Latest Achievements

HSU Cycling Club rider Ali Osgood remains undefeated, winning all four collegiate downhill mountain bike races this season. Osgood is currently one of the fastest women descenders on the West Coast, with her finish times faster than some of the men. Katelyn Hill is also ranked the top woman rider in the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference after winning all but one of the cross country and short track races at Fresno and Reno and finishing second in the XC and STXC at Stanford. As the top points earner she wears the yellow leader’s jersey.

The Humboldt State University team of fisheries biology major Graeme Lock of Arcata, and business major Derrick Hicks of Lincoln, Calif., won the FLW College Fishing Western Conference Invitational tournament on Clear Lake with a five-bass limit weighing 20 pounds, 1 ounce. Their two-day total of 10 bass weighing 41-10 earned the club $4,000 and qualified the team for the 2014 FLW College Fishing National Championship.

David Phelps ('89, Fine/Studio Arts, Ceramics) will be honored October 19 at the 36th annual Stockton Arts Commission Arts Awards ceremony for his sculpture titled “American Beauty." A contemporary American sculptor, Phelps' work appears in large scale public and private installations across the United States. He works primarily in bronze, steel and concrete.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner, Professor in the Department of Communication, is lead author of a book chapter entitled, "An Evolving Worldview: Culture-Shift in University Students," published in Jim Norwine (Ed.), "A World After Climate Change and Culture Shift," pp. 43-66 (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, & New York: Springer, 2014).

Humboldt State University's Wildlife Quizbowl Team placed second in the student Quizbowl of the National Meeting of the Wildlife Society in Milwaukee. The single elimination tournament included 17 teams. HSU won the first match against University of Montana 95-25. The team won its second match against University of Wisconsin, Madison, 125-10, and its third match against Michigan Tech 85-70. The team was narrowly defeated in the final round by the University of Minnesota, Crookston, 105 to 100. This year marks the 13th time HSU competed at the National Quizbowl, with nine wins to date.

The quizbowl team included Phil Chaon (captain), Alisa Muniz, Justin Purnell, Felicia Aragon, and Andrew Wiegardt (alternate player).

The national meeting also included students presented "research in progress" posters. Muniz placed in top 20 (among 100+ posters, most by graduate and doctoral students). Student Brendan Higgins won several awards for some of his photos, including best of show.

Associate music professor Paul Cummings has been invited to present at the 2014 national conference of the College Orchestra Directors Association January 23-26, 2014 at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Over 200 conductors of college orchestras from around the country attend this annual conference, which features performances, master classes, and scholarly presentations. Cummings' presentation is entitled "Achieving Critical Mass: Strategies for Improving Recruitment and Repertoire Selection in the Small College (or College-Community) Orchestra."

Cara Owings (Native American Studies) has received a 2013 Rodney T. Mathews Jr. Scholarship. The scholarship provides up to $10,000 to assist California Indian students pursue their educational goals.

HSU Cycling continues to lead the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference after the second weekend of collegiate mountain bike racing at Sky Tavern near Reno on Sept. 28 and 29. The team also scored another milestone. For the first time ever, an HSU cyclist wears the conference points leader's yellow jersey. Kate Hill is ranked number one of all women cyclists in the conference. HSU is a Division II team, but Hill and the team are now ranked above all other Division I and II schools, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly and Reno. See the WCCC conference website for rankings: http://wcccycling.org/results.html

William Rich, Cultural Resources Facility Co-Director, presented at the Society for California Archaeology's Northern Data Sharing Meeting Saturday, September 28th in Trinidad. His paper is titled "Workin’ the Transect: A Look at the Humboldt State University Cultural Resources Facility."

Four students received the Undergraduate Research Creative Activity Fellowship: Alyssa Haggard, Spencer Mitchell, Erik Marinkovich and Matt Price. The projects are overseen by Dr. Marisol Cortes-Rincon in the Archaeology Research Laboratory at HSU. Haggard's project is “3D Virtual Curation: Archaeological Artifacts." Mitchell is researching “Maya Political Interactions through Monumental Display: Ancient Warfare Propaganda." Marinkovich will be examining “Ancient Roadways: Causeways in the Maya Lowlands" and Price will be exploring “Applied Experimental 3D Imagery Techniques on Artifacts."

