Jefferson Beavers, English staff, was recognized by the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning with a 2019 President’s Faculty and Staff Service Award for community volunteering. He also performed the Luis Omar Salinas Poem “I Am an Aztec Angel” for the #FresnoWriters at Home series on the Fresno State MFA YouTube channel.

Venita Blackburn, English faculty, published the essay “American Refugee” in the Paris Review. Also, published the crossword story “In the Counselor’s Waiting Room with No Wi-fi” in the journal Diagram.

Steven Church, English faculty, published the essay “Memory Yards” for the web magazine How We Are. Also, his previously published essay “Lag Time” will be included in the forthcoming anthology, “The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction,” from Rose Metal Press.

Ronald Dzerigian, Division of Research and Graduate Studies staff, published the poem “Sourcing a Memory of My Brother While My Family and I Clear Brush Before the Rupture of the Oroville Dam” in Mayday Magazine. Also, performed a version of the same poem for the #FresnoWriters at Home series on the Fresno State MFA YouTube channel.

Howard V. Hendrix, English faculty, published the essay “Apprehensions, Comprehensions, SARS-CoV-2: Conspiracy Theory vs. Scientific Method in a World Gone Viral” in the magazine Academe, from the American Association of University Professors.

Gabriel Ibarra, English faculty, performed the poem “When the World Ends” for the #FresnoWriters at Home series on the Fresno State MFA YouTube channel.

Alison Mandaville, English faculty, recognized by Fresno State’s Campus Advisors Network with a 2019-20 Outstanding Advisor Award, for her work advising English Education undergraduates and Single Subject Teaching Credential in English post-bac students.

Tania Pacheco-Werner, co-assistant director of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute, was appointed as a member of the governing board by California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. She joins 14 other members of the board in working to reduce air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley’s eight counties. She is one of two members appointed by the governor and is not an elected official. Read more on Fresno State News.

Mary Paul, English faculty, will publish the paper “Engaging the Control-Value Theory: A New Era of Student Response Systems and Formative Assessment to Improve Student Achievement” in the peer-reviewed journal Research in Learning Technology, from the Association for Learning Technology.

Charles L. Radke, Division of Research and Graduate Studies staff, announced the publication acceptance of his debut memoir, “Stuccoville,” due this fall from the E.L. Marker imprint of WiDō Publishing.

Brynn Saito, English faculty, published the poem “Ordinary Animal” in the Atticus Review Annual, originally published online in November 2019 as part of the magazine’s Fresno Poetry issue. Also, interviewed for the “Process Profile” series in the Lantern Review, about her previously published poem “Dinuba, 1959.”

Tim Skeen, English faculty, published the poem “Lifting Weights at 60” in the Atticus Review Annual, originally published online in November 2019 as part of the magazine’s Fresno Poetry issue.

Mai Der Vang, English faculty, published the essay “To Hmong Americans, on Racial Justice and Patriarchy” in the magazine The Margins, for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Also, published the poem “In the Year of Permutations” on Poets.org, for the Academy of American Poets.