Arts & Sciences honors faculty, staff, student excellence

DickinsonPULLMAN, Wash. – The College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University celebrated achievements in teaching, research, achievement and mentoring at its third annual Appreciation and Recognition Social on April 22.

Visit the college website for more information about their individual achievements and a photo gallery of the event.

Distinguished Faculty Award: J. Thomas Dickinson, Regents professor, physics and astronomy

Faculty career awards

Outstanding Career Achievement: Phil Marston, professor, physics and astronomy.

Mid-Career Achievement: Aurora Clark, associate professor, chemistry; Brian Kemp, associate professor, anthropology and biological sciences.

Early Career Achievement: Brian Clowers, assistant professor, chemistry.

Teaching and mentoring excellence

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Sue Dexheimer

Outstanding International Achievement: Peter Chilson, professor, English.

Lutz Memorial Teaching Award: Sue Dexheimer, associate professor, physics and astronomy.

Mullen Memorial Teaching Award: David Shier, associate professor, politics, philosophy and public affairs.

Graduate Teaching and Mentoring: Patricia Ericsson, associate professor, English.

Excellence in Teaching: Cao Weiguo, clinical associate professor, foreign languages and cultures; Nicholas Cerruti, senior instructor, physics and astronomy; Charles Weller, instructor, history.

Service to the university

Excellence in Professional Service: Paul Strand, associate professor, psychology.

Excellence in Institutional Service: Larry Hufford, professor and director, biological sciences.

Excellence in Peer Mentoring: Scot Wherland, professor, chemistry.

Staff awards

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Pam Black

Administrative Professional Excellence: Lori Bruce, principal assistant, chemistry; Rosanne Kenedy, administrative manager, music.

Civil Service Excellence: Pam Black, fiscal specialist II, biological sciences.

Advising Excellence: Doug Juneau, academic coordinator, CAS social sciences.

Doctoral candidate achievement

Humanities: Amanda Link, history. Her research explores the belated official recognition of WWI veterans in Ireland and the relationship between centralized state narratives and private memory and commemoration.

Sciences: Abbrey Monreal, chemistry. Co-author of four papers in his first two years of graduate training, he is pursuing the design, synthesis and characterization of peptides that could enhance targeted cancer therapies and improve the quality of life for patients.

Social Sciences: Ming-Li Hsieh, criminal justice and criminology. Her dissertation will examine discretionary sentencing practices for felony sex offenders, with the goal of establishing a baseline for risk assessment and associated guidelines for judges.

Master’s Student Achievement

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Alvin Delos Santos

Arts: Alvin Delos Santos, music. Blending a love of music with business experience, he is developing a bibliography of interdisciplinary curricular resources to strengthen arts entrepreneurship education.

Humanities: Sarah Schraeder, history. Originally from Germany, she is completing a case study of collective German memory during World War II with a focus on concentration camp memorials in her home region of Lower Saxony.

Social sciences: Cheyenne Foster, criminal justice and criminology. Her areas of interest encompass community corrections, qualitative methods and feminist theory, and her scholarship record includes a national conference presentation, a journal submission and co-authoring a book chapter.