English
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Peter Chilson, professor, English, received Peace Corps Worldwide’s Best Travel Book award 2017 for his co-authored publication Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers (University of Chicago Press).
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Fine Arts
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Avantika Bawa, associate professor, fine arts, WSU Vancouver, presented a solo exhibition of her work titled Coliseum with an accompanying artist’s book at the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum.
Languages, Cultures, and Race
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Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Cathartic Fear, Television, and Memory: ‘The Archives of the Cardinal'” at the 36th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Barcelona, Spain, where she also organized and chaired a panel on Human Rights and Memory.
Anthropology
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Andrew Gillreath-Brown, graduate research assistant, anthropology, coauthored “An Experimental Study of Turtle Shell Rattle Production and the Implications for Archaeofaunal Assemblages” in PLOS ONE.
Biological Sciences
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Heather Watts, associate professor, and Ashley Robart, postdoctoral researcher, biological sciences, coauthored “Increasing photoperiod stimulates the initiation of spring migratory behavior and physiology in a facultative migrant, the pine siskin” in Royal Society Open Science.
Music
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Fran Meserve, principal assistant, music, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for July 2018.
Fine Arts
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English
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Kirk McAuley, associate professor, English, was awarded an American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Keough-Naughton summer fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. He also presented his research on Robert Louis Stevenson at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Supernumerary Conference at the University of Roma Trė in Rome, Italy.
Mathematics and Statistics
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David Watkins, emeritus professor, and Jared L. Aurentz (PhD ’14), mathematics and statistics, and two colleagues received the Outstanding Paper Prize at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) annual meeting for their paper “Fast and Backward Stable Computation of Roots of Polynomials,” published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2015). They also co-authored with three colleagues Core-Chasing Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem (SIAM).
Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
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Claudia Leeb, assistant professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, authored The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence (Edinburgh University Press).