Achievements

Alison Holmes

Politics

Alison Holmes, Program Leader of International Studies, has been named a Visiting Scholar to the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands where she will work in the archive on European diplomacy.

Barbara Klessig

Anthropology

Master's student Barbara Klessig, and Dr. Isabella von Holstein with Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany will be co-chairing a round table discussion at this year’s EAA conference in Glasgow, Scotland. The session, titled “Integrating Textiles Studies into Mainstream Archaeology/Anthropology Curriculum” brings archaeologists, educators and researchers together to address the lack of textiles studies at the university level and how to better integrate them into the teaching of archaeology and anthropology at universities. Discussion will explore the teaching of textile studies, use of experimental archaeology & making textiles studies relevant.

Ivan de Soto, Paradise Martinez Graff

Geography

Students Ivan de Soto and Paradise Martinez Graff have been chosen to attend the California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education at Sonoma State on April 18-20, where they'll learn about the challenges and opportunities of pursuing grad school. They also received a competitive CAHSS research award to attend the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference in Idaho in June with ENST Program Leader Sarah Jaquette Ray, where they'll be participating in "Latin@ Environmentalisms: A Pedagogy Workshop." Ivan has also been elected co-director of CCAT.

John Meyer

Politics

Politics Professor John Meyer's book, "Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma," has been published by MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engaging-everyday

In the book, he argues that an environmental agenda that emerges from everyday concerns would resonate more deeply with ordinary citizens.He will be giving a talk based on the book as part of the Sustainable Futures speaker series, Thursday, April 9th, 5:30pm, BSS 166.

Manuel Orbegozo, Jefferson Posadas

Journalism & Mass Communication

The El Leñador student newspaper took three second place prizes at a competition of California student newspapers held by the California College Media Association. Student Manuel Orbegozo won for Best Features Photograph and Best Photo Series while Jefferson Posadas won for Best Infographic. El Leñador Editor Manuel Orbegozo accepted the awards at an awards banquet at the Sheraton Universal in Los Angeles Feb. 28.

Nicole Willared, Sebastian Hedberg, Manuel Orbegozo, Diover Duario, Israel LeFrak

Journalism & Mass Communication

The Lumberjack newspaper took top prizes at a competition of California student newspapers held by the California College Media Association. The Lumberjack staff beat out publications in all divisions for first place in Best Use of Social Media. It also took first place in the weekly division for Best News Series. The staff won second place for Best Special Issue for its coverage of last year’s Spring Break bus tragedy. Students Sebastian Hedberg and Manuel Orbegozo won third place for Best Photo Series and Best Features Photograph respectively. Finally, student Nicole Willared took an honorable mention for Best Feature story for her profile of Art Professor Don Anton.

Michael S. Bruner & Laura K. Hahn

Communication

Michael S. Bruner and Laura K. Hahn's article, "Irony and Food Politics" has been published in the journal, _Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies._ (Feb. 2015)

Alison Holmes

Politics

International Studies Program Leader Alison Holmes presented a paper to the national International Studies Association Conference in New Orleans entitled, "If Global States beget Global Diplomacy - what does statecraft without the state look like?" She was also elected member at large of the Diplomatic Studies Section Executive.

KRFH

Journalism & Mass Communication

For the second time since 2012, KRFH has been named College Radio Station of the Year by RadioFlag.
RadioFlag is a social media website for all college radio stations from not only around the country but around the world.
KRFH is fully student run, live & local. Student DJs offer diverse programming and innovative new programs such as Talx - a weekly public affairs talk show, live Play-by-Play Sports, and Local Mixx -a live show that showcases local club DJs while teaching students the art of club mixing.
For more on KRFH, visit http://www.krfh.net or listen live at 105.1 FM.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Sing C. Chew was the opening keynote speaker at the Conference on Post-Secondary Education for Sustainability in Asia held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore February 5-6, 2015. His lecture was entitled, My Quarter of a Century Researching and Teaching Environmental Sustainability: Lessons Learned from the Past for the Future.