Physics and Astronomy
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Tom Busch, fiscal analyst, physics and astronomy, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for October 2017.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Honors and Achievements
Foreign Languages and Cultures
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Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, was elected vice president of the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture (Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica), whose members/voters are from across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Navarro-Daniels also recently presented “Suicide as Cultural Resistance: Sebastián Sepúlveda’s film, ‘The Quispe Girls'” at the 71st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies
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Richard King, professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, was selected to be a Fulbright Specialist for a three-year term.
Psychology
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Amy Nusbaum, graduate student; Carrie Cuttler, clinical assistant professor; Alexander Spradlin, instructor; Ryan McLaughlin, assistant professor; and Paul Whitney and John Hinson, professors, psychology, coauthored “Altered attentional control strategies but spared executive functioning in chronic cannabis users” in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
History
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Jennifer Binczewski, doctoral candidate, history, was awarded the Meyer Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference for research she delivered from her dissertation, Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630.
Psychology
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Dee Posey, clinical associate professor, psychology, was recognized as a WSU Provost’s Featured Faculty Member at the Sept. 9 Cougar football game against Boise State University.
Chemistry
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Nathalie Wall, associate professor, chemistry, coauthored “Evaluation of Vanadium(IV) as a Non-Radioactive Surrogate for Technetium(IV) by Comparison of Stability Constants for Polyamino Polycarboxylate Ligand Complexation” in
English
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Jeff Pearson, instructor, English, won the 2017 New Alchemy Prize from Permafrost, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks literary journal, for his series, “User Reviews of Medications.”
Anthropology
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Andrew Gillreath-Brown, graduate research assistant, and R. Kyle Bocinsky, PhD ’14, anthropology, co-edited “Empirical and Model-based Agricultural Studies in Archaeology,” a special section in Journal of Ethnobiology, and coauthored “A Dialogue Between Empirical and Model-Based Agricultural Studies in Archaeology” in that section. Bocinsky also authored “Comparing Maize Paleoproduction Models with Experimental Data” in the same section.
English
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Roger Whitson, assistant professor, English, authored “The Difference Engine: 1832, 1855, 1876, 1991, 2002, 2008” in BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History.