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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Dr. Daniela Mineva, Dr. Cindy Moyer, Dr. Gil Cline, Prof. Viriginia Ryder, Prof. Karen Davy
Music
Music Faculty Dr. Cindy Moyer, Dr. Gilbert Cline, Dr. Daniela Mineva, Prof. Virginia Ryder and Prof. Karen Davy performed a chamber music concert on Saturday February 15, 2014 at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The concert was part of the "HSU Music Department at Morris Graves Museum" concert series in collaboration with the Humboldt Arts Council.
Daniela Mineva
Music
Music professor Daniela Mineva was invited to perform at the Roosevelt University, Chicago, on February 1, 2014. The piano concert celebrated the legacy of the legendary American pianist and pedagogue Ursula Oppens.
Gil Cline
Music
Music professor Gil Cline was recently featured in "Trumpet Greats: a Biographical Dictionary," a biographical dictionary of about 2,000 famous trumpeters since 1600. Cline directs the Humboldt Bay Brass Band and teaches trumpet, horn and music history at HSU. In addition to Cline, notable names in the book included jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and Wynton Marsalis, cornet soloists Jean-Baptiste Arban and Herbert L. Clarke and baroque trumpeters Girolamo Fantini, Gottfried Reiche, and John Shore.
Paul Cummings
Music
Music professor Paul Cummings presented a session at the annual conference of the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) in Fort Worth, Texas, on January 24, 2014. The presentation by Cummings, who conducts HSU's Humboldt Symphony and Symphonic Band, focused on recruitment and repertoire selection for college orchestras. Professor Cummings is currently serving as president of CODA's Western Division. More information on CODA and their recent conference may be found here: http://codaweb.org/
Michal S. Bruner, Laura K.Hahn, Nicole B. Sheldon
Communication
Communication professors Michael Bruner, Laura Hahn and student Nicole Sheldon authored "The Petition Cause and Food Advocacy." The essay will be published in the journal, "First Amendment Studies."
J.W. Powell
Philosophy
Philosophy professor J.W. Powell authored the Jan. 24 "Atlantic" article "The Tyranny of the College Major," looking at why colleges should require students to take more courses out of their discipline. Powell encourages higher education to re-examine and strengthen the Bachelor's Degree with General Education. For the article, click here: http://bit.ly/1hSrJec.
Armeda Reitzel
Communication
Armeda Reitzel, Professor of Communication, has been chosen to participate in the National Communication Association's Student Learning Outcomes in Communication Project. The goals of the project are to productively support curriculum planning and improvement within the Communication discipline, and to help position Communication centrally in institutions’ general education curriculum development efforts. The project is funded by a grant that the National Communication Association received from the Lumina Foundation.
Mark Baker
Politics
Mark Baker, faculty member in the Politics Department, had an article titled, “An Analysis of the Socio-Ecological Effects of Small-Scale Hydropower Development in Himachal Pradesh,” accepted for publication by the journal Economic and Political Weekly. Economic and Political Weekly is an interdisciplinary journal based in Mumbai that publishes analyses of current affairs and social science research. Baker’s research on the socio-ecological effects of small hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh contributes to current debates about hydropower development in the Himalaya, which India’s Supreme Court had temporarily banned in the state of Uttarakhand due to environmental concerns.
Sarah Jaquette Ray
Geography
Geography professor Sarah Jaquette Ray has been invited to give a talk on her book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (University of Arizona Press, 2013) at UC Berkeley on February 24. The event is sponsored by UC Berkeley's Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, the Disability Studies, Diversity and Democracy, and Diversity and Health Disparities Research Clusters, and the Department of Rhetoric.
Matthew Derrick
Geography
Geography faculty member Matthew Derrick's book chapter, titled "Islam as a Source of Unity and Division in Eurasian," was recently published in the book Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection: From the South China to the Caspian Sea (Routledge, 2014).