Recognizing writers who have participated in CSU Writes and whose writing has been published, funded, or recognized with an award or distinction.
Dr. Catherine DiCesare, Art and Art History
Dr. Catherine DiCesare specializes in pre-Columbian art history and arts of the Americas, with research focusing on the conquest period in central Mexico. She has recently published her second book, Sweeping the Wary: Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpanizltli (University Press of Colorado, 2025), in which she takes
Dr. Andee Kaplan, Statistics
Dr. Andee Kaplan is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University. In 2024, Andee was awarded not one but two prestigious NSF grants—including the coveted NSF CAREER—to fund her work on developing computational tools to advance an issue in historical data recording called record linkage.
Dr. Hayley Benham, Biomedical Sciences
CSU Writes and Dr. Quynn were invaluable in helping me develop writing habits and organizational skills that allowed me to complete my dissertation. Dr. Quynn immediately recognized the contributing sources of my writer’s anxiety and provided extremely useful and pragmatic tools that shifted me into a more positive mindset and
Dr. Hua Chen, Physics
Last fall, Assistant Professor Hua Chen received a three-year, $450,000 Early Career award from the National Science Foundation to support his theoretical work on Novel Electronic and Magnetic Dynamics and Responses in Non-collinear Magnetic Materials. Dr. Chen is inherently fascinated by the many unexplored possibilities in such unconventional magnetic systems. This award gives his research group both an external impetus and essential resource to focus on
Dr. Joseph Zadrozny, Chemistry
Dr. Joseph Zadrozny is a 2020 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program grant recipient.
In his proposal to the NSF CAREER Program titled “Robust Coherence and High Sensitivity in Metal-Ion Nuclear-Spin Qubits,” Zadrozny’s research focuses on understanding how to amplify environmental detection by the quantum states of metal-ion magnetic nuclei. This insight would be essential for the development of next-generation quantum bits or MRI sensors.
Dr. Justin Sambur, Chemistry
Dr. Justin Sambur is a 2020 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program winner.
Sambur’s CAREER award project titled, “Illuminating structure-property relationships in energy storage materials via quantitative light microscopy,” focuses on the discovery of design principles for safe, fast-charging, and long-lasting Li-ion battery materials necessary for high power applications such as electric vehicles, power tools, and portable electronic devices.
Dr. Tori Arthur, Journalism & Media Communication
Dr. Tori Arthur was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Manuscript Award of the Central States Communication Association for her work titled “‘We’re out here’: Black identity and digital resistance in Instagram travelogues” (Ohio Communication Journal). She recalls finishing the article at the FROC Retreat in the Spring of 2019 on a
Dr. Julie Heinrichs, NREL
In recognition of her writing productivity, Dr. Julie Heinrichs won the 2019 “Most Publications” award from the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and the department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability (Warner College of Natural Resources). Julie started participating in CSU Writes workshops and retreats in 2018.
Josh Hewitt, Statistics
Josh (and coauthors) was awarded the 2018 Wiley-The International Environmetrics Society Best Environmetrics Paper Award for the paper “Remote effects spatial process models for modeling teleconnections”. Josh participated in a CSU Writes manuscript editing group, Spring 2018.
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