UPDATE: Just received photos of professors Cushman and Grobbel from SSU. Here they are:

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Sonoma State professors Hall Cushman and Michaela Grobbel have been named the university’s recipients of the Goldstein Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

Cushman has been at SSU teaching biology since 1994 and in that time has pulled in more than $2 million for research funding in ecology and conservation biology, according to school officials.

Cushman will use the award to fund support students conducting field research on the spread of invasive and exotic species along the coastal areas of Sonoma County, according to school officials.

Details on his work can be found at http://www.sonoma.edu/biology/faculty/hall_cushman.html

Grobbel has been a lecturer at SSU since 1997. In 2005 she became an assistant professor with the department of modern languages and literatures and now coordinates the German program. In 2008, Grobbel was awarded the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce’s  Excellence in Education Award.

Grobbel will use the award to expand her research on Romani self-expression through theater, literature and visual art, according to school officials.

Details on her work can be found at http://www.sonoma.edu/modlang/german/index.html