Jonathan Preszler, graduate student, and G. Leonard Burns, professor, psychology, coauthored “Trait and State Variance in Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms: A Multi-Source Investigation With Spanish Children” in Assessment.
Burns also coauthored “Can Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Be Distinguished From ADHD Inattention in Very Young Children? Evidence From a Sample of Korean Preschool Children” in Journal of Attention Disorders.
Alex Spradlin and Dakota Mauzay, graduate students, and Carrie Cuttler, clinical assistant professor, psychology, coauthored “Devils, witches, and psychics: The role of thought-action fusion in the relationships between obsessive-compulsive features, religiosity, and paranormal beliefs” in Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.
Raymond Quock, professor, psychology, authored “Brain Research: Hyperbaric oxygen treatment suppresses withdrawal signs in morphine-dependent mice” in Brain Research Journal.
Ursula Mazur, and Kerry Hipps, professors, and Morteza Adinehnia, Bryan Borders, Michael Ruf, and Bhaskar Chilukuri, graduate students, chemistry, coauthored “Comprehensive structure–function correlation of photoactive ionic-conjugated supermolecular assemblies: an experimental and computational study” in Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and earned the journal’s “Hot Papers” distinction.
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.
Aurora Clark, professor, chemistry, was elected to the U.S. Department of Energy Council on Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences.
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.
Michael Hubert, associate professor, 
foreign languages and cultures, authored “Using Writing to Teach Pronunciation: An Experimental Fourth-Year University Spanish Phonetics/Phonology Course” forthcoming in Applied Language Learning.
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, professor, sociology, coauthored three forthcoming articles: “Adolescent Adaptation Before, During, and in the Aftermath of the Great Recession in the United States” in International Journal of Psychology; “Familial Transmission of Educational Plans and the Academic Self Concept: A Three-Generation Longitudinal Study” in Social Psychology Quarterly; and “Family (Dis)advantage and Life Course Expectations” in Social Forces.
Noriko Kawamura, associate professor, history, is slated to deliver the invited lecture “Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War” at the German Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo on the 75th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Kawamura is also president of the international Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, a regional affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies.