History
adrianaRay 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.
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.
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.
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.
Dene Grigar, professor and director, and John Barber, clinical associate professor, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, were invited speakers at the first electronic literature conference in the Arab world, Arab Electronic Literature: New Horizons and Global Perspectives, hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by Rochester Institute of Technology. Grigar presented “Preserving a Cultural Legacy of Born Digital Literature.” Barber presented, “Sound and Electronic Literature.” Barber’s sound art work, “There and Back,” was one of seven international works invited for a curated exhibition associated with the conference.
Elly Sweet, clinical assistant professor and faculty advisor for biology, general studies/biological sciences, and pre-health, biological sciences, WSU Tri-Cities, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award.
Sue Peabody, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, received the Society of French Historical Studies’ David Pinkney Prize for best book by a U.S. or Canadian author published in 2017 for her book Madeline’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies In France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press).
Kimberly Burwick, clinical assistant professor, English, authored a new poetry collection Brightword (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming).
Ashley Boyd, assistant professor, English, authored Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom: Teaching Practice in Action (Teachers College Press, forthcoming).
Buddy Levy, clinical professor, English, appears in two episodes (3 & 4) of producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s television series The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen, which premieres on HISTORY (A&E Network) March 7 and features research from Levy’s book American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett.
Asaph Cousins, professor, biological sciences, co-authored “The response of mesophyll conductance to short-term variation in CO2 in the C4 plants Setaria viridis and Zea mays” in Journal of Experimental Botany.