Robyn Reeve, doctoral candidate, biological sciences, won first place and the People’s Choice award in the CAS preliminary 3 Minute Thesis competition. She wet on to earn third place in the WSU-wide contest with her presentation “Leptin: Integrator of immune response and regenerations.”
Alex Dimitrov, associate professor, mathematics & statistics, coached a team of undergraduates to earn an Outstanding Award in the SCUDEM Lite 2020 (SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations). The WSU team’s model was titled “Talking Beds: The Limit of Hospital Bed Availability Due to COVID-19 Spread in Washington.”
Claudia Leeb, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, published, “The Hysteric Rebels: Rethinking Socio-Political Transformation with Foucault and Lacan,” the journal Theory and Event (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2020), 607-640. She also published “Towards a Politics of Feelings of Guilt: A Response to McIvor and Rensmann,” in a review symposium on her book The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence. This piece appeared in Critical Horizons (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2020), 36-79.
Donna Sinclair, adjunct professor, history, WSU Vancouver, co-authored Black Women in Green: Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service Leadership (Oregon State University Press).
Leslie New, professor, mathematics & statistics, WSU Vancouver, co-authored “New close encounters of the dolphin kind: Contrasting tourist support for feeding based interactions with concern for dolphin welfare” forthcoming in Tourism Management.
Courtney Meehan, associate professor, Edward Hagen, professor, and Katherine Flores, doctoral candidate, anthropology, and Abhishek Kaul, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, coauthored with colleagues “Household composition and the infant fecal microbiome: The INSPIRE study” in American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Deepti Singh, assistant professor, environment, WSU Vancouver, coauthored “Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cheryl Schultz, professor, biology, WSU Vancouver, coauthored “Demographic costs and benefits of herbicide-based restoration to enhance habitat for an endangered butterfly and a threatened plant” forthcoming in Restoration Ecology. She also coauthored with Leland D. Bennion, graduate student, biology, and Leslie New, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, both of WSU Vancouver, and another colleague “Community-level effects of herbicide-based restoration treatments: Structural benefits but at what cost?”
Andra Chastain, WSU Vancouver professor, history, authored Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City, now under contract with Yale University Press. She also co-edited Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War to be published in March by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Andra Chastain, assistant professor, history, WSU Vancouver, won the Michael Katz Award for best dissertation in urban history from the Urban History Association, and she won the John Scholes Transport History Research Prize from the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility.