William Hamlin, professor, English, was selected to receive the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship, and the Arts at WSU Showcase 2018. Hamlin studies how major writers and intellectual movements were understood and incorporated into the cultural life of early modern England.
Ray Sun, associate professor, history, was selected to receive the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction at WSU Showcase 2018. Sun specializes in modern German and modern European history.
Mark Kuzyk, Regents professor, physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the Eminent Faculty Award at WSU Showcase 2018. Kuzyk specializes in fiber optics, optical devices, and nonlinear optics of organic materials.
Greg Yasinitsky, Regents professor and director, music, received the 2017-18 American Prize in Composition, pops/light music division, for his Jazz Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.
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 best book by a U.S. or Canadian author published in 2017 for her book Madeline’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies In France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press).
A recent book by Lawrence Hatter, assistant professor, history, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.–Canadian Border (University of Virginia Press), was named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title for 2017” by the American Library Association.
Daniel Liera-Huchim, office assistant, foreign languages and cultures, was awarded the United Greek Council’s Chapter Advisor of the Year award at the 2017 Arete Awards presented by WSU’s Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life.
Anthony Achille, Frankie Bones, and Matthew Tatz, graduate students, music, each won recognition in the Young Artist Performance category at the Washington State Music Teachers Association competition. Achille and Tatz won first and alternate place, respectively, in the brass division; Bones took alternate place in the piano division.
Greg Yasinitsky, Regents professor and director, music, was nominated by two independent musicians for the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Jazz Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Yasinitsky’s recent commissions include Partial Eclipse for the 25th anniversary of the Las Vegas Academy and his arrangement of Creepin’ for an upcoming recording by the Colorado Repertory Jazz Orchestra featuring the music of Stevie Wonder.