Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
A painting by Marie Campfield, a senior undergraduate student in the Department of Art, was accepted into the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Exhibition. The exhibition will be held in the galleries of the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Marie is the first HSU student to have a work accepted into this prestigious competition. Approximately 300 works from over 8700 entries were chosen for inclusion. Her work, Child’s Skull, Kandahar Province, is part of a larger series of paintings and drawings informed by her experiences in Afghanistan while serving as an Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician (EOD, military bomb squad).
Rosemary Sherriff, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, published a viewpoint paper with co-authors titled "Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires" in Ecosphere. February 2016. "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.1255/full":http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.1255/full.
Yuliana, Thien, Laura, and Angelica were invited to present independent research at Washington D.C. at the ERN Conference in STEM (Emerging Researcher's National Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in late February. Yuliana Rowe was awarded 2nd place in Ecology, Environment, and Earth Sciences for her presentation on "The effects of climate-induced forest disturbances on spiders in Michigan."
Professor Susan Marshall, Forestry & Wildland Resources attended the 2016 Society for Range Management Annual Meeting in Corpus Christi, TX. Susan served as 2015 President of the Range Science Education Council and 2016 Past President. She is also an Associate Editor or the Range Ecology & Management Journal and a member of the SRM Professional Accreditation Committee. While there she attended a special workshop looking at the federal Office of Personnel Management 454-Series for Rangeland Specialists with members of the OPM, RSEC and PAC groups. Susan also serves on the Certification Panel for California Certified Range Management specialist.
Emeritus Professor Kenneth Fulgham, Forestry & Wildland Resources, attended the 2016 Society for Range Management Annual Meeting in Corpus Christi, TX. Ken recently served a three-year term as a national Director on the SRM Board and has been nominated for the SRM 2nd Vice President position with the election held this fall. Ken is also the SRM Membership Services & Meeting Registration Task Force Chair, plus a member of the SRM Bylaws Revision Task Force.
The HSU Range Plant Team recently competed in the 2016 Society for Range Management plant identification exam in Corpus Christi, Texas. The competition involved the identification of 200 grasses, forbs, shrubs and trees. The Plant Team placed 9th out of 23 schools from Canada, Mexico and United States. In addition, HSU students also participating in the Undergraduate Range Management Exam and the Student Booth Display Contest. The students attending these competitions were: Mariah Aguiar, Tyler Hanson, Kaelie Pena, Matt Prendergast, Rosa Sanchez, and Deedee Soto.
Kaelie Pena, Range Management Science major, was elected Secretary to the SRM Student Conclave and she received a summer Pathways Science Technician job with the Forest Service in Bridgeport, California.
Chelsea Teale was accepted to attend an NSF-funded summer program on assimilating long-term data into ecosystem models, hosted by the University of Notre Dame and the Paleoecological Observatory Network.
Eric Jennings, past undergraduate in the Department of Wildlife, had his honors thesis published in Northwest Science, coauthored with his mentor, Micaela Gunther. His work examined the "Effects of high temperatures and sun exposure on Sherman trap internal temperatures."
Tyler Stumpf, Assistant Professor of Management, recently published a paper entitled “Bridging the Gap: Grounded theory method, theory development, and sustainable tourism research” in the "Journal of Sustainable Tourism." Taking the perspective that advancing knowledge on sustainability phenomena is optimized when theoretical and practical developments work in concert rather than in isolation, this research aims to help bridge the gap between sustainable tourism research, practice, and theory by ameliorating the process and outcomes of grounded theory method research in the field. This research was completed with colleagues from the Carson College of Business at Washington State University.
Joshua Frye, Associate Professor of Communication, recently published a peer-reviewed academic journal article in the "Journal of Social Justice." The article, entitled, “Re-conceptualizing the Global Fair Trade Movement” examines the fair trade movement using structuration theory and inductive rhetorical analysis. The essay argues that the global fair trade movement is unique in the pursuit of sustainability and social justice within the food system. As such, it reveals communication reflexivity as potentially a collective process of transformation and is reshaping the values and conditions for labor equity and environmental sustainability through a new market paradigm of partnership.
A contribution written by Josh Meisel, Associate Professor of Sociology, to a chapter on "Teaching Rural Criminology – Topics and Issues" has been published in the "The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology."
Josh Meisel, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, had his book review of "KILLER WEED: Marijuana, Grow Ops, Media, and Justice," by Susan C. Boyd and Connie I. Carter published in the November 2015 issue of "Contemporary Sociology."
Michael S. Bruner, Professor, Department of Communication, had his book review of "WORD OF MOUTH: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food," by sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, published in "Food, Culture, and Society," online 18 February 2016.
