Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the annually awarded faculty Excellence in Research and Excellence in Teaching awards in the Schools of Business and Professional Accounting.

• Dr. Habib Islam, Assistant Professor in the School of Business, received the Excellence in Research Award
• Eldonna Shaw-Davis, Lecturer in the School of Business, received the Excellence in Teaching Award

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Belinda Hammond, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Studies.

Dr. Hammond and her coauthors on a paper in the Journal of Child Life, have been recognized by the national Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) with the 2024 Professional Research Recognition Award. The article, published this year, is titled “Being a Child Life Student Has Definitely Been Difficult: A Mixed Methods Study Exploring the Experiences of Emerging Professionals.”

Congratulations to the 2023 winners of the annually awarded faculty Excellence in Research and Excellence in Teaching awards in the Schools of Business and Professional Accounting.

• Dr. Rajeev Dwivedi, Visiting Associate Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, in the School of Business, received the Excellence in Research Award
• Jessica Kong, MPAcc, CPA, Lecturer in Professional Accounting, in the School of Professional Accounting, received the Excellence in Teaching Award

Dr. Bill Shaw (Accounting) and Dr. Brian Davenport (Organizational Leadership), along with community partner Ms. Ana Fortson (Spokane County Superior Court), received the award for Excellence in Community-Based Teaching and Learning for their presentation “Test Driving Career Through Community Engagement: A Guardianship Auditing Project”.  The Award for Excellence in Community-Based Teaching and Learning is a recognition for excellence in a scholarship of community-based teaching and learning. Presenters in this area explored how their teaching and students’ work in the community helped to advance outcomes for our neighborhoods or around critical-issue areas.

Dr. Beth Halaas (Social Work), Dr. Bipasha Biswas (Social Work), along with community partner Dr. Rumyana Kudeva (Spokane Regional Health District), received award for Excellence in Community-Based Research for their presentation “Co-Constructing Strategies for Addressing Structural Inequality in Refugee and Immigrant Communities (SSIRI) in Spokane, Washington”.  The Award for Excellence in Community-Based Research recognizes a community-based research. Award recipients advanced a project applying disciplinary expertise to a problem in the community in order to address and solve a critical issue.

See the link below for the event program:

CEI 2023 Program

Emily Collins, Psychology major at EWU-Bellevue, recently attended the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in Atlanta, Georgia with Dr. Julie Swets. At this conference, they co-presented a poster entitled “Relationship Nostalgia and Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence.”

To support her travel expenses to Atlanta, Wmily applied for and received multiple student travel awards including the School of Psychology Student Research Support Award, the Student Travel/Conference Award from the College of Professional Programs, and the Undergraduate Student Travel Award from the Provost’s office.

Dr. Swets says, “Not only did Emily get all this accomplished, but she was a joy to travel, present, and
conference with.”  Congrats Emily and thanks to Dr. Swets for being a great faculty mentor!

Dr. Philip Watkins, Professor of Psychology, has been interviewed recently by both Time Magazine AND The Washington Post for articles in which he talks about fostering joy. Dr. Watkins researches joy, gratitude, and happiness at EWU.

Time Magazine article, “How to Find Small Moments of Joy in Dark Times” (Nov. 17, 2022)

The Washington Post article, “Want to feel happier? Try snacking on joy.” (Sept. 26, 2022)