Faculty Accomplishments (page 6)


October 14, 2022

Katie Purvis Roberts – Chemistry and Environmental Science

Professor Purvis Roberts published the following: Purvis-Roberts, K.L., and Spiro, T.G. editors, Bouvier-Brown, N., Fry, J., Gao, S., Mury, M. SOLVE: Problems in Environmental Science, 1st Edition. Herndon, VA: University […]

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Trang Tran – Art

Professor Tran’s work, Movements: Battles and Solidarity (acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2021) was exhibited at the USC Pacific Asia Museum from July 23 through […]

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Ethan Van Arnam – Chemistry

Professor Van Arnam published the following article: Hansen, K. A.*; Kim, R. R.*; Lawton, E. S.*; Tran, J.*; Lewis, S. K.*; Deol, A. S.*; and Van Arnam, E. B. Bacterial […]

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Rivka Weinberg – Philosophy

Professor Weinberg published “Replies to Critics” Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2022 2.  (Replies to Response papers to “Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have it, We Can’t Get it, and We Should Be Very, Very, Sad,” Journal of […]

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May 27, 2022

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 […]

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Gabriela 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 […]

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Suchi 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 • […]

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Sarah 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. […]

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Bethany 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. […]

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David 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.

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May 26, 2022

Findley 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. […]

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Ken 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, […]

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Hao 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”. […]

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Nancy 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 […]

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Sarah 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

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Katie 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 […]

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Nathalie 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 […]

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Lars 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 […]

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Diane 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 […]

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Anna 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

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