Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Faculty Jenny Cappuccio Chemistry
Has been selected to join the Chemistry inter-institutional peer mentoring Alliance in the Northwest Regional Network, as part of the NSF ADVANCE Partnership ASCEND project (Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development). Her bio and photo will also be posted on the ASCEND website.https://wou.edu/ascend/
Submitted: February 14, 2020Faculty Claire Till Chemistry
Selected as Cottrell Scholar Award Recipient
https://rescorp.org/news/2020/02/rcsa-names-25-new-cottrell-scholars-for-2020
Submitted: February 11, 2020Student Gabriel Goff, Nicholas Kerhoulas, and Lucy Kerhoulas Forestry & Wildland Resources
Presented a talk at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: “Conifer encroachment and removal in a northern California woodland: Influences on ecosystem physiology and biodiversity.”
Submitted: February 11, 2020Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas, Ariel Weisgrau, Emily Hoeft, and Nicholas Kerhoulas Forestry & Wildland Resources
Presented a talk at the Ecological Society of America Conference in Louisville, KY: “Within-crown physiology of tall Picea sitchensis trees.”
Submitted: February 11, 2020Faculty Bori Mazzag, Sonja Manor, Liza Boyle and Ruth Saunders Mathematics
Humboldt sub-award of the NSF-Funded SUMMIT-P Consortium. SUMMIT-P is a consortium of institutions committed to curricular innovations in the first two years of mathematics to improve the training of students in partner disciplines. Boyle, Mazzag and Saunders attended a SUMMIT-P workshop in Denver, Colorado.
Submitted: February 11, 2020Faculty Abeer Hasan Mathematics
Presented a contributed paper at the Joint Math Meeting in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 15-18, 2020.
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Hunter Harrill Forestry & Wildland Resources
Gave a presentation “Winch-assisted Harvesting Systems: New Opportunities for Logging in California” and moderated the panel session on “Steep Slope Logging Technology” at the Associated California Loggers (ACL) annual conference in Reno, Nevada, Jan. 15-16, 2020.
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Bori Mazzag Mathematics
Contributed talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings “Corequisite courses and the STEM Pathway.”
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Abeer Hasan Mathematics
Was offered a CURM (Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics) grant for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Bori Mazzag Mathematics
Panel discussion/talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings “Advancing Mathematics Education at Scale” with co-authors Uri Treisman Dana Center, Julie Glass, CSU East Bay, Alana Unfried, CSU Monterey Bay, Michael O’Sullivan, San Diego State University
Submitted: February 10, 2020Student Kassandra Weber, Adam Turk, Emily Ord, Darian Karadjov, Frank Trombetta, Alyssa Johnson, Berlin Del Aguila Physics & Astronomy
Students presented a poster and three talks at the American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting held at Stanford University on research being done in the Gravitational Research Laboratory.
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/FWS19/Session/E04
Submitted: February 6, 2020Student Sean Stewart (undergraduate) and Allison Nunes (graduate student) Environmental Science & Management
Sean and Allison each received travel awards from the Northern Califronia Botanists to attend the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Submitted: February 6, 2020Faculty Harold Zald and Kerry Byrne Forestry & Wildland Resources
Zald (PI) and Byrne (co-PI)‘s awarded $87,100 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal “Quantification and mitigation of large pine mortality after prescribed burning in a drought altered Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, California, USA.”
Submitted: February 6, 2020Student Sean Stewart Environmental Science & Management
Presented a poster (with faculty Kerry Byrne) “The Impact of invasion and removal of Lupinus arboreus on seedbanks in coastal sand dune environments” at the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Submitted: February 6, 2020Faculty Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy Biological Sciences
Received a Bureau of Land Management CESU Award to study the impact of newt predation on endangered California Red-legged frogs.
Submitted: February 6, 2020Faculty Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy Biological Sciences
Received a research grant from Save the Redwoods League to study the genetic diversity and abundance of Southern Torrent Salamanders in Redwood State and National Parks.
Submitted: February 6, 2020Faculty Laura Levy Geology
Received a Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Program (RSCA) grant for $4980 to purchase equipment for her new Paleoclimate Lab.
Submitted: February 6, 2020Faculty Buddhika Madurapperuma Environmental Science & Management
Presented at SEUIARS2019 conference titled: Mapping and change detection of mangroves along the coastline of Ampara district from 2004 to 2019.
http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4136
Submitted: February 6, 2020Faculty Kamila Larripa Mathematics
Was selected for participation in a summer research program for women hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. MSRI is widely regarded as a world leading mathematical center for collaborative research and is supported by the NSF.
Submitted: January 24, 2020Faculty Peter Goetz Mathematics
Presented an invited talk titled: Graded coherence and noncommutative geometry of certain twisted tensor products in the Special Session on Homological Methods in Algebra at University of Florida for the Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society.
Submitted: January 22, 2020