Biological Sciences
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Cheryl Schultz, associate professor, biological sciences, received the WSU Vancouver Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Pullman & Spokane
Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
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Martha Cottam, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, won the WSU Graduate School’s 2018 Graduate School Mentor Academy Award for Excellence.
Psychology
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Chioma Heim, undergraduate advisor, psychology, won a 2018 WSU Leadership and Engagement Award of Distinction for staff.
Psychology
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Abere Church, Steven Hobaica, Shari Reiter, Emily Faust, Catherine Sumida, Kyle Schofield, Madeline Nagel, Greg Keiser, and Austin Lau, graduate students, psychology, serving as officers of the WSU Diversity and Ethics in Psychology Chapter, won a 2018 WSU Leadership and Engagement Award of Distinction for student organizations. Paul Kwon, professor, serves as the group’s faculty advisor.
History
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Marina Tolmacheva, professor, history, delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association of Washington Historians at Yakima Valley College.
Music
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Matthew Tatz, graduate student, music, won third place in the 2018 Northwest Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference held at Central Washington University.
Mathematics and Statistics
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Nairanjana Dasgupta, professor, mathematics and statistics, was named an American Statistical Association (ASA) Elected-Fellow.
Anthropology
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Emily Helmer, graduate student, anthropology, won the 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Northwest Anthropological Association.
Anthropology
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Shannon Tushingham, assistant professor, anthropology, coauthored “Storage defense: Expansive and intensive territorialism in hunter-gatherer delayed return economies” in Science Direct.
Sociology
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Jennifer Sherman, professor, sociology, authored “‘Not Allowed to Inherit My Kingdom’: Amenity Development and Social Inequality in the Rural West” in Rural Sociology; and “‘Stress I don’t Need’: Gender Expectations and Relationship Struggles amongst the Poor” in Journal of Marriage and Family. She also coedited Rural Poverty in the United States (Columbia University Press).