Aaron Romanowsky

Aaron Romanowsky has been named a 2016 Cottrell Scholar.

Department of English language and Comparative Literature Lecturer Sally Ashton and Professor Persis Karim were among the featured poets reading at a reception on February. 7 for the San Jose Quilt Museum's "Globe, Water, Air, Fire" testify. Ashton and Karim read ekphrastic poems specifically created for the exhibition and inspired by the fiber art on display. Ashton's most contempo verse collection is Some Odd Afternoon (BlazeVOX 2010). Karim is co-editor of and correspondent to Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers (University of Arkansas Press 2013).

Lucas College and Graduate School of Business Professor Emeritus Alvin Beckett, who taught at SJSU for more xxx years, celebrated his 100th altogether on February. 10. His daughter, UC Davis Professor Dr. Laurel Beckett, reports: "Dad was a feminist and fighter for social justice for students and colleagues of color. Just one story: in the tardily 1950s, one of his top students got married and became pregnant and was going to drib out of higher. My dad told her she needed to stay in schoolhouse and helped her piece of work out finances and childcare. She went on to graduate, go her master's and have a very successful career. The babe boy grew upwards to be a doctor and he and his wife (also a doctor) are colleagues of mine here at UC Davis Medical School. Our families have stayed friends all these years."

Professor Alison Bridger, chair of the meteorology and climate science, assured CBS SF Bay Expanse reporters that, despite a run of dry and warm weather this month, El Niño is still influencing weather patterns on the West Coast. The rain will return and, one time information technology does, it volition keep into Apr, Bridger explained. Regarding February'south mild spell, Bridger said she's "telling all my friends: 'Relish information technology while you lot tin.'"

Professor Richard Craig, Schoolhouse of Journalism and Mass Communications, appeared on KGO Radio's "Ronn Owens Testify" to talk most the presidential primaries and his most contempo book, Polls, Expectations and Elections: Goggle box News Making in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (Lexington Books 2014). In researching the volume, Craig analyzed transcripts of "CBS Evening News" broadcasts during the presidential election campaigns, 1968-2012.

Professor Emeritus Larry Gerston, political scientific discipline, was guest speaker at Los Altos's Morn Forum lecture series this month. His topic: "The 2016 Election: Why We should Intendance (and Why Few People Do)." Morning Forum series subscriptions are available to all. The lectures take place at Los Altos United Methodist Church on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

Chair and Professor of Anthropology Roberto Gonzalez was featured on BBC's Radio 4 on "From Vicious to Cocky: Anthropology Goes to War," on February. 1. Gonzalez discussed Cold War anthropology. "These areas were battlegrounds for ideas and the hearts and minds of people during the Cold War," said Gonzalez, of Latin America, the Center East and S East Asia, during the interview.

School of Information Associate Professor Lili Luo received the 2016 Clan for Library and Informatics Education'due south All-time Methodology Paper laurels for a newspaper she co-authored titled "Vignettes: Implications for LIS Research." The award carries a $500 honorarium and the opportunity to present a summary of the paper's findings at the almanac ALISE conference.

In January, sometime Banana Professor Ralph McLaughlin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, was promoted to principal economist of Trulia'southward Housing Economic science Research Team. He left academia in 2014 to join the company, an online domicile shopping marketplace. "As an economist and long-time house hunter, I empathize what buyers, sellers and renters care almost and why they need to know to successfully navigate today's polarized housing market," McLaughlin said. "Under my leadership, Trulia will go along to explore the growing split up betwixt the 'Costly Coasts' in the booming West and Northeast markets versus the 'Bargain Belt' in the sluggish Southward and Midwest markets. It's a trend that has important ramifications for the U.S. economy and housing policy."

Professor Aaron Romanowsky, from the physics and astronomy department, has been selected as one of 24 scientists to be recognized as a 2016 Cottrell Scholars past the Research Corporation for Scientific discipline Advancement. He will receive a $100,000 to back up his research and education. He is ane of ii CSU professor to receive the distinction since its inception in 1994. His virtually contempo inquiry commodity "Satellite accession in activeness: a tidally disrupting dwarf of spheroidal around the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253" was published in December 2015 in

Acquaintance Professor Ryan Skinnell, who joined the kinesthesia of the Department of English and Comparative Literature last fall, received the Theresa J. Enos Anniversary Award for the best essay published in Rhetoric Review in the preceding year. His essay, "Who Cares if Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography," appeared in the periodical's Apr 2015 effect. His new book, Conceding Limerick: A Crooked History of Composition'southward Institutional Fortunes, volition exist published in September by Utah Country University Press.

Communications Studies Professor Matthew Spangler received the top newspaper award in functioning studies from the Western States Advice Association in San Diego in February. 28. He presented his newspaper, "Fall and Recover: The Making of Modern Dance with Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Dublin, Ireland" well-nigh refugees who are working in the performing arts in Ireland, and specifically, are making live performances inspired past their migration experiences.