History
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Ryan Booth, doctoral student, history, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute fellowship for research in “The Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau.”
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Biological Sciences
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lly Sweet, clinical assistant professor, biological sciences, WSU Tri-Cities, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for March 2018.
Sociology
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Erik Johnson, associate professor, sociology, coauthored three articles: with Lauren Scott, graduate student, “From Fringe to Core? The Integration of Environmental Sociology” in Environmental Sociology; with Pierce Greenberg, graduate student, “The US Environmental Movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Building Frameworks of Sustainability” in Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability; and, with another colleague, “The Social Origins of Evangelical Protestants’ Opposition to Environmental Spending” in Journal for Scientific Study of Religion.
Criminal Justice and Criminology
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Mary K. Stohr, professor, criminal justice and criminology, received the Minority and Women’s Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Coramae Richey Mann Leadership Award for her contributions to ethnic and racial diversity in criminal justice education and for her contributions to knowledge about gender issues in criminology and criminal justice. Stohr also received the ACJS Fellow Award for distinguished contribution to justice education and scholarship.
Sociology
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Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, professor and chair, sociology, coauthored “Adolescent Agentic Orientations: Contemporaneous Family Influence, Parental Biography and Intergenerational Development” in Journal of Youth and Adolescence; and “Work Intensity and Dropout” forthcoming in Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century (Springer).
English
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Leeann Hunter, clinical assistant professor, English, was selected to receive the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty at WSU Showcase 2018. Hunter developed the Passport Program to help students identify their curricular interests and participate in high-impact co-curricular activities and served as a faculty fellow in the CAS Grand Challenges-funded Transformational Change Initiative, a student success program.
English
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William Hamlin, professor, English, was selected to receive the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship, and the Arts at WSU Showcase 2018. Hamlin studies how major writers and intellectual movements were understood and incorporated into the cultural life of early modern England.
History
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Ray Sun, associate professor, history, was selected to receive the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction at WSU Showcase 2018. Sun specializes in modern German and modern European history.
Physics and Astronomy
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Mark Kuzyk, Regents professor, physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the Eminent Faculty Award at WSU Showcase 2018. Kuzyk specializes in fiber optics, optical devices, and nonlinear optics of organic materials.
Music
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Greg Yasinitsky, Regents professor and director, music, received the 2017-18 American Prize in Composition, pops/light music division, for his Jazz Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.