Music
adrianaKeri McCarthy, associate professor, music, released a solo CD Shadowplay.
Keri McCarthy, associate professor, music, released a solo CD Shadowplay.
Chris Dickey, clinical assistant professor, music, published a solo album Dulcet Voice via WSU Recordings. Karen Savage and Jeffrey Savage, professors, provided piano accompaniment.
Yi Gu, associate professor, physics and astronomy, authored “Phase-Defined van der Waals Schottky Junctions with Significantly Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties” in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Dene Grigar, director and professor, Creative Media and Digital Culture/English, WSU Vancouver, co-authored Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Digital Writing (MIT Press).
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, authored “De la Península Ibérica a la Península de los Balkanes: Descentramiento de la identidad nacional en ‘Gerreros’ de Daniel Calparsoro” (“From the Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans: Decentering National Identity in Daniel Calparsoro’s ‘Warriors'”) in Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura (International Journal of Humanistic Studies and Literature), Universidad de Puerto Rico at Humacao. She also authored “‘De jueves a domingo’, de Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, o ‘el viaje a ninguna parte’ de in país llamado Chile” (“Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s ‘From Thursday through Sunday’ or ‘The Journey to Nowhere’ of a Country Named Chile”) in Letras Hispanas, Texas State University.
Anna Plemons and Beth Buyserie, clinical assistant professors, and Patricia Freitag Ericsson, associate professor, English, coauthored the chapter “Retention, Critical Pedagogy, and Students as Agents: Eschewing the Deficit Model” in Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs (University Press of Colorado). The trio also will present “Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs: Supporting Student Success” at the National Conference on College Composition and Communication in Portland, Ore., in March.
Justin T. Denney, associate professor, sociology, and colleagues authored “Cancer Screening Utilization among U.S. Women: How Mammogram and Pap Test Use Varies Among Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women” in Population Research & Policy Review.
Matthew Sutton, professor, history, authored an essay in “Forum: Studying Religion in the Age of Trump” in Religion and American Culture’s (University of California Press).
Gregory Yasinitsky, Regents professor and director, music, authored Greg Yasinitsky’s Jazz Concerto for Piano and Orchestra to be premiered January 19 by the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra with soloist Willis Delony.
Shannon Scott, assistant professor, music, and her ensemble won third place in the 2016 American Prize in Chamber Music Performance for their CD Perennials, and released a new CD, Chimera, both via Albany Records.