CAS Student Stories and News

CAS Student Stories

• Billy Browning (Anthropology) traveled to Ecuador to analyze the effects and uses of medicinal plants for both monkeys and humans.
• Nick Campbell (History; Political Science) digitized century-old documents from the Russian Revolutionary War and investigated the failure of anti-Bolshevik forces to consolidate against Vladimir Lenin.
  
• Samuel Fouts (English: Creative Writing) has been putting together a collection of his own Old English-style poems, inspired by stories like Beowulf and focused on climate change.
  
• Eavan Guirl (History) conducted an in-depth research project on the origins of the birth control pill in the continental U.S. and its untold roots in Puerto Rico.
  
• Jacky Linden (History; Diplomacy and Global Politics) plans to meet with policymakers in Washington, DC to encourage them to put more emphasis on understanding the causes of terrorism.
  
• Callie Meyer (Professional Writing, Environmental Science co-major) analyzed the queer-coded villain, as seen in popular media like TV's "Supernatural" and various Disney films.
  
• Ryan Rosu (English Literature, Philosophy, Film Studies co-major) explored the concepts of race, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism within Christmas movies, from A Christmas Carol to Bad Santa.
  

• Mollie Duffy (Public Administration) appeared in the Miami Minute to showcase her efforts to create the Democracy Bus, a new voting resource for students.
• Patrick Mese, a Nigerian-born student in the Master of Gerontological Studies (MGS) program, talks about his internship experience at LeadingAge in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Kathryn Mierzejewski (Psychology; Neuroscience co-major) and Mackenzie Blazek (Biology; Pre-Medical Studies co-major) are both undergraduate research assistants in professor of Psychology Christopher Wolfe's Medical Decision Making lab, where they investigate genetic counseling and focus on hypothetical scenarios about genetic breast cancer risk based on real-life patient reports.
  
• Kara Reynolds (Speech Pathology and Audiology) is a nontraditional student who has successfully balanced school, work, and parenthood while earning her degree this month.
• Abby Showalter (Professional Writing) is interning at ARA City Radio station in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, as part of her semester abroad and plans to work in entertainment law.
  

CAS Alumni News

• Sarah Brumett ’15 (Mass Communications), now content coordinator for feature animation at Netflix, describes her introduction to working on a film set during Miami University’s first winter term in 2014.
  
• Camille (Reid) Fabiyi, PhD, MPH, '00 (Psychology), is a program officer at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was part of a team selected for a 2023 NIH Director's Award for excellence in implementing the "RADx Tech for Maternal Health Challenge" as part of the IMPROVE Initiative, designed to address the nation’s maternal health crisis.
  
• Wil Haygood '76, acclaimed author and journalist, plans to donate his alma mater materials from his life's work to Miami as the Wil Haygood Collection.
  

CAS Faculty and Staff News

• Heather Claypool (Psychology) received the Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction and Mentoring.
• Steven Conn (W.E. Smith Professor of History) penned the article, "Rural America has lost its soul," on the myth of the family farm for unherd.com.
  
• Bruce Drushel (Media, Journalism, and Film) published an article in The Conversation that highlights the work of Rupert Murdoch, the rise of his media empire, and how that empire changed the news landscape.
• Shenyue Jia (Geography) is one of 14 scientists selected as a 2024 Science Communications Identities Project (SCIP) fellow.
  
• Neringa Klumbytė (Anthropology, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies) wrote a piece on Russian imperialism.
  
• Hongmei Li (Media, Journalism, and Film) and her team received $120K from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for Making the Invisible Visible, a collaborative digital edition on the rich and diverse histories, lived experiences, and contributions of Asian Americans and diasporic Asians in Ohio to the state’s economy, culture, art, and education, through partnerships with Asian local communities.
  
• Jason Osborne (Statistics) published his article, "Colleges face gambling addiction among students as sports betting spreads," in The Conversation.
• Luis Iñaki Prádanos (Spanish and Portuguese) co-authored an op-ed with Daniela Inclezan about AI and sustainability for Resilience.org.
  
• Anne Whitesell (Political Science) published an article for The Conversation about Ohio's Issue 1, in which voters decided the state's abortion rules.