Music
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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.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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English
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Kimberly Burwick, clinical assistant professor, English, authored a new poetry collection Brightword (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming).
English
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Ashley Boyd, assistant professor, English, authored Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom: Teaching Practice in Action (Teachers College Press, forthcoming).
English
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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.
Biological Sciences
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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.
Sociology
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Justin T. Denney, associate professor, sociology, Pullman & Spokane, and colleagues coauthored “Neighborhood Concentrated Disadvantage and Adult Mortality: Insights for Racial and Ethnic Differences,” Population Research and Policy Review. Denney and colleagues also coauthored “Families in Context: Food Insecurity among Hispanic Immigrant and non-Immigrant Households with Children” in Family & Community Health and “Does Sexual Orientation Complicate the Relationship Between Marital Status and Gender with Self-Rated Health and Cardiovascular Disease?” accepted for publication in Demography.
Music
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Scott Blasco, assistant professor, music, has been invited to present his surround-audio electroacoustic composition The Deeps at the Society of Composers National Conference in Tacoma, Wash., where the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra will premiere Regents Professor of Music Gregory Yasinitsky‘s Concertino for Flute and Orchestra.
Blasco recently presented The Deeps at the Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival at Jacksonville University in Florida.
Also this spring, another new Yasinitsky composition, Heartfelt and Diabolical, will receive its national premiere at the national conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance at the University of Cincinnati.
Chemistry
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Sue Clark, Regents professor, chemistry, was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee to evaluate the U.S. Department of Energy’s cleanup technology development efforts.
History
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A recent book by Lawrence Hatter, assistant professor, history, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.–Canadian Border (University of Virginia Press), was named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title for 2017” by the American Library Association.
History
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W. Puck Brecher, associate professor, history, received a Hakuho Foundation International Research Fellowship for a six-month stint as a visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Japan.