Nathalie Wall, associate professor, chemistry, presented “Aspects of technetium chemistry for nuclear waste management and nuclear forensics” at the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories; and “Having fun with environmental radiochemistry” at the Nuclear Forensics Summer School at the University of Utah.
Marina Tolmacheva, professor, history, presented “From Central Asia to Central Eurasia: A Personal Retrospective” at the Central Eurasian Studies Society’s Regional Conference at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkeko, Kyrgyz Republic. She also delivered two invited talks in Russian: “The Role of Higher Education in the Development of Non-Commercial Organizations” (O roli obrazovaniya v razvitii nekommercheskih organizatsiy) at Kyrgyz National University; and “International Faculty Development: Opportunities and Procedures” at International University of Kyrgyzstan.
Linda Heidenreich, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, was elected to the board of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. Heidenreich also delivered the invited plenary address “Nepantlan Warriors: Women of the Nineteenth-Century Napa-Sonoma Valleys Who Resisted” at the Summer Institute of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social.
Jenifer Barclay, assistant professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “Bad Breeders and Monstrosities: Racializing Childlessness and Congenital Disabilities in Slavery and Freedom” in Slavery & Abolition; and the chapter “Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery” in Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives (Springer). She presented “Mother’s Spots and Monstrosities: Congenital Disabilities and Racial Identity in American Medicine, Law and Folklore” at the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians at Hofstra University, New York. Barclay also was named associate editor of Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, University of Hawaii.
Art Blume, professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver, received the Joseph E. Trimble and Jewell E. Horvat Award for Distinguished Contributions to Native/Indigenous Psychology from the American Psychological Association Division 45.
Nathalie Wall, associate professor, coauthored four papers with chemistry doctoral candidates: Trevor Omoto, “Stability constant determinations for technetium (IV) complexation with selected amino carboxylate ligands in high nitrate solutions” in Radiochimica Acta; Lindsey Neill, “Various effects of magnetite on ISG glass dissolution: Implication for the long-term durability of nuclear glasses” in Nature Communications; Joelle Reiser and others, “The use of positrons to survey alteration layers on synthetic nuclear waste glasses” in Journal of Nuclear Materials; and Kevin Swearingen and Omoto, “Analysis of organic and high dissolved salt solutions with minimal sample preparation using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry” on the cover of Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy; and with Larissa Gribat, graduate student, “New rotating disk hematite film electrode for riboflavin detection” in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.
Carrie Cuttler, clinical assistant professor, psychology, received an Open Educational Resources Research Fellowship from the Open Education Group.
Chris Dickey and Sarah Miller, clinical assistant professors, music, hosted the 2017 Northwest Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference at WSU Pullman.
Aurora Clark, professor, chemistry, was named a fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Meredith Arksey, associate professor, music, delivered an invited presentation at the national conference of the American String Teachers Association in Pittsburg, Penn.