Volume 16 | March 20, 2024 |
2024 State of the College |
Wednesday, March 27, 3:30 p.m. | Beren Auditorium, Slawson Hall
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Join Executive Dean Mafi as he lays out his vision for the College and reflects on his first year at KU. Come for a presentation, a time for Q&A, and a reception to celebrate the College's accomplishments and its future.
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"Math is more than numbers and equations; it cultivates critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and logical reasoning. It acts as a scaffold, supporting the comprehension of various subjects, from science to geography and history." Read more about how math impacts all of us, but especially a few faculty in the College: Purnaprajna Bangere, Donna Ginther, Bozena Pasik-Duncan, and Greg Rudnick.
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Meredith Hartley (Chemistry), January 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award recipient, Media link
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Megan Kaminski (English | Environmental Studies), received $1,500 grant for "Listening to Prairie: Conspiring with Plants," an interactive poetry and photography project, Showcasing Open Spaces through Accessible Adventure (SOSAA) grant from Outdoors Unscripted, 2024, Media link
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Elisabeth Mills (Physics & Astronomy), received five-year, $821,724 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for her groundbreaking work on black holes, Media link
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Mehrangiz Najafizadeh (Sociology), received the 2023 George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award, Media link
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Hartwin Peelaers (Physics & Astronomy), received $504,566 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his innovative work with zinc-ion batteries, Media link
- Misty Schieberle (English), appointed to a five-year term as an editor for Studies in the Age of Chaucer, the journal of the New Chaucer Society, Media link
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Faye Xiao (East Asian Languages & Cultures), awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to support field trip to CUHK in the fall of 2024 to conduct research for the production of third monograph, The Hen Cackles in the Morning: Gendered Soundscape & Female Leadership in Modern Chinese Literature & Cinema
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- Maziyar Afifi (Philosophy)
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(2023). Cueing involuntary memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e374. Media link
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(Book chapter) Cultivating Students toward Knowledge Enrichment: Benefits, Concerns and Two Solutions for AI in K-12 Education. D. Burke & H. Crompton (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications in K-12: Theories, Ethics, and Case Studies for Schools. Routledge (Forthcoming 2024)
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Folashade Agusto (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2024) Cacao sustainability: The case of cacao swollen-shoot virus co-infection. PLoS ONE 19(3): e0294579. Media link
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Ben Allen (Psychology), (2024) "The Promise of Explainable AI in Digital Health for Precision Medicine: A Systematic Review" Journal of Personalized Medicine 14, no. 3: 277. Media link
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Michael Amlung (Applied Behavioral Sciences), (2024). Delay discounting in individuals with anxiety and related disorders compared to healthy controls. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. Media link
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Kristy Allen (Applied Behavioral Sciences), (2024). A Brief Measure of Positive and Negative Interpretation Biases: Development and Validation of the Ambiguous Social Scenarios Questionnaire. Assessment, 31(3), 715-731. Media link
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Justin Bernstein (KU Center for Genomics), Rafe Brown (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Integrative methods reveal multiple drivers of diversification in rice paddy snakes. Sci Rep 14, 4727 (2024), Media link
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Sharon Billings (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2024). Expanding the spatial reach and human impacts of critical zone science. Earth's Future, 12, Media link
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Nyla Branscombe (Psychology), (2024). GROUPS 4 RETIREMENT: A new intervention that supports well-being in the lead-up to retirement by targeting social identity management. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97, 1–26. Media link
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Dorothy Daley (Environmental Studies), (2024). Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States. Environmental Policy and Governance, 34(1), 3–15. Media link
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Alesha Doan (Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies | Public Affairs & Administration), (2024) Dobbs, Gender Animus, and the Impact on Abortion Providers, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 45:1, 27-44, Media Link
- Tera Fazzino (Psychology | Cofrin Logan Center), (2024). Giving fruits and vegetables a tax break: lessons from a Dutch attempt. Public Health Nutrition, 27(1), Media link
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Kelsie Forbush, Yiyang Chen, Marianna Thomeczek, Sonakshi Negi, William Morgan, Samiya Rasheed, Sarah Johnson-Munguia, Anjali Sharma (Psychology), Alesha Doan (Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies | Public Affairs & Administration), (2024). Examining associations between disordered eating and harmful substance use in a nationally representative sample of US veterans. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1–13. Media link
- Alison Gabriele (Linguistics), (2024). Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English. Second Language Research, 40(1), 51-77. Media link
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Jeffrey Girard (Psychology), (2024). Associations between transdiagnostic traits of psychopathology and hybrid posttraumatic stress disorder factors in a trauma-exposed community sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1–13. Media link
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Ani Kokobobo (Slavic, German, & Eurasian Studies), "Why the Kremlin Tried to Obstruct Alexei Navalny's Funeral," Time Magazine, "Made by History," Media link
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Kyoungchul Kong (Physics & Astronomy), (2024) "ℤ2 × ℤ2 Equivariant Quantum Neural Networks: Benchmarking against Classical Neural Networks" Axioms 13, no. 3: 188. Media link
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Christopher Kywe, Erik Lundquist, Brian Ackley, Patrick Lansdon (Molecular Biosciences), The MAB-5/Hox family transcription factor is important for C. elegans Innate Immune Response to S. epidermidis Infection, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2024, Media link
