Music
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Kiya Fife, graduate student, music, took second place in the Inland Empire Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition in the Advanced College Division.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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History
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Ryan Booth, doctoral student, history, authored the review of Donald L. Cutler’s “Hang The All:” George Wright and the Plateau Indian War” forthcoming in Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History
Music
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The WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, directed by Danh Pham, assistant professor, music, presented an invited performance at the Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, which featured members of the WSU Faculty Brass Quintet and Shannon Scott, assistant professor, on clarinet.
Music
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Matthew Tatz, Anthony “A.J.” Achille, and Frankie Bones, graduate students, music won top awards in the statewide Music Teachers National Association competition. Tatz took first place and Achille was named alternate in the Brass Performance Division; Tatz will compete in the Northwest Regional MTNA competition in January. Bones was named alternate in the Piano Division.
Chemistry
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Aurora Clark, professor, chemistry, was elected to the U.S. Department of Energy Council on Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences.
Foreign Languages and Cultures
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Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, and Maria Serenella Previto, clinical associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented at the 26th International Conference of the International Association of Hispanic Women Literature and Culture at the University of Houston, Texas. Navarro-Daniels presented “Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s De jueves a domingo: Crossing Borders Between the Public and the Private or the Travel to Nowhere of a Country Named Chile,” which is forthcoming in Letras Hispanas; Previto presented “Ana María del Río’s Short Fiction: Crossing Borders Between the Erotic and the Politic.” Navarro-Daniels also presented an invited lecture about her research at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, San Joaquín, in Santiago, Chile.
Foreign Languages and Cultures
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foreign languages and cultures, authored “Using Writing to Teach Pronunciation: An Experimental Fourth-Year University Spanish Phonetics/Phonology Course” forthcoming in Applied Language Learning.
History
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Philip Travis, PhD ’14, history, authored the monograph “Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State” (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books).
Fine Arts
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Annie Cunningham, graduate student, fine arts, received the Francis T. and Janis D. Ho Graduate Fellowship in Fine Arts and exhibited her piece “Stone Garment” in the “Show Your World: Second International Juried Exhibition” in New York City, where she also delivered a gallery talk. Her work also will be part of a duo-exhibition at Gallery Rademann in Schwarzenberg, Germany.
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Jennifer Binczewski, graduate student, history, received the 2016 John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award from the American Catholic Historical Association for her dissertation “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1570–1620.”