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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
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).
Monica Stephens
Geography
Geography faculty member Monica Stephens' "Geography of Hate" map was recently named to Gizmodo's "Best Data Visualizations of 2013" list. Stephens' students mapped tweets across the United States that contained slurs against gays, the disabled and minorities. For the Gizmodo article, click here: http://gizmodo.com/the-best-data-visualizations-of-2013-1485611407.
Dr. Daniela Mineva
Music
Music Faculty Daniela Mineva performed a series of solo piano recitals in Germany and Bulgaria in November. The concert tour was part of a project between the European Union and the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture.
Dr. Nikola Hobbel
English
Nikola Hobbel was invited by the NCTE/National Council of Teachers of English Standing Committee on Research to present her latest work in Boston, MA on Nov. 24, 2013. Dr. Hobbel's paper, "Professional Teachers and the Practice of Freedom: The Paradox of Teacher Education Policy in the Neoliberal Era" addresses the impacts and inequalities inherent in high-stakes testing and the Common Core standards policy.