ART

Annie Buckley Mayday Zeni th Books, Los Angeles , CA

ART

Wil l present two interdiscipl inary art projects, “Hybrids/Mayday” and “Pol l inating Kindness”

Ece Algan was appointed Director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Mihaela Popescu was selected as the Faculty Associate for Academic Technologies and Innovation

David Carlson co-edited and launched the online journal Transmotion.

ENGLISH

Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern received the American Book Award for their collaborative book, Vital Signs.

JULIE PAEGLE’S Twelve Clocks University of Arizona Press

Chad Sweeney f i fth book of poetry, White Martini of the Apocalypse, was just released from Marick Press.

Wendy Smith Fulbright Scholar in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia Fall Semester 2014 Tbilisi State University, Departments of Pedagogy and Philology

ENGLISH

JACQUELINE RHODES’ book On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies. Won two national awards: the 2015 “Outstanding Book Award” KAREN ROWAN presented three papers at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

ENGLISH

Liberal Studies Professor, Diane Adams’ book Two Hands to love You was voted “Best Picture Book of 2014 by the Chicago Public Libraries and Chicago Tribune.

Her seventh children’s picture book – Love Is wil l be il lustrated by Claire Keane, one of the animators of Frozen – the movie.

LIBERAL STUDIES

Liberal Studies students completed their first Academic Year volunteering in elementary classrooms for The Child Help Organization’s “Speak-Up; Be Safe Program”

A program in Elementary Schools that helps children K – 6th grades understand bullying, sexual, physical and verbal abuse.

LIBERAL STUDIES

MUSIC

Erik Jester and the Department of Music presented the Danny Ramadan Benefit Concert

MUSIC

Stacey Fraser

Directed “La Curandera” presented by the CSUSB Opera Theatre

PHILOSOPHY

John Mumma will present a paper “Geometric figure vs. geometric space in analyzing the proofs of elementary geometry” at the Closing Conference of the Research Group

THEATRE ARTS

Johanna Smith

Directed Luis Alfaro’s “Black Butterfly”

THEATRE ARTS

Kathryn Ervin, Director “Once on this Island”

June 5 – 14, 2015

WORLD LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

Aurora Wolfgang

L'Honnête Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses Centre for Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada

WORLD LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

C. Bibiana Diaz Rodriguez

Presented “La Quinta Temporada Los Vendidos” as a part of the Acto Latino, Teatro Universitario

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS FACULTY ROUNDTABLE

Johanna Smith, Theatre Arts Presented Luis Alfaro’s “Black Butterfly”

Annie Buckley, Art Presented two interdisciplinary art projects, “Hybrids/Mayday” and “Pollinating kindness”

Chris Naticchia, Philosophy Presented on Recognition of States under international Law. J. David Jerez-Gomez, World Languages and Lit. Presented on Puppetry Traditions in the Mediterranean

STAFF APPRECIATION LUNCHEON

STUDENT COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS

Daniella Contreras Andrade Art Jacqueline Vargas Communication Studies Sixta Payan English Andrew Sanchez Liberal Studies Program

Shaina Greensweight Music Sara Rojas Philosophy Jamie Jacobs Theatre Arts Xochilth Hernandez World Languages & Literatures

OUTSTANDING STUDENTS

Carrera Allred Communication Studies

Mayte Escobar Art

Outstanding Undergraduate Outstanding Graduate

Teaching

Julie Paegle English Department Research

Holly Henry English Department

OUTSTANDING FACULTY

Service

Annie Buckley Art Department

UPCOMING EVENTS