Chemistry
adrianaCecilia Eiroa Lledo, doctoral student, chemistry, received a G.T. Seaborg Institute research fellowship to study nuclear forensics at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Cecilia Eiroa Lledo, doctoral student, chemistry, received a G.T. Seaborg Institute research fellowship to study nuclear forensics at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Mitchell Friend, doctoral student, chemistry, received a fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study plutonium.
Andrew Gillreath-Brown, graduate student, anthropology, coauthored “Identifying Turtle Shell Rattles in the Archaeological Record of the Southeastern United States” in Ethnobiology Letters.
Daniel Liera-Huchim, office assistant, foreign languages and cultures, was awarded the United Greek Council’s Chapter Advisor of the Year award at the 2017 Arete Awards presented by WSU’s Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life.
Karen and Jeffrey Savage, professors, music, delivered an invited performance and served as judges and workshop presenters at the MusiQuest National Piano Competition and Festival in Pune, India.
John Streamas, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “The Descent of Man and Everyone Else” at Akashic Books.com.
Marina Tolmacheva, professor, history, authored the chapter “Concubines on the Road – Ibn Battuta’s Slave Women” in Concubines and Courtesans; Women and Slavery in Islamic History (Oxford University Press).
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented on Chilean comic author Marcela Trujillo (a.k.a. “Malki 4-Ojos”) at the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture’s annual congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A paper from her research is forthcoming in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.
Maria Serenella (Sere) Previto, clinical associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented on Chilean songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, singer, poet, visual artist, and social activist Violeta Parra at the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture’s annual congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Anthony Achille, Frankie Bones, and Matthew Tatz, graduate students, music, each won recognition in the Young Artist Performance category at the Washington State Music Teachers Association competition. Achille and Tatz won first and alternate place, respectively, in the brass division; Bones took alternate place in the piano division.