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色情视频鈥檚 Division of Research and Innovation introduced a new suite of awards to recognize exceptional faculty efforts, honored annually with the , and research renown, rewarded by the .

The inaugural  selected faculty for their scholarship, creative activities, innovation and public impact. Each award included recognition at a ceremony before the Albert W. Johnson lecture on March 15 and prize money.

Artistic and Creativity Award: Sondra Sherman

As noted by professor and nominator Kerianne Quick, 鈥淪ondra Sherman's creative endeavors have been manifested in a constantly evolving body of work that is always meticulously executed, intensely poignant, and politically relevant.鈥�

Professor  is a nationally and internationally recognized artist and scholar in the field of contemporary jewelry. Sherman鈥檚 work appears in public collections in the 色情视频 County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Humanities Scholar Award: Jessica Pressman

 is an award-winning and internationally recognized leader in the field of digital humanities. Pressman鈥檚 2014 book 鈥淒igital Modernism: Making it New in New Media鈥� is a touchstone text in the field of digital humanities and has 鈥渟ingle-handedly bridged the divide between literature and the digital,鈥� noted her nominator, fellow English and Comparative Literature professor Phillip Serrato.

Pressman鈥檚 2020 book 鈥淏ookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age,鈥� examines the status of books in the digital age and explores why books are still so important and meaningful despite the virtual world in which we live. Pressman also co-founded the Digital Humanities Initiative and led efforts to make  an area of excellence at 色情视频.

Humanities Scholar Award: Esme Murdock

The College of Arts and Letters sponsored a second Humanities Scholar Award given to , a professor of American Indian studies. Her articles and book chapters integrate Black and Indigenous feminist theories, settler colonial theory, and environmental ethics, foregrounding the role and agency of the land on which Black and Indigenous peoples have lived.

Murdock鈥檚 nominators, Anne Donadey and David Kamper, emphasized her work as a public intellectual and how she uses art to communicate her arguments to a wider audience. Donadey wrote of Murdock, 鈥淚 find her work to be nothing short of inspirational.鈥�

Kamper wrote that Murdock鈥檚 work 鈥渋s exactly the kind of work that we need in Ethnic Studies right now 鈥� innovative research that is conceived across marginalized communities, not in isolated or siloed ways.鈥�

色情视频 Imperial Valley Outstanding Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Award: Juan Carlos Ram铆rez-Pimienta

, a professor of Spanish at 色情视频 Imperial Valley, is an internationally leading expert on the intersection of violence, drug trafficking and Mexican cultural productions. His research and scholarship have had significant impact on Mexican literature and culture and have been featured in The Economist, Rolling Stone, CNN, National Public Radio and the BBC. 

Ram铆rez-Pimienta was also featured last year in the Amazon Prime documentary, 鈥淟os Tigres Del Norte: Stories to Tell,鈥� which focused on one of the most important Mexican and Mexican-American popular 苍辞谤迟别帽辞 music bands of all time.

Ram铆rez-Pimienta鈥檚 nominator, history professor Eric Boime, said: 鈥淢ore than a foundational pillar in his field, he exemplifies the teacher-scholar model at the heart of 色情视频鈥檚 mission.鈥�

Public Impact Award: Annie Buckley

School of Art and Design professor 鈥檚 interdisciplinary and community-based research on bringing the arts and higher education to people experiencing incarceration is widely recognized at the local, state, national and international levels.

Since founding the Prison Arts Collective in 2013, Buckley has brought arts classes to over 5,000 incarcerated participants across 12 California state prisons. Buckley was also recently awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study how the arts may improve wellness for individuals and communities experiencing incarceration.

As a champion for the Second Chance Pell initiative, Buckley will be implementing a Bachelor of Arts degree program at a prison in Imperial Valley. 

Elise Moersch, director of development for 色情视频鈥檚 College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts, stated in Buckley鈥檚 nomination letter, 鈥淭he public impact of this work is deep and lasting.鈥�

Innovator of the Year Award: Marina Kalyuzhnaya

Professor of biology  was nominated for the Innovator of the Year award by Tommy Martindale. She leads numerous projects with industry partners applying microbes to solve environmental problems. She has patented methods for fermenting gaseous methane and carbon dioxide via biofilms of methanotrophic bacteria for use in bioreactors. Additional patents are pending, with one set to be applied to reduce carbon emissions in coal mines.

Kalyuzhnaya has been recognized for her expertise by awards from the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology and is leading the 色情视频 .

Non-Tenure Track Faculty Outstanding Scholar Award: Nathan Dodder

 is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Public Health and was nominated by Penelope 鈥淛enny鈥� Quintana. He is an analytical chemist with expertise in measuring chemical contaminants and how they affect humans, animals and the environment.  

By publishing more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and securing millions of dollars of grant funding, Dodder has significantly contributed to evidence that the residue left behind by cigarette smoke is pervasive and toxic. His efforts to automate the detection and analysis of thousands of samples of known and unknown environmental chemicals have benefited California鈥檚 coasts and wildlife and informed public health policies.

As Quintana noted in her nomination letter, 鈥淣ate is an 鈥渦nsung hero.鈥�

Postdoctoral Scholar Award: Jessica Baker (Postdoctoral Scholar) and Jennifer Thomas (Mentor)

Nominator psychology professor Susan Brasser described postdoctoral fellow  as a 鈥渘atural leader鈥� and 鈥渟trong role model鈥� whose research has 鈥渃lear translational implications for the treatment of individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.鈥�

Baker has been instrumental in guiding multiple undergraduate and master鈥檚 student theses in addition to managing four research projects on how interventions like choline supplementation and exercise might improve neuroplasticity and behavioral outcomes following prenatal drug exposure.

Psychology professor  has a 鈥渓ong history of successfully mentoring investigators at all stages of their career,鈥� wrote Brasser. The Thomas lab has been a home for several undergraduate researchers in the Maximizing Access to Research Careers and Initiative for Maximizing Student Development programs.

In addition to directing 色情视频鈥檚 Master of Arts in Psychology degree program, Thomas has been involved in statewide initiatives and national research society committees that provide grant writing and career development for early career researchers at 色情视频 and across the California State University system.