Rangeland Resources Science majors Travis DiGennaro and Crystal Welch will share the $1,000 Paul Zinke Memorial Scholarship Award for 2013. Travis is an assistant for the introductory soils course, is enrolled in the Wildland Soils option of the range major, and hails from Napa, CA. Crystal Welch is also in the Wildland Soils option and has called Humboldt County and Port Orford, Oregon home. Travis and Crystal will be presenting an undergraduate research poster on actinomycetes found in mushroom compost at the Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings in Tampa, Florida in November 2013. They join seven past HSU Zinke Award winners: Barbara Witmore (’05), M.S. New Mexico State University, currently employed by the Bureau of Land Management; Rosemary Records (‘06) now in a Ph.D. program at Colorado State University; Sarah Schuette (‘09), co-owner of Dirty Business Consulting of Arcata; Allison Rofe, (‘12) who is a rangeland management specialist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Ukiah, CA; Jasmine Westbrook (‘12), currently enrolled in a M.S. program at Montana State University; and Stephanie Winters (‘13), a seasonal employee with BKS Environmental of Gillette, WY.

Mark Colwell delivered an invited plenary talk on the challenges of conserving threatened species at the 5th Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia on 20 September 2013.

After the first collegiate mountain bike race of the season, the Humboldt State University Cycling Club leads the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference. A dozen HSU cyclists raced at China Peak Resort last weekend, winning several of the events. HSU senior Steven Pearl won the men's A cross country race. Katelyn Hill won the women's A short track cross country race. The A category races are at the highest level of collegiate cycling competition, and these riders will qualify to race at national championships in October.

Several other HSU cyclists also had podium finishes (top three in their category) including Ali Osgood and Eli Robinson, who earned the team points to catipult HSU to the top of the regional rankings above all division one and two teams. Other HSU cyclists who competed last weekend are Sara Schneider, Ashley Hansen, Alvin Garlejo, Dylan Wright, Justin Graves, Justin Gore, Derek Roelle and Tyler Green. Full results can be found at http://wcccycling.org/results.html. The HSU Cycling Team heads to Reno this coming weekend for the next round of mountain bike races in the WCCC.

Susan Rosen, director of Humboldt State University’s Children Center, has received a four-year $168,040 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support campus-based childcare services for low-income students. Funded under the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program, the award can be used for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, as well as before and after-school care for school-age children.

Wildlife faculty member Barbara Clucas recently co-authored a study suggesting that crows can recognize human faces. For the study, Clucas and her team approached crows in Seattle while directly looking at them and while averting their gaze. The crows scattered earlier when they were being directly stared at, suggesting that they have adapted to living in urban areas. The full article was published in the April issue of the journal _Ethology_.

Humboldt State University graduate Victoria Munguia, a Los Angeles native from an immigrant family, is a winner of the $3,000 William Randolph Hearst/CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement 2013. Munguia graduated in May with a major in History and a double minor in English Literature and Teaching English as a Second Language. She plans to take up a career as a history teacher upon completing a student teaching credential program this fall in Los Angeles.

The Department of Kinesiology & Recreation Administration has received a five-year $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand its credential program in adaptive physical education. The grant will be used to fund student stipends, increase hands-on learning opportunities and support outreach and recruitment efforts.

Michael Kauffman, of HSU's Redwood Science Project, has published _Conifers of the Pacific Slope_, a contemporary field guide for identifying Pacific Slope conifers. The book includes color plates for identifying 65 species, photos, maps and destinations for finding conifers in the field. In 2012, Kauffmann published _Conifer Country_, a natural history and hiking guide to the biodiversity of the region—as seen through the eyes of conifers.

Students in Engineering lecturer Lonny Grafman's Practivistas Dominicana program recently returned from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where they worked with community members and local students to develop sustainable, appropriate technologies. Among the projects they completed this summer: designing and building a rural, public pharmacy from plastic bottles and blocks made from rice husks, rice husk ash, lime, cement and sand; redesigning and installing a rainwater catchment system to serve a grade school in the inner-city barrio of La Yuca; developing and constructing renewable energy systems for a local animal shelter. In 2014, students will return to La Yuca and in Las Malvinas, Dominican Republic.

