School of Earth, Environment and Society

Celebrating Student Success, Fall 2024

by Currently December 3rd 2024

Student recognition illustration

  1. Wafi Albalawi, Institute on Aging and School of Public Health graduate student, presented "Trends in Health Conditions, Health Needs, Health Services & Medication Use Among Oregon AFH Residents (2017-2023)" Nov. 13-17 at the Gerontological Society of American annual meeting in Seattle.
  2. Madi Lou Alexander, Sociology graduate student, began serving on the Pacific Sociological Association's Committee on the Status of LGBTQIA+ Persons in Sociology.
  3. Paula Arroyo-Vargas and Sebastian Busby, Geography students, and Andrés Holz, Geography faculty, co-authored “Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest” on Oct. 9 Fire Ecology.
  4. Sebastian Busby, Geography student, and Andrés Holz, Geography faculty, co-authored “Patterns, drivers, and implications of postfire delayed tree mortality in temperate conifer forests of the western United States” on Apr. 11 in Ecosphere.
  5. Natalie Cholula, Sociology graduate student, presented her report, "Unjust and Unsafe: The Eviction Experiences of Latine Immigrant and Farmworker Tenants in Oregon" at a webinar on housing discrimination and evictions, hosted by The Evicted in Oregon research team and the Fair Housing Council of Oregon.
  6. Jenna DePasquale, Sociology graduate student, was hired for the position of Assistant Teaching Professor at Mississippi State University's Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Social Work starting in the summer of 2025, with the support of advisor Aaron Roussell and referees Maura Kelly and Alex Stepick, Sociology faculty.
  7. The student-run publishing house Ooligan Press launched its first graphic novel, the Pacific Northwest Disaster Guide, on Nov. 20. The student project manager is Alexandra Devon. Supporting students and alumni include Tanner Croom, Claire Curry, Amber Finnegan, Laura Rencken, Alena Rivas, Eva Sheehan, and Isaac Swindle.
  8. Martín Alberto Gonzalez, Melissa Patiño-Vega, Jessica I. Ramirez, Chicanx/Latinx Studies faculty, and Inle Gonzalez, Chicanx/Latinx undergraduate student, presented "Teaching as resistance in the first ever Chicanx & Latinx Studies Major in the PNW" on Nov. 9 at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) PNW Foco conference in Yakima, Washington.
  9. Susan Kirtley, English faculty, moderated a panel on "Studying Comics in College," featuring PSU Comics Studies students Steven Calderon, Dion Powell, Sinjin Reed, Ashley Swearingen, Linus Gomez, and Elliot Wiley discussing their work at Rose City Comic Con in September 2024.
  10. Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, Sociology faculty, and Anne Johnson, Sociology graduate student, co-authored "Views of Adolescent Sex and Parental Responsibility: Do Religiously Conservative Christians and Trump Voters Have a Distinctive View?" forthcoming in Sex and Sexuality in the Family Context, Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research v.XX.
  11. Suzy Fly, Sociology BA '24, Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, Rachel Springer, Sociology graduate student, and Xuan Dinh, Psychology graduate student, co-authored “School-Based Health Centers and Mental Health Stigma Before and During the Pandemic” forthcoming in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health.
  12. Bodhi Norton, Sociology graduate student, presented “Preliminary Research Study Results on Therapeutic Harm Reduction in Oregon Psilocybin Services and Beyond” at PsyCon Denver last month on preliminary results coming out of their thesis research.
  13. Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, Daniel Mackin Freeman, Sociology graduate student, Hannah Sean Ellefritz, Sociology graduate student, and Rachel Springer, Sociology graduate student, co-authored "Social Contributors to Differences in Math Course Attainment Among Adolescents with and without Learning Disabilities and ADHD" forthcoming in Social Science Research.
  14. Minju Song, Institute on Aging graduate assistant and PhD student, presented the paper “Education and Technology Innovations to Support Older Drivers” on Nov. 13-16 at the annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Seattle.
  15. Anis Zaman, a PhD candidate in Public Affairs and Policy, received the prestigious Sylff (Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund) fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year.
  16. Kyla Zaret, Geography student, and Andrés Holz, Geography faculty, co-authored “Exploration of large-scale vegetation transition in wet ecosystems: a comparison of conifer seedling abundance across burned vs. unburned forest-peatland ecotones in Western Patagonia” on Aug. 6 in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
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