English/Creative Media and Digital Culture
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Dene Grigar, professor and director, and John Barber, clinical associate professor, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, were invited speakers at the first electronic literature conference in the Arab world, Arab Electronic Literature: New Horizons and Global Perspectives, hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by Rochester Institute of Technology. Grigar presented “Preserving a Cultural Legacy of Born Digital Literature.” Barber presented, “Sound and Electronic Literature.” Barber’s sound art work, “There and Back,” was one of seven international works invited for a curated exhibition associated with the conference.
Elly Sweet, clinical assistant professor and faculty advisor for biology, general studies/biological sciences, and pre-health, biological sciences, WSU Tri-Cities, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award.
Sue Peabody, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, received the Society of French Historical Studies’ David Pinkney Prize for 
Kimberly Burwick, clinical assistant professor, English, authored a new poetry collection Brightword (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming).
Ashley Boyd, assistant professor, English, authored Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom: Teaching Practice in Action (
Buddy Levy, clinical professor, English, appears in two episodes (3 & 4) of producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s television series 
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 
Justin T. Denney, associate professor, sociology, Pullman & Spokane, and colleagues coauthored “Neighborhood Concentrated Disadvantage and Adult Mortality: Insights for Racial and Ethnic Differences,” 
Sue Clark, Regents professor, chemistry, was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine