Faculty Accomplishments (page 10)


October 23, 2020

Lahnna Catalino – Psychology

Professor Catalino was interviewed about her research on the Science of Happiness podcast Episode 56: How to Make Time for Happiness Keltner, D. (Host). (2020). How to make time for happiness. [Audio […]

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Myriam J. A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Professor Chancy published  the Spanish translation of Loneliness of Angels (A Novel). Tr. Mónica Del Valle. Bogóta, Colombia: LaSirén Press; August 2020. She published the academic book Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony […]

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Wendy Cheng – American Studies

Professor Cheng published: ·      The article “Landscapes of Beauty and Plunder: Japanese American Flower Growers and an Elite Public Garden in Suburban Los Angeles,” in Environment Planning D: Society and Space (Vol. 38, […]

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Melissa Coleman – Biology

Professor Coleman’s paper “D2 dopamine receptor activation induces female preference for male song in the monogamous zebra finch,” was short-listed at the Journal of Experimental Biologists for the Outstanding Paper […]

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Michelle Decker – English

Professor Decker published the following: ·      “Tatamkhulu Afrika, Queer Heroism, Triangulated Forms.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. (Published online June 8, 2020; print forthcoming); ·      “Mesochronous Marechera: African Aesthetics, Violence, and […]

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Christina Edholm – Mathematics

Professor Edhom received an AMS-Simons Travel Grant administered by the American Mathematical Society with support from the Simons Foundation, providing $2,500 per year for two years to be used for research-related […]

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Cindy Forster – History

Professor Forster published the following articles and interviews: ·      Bolivia. La unidad africana e indígena a través de fronteras: una entrevista con Pambana Bassett – Resumen Latinoamericano  Resumen Latinoamericano, 4 […]

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Martha Gonzalez – Chicanx-Latinx Studies

Professor Gonzalez published the book Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles, UT Austin Press, Summer 2020. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/gonzalez-chicana-artivistas   She was featured in a Los Angeles […]

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Anne Harley – Music

Professor Harley prepared the Crossroads Inside Out Choir to sing alongside members of the choirs of the Joint Music Program in True Witness: A Civil Rights Cantata (which she commissioned for Scripps in 2013), […]

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Hao Huang – Music, Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music

Professor Huang presented the following performances and talks: ·      “Strings & Sol” music conference, La Condesa Mexico City, MX, December 2019; ·      Visiting professor at the University of Belize Belmopan, BZ, where he performed […]

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Adam Landsberg – Physics

Professor Landsberg published the following: ·      “Modeling Cultural Dissemination and Divergence Between Rural and Urban Regions.” To appear: The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 2020  […]

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Aaron Leconte – Chemistry

Professor Leconte and six undergraduate co-authors (underlined) published the following research article in the journal Biochemistry:   A. S. Thompson, S. E. Barrett, A. G. Weiden, A. Venkatesh, M. K. C. Seto, S. Z. P. […]

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Julia Lum – Art History

Professor Lum published “Art in the Time of Captain Cook: A Conversation,” co-authored with Kailani Polzak (UC Santa Cruz) in the online open-access Journal18: a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture.   She […]

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Nancy Macko – Art, Mary W. Johnson Professorship in Teaching

Professor Macko participated in a  themed portfolio project, “Printshop Signage,” for the SGCI International Conference Puertográfico scheduled to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico but was canceled due to COVID-19.

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Leila Mansouri – English

Professor Mansouri published “Slave Narratives, Black Disenfranchisement, and the Electoral Limits of Black Freedom” in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 8.2 (Fall 2020) as part of a special forum on electoral politics.

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Sarah Marzen – Physics

Professor Marzen published the following articles: ·      “Prediction and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium Molecular Sensors: Conditionally Markovian Channels Driven by Memoryful Environments,” Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Volume 82, Article number: 25 (2020); https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-020-00694-2 ·      Uppal, V. […]

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Jane Mi – Media Studies

Professor Mi participated in the following exhibitions: A two-person exhibition with Torika Bolatagici, “The Future of Our Kids” at Te Uru Waitakere in Auckland, New Zealand, curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith; “Curated Projects” on […]

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John Milton – Biology, William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair in Computational Neuroscience

Professor Milton published the following: ·      G. Buza, J. Milton, L. Bencsik and T. Insperger (2020).  Establishing metrics and control laws for the learning process: ball and beam balancing.  Biological […]

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Katie Purvis-Roberts – Chemistry

Professor Purvis-Roberts co-authored a textbook:   Fahlman, B.D., Purvis-Roberts, K.L., Kirk, J.S., Daubenmire, P.L., Kelly, R., Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, 10th Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, February 2020.  

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Nathalie Rachlin – French, Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages

Professor Rachlin was invited to give a conference presentation on March 11, 2020 at the Columbia University Global Studies Center at Reid Hall, Paris, France. The talk was entiled “Gesturing […]

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