Five WSU undergraduate students were accepted by the
Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
to work and learn this summer in the District of Columbia
area. The students were each placed in an internship that
coordinated with their academic interests and career
goals. The selected students are Kathrina
Estoque (sociology, women's studies), who worked
with the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence;
Ciera Graham (sociology, pre-law), who
worked for Offender Aid and Restoration; Amy Van Nortwick
(neuroscience), who worked for the Alzheimer's
Association; Amelia Veneziano
(journalism), who worked for the D.C. Examiner
newspaper; and Tom Westphal (political
science), who worked for the National Defense
University–NESA Center. Each student also attended
an academic class in a traditional discipline.
The Washington Center is an
educational nonprofit organization that serves hundreds
of selected students with challenging opportunities to
work and learn in the nation's capital for academic
credit. The largest program of its kind, it has more than
35,000 alumni who have become leaders in various
professions and countries around the world. Faculty
coordinator for these students and the Washington Center
program at WSU is Libby Walker (Ph.D.
'84, political science), interim dean of the Honors
College.
Four of the six undergraduate students recognized for outstanding work in their junior writing portfolios, selected as the best from about 2,000 submitted in fall 2006, are liberal arts majors. Each has been honored with a Writing Portfolio Award sponsored by the Harold and Jeanne Rounds Olsen Writing Across the Curriculum endowment fund, which includes a $100 scholarship and an invitation for a job in the Writing Center as a student tutor to peers. The honorees included Kirsti Ferneding (landscape architecture), Abbey Jorstad (political science), Gordon Misch (physics), Haley Paul (anthropology), Tracee Wilson (anthropology), and Robert Zedaker (general studies).
Loren Redwood (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) was awarded the Graduate Student Research Scholarship for 2007 by the National Women's Studies Association. She was honored at the NWSA Conference held in Chicago on June 29 to July 1. This scholarship was awarded for the purpose of continued dissertation research on the topic of "Labor Exploitation of Immigrant Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans." Redwood also presented a paper by the same title at the conference on June 30.
Kristina M. Cantin (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) received a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship to attend the University of Pittsburgh's 2007 Summer Language Institute. She completed a course in "Beginning Intensive Slovak."
Francis Dalisay (Ph.D. candidate, communication) has won a top-five student paper award from the Critical & Cultural Studies Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. The award includes complimentary registration to the AEJMC convention. Doug Hindman (associate professor, communication) mentored Dalisay on this paper.
Crista Ann Ames (senior, B.F.A.
candidate) was awarded second place for her 2 ceramic
vessels accepted into the Regional College Student All
Media Juried Show, held May 4–29 at the Gellhorn
Gallery in Spokane. Her pieces are entitled
"Self-Portrait: right and left brain" and "Handled Egg."
The exhibit showcased 24 artists chosen from Eastern
Washington University, Gonzaga University, Washington
State University, Whitworth College, and Spokane Falls
Community College. The event was coordinated by the EWU
Art Club. Works accepted into the show were chosen by
juror Greg duMonthier, assistant professor of sculpture
at EWU.
Ames will graduate in 2008 with her
B.F.A. in ceramics and minors in art history and
disability studies.
Laurali Turner (Ph.D. candidate, history) recently won the Eastern Washington University Schults departmental award for best M.A. thesis 2005–2006 for her thesis, "The Role of Music in the Containment of Upper Rank Women in Eighteenth Century France." She is well on her way to developing her Ph.D. dissertation project on popular music in the early modern French Atlantic.
T. Chris Allan (Ph.D. candidate, history) has been hired by Alaska National Parks System as the historian for Gates of the Arctic National Parks and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.
This summer Jonathan Conlin (senior, political science) completed a charity fund-raising hike up Mount Kilimanjaro, preceded by 6 weeks of volunteer teaching in an orphanage in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. As of publication date, Conlin has raised $35,000 for the Children's Hunger Fund. More about how Jonathan Conlin spent his summer...
Craig Macmillan (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) was a participant in "Debating Science," a National Science Foundation–sponsored program at the University of Montana Center for Ethics. Graduate students from a variety of disciplines were recruited for a weeklong workshop August 6–10 at the UM campus followed by a semester-long online course to learn the skills required to participate in public discourses surrounding science and technology. The areas discussed during the workshop include nanotechnology, agricultural biotechnology, and global climate change.
Katie Evermann Druffel (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) has been appointed director of social work for Pullman Regional Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree from WSU in social welfare in 1996 and went on to obtain her M.S.W.from the University of Nebraska in Omaha in 2001. Throughout her graduate studies at WSU, she has worked as a medical social worker for both Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax and Pullman Regional Hospital. Her research interests include health care access in rural communities, health care disparities, and social networks. She is currently working with faculty from community and rural sociology at WSU.
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