Faculty Accomplishments (page 6)


November 14, 2022

Sarah Marzen – Physics

Professor Sarah Marzen gave the talk, “How well do neurons, humans, and artificial neural networks predict?” at the following 3 locations. • MITRE Tech Talk, October 2022 • INC Seminar […]

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Seo Young Park – Anthropology

Professor Seo Young Park’s monograph, Stitching the 24-Hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul (Cornell University Press, 2021), has received an Honorable Mention for the 2022 […]

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Katie Purvis Roberts – Chemistry and Environmental Science

Professor Katie Purvis Roberts co-authored the following publication: “Environmental and economic performance assessment of integrated conventional solar photovoltaic and agrophotovoltaic systems,” Junedi, M.M., Ludin, N.A., Hamid, N.H., Purvis-Roberts, K.L., Hasila, […]

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Carlin Wing – Media Studies

Professor Carlin Wing coedited the book, EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game, eds. Raiford Guins, Henry Lowood, and Carlin Wing. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022

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October 17, 2022

Suchi Branfman – Dance

Professor Branfman contributed the following accomplishments: June 4 – Premiere live performance – DATA or 7 ways to make a dance through prison walls Grand Performances, Los Angeles, CA – […]

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October 14, 2022

David Cubek – Music

Professor Cubek conducted concerts with Fonema Consort in Minneapolis-Saint Paul in May as part of a residency organized by the 113 Composers Collective. In June, he guest-conducted the Peninsula Symphony […]

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

Professor Myriam J.A. Chancy has published the following: Book: Paperback Edition of What Storm, What Thunder, Portland, Oregon: Tin House, August 23, 2022. Published Creative Writing: “Loko (aka Loco, aka, […]

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Lara Deeb – Anthropology

Professor Lara Deeb’s co-edited volume, Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press this fall. She also has a chapter in the volume, titled […]

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Cindy Forster – History

Professor Forster turned pieces of book manuscripts into two articles: https://resumen-english.org/2022/07/afro-colombia-and-the-elections-of-2018-keys-to-what-the-future-holds/ https://jacobin.com/2022/07/bolivia-coup-anez-trial-violence-mas She was also asked to prepare presentations that are conversational for university youth on topics that she is […]

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Cándida Jáquez – Music

Professor Jáquez was appointed Visiting Scholar/Artist Indiana University at Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music, Latin American Music Center.

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Aaron Leconte – Chemistry

Professor Leconte and his research group published the article: “Mutant polymerases capable of 2’ fluoro-modified nucleic acid synthesis and amplification with improved accuracy” in Royal Society of Chemistry – Chemical Biology. […]

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Nancy Macko – Mary W. Johnson Professorship in Teaching

Professor Nancy Macko’s work The Fragile Bee was exhibited at the Chan Gallery at the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts in Gadsden, AL June 3 – August 13, […]

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Sarah Marzen – Physics

Professor Marzen received the following award: Award Number (FAIN): 2208879 Managing Division Abbreviation: IIS Award Instrument: Standard Grant Award Date: 08/08/2022 Award Period of Performance: Start Date: 08/15/2022 End Date: […]

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Donald A. McFarlane – Kenneth S. Pitzer Professor of Biology and Environmental Science

Professor McFarlane published in June: Norman J., Wheaton J., and McFarlane D.A. 2022. Blasting for rescue applications. Journal of Explosives Engineering, 39(4): 28-35. He attended the 18th International Congress of […]

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Heidi Rhodes – Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Politics

Professor Rhodes curated the statement / short essay “Crip Grammars and the Fullness of ‘Silence’” for Zoeglossia’s Poem-of-the-Week Series with the community. http://www.zoeglossia.org/curatorial-statement-by-heidi-andrea-rhodes

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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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