Music
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Lori Wiest, professor, music, was named to receive the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award in Leadership at WSU Showcase 2019.
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Honors and Achievements
History
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Clif Stratton, assistant professor, history, was named to receive the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Instructors and Clinical Faculty at WSU Showcase 2019.
English
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Diane Gillespie, professor emeritus, English, was named to receive the Emeritus Society Legacy of Excellence Award at WSU Showcase 2019.
Music
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Greg Yasinitsky, Regents Professor, music, conducted the premiere of his commissioned composition JEN-TEN at the 2019 Jazz Education Network Conference in New Orleans.
Anthropology
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Jeannette Mageo, professor, anthropology, authored “Ambiguity as Dream Mentation: Super-masculinity and Ambivalence,” in American Dreams and “Mimesis and Developing Models of Self and Other” in Culture and Psychology.
Anthropology
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Tim Kohler, Regents professor, Andrew Gillreath-Brown, doctoral candidate, and R. Kyle Bocinsky, alumnus (PhD ’14) and senior researcher, anthropology, co-authored “Paleodata For and From Archaeology” in Past Global Changes Magazine.
Criminal Justice and Criminology
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Melissa Kowalski, doctorate candidate, criminal justice and criminology, authored “Hiring and training requirements for correctional officers: A statutory analysis” in The Prison Journal (forthcoming).
Music
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Greg Yasinitsky, Regents Professor, music, released a new CD titled YAZZ Band (WSU Recordings). The disc also features music faculty members Sarah Miller, Brian Ward, and David Jarvis, along with alumni Patrick Sheng and PJ Kelley, and Professor Emerita Ann Marie Yasinitsky. YAZZ Band was recorded in the WSU Recording Studio by David Bjur, recording engineer. Bebop Spoken Here, UK, named YAZZ Band among “CDs of the Year – Big Bands.”
Psychology
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Amy Nusbam, graduate student, psychology, was named a fellow for the Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development by Ciencia Puerto Rico in collaboration with Yale University.
Criminal Justice and Criminology
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David Makin and professor, Dale Willits, assistant professors; Mary Stohr and Craig Hemmens, professors; Wendy Koslicki, Duane Stanton, and John Snyder, doctorate students, criminal justice and criminology, and Nicholas Lovrich, regents professor emeritus, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, with colleagues authored “The Effects of I-502 on Police Clearance Rates: A Time Series Analysis” in Police Quarterly (forthcoming).