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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Janelle Adsit
English
Janelle Adsit chaired a panel at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference on "Teaching Translation to Monolingual Students."
JoAnne Berke
Art + Film
JoAnne Berke just returned from a week long teacher training intensive in Beijing, China. She was invited by the America and China International Exchange Foundation to teach the US methods and the National Standards in Art Education to middle and high school teachers.
Michael S. Bruner, Brittany Stuckey
Communication
Michael S. Bruner, Professor, Communication, and Brittany N. Stuckey, 2014 CAHSS Research Fellow, published their article, "The World Will Little Note: Vice President Joe Biden's 2012 Speech at the Flight 93 National Memorial," in the Pennsylvania Communication Annual (Vol. 71, 2015). The article is dedicated to Richard Guadagno, former Refuge Manager at the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, who died on Flight 93.
Heal McKnight
English
A piece of writing by Heal McKnight was selected as a Notable Essay by Robert Atwan, the editor of the Best American Essays series. The essay "Traffic" was originally published in PoemMemoirStory.
McKnight is a lecturer in English, where she teaches courses in composition.
Gil Cline
Music
Gil Cline, Professor (FERP) Music, was a performer on Renaissance cornetto in August for a week-long event in the Berkeley, California region, for many years a hot-spot in the Early Music Movement. Participants from around the country present a full-length concert of polychoral music from Venice and environs, using cornetti, recorders, sackbuts, shawms, and dulcians.
He also was a participant for a Living History Day, September 26, at Alcatraz Island. Cline was "mustered into" a re-enactors Civil War-era band, "the 5th California Volunteer Regiment Infantry Band" out of the Sacramento area. The 14-piece all-brass band performed nothing but historic brass publications from 1855-1875 and used all-historic instruments of the 1860s, with Cline performing on an historic soprano E-flat cornet brought to California in the 1950s from Michigan by former Music Department Chair David Smith.
Michael Donovan and Brian Post
Music
HSU Music student Michael Donovan has been selected as the John W. DeLodder – Humboldt State University Student Composers Competition winner for Spring 2015. At the composers Recital on November 6, Mr. Donovan will be awarded $1,000 for his winning composition titled, “The Dignified Lonely Person.” The piece is an eight-minute song cycle written for voice and piano, based on poetry by the composer and HSU alumna Marlena Kellogg. Mr. Donovan, a student at HSU, plays the violin and has been actively studying composition for the last two years.
The award will be presented by Mr. DeLodder at the HSU Composers Recital, on Friday, November 6 at 8:00 pm. in Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Robert Cliver
History
Robert Cliver, Professor of History, published an article, "Surviving Socialism: Private Industry and the Transition to Socialism in China, 1945-1958," in the online September issue of "Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review." The article will appear in the print edition in November.
Dan Pambianco
Journalism & Mass Communication
Dan Pambianco gave two presentations on Oct. 22 as part of the Bob Frederick Sport Leadership Lecture Series hosted by Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
Pambianco's morning lecture was titled "Sports Crisis Management," and in the afternoon he presented "Sports Communication: Mentoring the Next Generation."
Armeda Reitzel
Communication
Dr. Armeda Reitzel gave a paper presentation on “The Evolution of Neckwear: How a Piece of Cloth Speaks Volumes” at the 2015 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Cincinnati on Oct. 3, 2015.
She also presented a co-authored paper with two of her Communication students, Diana Casteel and Kristine Cella, at the same conference on Oct. 2,2015. The title of that research paper was “Adventure vs. Domesticity: How Children’s Toys Promote Gender Roles.”
Paul Cummings
Music
Paul Cummings, Associate Professor of Music, had an article accepted for publication by the "Musical Quarterly," one of the premiere musicology journals published in the US. The 49-page article tells the story of the 1877 London Wagner Festival in which the Austro-Hungarian conductor Hans Richter made his debut in England. Publication is planned for spring, 2016.