Published a chapter in a book titled “Postmodern Theory and Hip-Hop Cultural Discourse.” Ed. Kathleen Roberts. Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture: Essays and Applications. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.
A study by Rosemary Sherriff, Associate Professor and Chair Geography Department, was recently highlighted in an article on PLOS, a nonprofit open access scientific publishing project. Read the full text at https://ecologyfieldreports.plos.org/mountain-ecosystems-respond-to-a-changing-climate-the-plos-ecological-impacts-of-climate-change-7c58598a6382#.b3ebc5qi7
Andrew Slack, a graduate student, Nicholas Zeibig-Kichas, an undergraduate student, and Dr. Jeff Kane recently published an article in Forest Ecology and Management entitled "Contingent resistance in longleaf pine (Pinus paulustris) growth and defense 10 years following smoldering fires".
Dr. Martin has received the U.S. Forest Service Chief's 2015 National Award for Excellence in Wilderness Stewardship Research.
The award committee provided the following statement about Professor Martin's award:
Dr. Martin has collaborated with the Leopold Institute, as well as Forest Service and National Park Service units in the Sierra Nevada, to support management and planning decisions by employing science in a diversity of areas including: bear-proof containers and visitor safety, the use of technology in wilderness by visitors, quota decisions based on visitor travel simulation and visitor attitudes about intervention to adapt to climate change, and ecological restoration to fix problems caused by past human behavior. He remains focused on management solutions applied to wilderness stewardship issues relevant across the National Wilderness Preservation System.
The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) will be conducting their fourth Assignment Charrette on Saturday, February 20, 2016 in New Orleans, La. Dr. Armeda Reitzel is one of the faculty members selected to participate in this event. She will engage in a collaborative assignment-design process with 40 or so faculty members chosen from across the country and from a myriad of disciplines.
Le’s presentation at the 2015 CAIR Conference, “Visual Analytics: Exposing the Past, Understanding the Present, and Looking to the Future,” was selected as the most outstanding example of a significant contribution to the practice and understanding of institutional research. Le has been invited do his presentation at to the 2016 Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum, which will take place from May 29 to June 3, 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana. AIR is the world's largest professional organization for institutional researchers.
Chemistry Professor Robert Zollner and two of his undergraduate students, Annette A. Tabares and Essene L. Waters, and have recently published the results of our research in the peer-reviewed journal Heteroatom Chemistry. The complete citation for the article is as follows: Annette A. Tabares, Essene L. Waters, Robert W. Zoellner; "Beryllepin, C6H6Be, and 'beryllium-inserted benzenes,'C6H6Ben, n = 2-6: A density functional investigation"; Heteroatom Chemistry 27(1), 37-43 (2016).
Janelle Adsit co-wrote an article for the journal Feminist Formations on "Affective Activism." It is out in the December 2015 issue.
Physics & Astronomy major Ian Guerrero has been selected by the CSU Nuclear and Particle Physics Consortium (NUPAC) for one of 10 prestigious summer 2016 internships. Ian will be working with the ATLAS experiment collaboration which is part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Congratulations!
Rachelle Howard, a senior ENST major, had a paper, "Migration toward Intersectional Leadership:" accepted in the Animals and Society Institute journal, an undergraduate peer-reviewed journal. Howard is also coordinating a Critical Animal Studies symposium at HSU from April 25-29, where Carol Adams, author of "Sexual Politics of Meat," and Aimee Breeze Harper, author of "Sistah Vegan," will be keynotes. ENST faculty and students will also present, and the event will be open to the community.
Music professor Paul Cummings presented a session at the national conference of the College Orchestra Directors Association on January 15 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The presentation, entitled "The Legacy of Hans Richter, 1843-1916," focused on the landmark accomplishments of Richter during his long career as a conductor of opera and orchestral music in Vienna and England. An article by Cummings is in press with the "Musical Quarterly."
Publication of co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-environmental-political-theory-9780199685271?cc=us&lang=en&
An article by Tasha Howe, Christopher Aberson, Howard Friedman, Sarah Murphy, Esperanza Alcazar, Edwin Vazquez & Rebekah Becker "Three Decades Later: The Life Experiences and Mid-Life Functioning of 1980s Heavy Metal Groupies, Musicians, and Fans," has won the 2015 International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) Best Paper.
Natural Born Hustlers, a new series co-produced by the BBC and PBS features research by HSU Wildlife Professor Jeff Black and alumnus Will Goldenberg. Black and Goldenberg are featured in a segment about Steller's jays. For 17 years, Black has led a study into the jay populations on campus and their deceptive behavior. The birds are known to mimic predator sounds like red-shouldered and red-tail hawk calls. Goldenberg, who currently lectures in HSU's film progrma, helped the BBC film the birds in action.
