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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Pullman & Spokane

Mathematics and Statistics

David Watkins.
Watkins
Jared Aurentz
Aurentz

David Watkins, emeritus professor, and Jared L. Aurentz (PhD ’14), mathematics and statistics, and two colleagues received the Outstanding Paper Prize at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) annual meeting for their paper “Fast and Backward Stable Computation of Roots of Polynomials,” published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2015). They also co-authored with three colleagues Core-Chasing Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem (SIAM).

Sociology

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Kirkpatrick Johnson
Christine Horne.
Horne

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, professor and chair, sociology, was invited to present at RC34’s session on “Youth in North America” at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Toronto, Canada. While there, Kirkpatrick Johnson also presented “Work Value Transmission from Parents to Children: Seeds That Sprout in Adolescence and Bear Fruit in Adulthood.” She also presented on behalf of herself, professor Christine Horne, and a colleague “The Conditionality of Adolescent Pregnancy Norms” at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence in Minneapolis.

Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies

John StreamasJohn Streamas, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “The Real War That Got Into the Movies: Eastwood and Spielberg in the Pacific” in The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives (University of New Mexico Press). Streamas also authored the poem “My Blue Whale” in the Inflatable Celebration exhibit at Third Street Art Gallery in Moscow, Idaho.

Sociology

Jennifer Schwartz.
Schwartz
Erik Johnson.
Johnson

Jennifer Schwartz and Erik Johnson, associate professors, sociology, presented “Sex Stratification in the Criminal Enterprise: Crimes Against the Environment” at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology, Leiden University, Netherlands.

Schwartz and Johnson were also invited to present “Women’s and Men’s Participation in Business-related Crimes Against the Environment: Sex-stratification in the Criminal Enterprise” at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, Netherlands.