Creative Media and Digital Culture/English
adrianaWill Luers, instructor, Creative Media and Digital Culture/English, WSU Vancouver, is corecipient of a first place Robert Coover Award from the Electronic Literature Organization for Novelling.
Will Luers, instructor, Creative Media and Digital Culture/English, WSU Vancouver, is corecipient of a first place Robert Coover Award from the Electronic Literature Organization for Novelling.
Jennifer Sherman, associate professor, sociology, received the Rural Sociological Society’s Frederick H. Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award for a Book, 2018, for her co-edited volume Rural Poverty in the United States (Columbia University Press).
Peter Chilson, professor, English, received Peace Corps Worldwide’s Best Travel Book award 2017 for his co-authored publication Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers (University of Chicago Press).
Fran Meserve, principal assistant, music, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for July 2018.
Kirk McAuley, associate professor, English, was awarded an American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Keough-Naughton summer fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. He also presented his research on Robert Louis Stevenson at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Supernumerary Conference at the University of Roma Trė in Rome, Italy.
David Watkins, emeritus professor, and Jared L. Aurentz (PhD ’14), mathematics and statistics, and two colleagues received the Outstanding Paper Prize at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) annual meeting for their paper “Fast and Backward Stable Computation of Roots of Polynomials,” published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2015). They also co-authored with three colleagues Core-Chasing Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem (SIAM).
Sue Peabody, professor, history, received a fellowship through the WSU Office of Research 2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program for her project “Gender and Colonialism Humanities Symposium.”
Carol Siegel, professor, English, WSU Vancouver, received a fellowship through the WSU Office of Research 2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program for her monograph project, “Sexed, Raced, and Erased: Jews in Contemporary Visual Media.”
Cassandra Gulam, senior instructor and program leader, foreign languages and cultures, WSU Vancouver, was recognized at the Community Engagement Institute at Gonzaga University for her project, “Language Learners in the Community: Partnering with Safety-Net Medical Clinics in Clark County.”
Alecia Hoene, academic coordinator/advisor, environment, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for May 2018.