Dr. Hunter H. Fine, a lecturer in the Department of Communication, has published a 20-page essay and 6-minute video on: “The Skateboard Dérive: A Poststructuralist Performance of Everyday Urban Motility.” The study appeared in _Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies_, Vol. 9, No. 3, June 2013. “Dérive” has been defined by Guy Debord as “a movement toward a new way of inhabiting space.”

HSU political science major Ninamarie Jeffrey of Hilo, HI wrapped up a year in Germany this summer as a participant in the U.S. Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX). She took part in the 29th CBYX program, which since 1984 has provided more than 1,700 Americans with the opportunity to gain cultural, theoretical and practical work experience in Germany. Jeffrey was one of 75 participants nationwide for the competitive government-sponsored fellowship for young professionals between the ages of 18 and 24. The program is designed primarily for young adults in business, vocational, engineering, technical and agricultural fields, though candidates in all career fields are encouraged to apply. The program is supported by Congress through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the State Department and by the German Bundestag or parliament.

Mujtaba Zaidi ('11) has launched the Discovering New Artists (DNA) organization, a program that aims to provide free education to underprivileged children in Pakistan. Mujtaba launched the program in 2011 with help from a Project Smile grant. He credits HSU's Youth Educational Services program for teaching him how to engage and lead volunteers.

Mujtaba studied at HSU through IREX, a U.S. non-profit that provides international education, professional training and technical assistance. Mujtaba participated in IREX' Global UGRAD – Pakistan, which builds the capacity of a diverse group of youth leaders from underserved populations across Pakistan.

Two HSU students in the Practivistas Dominicana Program worked with a team to design and build solar power cubes for a hard-to-adopt animal shelter in Dominican Republic. The student project upcycles intermediate bulk containers and uses photovoltaics to power vaccine refrigeration, kennel lighting, cell phones and laptops.

The animal shelter project named Ghetto2Garden is still under construction in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The students work is highlighted by Inhabitat at http://inhabitat.com/students-transform-liquid-shipping-containers-into-solar-lighting-cubes-for-dominican-animal-shelter/ and documented on Appropedia at http://www.appropedia.org/Ghetto2Garden_solar_power.

Jacquelyn Bolman has received a 2013 Professional Mentor Award from the Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) for her work as director of Humboldt State University’s Indian Natural Resource Science and Engineering Program (INRSEP). Bolman is one of five individuals from around the country who will be honored for her work on behalf of Hispanics and Native Americans in the sciences at SACNAS’s annual conference Oct. 3-6 in San Antonio, Texas.

Since 1997, the SACNAS Distinguished Awards program has honored over 80 scientists, educators, and program directors for their commitment to assisting Hispanic/Chicano and Native American scientists attain advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in science. SACNAS is a Santa Cruz-based non-profit dedicated to fostering the success of Hispanic/Chicano and Native American college students and professionals in the sciences. For more information, visit sacnas.org.

Prof. Sam Sonntag co-organized a thematic section on "Governing Languages" at the French Political Science Association conference held at Sciences Po in Paris in July, at which she also presented a paper entitled "India's Linguistic Federalism as Language Policy." Also in July, she was invited to participate in a workshop on "The Economics of Language Policy" in Venice, sponsored by the Center for Economic Studies in Munich.

Faith Neff ('15, Environmental Resources Engineering) was one of 26 students from around the country to participate in the 2013 Harvard Forest Summer Research Program, an 11-week program in ecological research for undergraduate and graduate students.

Neff was part of a two-person team that created and designed an aerial tram under the supervision of Paul Siquiera, an engineering professor at the University of Massachusetts and Mark Van Scoy, a Harvard Forest research assistant. Neff will present their study, “Monitoring ecosystem physiology and vegetation structure in recent clearings," at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union Dec. 9-13 in San Francisco.

The annual Harvard Forest Summer Research Program runs May to August in the Harvard Forest located in Petersham, Mass. Students conduct paid, supervised research focusing on the effects of natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, including global climate change, hurricanes, forest harvest, changing wildlife dynamics, and invasive species. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA and several U.S. universities.

