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News from CLASS

Free time is a waste of time to Salenah Cartier, who is constantly looking for ways to “feed her brain.”  At 17, she will earn a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, making her the youngest UH graduate this year. The ambitious teenager will also receive a certificate in Corporate Entrepreneurship from C.T. Bauer College of Business. 

The UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is pleased to announce that Department of Health and Human Performance Associate Professor  has been awarded the Brad Parks Award by the United States Tennis Association (USTA). USTA is the national governing body for the sport of tennis in the U.S.

Gulf Coast literary magazine has announced Ayanna Dozier as the winner of its 2020 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, for her essay “Sound Garden: Ja’Tovia Gary’s The Giverny Document.” As winner of the Toni Beauchamp prize, Dozier will be awarded $3,000 and her winning piece will be featured in the Winter/Spring 2020 print issue of Gulf Coast. The competition judge was Franklin Sirmans, curator, writer, editor, and the director of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).

Rodica Damian, assistant professor of psychology and director of the Personality Development and Success Lab at UH, found that the role of birth order on career types, occupational creativity and status attainment might have been overestimated in previous research.

Kevin Hoff, assistant professor of industrial-organizational psychology at the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ, found young people who develop higher levels of conscientiousness and emotional stability during the transition to employment tend to be more successful in some aspects of their early careers.

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, a ̽»¨ÊÓƵ alumna who received her Ph.D. in creative writing and literature, has won the prestigious 2020 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.