Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Kendra Gage (History) will receive a scholarship from the Southwest Region of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) this month during a ceremony at the history department. Gage, a doctoral student studying American history, has written "The Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement in California's Delta, 1940-1988." It…
Lorena Pike (World Languages and Cultures) presented two workshops, "Spanish Translation of Business Contracts" and "Adoption & Foster Care: A Vocabulary Workshop," during the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators annual conference in Las Vegas in May. She also held duties at the conference as a member of the…
Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been invited to speak at the Sun Yatsen University Conference on Chinese Workers in Guangzhou (Canton), China, in September; to the Stanford University Conference on Chinese Railroad Workers in October; and to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, in November.
Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Valarie Burke (Vice Provost Academic Affairs), Stacy Shapin (Fine Arts), Kristie Berthelotte (Fine Arts), Heather Hatch (Academic Success Center), Chris Parker (Engineering), Sal Mora (Academic Success Center), David Belt (Sciences), and Michael Biesiada (Business) made presentations at the annual NACADA (National…
Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) will give a talk, "The Galileo Affair: Facts and Issues, Then and Now," at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 6. Finocchiaro, MIT '64, will participate in the "Class Speaker Program," which is part of the 50th reunion of the MIT class of 1964.
Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Janet Hollinger (Academic Affairs), Eric Lee (Academic Affairs), and Cheyenne Rogers (Education) received four of the nine Region 9 Academic Advising Awards given at the annual NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Region 9 conference held at the University of California, Berkeley. Johnson received the…
Deidre Clemente (History) has written a book, Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014), a lively history of fashion on American college campuses. Whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool. The modern casual American…
Bradley Davey (World Languages and Cultures) received one of just 20 nationwide Fulbright Teaching Awards to teach during 2014-15 in Frankfurt, Germany. The German major, who will receive his bachelor of arts degree this month, studied and taught from fall 2011 to fall 2012 in L?neburg, Germany. Now he will be assigned to a school where he will…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science) has been awarded a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study implicit bias in the evaluation of public officials. The project hypothesizes that implicit bias could shape the evaluation of judges in judicial performance evaluations. Implicit bias mobilizes people's images of who should be…
Donald Revell (English) has been chosen as this year's Phi Beta Kappa Poet for the annual Literary Exercises at Harvard University's commencement. Poets so honored in the past include Robert Creely, Allen Ginsburg, and Seamus Heany. Revell currently is writing a poem specifically for the occasion. Its over-arching theme will be the reason of…
Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been working on the Stanford University Chinese Railroad Workers Project and recently attended a workshop at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, where she presented a paper on Chinese railroad workers in Nevada. She also attended their anthropology workshop, where she headed a panel and commented on papers on…
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is doing work on the effects of computer-mediated communication that is being recognized increasingly both nationally and internationally. He has been interviewed by Channel 8, FOX National News, Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Weekly, and CNet, and cited in the New York Times and the Pew Internet and American Life…