Faculty and Staff
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CAHSS Faculty & Staff News
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CAHSS faculty and staff highlights submitted for 2024/25 include:
- Yong Lao, Professor, Social Sciences & Global Studies, recently received a $25,000 research grant from the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State. The project, titled "GIS Mapping and Analysis of Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) in California," will develop a comprehensive GIS database that includes annual VMT, per capita VMT, and key socioeconomic factors from 2017 to 2022. It will enable the assessment and visualization of VMT trends and their relationships with social, economic, and environmental factors at various geographical scales. In addition, a multivariate cluster analysis will be conducted to understand how travel behavior connects with social and economic factors across different regions in California. The grant is in collaboration with Dr. Bo Yang from UC Santa Cruz.
- Visual Design students working with Cinematic Arts & Technology Professor Enid Ryce interpreting data from the NASA Juno Mission have the top three featured submissions on the NASA Juno Cam site. This marks the third year on this project.
- Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, Professor, World Languages & Cultures, was recently awarded the Wilga Rivers Award for Leadership in World Language Education (Postsecondary) by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Language Connects Foundation (LCF). The award will be presented in Philadelphia, PA, in November as part of the ACTFL 2024 Annual Convention & World Languages Expo.
- Enid Ryce, Professor, Cinematic Arts & Technology, has grant on Environmental Science Through Art (ESTA) featured on KCBXFM Public Radio was named Best College Professor in the Monterey County Weekly's 2023 "Best Of" edition.
- Jill Yamashita, Professor, Psychology, received a letter of appreciation for her nearly 14 years of service as Psi Chi Chapter Advisor.
CAHSS Faculty & Staff News-2023/24
CAHSS faculty and staff highlights submitted for 2023/24 include:
- Academic Senate 2024 Faculty Award Winners included 7 Psychology faculty:
- Outstanding Department Chair Sustained: Mrinal Sinha, Professor
- Advocate for Social Justice Sustained: Christine Rosales, Assistant Professor
- Outstanding Mentoring Immediate: Zurine DeMiguel, Associate Professor
- Outstanding Community Service and Professional Application Immediate: Renee Penalver, Assistant Professor
- Outstanding Community Service and Professional Application Sustained: Jennifer Lovell, Associate Professor
- Outstanding Teaching Immediate: Justin Matthews, Associate Professor
- Outstanding Teaching Sustained: Katie Grobman, Associate Professor
- Justin Matthews, Associate Professor in Psychology, has been selected as Alum of the Year 2023-2024 by the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Fresno State University.
- Carlos Tottress, Lecturer in Performing & Visual Arts (Music Discipline) is scheduled to receive an alumni award at the 2024 All Black Gala to be held February 25, 2024.
- Hector Dionicio Mendoza, Associate Professor in Performing & Visual Arts (Visual & Public Art Discipline), recently had his 2021 piece "Familia Universal" (Universal Family) acquired by the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
- Judy Cortés, lecturer in World Languages & Cultures, recently published "Introduction to Educational Interpreting and Translation."
- Rachelle Escamilla, lecturer in Humanities & Communication, was named the 2024-2025 Monterey County Poet Laureate.
- Michelle Lewis, lecturer in Social Sciences and Global Studies, recently published her first book of cartoons, "Finding Joy: Love, Loss, and Laughter."
- Chris Carpenter, Cinematic Arts & Technology Media Production Specialist and lecturer, was recently selected for Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship award by the Television Academy Foundation in Hollywood. The foundation is the charitable arm of one of the organizations that produces the Emmy Awards and the Alex Trebek Fellowship award aims to support educators at minority-serving institutions.
Carpenter is one of just 12 professors selected from colleges and universities nationwide for the fellowship. He attended the Television Academy Foundation’s 2023 Media Educators Conference Oct. 25-27 in Los Angeles alongside his fellow recipients.
- Congratulations to the CAHSS 2023 UROC Mentor of the Year Nominees: Danielle Burchett, Associate Professor, Psychology; Zurine DeMiguel, Assistant Professor, Psychology; Jennifer Dyer-Seymour, Professor, Psychology; Jennifer Lovell, Associate Professor, Psychology; Tim Orme, Assistant Professor, Cinematic Arts & Technology; Renee Penalver, Assistant Professor, Psychology; Christine Rosales, Assistant Professor, Psychology; Shannon Snapp, Associate Professor, Psychology, and Jill Yamashita, Professor, Psychology.
- The CSUMB/Monterey Jazz Festival Partnership was featured on KSBW September 19 6 pm broadcast.
- Enid Ryce, Professor, Cinematic Arts & Technology, was named Best College Professor in the Monterey County Weekly's 2023 "Best Of" edition.
Honoring Staff & Faculty Years of Service-2024
Congratulations to CAHSS staff and faculty celebrating service awards in 2024:
- 25 Years
- Juan Jose Gutierrez, Social Sciences & Global Studies
- 20 Years
- Stacey Malone, World Languages & Cultures
- 15 Years
- Mrinal Sinha, Psychology
- 10 Years
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Marco Barbosa, World Languages & Cultures
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Patrick Belanger, Humanities & Communication
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Christiana Graham, Humanities & Communication
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Kristen LaFollette, Humanities & Communication, Performing & Visual Arts
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Jennifer Lucido, Social Sciences & Global Sudies
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Jay Luke, Psychology
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Carlos Tottress, Performing & Visual Arts
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- 5 Years
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Sara Cisneros, World Languages & Cultures
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Rachelle Escamilla, Humanities & Communication
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Christine Fernandez, World Languages & Cultures
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Matthew Floriani, Performing & Visual Arts
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Bryan Holbrook, Psychology
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John Klein, Social Sciences & Global Studies
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Kelly Medina-Lopez, Humanities & Communication
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Araceli Mejia, Psychology
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Adrienn Mendonca-Jones, Humanities & Communication
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Nicholas Mullins, Humanities & Communication
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Phuong Nguyen, Humanities & Communication
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Ryoko Ohnishi, World Languages & Cultures
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An Pham, World Languages & Cultures
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Rebecca Pozzi, World Languages & Cultures
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Amanda Pullum, Social Sciences & Global Studies
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Laurel Recker, Humanities & Communication
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Frederik Vermote, Social Sciences & Global Studies
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Dustin Wright, World Languages & Cultures
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Employees received their pins and recognition at the annual Staff and Faculty Appreciation Breakfast held at the University Center January 17, 2024.
Congratulations to President's Award Nominees
Congratulations to Danielle Burchett, Justin Matthews, and Sara Salazar-Hughes, who were among the faculty nominees for the 2023/24 President's Award. CAHSS extends a big congratulations to the Faculty Award Winner Danielle Burchett!
CAHSS Faculty and Staff 2022/2023 News
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CAHSS Faculty and Staff 2021/2022 News
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