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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Jennifer Alford for receiving the prestigious Golden Apple Award!
In a surprise announcement, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Jennifer Alford was named the winner of Cal State San Bernardino’s 2024-25 Golden Apple Award for her exceptional and vast teaching record.
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Congratulations to two very deserving members of our Department on winning College of Social and Behavioral Science Awards: Dr. Yolonda Youngs and Maria Malpica Rodriguez
Dr. Yolonda Youngs was selected to receive the 2025 College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Faculty in Research, Scholarly, or Creative Contribution Award!
Maria Malpica Rodriguez was selected to receive the 2025 College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Staff Award!
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR YOLONDA YOUNGS whose book, "Framing Nature: Creating an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (2024) was awarded the prestigious AAG John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize award from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The book will be featured at an AAG Author Meets Critic Book Panel organized by colleagues at Texas State University, and Professor Youngs will be speaking at the Tucson Festival of Books! The John Binkerhoff Jackson Prize award recognizes books that excel at relating the insights of geography to both a scholarly and lay audience in a visually compelling format. The committee stated:
"Based on an extraordinary amount of research in vast collections of postcards, Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon (University of Nebraska Press) shows how the visual image of the Grand Canyon has been shaped and remade in the public mind. Youngs draws on cultural geography and landscape analysis to make her case, demonstrating her field knowledge of the dramatic physical geography of the Grand Canyon. Appropriately, her book is beautifully illustrated with many postcard views and historic images, as well as clearly drawn maps of viewpoints. In using postcards as evidence, the committee felt, Youngs reflected J.B. Jackson’s love of American popular culture. Framing Nature makes a substantive, informed, and novel contribution to cultural landscape analysis, and informs our understanding of the transformation of one of the world’s greatest natural landscapes into a national and environmental icon."