- Brian Laird, Micah Welsch (Chemistry), (2024) Cation Dependence of Gas Adsorption in Clinoptilolite and RHO Zeolites Using Monte Carlo Simulation: A Linear Model, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, Media link
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Arash Mafi (Physics & Astronomy), Nonlinear optical properties of lanthanum titanate glasses prepared by levitation melting. Appl. Phys. Lett. 26 February 2024; 124 (9): 094104. Media link
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Robert Moyle, Devon DeRaad, Karen Olson, Lucas DeCicco (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Parallel evolution in an island archipelago revealed by genomic sequencing of Hipposideros leaf-nosed bats, Evolution, 2024, Media link
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Cameron Piercy (Communication Studies), (2024). Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction. Communication Research, 0(0). Media link
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Misty Schieberle (English), (2023). Thomas Hoccleve of London: New Evidence of Hoccleve's Family and Finances. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45, 287-311. Media link
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David Slusky (Economics), (2023) Accessing the Safety Net: How Medicaid Affects Health and Recidivism, National Bureau of Economic Research, Media link
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William Smith (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2024) First evidence of sexual dimorphism in olfactory organs of deep-sea lanternfishes (Myctophidae) PeerJ, Media link
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Phil Stinson (Classics), "Reconstruction of the Edicts of Diocletian on the Facade of the Civil Basilica," in Crawford, M., Aphrodisias XIII. Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias. (Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2023): 13-30. In English with Turkish summary. Media link
- Aaron Teator, Kasun Wekasinghe (Chemistry), Porphyrins pave the way to precision polymers. Nat. Synth 2, 811–812 (2023). Media link
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Ilya Vakser, Keeley Collins, Matthew Copeland, Petras Kundrotas (Computational Biology), CAPRI-Q: The CAPRI resource evaluating the quality of predicted structures of protein complexes, Journal of Molecular Biology, 2024, Media link
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Michael Vitevitch (Speech-Language-Hearing), (2024) Cognitive modelling of concepts in the mental lexicon with multilayer networks: Insights, advancements, and future challenges. Psychon Bull Rev, Media link
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Michael Wuthrich (Political Science), (2024) Incumbent and opposition popular support and boycotts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond, Contemporary Politics, Media link
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Folashade Agusto (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), "Prescribed Fire: Explore the Effect of Fire on Tick-borne Diseases," plenary speaker at International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Biology & Life Sciences, Media link
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Arash Mafi (Physics & Astronomy), "Temperature-dependent fluorescence and site-selective excitation studies of ytterbium doped silica," Proc. SPIE 12865, Fiber Lasers XXI: Technology and Systems, 128650F (12 March 2024), Media link
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Zach Mohr (Public Affairs & Administration)
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provided testimony to the Committee on House Administration advocating for election administration funding reform, Media link
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presented at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics on election administration funding, Media link
- Benjamin Rosenthal (Visual Art)
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presented artists lecture, "and and, it [st]uttered(ed)(ed)(ed)," Department of Art & Art History, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, Feb. 22, 2024, supported by The Lillian and Morrie Moss Endowment for the Visual Arts
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upcoming premiere of experimental video artwork, "Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodes," as part of Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBTQ Festival, April 10, 2024, Media link
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James Yeku (African & African American Studies), presented, "The Sound of Memes: Cultural Netizenship & the Intermediality of the Memesphere," Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Media link
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Research Facilities Act Program, Deadline April 4
The purpose of the Research Facilities Act Program (RFAP) is to assist qualifying institutions with the costs related to constructing, purchasing, updating, renovating, or modifying agricultural research buildings to conduct research in the areas of agriculture and food sciences.
NEH Individual Research Fellowships & Stipends, Deadline April 10
Competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development.
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Red Hot Graduate Research: Changing Forms, Transferring Knowledge
Friday, March 22, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Watson Library, 3 West
Red Hot Graduate Research introduces KU scholars to the work of their colleagues; prompts questions within current research through the perspectives of many disciplines; and develops collaborative research teams as a result of overlapping interest & expertise.
Presenters:
Mohsen Fatemi, Public Affairs & Administration
Andrew Frederick, Geography & Atmospheric Science
Rachel O'Flannagan, Social Welfare
Keana Tang, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Digital Humanities Tools Workshop: Omeka
Friday, March 22, 3 to 4:30 p.m., Watson Library, Conference Room 455
This workshop will teach participants how to use Omeka and explore the different ways that users can display archives and digital exhibits. Omeka is an open-source platform used to present digital collections of images, media, and other items.
New Faculty Foundation Series: Time Management & Planning Your Schedule
Tuesday, April 9, 2 to 3 p.m., KS Memorial Union, Divine Nine Room
Join the Hall Center for a celebration of KU faculty authors in the humanities, social sciences, and arts who published or released books in 2023. The event, which will take place on March 4, from 4:00 - 6:00 PM, in the Hall Center Conference Hall, will include a reception and a brief program featuring select faculty authors.
NIH Writing Workshop: Competitive Subsidiary Documents
Wednesday, April 17, 10 a.m., Virtual
Brought to you by the KU Office of Research and the Bremner Editing Center in the KU School of Journalism and Tn Consulting, LLC., the workshop will provide strategies and tips for writing competitive proposals from experienced NIH-funded investigators and explore the use of advanced writing techniques and partner review for enhancing proposal clarity and persuasiveness.
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