Natural Born Hustlers is a three part series, and begins on Wednesday, Jan., 13 at 8 p.m. on PBS. Check local listings for more information. Episode 2, the Hunger Games, which features the Steller's jays, airs January 20.
More information is available at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/natural-born-hustlers-about/13389/.
Dr. Luke George, emeritus faculty in Wildlife, along with other authors published an article describing how the disease West Nile Virus is affecting bird populations. "Persistent impacts of West Nile virus on North American bird populations" was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS). Read the abstract online at http://www.pnas.org/content/112/46/14290.short.
It is also worth noting that some of the data in the paper came from bird banding operations at the Wright Wildlife Refuge, a small refuge on the edge of Eureka where many HSU students have worked over the years. Numerous graduate students have run bird banding operations there, and they and faculty have trained scores of undergraduates to handle and measure birds using standardized bird netting and monitoring processes. It's one of many sites in a network of field research sites called MAPS (monitoring avian productivity and survivorship).
Music professor Paul Cummings conducted the Anne Arundel College Symphony Orchestra in a performance in Arnold, Md., on November 20, 2015. The program featured works by Mozart, Dal Porto, and Rimsky-Korsakov. An enthusiastic audience in the Pascal Center for Fine Arts rewarded the musicians with a standing ovation following Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphony No. 1.
The research journal _Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly_ has published a book review by Assoc. Prof. Marcy Burstiner in its winter 2015 edition. Burstiner reviewed the book The First Amendment Bubble: How privacy and paparazzi threaten a free press_ by Amy Gajda.
It has been a busy year for the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (IRP). In November, the Office traveled to San Francisco for the 40th California Association for Institutional Research Annual Conference (www.cair.org/). Director Lisa Castellino Ph.D. gave two presentations: "Seeing the Forest through the Trees: How Humboldt State University Leveraged Decision Trees in Communicating Results" and "Don’t Put the Horse Before the Cart: A Decomposition Study to Identify Target Student Populations for High Impact Practices."
Research Analyst Michael Le M.A. delivered two presentations: "Visual Analytics: Exposing the Past, Understanding the Present," and "Looking to the Future and Sexual Violence: IR’s Role in a Safer Campus."
Institutional Research Graduate Certificate student and IRP Intern, Kaitlyn Stormes won the first Samuel Agronow Institutional Research Scholarship from CAIR for $1,000.
Since CAIR, Lisa Castellino along Vice Provost Jená Burges have been accepted to present at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Annual Meeting. Their presentation is on "Asking Better Questions: Moving from “Disaggregating Data” to “Producing Actionable Intelligence”. Michael Le was featured by the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) for his visual display of HSU’s graduation rate targets.
Take Back the Tap helped HSU win 1st place in its division in the Social Awareness category of the Kill the Cup challenge. The award includes a $500 grant.
Alison Holmes - Program Leader of International Studies, has been named a two year, non-residential, Research Associate to the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the SOAS, University of London. She plans to work at the institute during summer vacations to continue her current research into global states and the theory and practice of global diplomacy.
Dr. Joe Szewczak, Biological Sciences Dept., was recently featured in the October issue of the California Educator Magazine http://educator.cta.org/i/587184-october-2015/23 The article discusses the "Real Bat Man", as Dr. Szewczak teaches, among other courses, Biology of Chiroptera, which is the study of bats. Dr. Szewczak has studied many bat species, looking at migration patterns, social communication, endangered species, and how to reduce fatalities caused by energy-producing wind turbines. He and his colleagues recently completed a two-year trial that provided high-intensity ultrasound emitted from turbines can steer bats away from death.
Laura K. Hahn presented her research project, "Culinary Immigration through the Streets of New York: The Immigrant Narrative on New York City Food Tours" at the the International Conference on Food Design. This research was sponsored by the the CSU Chancellor’s Office Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities (RSCA) program.
Janelle Adsit chaired a panel at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference on "Teaching Translation to Monolingual Students."
JoAnne Berke just returned from a week long teacher training intensive in Beijing, China. She was invited by the America and China International Exchange Foundation to teach the US methods and the National Standards in Art Education to middle and high school teachers.
Alison Holmes, International Studies Program Leader, has been invited to participate as a mentor in the 'Pay it Forward' program of the International Studies Association, designed to encourage and support female faculty.