Five Humboldt State University students passed the rigorous “Fundamentals of Soil Science” exam offered on April 15, 2013, becoming Associate Professional Soil Scientists, according to test results from the Council of Soil Science Examiners. Zoe Merrill, Kyle Garvey and Braden Pitcher graduated with degrees in Wildland Soils in the Rangeland Resource Science major. Stephanie Winters graduated with the Rangeland Resources option and completed sufficient soils courses to be a federal Soil Scientist. Rachelle Dilley graduated with a degree in Botany.

The national pass rate for the spring 2013 exam was 63%. Those who pass the fundamentals exam will be eligible to take the Professional Practice exam after five years of professional experience, an additional step in becoming a Certified Professional Soil Scientist. Recent Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) discussions about program self-certification have included the fundamentals exam as one indicator of program quality. Humboldt State University Wildland Soils students (an option under the Rangeland Resource Science major) spend more than 200 hours in field or laboratory learning experiences, honing hands-on skills and field judgment of soil properties, limitations, and capabilities.

Harvey Kelsey, a research associate in the Geology Department, has been named a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Honorees are nominated by existing GSA Fellows for their contributions to the geosciences. Contributions may include publications, applied research, teaching, administration of geological programs, public education, editorial, bibliographic and library responsibilities.

Kelsey was honored for using field investigations of coastal environments to make important contributions to our understanding of the history and processes of great subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis in Cascadia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Japan.

Sociology lecturer Anthony Silvaggio was recently mentioned in a New York Times article examining the environmental impacts of marijuana production. Silvaggio created a Google Earth video showing the environmental damage caused by industrial pot farms.The video was later enhanced by Mother Jones: http://bit.ly/VDoT01.

Environmental resources engineering student Monica Napoles was recently selected for the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis' (NIMBioS) highly competitive Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK).

The 2013 NIMBioS REU program runs for eight weeks, from June 10 – Aug. 2, and includes 19 undergraduates from universities across the United States. Participants live on campus and work in teams with NIMBioS postdoctoral researchers and UTK faculty on research at the interface of mathematics and biology. The research projects for the 2013 program are mathematical modeling of fetal electrocardiograms; modeling animal disease from coronavirus; automatic detection of rare birds from audio recording; modeling the environmental transmission of E-coli in cattle; modeling protein translation and genome evolution; and modeling animal social network dynamics. More information about the REU program can be found at "nibios.org/reu":http://www.nimbios.org/reu/.

NIMBioS is a National Science Foundation-sponsored initiative to foster interdisciplinary research at the interface between mathematical and biological sciences. Additional NIMBioS sponsors include the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Department of Mathematics recently named several scholarship recipients for the 2012-13 academic year. They are:

Mathematics students Natalya Jackson and Wilson Jarrell; winners of the Harry S. Kieval Scholarship, awarded to junior-level students.

Melanie Kaitlyn Weaver; winner of the Mathematics Department's Harry S. Kieval Transfer Scholarship for outstanding performance in college level courses at a two year college in preparation for a mathematics major.

Kyle Steslicki; winner of both the Orval M. Klose Scholarship and the Robert S. Chambers Scholarship for full-time undergraduate mathematics majors.

Anne Adams and Elizabeth Bell; winners of the Travis Jepsen Memorial Scholarship for full-time mathematics majors.

Austin LaComb; winner of the Michael Tucker Scholarship for outstanding junior or senior mathematics major, and

Valerie Yellam; winner of the awarded the Elmo Moore Memorial Mathematics Scholarship for mathematics or mathematics education majors.

Kendall Lewis was named Outstanding Student of the Year '12-13 for the Department of Computer Science.

Oceanography professor Christine Cass was recently named one of the top 20 women professors in California by statestats.org and partner website onlineschoolssalifornia.com. The two sites set out to find post-secondary educators who had been recognized recently for excellence in the classroom, on campus and in the community.

Cass joins professors from Stanford, UC Berkeley and Loyola Marymount in earning the distinction. Cass has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Oceanography since 2011. Her research focuses on changes in West Coast zooplankton brought about by seasonal variations.

