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Worth Sharing: Record-Setting Hofman Earns Conference Honor

Sean Murphy
Creek waters flow on a college campus with a tree canopy hanging overhead.
Jason Halley / University Photographer

Big Chico Creek flows through campus on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)

The following is a listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students. Submit your professional achievements to ucomm@csuchico.edu.

Awards and Activities

Chico State women’s soccer player Emma Hofman earned the California Collegiate Athletic Association’s Women’s Soccer Player of the Week. The freshman goalkeeper set a school record with her third consecutive shutout and has recorded 10 total shutouts on the year, second-most in all of Division II.

Shane Mayor (Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences) secured a four-year, $499K grant from the National Science Foundation. A collaborative grant with Chenning Tong at Clemson University to study atmospheric turbulence, the funding will support students and a field experiment in the summer of 2023. 

For its nonpartisan student voter participation efforts during the 2020 General Election, Chico State earned the Gold Seal from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. To obtain the Gold Seal, campuses had to report that 70–80 percent of its student body participated in voting.

Sean Murphy
Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy (English, ’97) is the Media Relations Coordinator at Chico State. When he's not writing press releases and pitching story ideas to the media or fielding media inquiries, he's writing about human interest stories, sports, the outdoors and the remarkable students, staff and faculty at Chico State.