Achievements

Levi Mogg

History

Student Levi Mogg is the 2011 recipient of the Johnston-Aronoff Award. The Johnston-Aronoff Award is given each year to an outstanding student from Humboldt County who is pursuing a career in teaching history at the K-12 level. The award was established by Guy Aronoff, a professor in the HSU History Department, and his wife, Judy Johnston, in memory of Guy’s father, David Aronoff, and Judy’s mother, Aldy Johnston. Both were lifelong learners, and while neither were native Californians, they both very much loved California as their adopted home.

Matthew Herrera and Monica Mays

History

Students Matthew Herrera and Monica Mays won first and second place, respectively, in the 2011 Charles R. Barnum History Contest. The Charles R. Barnum History Awards celebrate original historical research of Humboldt County. The awards were established in 1952 by a grant from Charles Barnum, a realtor and insurance broker in Eureka who was a member of the Humboldt State College Advisory Board from 1946 to his death in 1953. Up to $2,500 in prize money is distributed each year.

Yang Yang

Geography

Yang Yang, a Geography and International Studies major at Humboldt State University, has won the $250 “Outstanding Student Paper” award from the Ethnic Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers in 2011. Yang has also presented this paper at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle on April 15th, 2011, and has received the award as an invited guest at the awards Luncheon. Yang will be pursuing her Master in the Human Geography Research program at the London School of Economics and Political Science this fall.

Sara Wilmot

Journalism & Mass Communication

The Lumberjack Newspaper took second place for General Excellence in the California Newspaper Publishers Association 2010 Better Newspaper Contest at a ceremony in Los Angeles on April 16. It came in second in the state, in the university category, to The Daily Bruin at UCLA. The contest was judged on three consecutive issues of the newspaper produced by a team of students led by graduating journalism major Sara Wilmot. The Lumberjack Newspaper is produced as part of JMC 327: The Newspaper Laboratory at Humboldt State.

John W. Powell

Philosophy

John W. Powell, Philosophy, will have his article, "Conceptual and Other Problems with Outcomes Assessment," appear in the American Association of University Professors May 2011 Journal of Academic Freedom.

He will also present to the East-West Philosophy Center conference, held every five years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, on the topic "Theory as Authority," May 18th.

Ashley Randall and Ezra Hayman

Communication

Ashley Randall and Ezra Hayman presented research papers at the 3rd Annual Bay Area Undergraduate Communication Research Conference at San Jose State University. Randall's paper was a neo-Aristotelian rhetorical criticism of Harvey Milk's 19789 "Hope" speech, and Hayman's was an ideological rhetorical criticism of identity construction on Facebook user profiles. Both of them began their research for a Communication Research methods class in Fall 2010.

Jean O'Hara

Dance, Music & Theatre

In June, O’Hara will direct an indigenous spoken word performance at the Alainait Festival in Canadian Arctic, specifically in Iqaluit, Nanuvut. She will also be presenting the paper "Performing Borderlands: Agokwe's Investigations of Post-Colonial Impacts on Aboriginal Communities" at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in August. She will also be presenting on the panel "Buddies in Bad Times Redefines Queer Theatre in Canada" at this same conference.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner and Mr. Jason D. Meek

Communication

Bruner & Meek are happy to report that their book chapter, "A Critical Crisis Rhetoric of Seafood," appears in Janet Cramer, Ed., "Food as Communication" (Peter Lang: New
York and Bern, February 2011), pp. 271-295.

Dr. Marisol Cortes Rincon; Sarah Nicole Boudreaux ; Robert Gustas ; and Jeff Bryant

Anthropology

Dr. Marisol Cortes Rincon presented on her research at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) on April 1st, 2011. Her paper is titled “Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Settlement Survey Project: Preliminary Findings.” The research is based on her archaeological work in Belize, Central America.

Additionally, three of her students also presented at the SAAs: Sarah Nicole Boudreaux – (University of Texas at Austin) “Overview of Settlement Survey Studies at Programme for Belize Archaeological Project (PfBAP)”; Robert Gustas (HSU) “Peoples of Humboldt County – A Cultural Center”; and Jeff Bryant (HSU-CRF) “Spatial Visualization: Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Settlement Survey.”

May Patino and Graeson Harris-Young

Anthropology

May Patino and Graeson Harris-Young will present their research on mona monkeys at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' conference in Minnesota in April 2011. Their paper is titled “Comparison of Boom Calls in Cercopithecus mona in Benin and Grenada”. This research is based on vocal analyses done in the Biological Anthropology Research Laboratory with Professor Mary Glenn. May and Grae also plan to submit this paper for publication in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.