Geology student Bobby Voeks was recently accepted into the U.S. Geological Survey/National Association of Geoscience Teachers Cooperative Field Training Program. The USGS/NAGT program is the longest continuously running internship program in the earth sciences. Bobby will work as a hydrologic technician measuring sediment inputs into the Chesapeake Bay. He will be based at USGS headquarters in Reston, VA.

Geology student Claudia Velasco recently accepted a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) Summer Internship studying glacial sedimentology in Brazil and surficial geology in west central, Minnesota for Native American women. Claudia will help an active research project on the origin and history of surficial deposits in west central Minnesota and the late Paleozoic glacial units of Brazil (the Itarare subgroup). Her research will focus on the influence of climate on ice stream movement, the significance of marine interaction and ice sheet grounding, and the nature of ice stream flow (sliding vs. deformation).

Geology student Michelle Robinson was recently accepted into the U.S. Geological Survey/National Association of Geoscience Teachers Cooperative Field Training Program. The USGS/NAGT program is the longest continuously running internship program in the earth sciences. Michelle will be based in Portland, OR working with USGS scientists on water-quality conditions in the Columbia River Basin. He work will focus on "toxics," including anthropogenic-indicator compounds, pharmaceuticals, PBDEs, pesticides and legacy compounds.

Erin Quinn recently accepted a Smithsonian Graduate Student Fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History. Erin will conduct high-temperature, high-pressure experiments on rocks from Chaos Crags, Lassen Volcanic National Park. Erin’s work will be the first experimental phase equilibrium study on Chaos Crags and will provide important constraints on magma storage conditions at Chaos Crags. This is important for better understanding the volcanic hazards within Lassen Park.

Geology student Kelly Morgan will serve as seasonal hydrologic technician with the Rocky Mountain Research Station for summer 2013. Kelly will conduct surveys of geomorphic features in the Upper East Fork Weiser River in central Idaho using GPS and other methods. She will use the Geomorphic Road Assessment and Inventory Package (GRAIP), a process and set of tools for analyzing the impacts of roads on forested watersheds. GRAIP combines a detailed road inventory with a powerful GIS analysis tool set to predict road sediment production and delivery, mass wasting risk from gullies and landslides, and road hydrologic connectivity.

Geology student Joe Camacho Jr. received the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) Summer Internship. Joe will use surface observations to search for blind (subsurface) faults in the North American platform in central Tennessee. He will present his summer research at the fall meeting of the Geological Society of America in Vancouver, BC.

Ryland Karlovich, Talisa Rodriquez, Miles Ross, Matthew Eiben, and Amelia Egle and Dept. of Geography Faculty Members

In May, Geography students and faculty returned triumphant from the 67th California Geographical Society Meeting at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Over 400 academic, NGO, agency, and private sector geographers attended.

The ever-popular student research competition included students from four states and 31 institutions (including 13 CSU and 5 UC campuses).

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In the student research competition, senior Ryland Karlovich’s gained some identity by analyzing how England's Historic Counties are Losing Identity. Ryland continues this effort as a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh next fall.

Talisa Rodriquez’ year-long effort documenting Primary Succession and Edge Effects in a Northcoast Coastal Dune Habitat took home the Geosystems Award for the best undergraduate physical geography paper.

Miles Ross, Matthew Eiben, and Amelia Egle captured second place in Digital Mapping for their effort on The Geography of Hate: Placing Racist, Sexist and Homophobic Sentiment in Online Social Media. Their effort, prepared under the direction of Professor Monica Stephens, was published May 10th in The Guardian, one of the UK’s leading periodicals.

Eight other students presented a paper, poster or cartographic effort. Faculty members Matt Derrick (who presented a paper) and Stephen Cunha accompanied the students.

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Matthew Lutwen and Ellyn Henderson were recently selected as the 2013 David Kalb Award recipient and runner-up, respectively. Matthew was the recipient of a $1,000 award and Ellyn received a $250 award. This award was established by David Kalb, an alumnus of Humboldt State University. He was a political science major and served as president of the Associated Students. The award is open to any student who has demonstrated personal commitment and leadership by taking an active role in student government.

Senior Holly Leopardi was presented the award for "Exceptional Scholarly Achievement" in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. The annual award honors outstanding Physics & Astronomy Majors at the junior or senior level. The award includes a commemorative hardcover edition of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics."

