Fine Arts
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Sena Clara Creston, clinical assistant professor, fine arts, WSU Tri-Cities, was recognized as a WSU Provost’s Featured Faculty Member at the Nov. 4 Cougar football game against Stanford University.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Honor/Award
History
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Aaron Whelchel, instructor and academic advisor, history, WSU Vancouver, was recognized as a WSU Provost’s Featured Faculty Member at the Oct. 21 Cougar football game against University of Colorado.
Physics and Astronomy
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Tom Busch, fiscal analyst, physics and astronomy, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for October 2017.
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.
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.
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.”
Environment
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Stephen Powers, postdoctoral research associate, environment, received the Gene E. Likens Award from the Ecological Society of America for outstanding publication by a junior scientist in the biogeosciences in recognition of his paper “Long-term accumulation and transport of anthropogenic phosphorus in three river basins” in Nature Geoscience.
Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
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Travis Ridout, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, won the Jack L. Walker, Jr. Outstanding Article Award in the Organized Section on Political Organizations and Parties for his coauthored article “Loose Cannons or Loyal Foot Soldiers: Toward a More Complex Theory of Interest Group Advertising Strategies” in American Journal of Political Science .