing subcultures was released as a monograph by Lost Alphabet Press. The book So You Wanna Fight? documents the ceremonial pageantry and bodily chaos of this American rite of passage.
Librarian Katia G. Karadjova presented at the IX International and Interdisciplinary Alexander Von Humboldt Conference held in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, November 19-24, 2018. Her paper presentation was on "Aleko Konstantinov, the father of Bulgarian travel literature and his presence in American libraries."
Dr. James Graham was awarded a research grant from the Archaeologocal Research & Supply Company for conducting a study entitled, "Spruce Grove Ethnographic Village Archaeological Study."
Peer-reviewed article in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society: "An Early Devonian permineralized rhyniopsid from the Battery Point Formation of Gaspé (Canada)"
https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/article-abstract/187/2/292/4939107
Received NACIS Student Map Award for Research.
Schatz Energy Fellow Thalia Quinn presented for a panel discussion on Broadening Access to Solar: Jobs, Careers, and Futures, at the American Solar Energy Society’s 47th annual conference in Boulder, Colorado. Panelists discussed paths for the solar energy field to increase inclusivity and the economic opportunities of underrepresented communities. Thalia shared her recent journey from undergraduate work in chemical engineering into the field of renewable energy. Moderated by Annie Lappé, the panel also included representatives from Grid Alternatives, the American Association for Blacks in Energy, Power52, SolarWorld, and Sandia Labs.
Serves on the City of Arcata's Creeks and Watersheds Committee.
Presented HSU gravitational physics research at the American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting on 10/19 at CSU Fullerton.
Presented a worshop entitled "Equality vs. Equity: Using Assets and Cultivating Students" at the Frontiers in Education 2018 conference: Fostering Innovation through Diversity.
fie2018.org
Presented a paper at CCSC NW 2018: Kinne, J., Misner, E., Carter, A. S., & Tuttle, S. M. (2018). Evaluating the Efficacy of Clicker-Based Peer Instruction across Multiple Courses at a Single Institution. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges.
Amy Rock has been invited to join the editorial board of Cartographic Perspectives, the journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society. The journal serves as the premier open-access journal for creative and rigorous research in cartography and geographic visualization.
Presented their research project at the Virtual Food: Edible Matter the Techno-Playground preconference at the National Communication Association Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Presented Performing Academic Labor Precarity: Working Class to Class and Paycheck to Paycheck at the National Communication Association Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah
Co-editor of "Letters of Martin Fleischmann and Melvin Miles" published 2018.
Presented a poster entitled "Improving Inclusive Excellence in STEM through Place-Based Learning Communities" at the Transforming STEM Higher Education: Confirming the Authority of Evidence Conference, sponsored by AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope.
Presented a workshop entitled "Cultivating Student Assets through Equity and Cultural Humility" at the Transforming STEM Higher Education: Confirming the Authority of Evidence Conference, sponsored by AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope.
Presented HSU gravitational physics research at the American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting on 10/19 at CSU Fullerton.
Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Deconstructing secondary growth as developmental potential: a perspective on the evo-devo of wood"
Julie Alderson, Enoch Hale, and Kim Vincent-Layton presented "Leading Change Through Collective Impact", at the Professional Organizational Development (POD) annual conference in Portland, OR on November 17, 2018.
Kim Vincent-Layton was recognized for the 2018 Professional Organizational Development (POD) Adjunct/Part-Time Special Interest Group Fellowship as a part-time faculty currently in an educational development role.
Enoch Hale was recognized at this year's Professional Organizational Development (POD) conference as the Early Researcher Grant recipient awardee focused on furthering inclusive teaching in higher education.
Serves on the City of Arcata's Creeks and Watersheds Committee.
Professor Stephen Jenkins gave three presentations in Thailand and Singapore this month: "How the West Misunderstood Buddhism and the Implications for Contemporary Buddhist Cultures," Mahachula Buddhist University, Wat Suan Doc, Chiang Mai; "On the Deep Roots of Pure land Buddhism in the Early Pāli Texts," Yale/National University of Singapore; and "Deities and Divine Birth in Buddhism," [Three day Seminar], Mahidol University, Bangkok.
International Studies Program Leader, Alison Holmes, attended an invitational transatlantic leadership network conference in Seattle WA called the British American Project. She was recognized for her service on both sides of the Atlantic since her first conference in 1996 as the only member to have served on both sides - as chair of the UK and a member of the US Executive.
Joshua J. Frye was on the Convention Planning Team for the 104th annual National Communication Association held November 7-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah. With the help of his colleague Dr. Kristen Blinne from SUNY, Joshua coordinated a full week of programming consisting of over 15 sessions, Chaired 3 sessions himself, and along with colleague Dr. Leslie Rossman (Communication, HSU) presented work in progress during a virtual food seminar on social media influencers who are Instagram foodies.
Associate Professor Vincent Biondo travelled to Toronto to present the paper "Faith and History: The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith for the 21st Century," at the 7th Parliament of the World's Religions.
Peer-reviewed journal article published in the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering (Vol 13 No 2).
"An Analysis of Recycling High Density Polyethylene with Limited Resources"
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/ijsle/article/view/11621
Presented at the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) Conference in October 2018. They presented "The Power of Professional Development: Using Make it Stick to Expand the Reach of Your Center" after using concepts in the book for a number of professional development events at HSU.
Brian was elected as the President of the Western Society of Naturalists for 2019.
Via his position as research associate with the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (www.igadi.org), based in Pontevedra (Galicia), Spain, Jared commented on the midterm election results in the U.S. live on Bos Días, a morning news program produced in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), Spain, on 7 November. His commentary begins at the 36:15 minute mark of this link:
http://www.crtvg.es/tvg/a-carta/bos-dias-8-00-3952659?t=2280&fbclid=IwA…
Maral N. Attallah, Lecturer in Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies, presented research on “Armenian Genocide Denial and Resolution” at the Fifth International Conference on Genocide, held in Sacramento (November 1-3).
Peer-reviewed article published in Remote Sensing Journal (IF 3.41). "Remote Sensing Approach to Detect Burn Severity Risk Zones in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica"
Natural Resources graduate student Melissa Kimble and advisor Jim Graham's peer-reviewed article, "Visualizing Uncertainty in Habitat Suitability Models with HEMI 2", accepted for publication.
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