Bill Reynolds, Professor of Psychology recently published two journal articles. One article, co-authored with colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Ohio State Medical School titled: “Suicide risk in youth with intellectual disability: The challenge of screening” appeared in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Along with Jessica Black (MA, HSU), their research paper on “Examining the relationship of perfectionism, depression, and optimism: Testing for mediation and moderation" was published recently in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

In addition to these journal articles, the second edition of Bill’s book, the Handbook of Psychology, Volume 7: Educational Psychology, which he co-edited with Dr. Gloria Miller of the University of Denver was published in January by John Wiley & Sons. In addition to coediting the book, Bill also contributed two chapters to this 600 page volume. In collaboration with A. Bӑlaj, Bill recently published the Scala de evaluare a tulburӑrilor din adolescentӑ – Forma scurtӑ. APS-SF Manual pentru specialist. Adaptarea si standizarea APS-SF pe populatia din Romania, a Romanian edition of his Adolescent Psychopathology Scale that was standardized and validated with adolescents in Romania. Recently, Bill along with coauthors Kenneth Kobak and Daniel David published the book: HDI Hamilton Depression Inventory inventarul de depresie Hamilton: Manual tehnic si interpretative. In April, Bill presented two papers at the national conference of the Society for Personality Assessment in San Diego. One of these papers described 25 years of international research with the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale.

Also in April, Bill along with undergraduate and graduate research assistants (including Molly Blahausz, Rebekah Becker, Carlos Gonzalez, Esperanza Alcazar, Erin Harris, Melissa Nielsen, Sarah Murphy, Terri McCaben, and Jessica Kirby) presented five research papers at the annual Western Psychological Association conference in Reno, NV. Later this month, Bill and Jessica Black with present a research paper at the Association for Psychological Science meeting in Washington, DC on the assessment of moral identity.

Joshua Peterson received the Mathematics Department Outstanding Teaching Award for AY 2012-13 for teaching lower division courses while completing his master's degree.

Sondra Schwetman has a piece accepted into the Marin Museum of Contemporary Arts' Summer National Juried Exhibition. The show runs June 1 to July 14th.

Kori Sabalow, who is studying International Studies with an emphasis in Globalization, was selected by World Languages & Cultures faculty as the 2013-2014 recipient of the Benavides-Garb Family International Travel Award, which honors a student accepted to participate in an HSU-approved study abroad program.

Owen Krebs, who is studying International Studies with an emphasis in Globalization, was selected by World Languages and Cultures faculty as the 2013-2014 recipient of the Frank B. Wood Scholarship, awarded for academic excellence in language study.

Communication majors Nicole Sheldon and Hayley Connors-Keith contributed to a conference paper, "Prop 37 and the Debate Over 'Natural' Foodways," presented at the "Traditions and Transformations: Interdisciplinary Food Studies Conference" at CSU Fullerton, April 19-21, 2013. Sheldon was a presenter and one of the authors, along with Communication professors Michael Bruner and Laura Hahn. Connors-Keith created the graphics and the slides for the presentation. This project illustrates how faculty and undergraduate students can collaborate on research and is part of the wide range of work on Food Studies being carried out in the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences.

HSU psychology students and faculty gave 20 presentations at the annual Western Psychological Association (WPA) conference in Reno, NV (April 25-28). The meeting is the nation’s largest regional psychology conference with two thousand attendees.

The Psychology Department continued its tradition of student-faculty research with 42 undergraduate student authorships and 20 graduate student authorships.

Student presentation highlights included Rebekah Becker on the development of a college student motivation scale, Crystal Perez on work creating a self-confidence inventory, Zoey Phillips on affective, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of forgiveness, Edwin Vazquez on the influence of diversity course enrollment on ethnic identity development, and Tish Dias on quality of life and grief.

Psychology faculty members presented as well. Professor William Reynolds presented on topics such as fatigue assessment, and moderators and mediators of the stress-depression relationship. Professor Chris Aberson gave a two-hour talk titled “R for SPSS users” as part of the annual Statistical Workshop Series and participated in a symposium titled “Internet Application in Support of Statistics Education.”

Since 2000, psychology students and faculty have given nearly 300 conference presentations.