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).
Claudia Leeb, assistant professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, authored The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence (Edinburgh University Press).
John Streamas, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “The Real War That Got Into the Movies: Eastwood and Spielberg in the Pacific” in The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives (University of New Mexico Press). Streamas also authored the poem “My Blue Whale” in the Inflatable Celebration exhibit at Third Street Art Gallery in Moscow, Idaho.
David Wollkind, professor emeritus, and Bonni J. Dichone (PhD ’11), mathematics and statistics, coauthored Comprehensive Applied Mathematical Modeling in the Natural and Engineering Sciences; Theoretical Predictions Compared with Data (Springer).
Courtney Meehan, associate professor, Edward Hagen, professor, Courtney Helfrecht, PhD ’17, and Jennifer Roulette, doctoral student, anthropology; and Shelley McGuire, professor, and Kimberly Lackey, doctoral student, biological sciences, coauthored with external colleagues “Social networks, cooperative breeding, and the human milk microbiome” in American Journal of Human Biology.
Shannon Tushingham, assistant professor, anthropology, coauthored “Storage defense: Expansive and intensive territorialism in hunter-gatherer delayed return economies” in Science Direct.
Katrina Leupp, assistant professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver, authored “Depression, Work and Family Roles, and the Gendered Life Course” in Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Jennifer Sherman, professor, sociology, authored “‘Not Allowed to Inherit My Kingdom’: Amenity Development and Social Inequality in the Rural West” in Rural Sociology; and “‘Stress I don’t Need’: Gender Expectations and Relationship Struggles amongst the Poor” in Journal of Marriage and Family. She also coedited Rural Poverty in the United States (Columbia University Press).
Don A. Dillman, Regents professor, sociology, coauthored “An Experimental Comparison of Web-push vs. Paper-only Survey Procedures for Conducting an In-Depth health Survey of Military Spouses” in BMC Medical Research Methodology; and “The promise and challenge of pushing respondents to the Web in mixed-mode surveys” in Survey Methodology, Statistics Canada.
Christine Horne, professor, and Emily Huddart Kennedy, assistant professor, sociology, coauthored “The Power of Social Norms for Reducing and Shifting Energy Use” in Energy Policy.
Horne coauthored three additional publications with other colleagues: “Toward a Sociology of Privacy” in Annual Review of Sociology; “Unequal Resilience: The Duration of Electricity Outages” in Energy Policy; and “Field of Visions: Inter-Organizational Challenges to the Smart Energy Transition in Washington State” in Brooklyn Law Review.
Kennedy also coauthored three additional publications with other colleagues: “Gendered citizenship and the individualization of environmental responsibility: Evaluating a campus common reading program” in Environmental Education Research; “Social change at the nexus of consumption and politics: A case study of eat-local movements” in Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society (Routledge); and “Small-p politics: How pleasurable, convivial, and pragmatic political ideals influence engagement in eat-local initiatives” in British Journal of Sociology (forthcoming).