Maral Attallah and Kerri Malloy have been selected as two of twenty faculty from around the country to participate in the 2016 Jack and Anita Hess Seminar, "After the Holocaust: Teaching the Postwar World" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Held every January, the prestigious Mandel Center seminar is designed for college and university faculty who are teaching or preparing to teach Holocaust-related courses.
Attallah is a lecturer in Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
Malloy is a lecturer in Native American Studies.
Steve Hackett has had his paper, titled "Economic Attributes of Stayers and Leavers in Four California Fisheries," published in California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Report Volume 56 (2015). This work made use of undergraduate research assistants Brett Poirier and Nate Freney from the Department of Economics, and was co-authored with Dr. Ana Pitchon (SJSU) and Doreen Hansen (research associate).
Michael S. Bruner, Professor, Communication, and Brittany N. Stuckey, 2014 CAHSS Research Fellow, published their article, "The World Will Little Note: Vice President Joe Biden's 2012 Speech at the Flight 93 National Memorial," in the Pennsylvania Communication Annual (Vol. 71, 2015). The article is dedicated to Richard Guadagno, former Refuge Manager at the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, who died on Flight 93.
Brian Tissot was an invited speaker at a conference sponsored by the European Association of Surfing Doctors; a group of surfers that are also medical doctors and health practitioners. Held near Biarittz in the beautiful Basque region of southern France he was tasked with the question: Why Should Surfers Care about Ocean Conservation?
A piece of writing by Heal McKnight was selected as a Notable Essay by Robert Atwan, the editor of the Best American Essays series. The essay "Traffic" was originally published in PoemMemoirStory.
McKnight is a lecturer in English, where she teaches courses in composition.
Gil Cline, Professor (FERP) Music, was a performer on Renaissance cornetto in August for a week-long event in the Berkeley, California region, for many years a hot-spot in the Early Music Movement. Participants from around the country present a full-length concert of polychoral music from Venice and environs, using cornetti, recorders, sackbuts, shawms, and dulcians.
He also was a participant for a Living History Day, September 26, at Alcatraz Island. Cline was "mustered into" a re-enactors Civil War-era band, "the 5th California Volunteer Regiment Infantry Band" out of the Sacramento area. The 14-piece all-brass band performed nothing but historic brass publications from 1855-1875 and used all-historic instruments of the 1860s, with Cline performing on an historic soprano E-flat cornet brought to California in the 1950s from Michigan by former Music Department Chair David Smith.
HSU Music student Michael Donovan has been selected as the John W. DeLodder – Humboldt State University Student Composers Competition winner for Spring 2015. At the composers Recital on November 6, Mr. Donovan will be awarded $1,000 for his winning composition titled, “The Dignified Lonely Person.” The piece is an eight-minute song cycle written for voice and piano, based on poetry by the composer and HSU alumna Marlena Kellogg. Mr. Donovan, a student at HSU, plays the violin and has been actively studying composition for the last two years.
The award will be presented by Mr. DeLodder at the HSU Composers Recital, on Friday, November 6 at 8:00 pm. in Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Robert Cliver, Professor of History, published an article, "Surviving Socialism: Private Industry and the Transition to Socialism in China, 1945-1958," in the online September issue of "Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review." The article will appear in the print edition in November.
Dan Pambianco gave two presentations on Oct. 22 as part of the Bob Frederick Sport Leadership Lecture Series hosted by Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
Pambianco's morning lecture was titled "Sports Crisis Management," and in the afternoon he presented "Sports Communication: Mentoring the Next Generation."
Andrew P. Stubblefield, Professor of Hydrology and Watershed Management has recently published a paper titled Sensitivity of summer stream temperatures to climate variability and riparian reforestation strategies
in the Journal of Hydrology, Regional Studies. Coauthors were recent M.S. graduate Rosealea M. Bond and faculty emeritus Robert W. Van Kirk.
Dr. Armeda Reitzel gave a paper presentation on “The Evolution of Neckwear: How a Piece of Cloth Speaks Volumes” at the 2015 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Cincinnati on Oct. 3, 2015.
She also presented a co-authored paper with two of her Communication students, Diana Casteel and Kristine Cella, at the same conference on Oct. 2,2015. The title of that research paper was “Adventure vs. Domesticity: How Children’s Toys Promote Gender Roles.”
Joanna Murphy and Ryan Gustafson, two recent graduates from the Environmental Resources Engineering B.S. program, just published a peer-review article in "Desalination." Joanna and Ryan looked at heat and mass transfer in membrane distillation, a novel process that can produce high quality water from waste heat. They developed a new model that helps scaling-up the process and validated it experimentally in the lab. As a result, a larger-scale membrane distillation system is now being constructed at HSU. More details here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916415300837