Mathematics and Statistics
adrianaMark Lesperance, instructor, mathematics and statistics, received a certificate of appreciation from the WSU Access Center in appreciation of his dedication to equal access and opportunity.
Mark Lesperance, instructor, mathematics and statistics, received a certificate of appreciation from the WSU Access Center in appreciation of his dedication to equal access and opportunity.
Peter Christenson, assistant professor, fine arts, WSU Tri-Cities, received the Governor’s Arts & Heritage Young Arts Leader Award from the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA).
Jeannette Mageo, professor, anthropology, co-edited Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: in Time, in Travel, and in Ritual Reconfigurations in the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania’s monograph series (Berghahn Press). She authored “Nightmares, Abjection, and American Not-quite Identities” to appear in Dreaming, published by the American Psychological Association. Mageo also was elected chair of the WSU Faculty Senate for AY 2018-19, and now serves as chair-elect.
Don Dillman, Regents professor, sociology, presented the president’s invited address, “The Challenge of Creating Data Collection Methods That Are Neither Too Far Ahead Nor Behind Our Survey Respondents,” at the Statistical Society of Canada’s annual conference in Winnipeg. He also presented the keynote address, “The Worldwide Challenge of Pushing Respondents to the Web in Mixed-Mode Surveys,” at the 28th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Dillman and five recent sociology doctoral graduates, Michelle Edwards Neilson ’13, Morgan M. Millar ’12, Benjamin Messer ’11, Leah Melani Christian ’07, and Jolene D. Smyth ’07, received the 2017 American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for development of a new data collection methodology.
Mitchell Friend, doctoral candidate, chemistry, won first place in the open competition category of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards for his paper “Hafnium(IV) complexation with oxalate at variable temperatures,” originally published in the journal Radiochimica Acta.
Julie Kmec, professor, and Sarah Morton, PhD candidate, sociology, co-authored “Risk-taking in the Academic Dual-Hiring Process: How Risk Shapes Later Work Experiences” in Journal of Risk Research. Kmec also recently delivered the 2017 WSU Convocation address.
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.