College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

CLAS Grad Student Accolades: Presentations for 2023

by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences January 5th 2024

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  1. Jono Abshier (Biology Ph.D.) co-presented “Extremely Toxic: Identifying a virally-encoded Toxin-Antitoxin system in Sulfolobus Spindle-shaped virus 1” at the American Society for Virology in Athens Georgia.  Jono also presented “Life in Hell: Understanding the role of toxin-antitoxin systems in prokaryotic genomes and their potential in virus-host co-evolution” at AbGradCon 2023 in La Jolla, California.
  2. Ahmed Almousa and Anne Johnson (Sociology Ph.D.) co-presented "The Education Gradient in Time Spent in Childcare for Mothers and Fathers from 2012-2021" at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.  
  3. Siiri Bigalke (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) presented "Recent decline in Great Salt Lake elevation primarily driven by increases in regional temperature" at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco, California, in December 2023.
  4. Junjie Chen (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) presented “Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Wildfires and Their Influence on Stream Temperature in the Western U.S.”  at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco, California, in December 2023.
  5. Hannah Sean Ellefritz (Sociology Ph.D.) presented "Does Instructional Autonomy Matter? Exploring Teachers' Job Satisfaction across School SES and Course Subject" at the Pacific Sociological Association in April 2023.
  6. Xuan Dinh (Psychology Ph.D.) and Rachel Springer (Sociology Ph.D.) co-presented, "School-Based Centers and Mental Health Stigma Before and During the Pandemic" at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
  7. Alexis Guizar-Diaz (Sociology Ph.D.) presented "Left Out to Dry: Understanding the Social Experiences of Groundwater Depletion in Washington State's Columbia River Basin" in the Food, Water, Sustainability & Farming in the Climate Crisis session of Pacific Sociological Association.
  8. Carly Hollabaugh (Sociology MS ‘23) co-presented  "Enhancing Survey Research Methods for English Learner Populations' at the Pacific Sociological Association in April 2023.
  9. Anne Johnson (Sociology Ph.D.) presented "'We Always Got Our Blood': A Discourse Analysis of News Covering Law Enforcement Phlebotomy" at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. 
  10. Jung In Lee and Ariel Wilsey-Gopp (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages MA) co-presented “Reimagining Applied Linguistics Through a Southern Lens: An Unbooking Approach.”
  11. Emma Russell (Geography MS) presented “Extreme Precipitation in the Past, Present, and Future Session; 'Synoptic Drivers of Extreme Precipitation Days in the Upper Yuba Watershed of California” at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco, California, in December 2023.
  12. Graham Taylor (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) presented “Projections of Change in the Timing of Fall Rain and Wind Over the Western United States” at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco, California, in December 2023.  Graham also presented at the CORDEX Regional Climate Conference.
  13. Ned Tilbrook (Sociology Ph.D.) presented "The Evolution of Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Higher Education from the 1980s through 2010s," at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Ned also presented "Using Cultural Capital on Campus to Facilitate Postsecondary Persistence: Gaps by First Generation College Student Status" at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
  14. Melissa Ugianskis (Speech and Hearing Sciences MS) presented “Evaluating Discourse Coherence in Latent Aphasia” at the Academy of Aphasia Virtual Conference.
  15. Laura Yang (Psychology Ph.D.) co-presented ”The dark side of servant leadership: Investigating health outcomes of servant leaders” at the 2023 Work, Stress, and Health Conference in Miami, Florida.
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