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CAS Connect October 2015

Honors and Achievements

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Gandin
Gandin
Boyd
Boyd

Ryan Boyd and Anthony Gandin, doctoral candidates, and Asaph Cousins, assistant professor, biological sciences, coauthoredTemperature response of C4 photosynthesis: Biochemical analysis of Rubisco, Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and Carbonic Anhydrase in Setaria viridis” in Plant Physiology.

Craig Parks
Parks
Leonard Burns
Burns

Leonard Burns and Craig Parks, professors, psychology, coauthored “An application of analyzing the trajectories of two disorders: A parallel piecewise growth model of substance use and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

kimberly-burwick_88x106“Custody of the Eyes,” a poetry manuscript by Kim Burwick, instructor, English, was named runner-up for the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series.

Matt CarrollMatthew Carroll, professor, environment, coauthored “Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance” in Ecology and Society.

Michael DelahoydeMichael Delahoyde, clinical professor, English, made an archival discovery in northern Italy concerning the Earl of Oxford (and his “using the pen-name ’Shake-speare’”) which he presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship conference in Ashland, Ore., where he also presented on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.

Ebrahim GharashiSeved Ebrahim Gharashi, doctoral candidate, physics and astronomy, coauthored “Tunneling dynamics of two interacting one-dimensional particles” in Physical Review.

Jesse Brunner
Brunner
Erica Crespi
Crespi
Emily Hall
Hall
Caren Goldberg
Goldberg

Caren Goldberg, assistant professor, environment, with Emily Hall, doctoral candidate, and Erica Crespi and Jesse Brunner, assistant professors, biological sciences, coauthoredEvaluating environmental DNA-based quantification of ranavirus infection in wood frog populations” in Molecular Ecology Resources.

Keri McCarthy
McCarthy
Ryan Hare
Hare

Ryan Hare and Keri McCarthy, associate professors, music, were featured performers at the conference of the International Double Reed Society in Tokyo.

Bobbi JohnsonBobbi Johnson, doctoral candidate, biological sciences, was awarded the Best Student Paper for her presentation at the annual meeting for the American Fisheries Society in Portland, Ore.

Michael JohnsonMichael Johnson Jr., instructor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored the chapter “Pedagogical Success and Racial Pulchritude: Teaching While Ugly” in On the Politics of Ugliness (Palgrave Macmillan). Johnson also authored “The Promise and Perils of UltraViolet Technology” in The Journal of New Media & Culture; and he received a Lifetime Honorary Membership in Gamma Iota Omicron fraternity at WSU.

Craig Hemmens
Hemmens
Michael Klein
Klein

Michael Klein and Brandon Bang, graduate students, with Craig Hemmens, professor and chair, criminal justice and criminology, coauthored “Mr. State Trooper, Please Don’t Stop Me: The Supreme Court Gets It Wrong in Navarette v. California” in Criminal Law Bulletin. Klein and Hemmens also coauthored “Criminal Justice Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, 2013 Term” in Criminal Justice Review.

Julie KmecJulie Kmec, professor, sociology, and Edward R. Myer Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts, was appointed section editor of Sociology Compass. Her article “The ‘State’ of Equal Employment Opportunity Law and Managerial Gender Diversity” was among 10 finalists for the 2015 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

Alair MacLeanAlair MacLean, associate professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver, began serving on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions.

Mary Stohr
Stohr
Xiaohan Mei
Mei

Xiaohan Mei, graduate student, Mary Stohr, professor, and Craig Hemmens, professor and chair, criminal justice and criminology, coauthored, with colleague J. Yoo, “Rapists’ Parental Rights: Adding Insult to Injury” in Criminal Law Bulletin.

Amber MorczekAmber Morczek, graduate student, criminal justice and criminology, authored “Pornography: The Mass Production of Sexual Violence” in Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly.

Michael MyersMichael Myers, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, authored The Pacific War and Contingent Victory (University Press of Kansas). He also authored “Monotheism, Nondualism and Henotheism: A Reply to Ramakrishna Puligandla” in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, and presented “The Thesis of Japan’s Inevitable Defeat: Tracing the Roots” at the Society for Military History’s annual meeting in Montgomery, Ala.

Clare Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Pavithra Narayanan
Narayanan

A coauthored essay by Pavithra Narayanan, associate professor, English, WSU Vancouver, and Clare Wilkinson, associate professor, anthropology, WSU Vancouver, “Urban Dreams: Sudhir Mishra’s representations of social and political change,” is to be published in the forthcoming Contemporary Bollywood Directors (Sage Publications).

Ken NashKenneth Nash, professor, chemistry, coauthored “The effect of alkyl substituents on actinide and lanthanide extraction by diglycolamide compounds” in Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange.

Chung-Min ParkChung-Min Park, assistant research professor, chemistry, coauthored “SIRT3 mediates the anti-oxidant effect of hydrogen sulfide in endothelial cells” in Antioxidants & Redox Signaling.

Caitlyn PlacekCaitlyn Placek, graduate student, anthropology, coauthored “Fetal protection: The roles of social learning and innate food aversions in South India” in Human Nature.

Brian PloegerBrian Ploeger, graduate student, music, won Down Beat magazine’s 2015 award for Outstanding College Soloist on Trumpet/Flugelhorn.

Ellen PreeceEllen Preece, doctoral candidate, environment, coauthored “Cyanotoxin bioaccumulation in freshwater fish, Washington State, USA” in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Luke PremoJoshua Premo, doctoral candidate, biological sciences, coauthored “Computational modeling of teaching and learning through application of evolutionary algorithms” in Computation.

Linda RussoLinda Russo, clinical associate professor, English, authored a featured commentary “Emplaced, and Local To” in Jacket2 poems in Leaf Litter and E-Ratio.

Maureen Schmitter-EdgecombeMaureen Schmitter-Edgecombe, professor, psychology, coauthored “Automated Detection of Activity Transitions for Prompting” in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

Guy Worthey
Worthey
Baitan Tang
Tang

Baitian Tang, research assistant, and Guy Worthey, associate professor, physics and astronomy, coauthored “On disentangling IMF degeneracies in integrated light” in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Andrea Walker
Walker

Andrea Walker, doctoral student, Mary Stohr, professor, and Craig Hemmens, professor and chair, criminal justice and criminology, coauthored “The Consequences of Official Labels: An Examination of the Rights Lost by the Mentally Ill and Mentally Incompetent Since 1989” in Community Mental Health Journal.

Brian WardBrian Ward, instructor of piano, music, released Palouse Skies, a new album produced by WSU Recordings.

Roger WhitsonRoger Whitson, assistant professor, English, delivered an invited talk in the Humanities Speaker Series at Drury University in Springfield, Mo. He delivered another at Union College in Schenectady, NY, in a celebration of the college’s new makerspace.

Zach Hamilton
Hamilton
Faith Lutze
Lutze
Youngki Woo
Woo

Youngki Woo, graduate student, Mary Stohr and Faith Lutze, professors, Zachary Hamilton, associate professor, Craig Hemmens, professor and chair, criminal justice and criminology, coauthored, with colleague O.K. Yoon, “An Empirical Test of the Social Support Paradigm on Male Inmate Society” in International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice; and “An Empirical Test of the Social Support Paradigm on Male Inmate Society” in Criminal Law Bulletin.