Graduate Student Spotlight
The Office of Graduate Studies wants to recognize Cal Poly Humboldt’s outstanding graduate students. To nominate a graduate student for a graduate student spotlight, email hsugrad@humboldt.edu. More nomination details can be found here at https://pmc.humboldt.edu/portal/outstanding-student-awards-nominations
Patricia O. McConkey Outstanding Graduate Student
2022 Winners
The McConkey Awards are given in Memory of Patricia McConkey and her many years of service to Graduate Studies, and to graduate students, at Cal Poly Humboldt.
The McConkey Award recipients are selected by the faculty of their graduate programs, in recognition of excellence in their fields. McConkey Award recipients graduate with distinction on their transcript and are recognized in their commencement program.
Sophia Lemmo
Natural Resources - FWWS
Thesis: Tree mortality and regeneration across competitive and geographic gradients in northern California
Advisor: Lucy Kerhoulas
Kristen Orth-Gordinier
Natural Resources - ESM
Thesis: Social Science Research to Help Advance Regional Coordination and Collaboration of Sea Level Rise Planning and Adaptation on Humboldt Bay
Advisor: Laurie Richmond
Crane Conso
Psychology - Academic Research
Thesis: Uncertainty, Populist Deprivation Rhetoric, and Extremism
Advisor: Amber Gaffney
Evan Morden
Public Sociology
Thesis: Organizing for Power: The Flow of Social Power in Community-Level Changes and Rural Community Organizing in Northern California
Advisor: Michihiro Sugata
Allison Iafrate
English - Applied English Studies
Thesis: Our Place in Research: Understanding Social Productions of Knowledge Using Digital Spaces
Advisor: Janelle Adsit