CLAS Grad Student Accolades: Presentations & Media Coverage for Spring/Summer 2024

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  1. Madi Lou Alexander (Sociology Ph.D.) presented “How t4t Relationships Foster Joy Among Transgender People” at the 2024 annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association.
  2. Olivia Awbrey (Environmental Management MS) co-presented "Navigating Healthy Conflict in the Natural Resources,” at the Society of American Foresters PNW Leadership Conference in February 2024.  
  3. Thien-Kim Bui (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) co-presented “Introduction to Mapping with Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS)” at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.  
  4. Justine Casebolt (Environmental Management MEM) co-presented “Crab Encounters of the Carcinus Kind: invasion of the Oregon coast by non-native European green crab” at the State of the Coast in November 2023.  
  5. Natalie Cholula (Sociology Ph.D.), a member of the Evicted in Oregon research team, saw her team's recent report on tenants' eviction experiences and outcomes covered by phys.org on May 29, 2024 (“New report details mental, physical impacts on tenants facing eviction in Oregon”) and KOIN on May 28, 2024 (“PSU report shows rise in Oregon eviction cases despite assistance programs”), among other media coverage.  
  6. Clarissa Cressotti (Environmental Science and Management MS) presented “Anthropogenic resistance on occupancy of black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus colubianus) and coyote (Canis latrans)” at the 2024 Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium.
  7. Jenna DePasquale (Sociology Ph.D.) presented "What if Mussolini Had Twitter? How Italy's Center-right Parliamentary Coalition Frames the Migrant Crisis on Social Media" at the 2024 annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association.
  8. Laurel Diciuccio (Anthropology MS) co-presented a panel on Student and Early Career Professional Development at the  2024 Northwest Anthropological Association annual meeting.  
  9. Laura Guderyahn (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) co-presented “How beavers (castor canadensis) affect habitat availability for two native oregon turtles” at the 2024 Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society annual meeting and “Creation of a new baseline dataset of freshwater turtle basking occupancy across NW Oregon using standardized survey methods” and “Removal as a control method for introduced Trachemys scripta elegans and the response of Chrysemys picta bellii” at the 2024 Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium
  10. Grace Hall (Environmental Management MEM) co-presented “Assessment of avian community structure and habitat connectivity in the Fanno Creek corridor” at the 2024 Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium
  11. Aaron Hood-Foster (Anthropology MS) presented “Significance Modeling and Data Gap Analysis of Precontact Sites in the Tualatin River Basin” at the 2024 Northwest Anthropological Association annual meeting.  
  12. Nathan Jereb (Anthropology MS) co-presented “Plowzone Archaeology in the Willamette Valley”  at the 2024 Northwest Anthropological Association annual meeting.  
  13. Parker Malek (Geography MS) co-presented “Diagnosing Rainfall Variability Within a Series of Atmospheric Rivers over Northern California in February 2017” at the 2024 American Meteorological Society annual meeting.
  14. Alexander Morrison (World Language: German MA) presented "SPARKing Interest in German: Outreach for Students and Teachers from Elementary through Graduate School” at the 2023 conference of the Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching.
  15. Gabriella Mota (Sociology Ph.D.) presented “Falling to the Right: Black and Latinx Republicans in the U.S.” at the 2024 annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association.
  16. Dianna Wilson (Anthropology MS) co-presented “Taking Thermally Modified Rock Seriously: An Analysis of Use-Wear Attributes” and “Burning the Record in Order to Save It: Cultural Fire as Archaeological Survey Method” at the 2024 Northwest Anthropological Association annual meeting.