Faculty Accomplishments
Rita Cano Alcalá – Chicanx-Latinx Studies
Professor Alcalá has the following monograph coming out in the Spring of 2022 from the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature: “La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and La Llorona: The Recuperation of Divine Supernatural Powers in Late 20th-Century Chicana Literature.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015–. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.355
Read MoreGabriela Bacsán – Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Professor Bacsán received a Graves Award in the Humanities. The Arnold L. Graves and Lois S. Graves Awards encourage and reward “outstanding accomplishment in actual teaching in the humanities by younger faculty members.” These grants are offered biannually and seek to recognize “unusual skill and enthusiasm” in teaching as well as scholarly merit.
Read MoreSuchi Branfman – Dance
Professor Branfman participated in the below presentations and film screenings for her film Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic: • December 3, 2021: Freedom Fridays, Oakland, CA • January 15, 2022: Beyond the Bars Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA • February 22, 2022: New York University, NYC, NY • March 25, 2022: Dance […]
Read MoreSarah Budischak – Biology
Professor Budischak co-wrote the publication, Genomic heterozygosity is associated with parasite abundance, but the effects are not mediated by host condition. S.A. Budischak, S. Halvorsen, F. Finseth. 2022. Evolutionary Ecology. https://doi-org.ccl.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s10682-022-10175-8
Read MoreBethany Caulkins – Chemistry
Professor Caulkins published the paper below in January 2022: Holmes, J. B.; Liu, V.; Caulkins, B. G.; Hilario, E.; Ghosh, R. K.; Drago, V. N.; Young, R. P.; Romero, J. A.; Gill, A. D.; Bogie, P. M.; Paulino, J.; Wang, X.; Riviere, G.; Bosken, Y. K.; Struppe, J.; Hassan, A.; Guidoulianov, J.; Perrone, B.; Menink-Vigier, […]
Read MoreDavid Cubek – Music, Director of the Claremont Concert Orchestra
In April 13-17, Professor David Cubek led Fonema Consort during a residency at the University of Chicago where four new works by graduate composition students were premiered.
Read MoreFindley Finseth – Genomics
Professor Finseth published the two papers below: Supergene potential of a selfish centromere. FR Finseth, K brown, A Demaree, L Fishman. Accepted at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Genomic heterozygosity is associated with parasite abundance, but the effects are not mediated by host condition. S.A. Budischak, S. Halvorsen, F. Finseth. 2022. Evolutionary Ecology. […]
Read MoreKen Gonzales-Day – Art, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art
Gonzales-Day’s work was featured in a solo exhibition entitled, “Ken Gonzales-Day: Another Land,” at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Jan 8 – Feb 19, and in several group exhibitions. Including, “A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence,” Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Jan 26 -Jul 10; “Africa Imagined: Reflections on Modern and […]
Read MoreHao Huang – Music, Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music
Below is a list of Professor Huang’s accomplishments by month: December 2021- • NEA Music grant award for “From the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre to Contemporary Asian American Experiences”. The performance event employs the LA Chinatown massacre as an entry point into the rich, sometimes tragic Asian American experience in California. The USC Pacific […]
Read MoreNancy Macko – Art, Mary W. Johnson Professorship in Teaching
Professor Macko’s work, The Fragile Bee (I and II) was exhibited at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA from January 25 through April 28, 2022. She was a guest speaker for the opening reception of The Fragile Bee at the Phillips Museum of Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAn6RHJWEz8 The Phillips Museum […]
Read MoreSarah Marzen – Physics
Professor Marzen had the below article and journal published: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/1/90 https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/spora/vol8/iss1/1/ She has had the acceptance of an article by PLoS One below: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.26.354928v1
Read MoreKatie Purvis Roberts – Chemistry and Environmental Science
Professor Purvis Roberts has received the grant below: • PI on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Grant (March 2022-April 2023) Workshop on Furthering University Collaboration to Support Data Gathering and Analysis in Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Energy Resiliency in collaboration with the APEC Energy Working Group/Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy Technologies/Expert Group on […]
Read MoreNathalie Rachlin – French, Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages
Professor Nathalie Rachlin gave a talk entitled, “Qui nous? Alice Diop’s Nous (2021),” at the 20th and 21st Century International Colloquium in French and Francophone Studies, March 24-27, 2022, University of Pittsburg, (Pittsburg, PA.)
Read MoreLars Schmitz – Biology
Professor Schmitz published the paper, SANDER*, P.M., GRIEBELER*, E.-M., KLEIN, N., VELEZ JUARBE, J., WINTRICH, T., REVELL, L.J., & L. SCHMITZ*. 2021. Early giant reveals faster evolution of large size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans. Science 374 (6575): eabf5787.
Read MoreDiane Thomson – Biology and Environmental Science
Professor Thomson published the work: • Thomson, D.M.+, A. Kathryn McEachern, Emily L. Schultz**, Kenneth Niessen, Katherine A. Chess, Lauren F. Cole*, Jennifer D. Phillips*, Ruth Y. Oliver*, and Acadia Tucker*. 2022. Diverse native island flora shows rapid passive recovery after exotic herbivore removal on Santa Rosa Island, California. Biological Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02735-4
Read MoreAnna Wenzel – Chemistry
Professor Wenzel received the award, A. G. American Chemical Society Award for the Supervision of Undergraduate Research, Division of Organic Chemistry, 3/2022, $5,000
Read MoreKevin Williamson – Dance
Professor Williamson received news that his short film “SAFE AND SOUND” is an “official selection” of the 2022 LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival, adding to its recognition for “Excellence” by the LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival and “Best of” nominations for Phoenix Shorts and San Francisco Indie Short Festival.
Read MoreSuchi Branfman – Dance
Professor Branfman taught the lecture, “Dancing Through Prison Walls” at USC Annenberg School, in Los Angeles, California. – September 29, 2021. Her film “Angee’s Journey” held a premiere screening and filmmaker discussion at the Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, Washington. – October 7, 2021. Professor Branfman’s film “Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a […]
Read MoreRoswitha Burwick-German
Professor Burwick published Sigismunde Uhtke: Der weibliche Eremitenblick auf das Theater der Welt. Edition und Kommentar von Roswitha Burwick. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2021. It’s a small volume about a Silesian woman who wrote really interesting pedagogical texts and poetry at the end of the 18th century. She has been unknown and will be a great […]
Read MoreMyriam J.A. Chancy-Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities
Professor Chancy published the novel, What Storm, What Thunder, which has received the below praise: • People Magazine named What Storm, What Thunder a Best Book of the Week, October 18th • Bustle named the book a Best Book of the Week and also a Most Anticipated Book of October, October 4th • NPR on-line […]
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