A new KU survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star formation and black hole growth at “cosmic noon” — a mysterious epoch 2-3 billion years after the Big Bang when galaxies like the Milky Way underwent an intense growth spurt.
The results of the MIRI EGS Galaxy and AGN (MEGA) survey soon will be published by the Astrophysical Journal. But a preprint of the findings appears on arXiv (PDF) now.
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S. Mohsen Fatemi (School of Public Affairs & Administration) received a University Graduate Fellowship, Fall 2025 for the dissertation titled: "Toward a Causal Theory of Energy Justice: Exploring Regulatory Typologies, Uncovering Plausible Pathways, and the Conditional Role of Ownership in U.S. Utilities."
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Helena Malinakova (Chemistry) named February 2025 Sutton Family Research Impact Award recipient. Media link
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Omri Senderowicz (Jewish Studies Program) was named winner of the 2025 Michael S. Bernstein Dissertation Award on behalf of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan for his dissertation "From Society to Community: Privatizing the Israeli Kibbutz (1975-2020)."
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Daniel Tapia Takaki has been reelected as the ALICE-USA Council Chair for an additional 2-year term. This is an association that represents 13 research teams working for the ALICE Collaboration at CERN, from 11 US universities and 2 DOE National Labs.
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Edward Bowen (French, Francophone & Italian Studies), (2025). The Strategies of Launching and Circulating Films in a Cinema Chain in Mid-1960s Rome. Comunicazioni sociali — Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies 3 (2024): 334-51.
- Zongwu Cai (Economics), (2025). State-Varying Model Averaging Prediction. WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS.
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Brittnee Carter, Asaf Day (Political Science), (2024). International troop deployments and insurgent territorial advances: evidence from Somalia. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 1-27. Media link
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Jocelyn Colella, Robert Timm (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2025). Innovations that changed mammalogy: frozen tissue collections. Journal of Mammalogy, gyaf007. Media link
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Hai Long Dao (Mathematics), (2025). Periodicity of ideals of minors in free resolutions. Journal of Algebra. Media link
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Dale Dorsey (Philosophy), (2025). Prudential Perfectionism: A Refinement. Journal of the American Philosophical Association 11 (1), 135-153. Media link
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Elizabeth Felix (Sociology), (2025). Who is Labeled a Potential Mass Shooter? Mental Health Status, Perceived Propensities for Mass Violence, and Mental Health Stigma. The Sociological Quarterly, 1-19. Media link
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Paula Fite, Annie Ryder (Applied Behavioral Science), (2025). Understanding Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment, Biological Sex, and Emotion Reactivity Among Emerging Adults. Emerging Adulthood, 21676968251324077. Media link
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Kelsie Forbush (Psychology), (2025). Psychometric properties of the German version of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory. Journal of Eating Disorders 13 (1), 1-12. Media link
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Marc Greenberg (Slavic, German, Eurasian Studies), (2025). Early textual monuments of Slavic, Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. Media link
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Donald Haider-Markel (Political Science), (2024). Cultural Threat, Outgroup Discrimination, and Attitudes toward Transgender Rights. Political Behavior 46 (4), 2401-2426. Media link
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Jeffrey Hall (Communication Studies), (2023). Quality conversation can increase daily well-being. Communication Research 52 (3), 291-315. Media link
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Yunfeng Jiang (Mathematics), (2025). A virtual correspondence for projective surfaces. Moduli 2, e5. Media link
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Allard Jongman, Joan Sereno (Linguistics), (2025). Expectation of speech style improves audio-visual perception of English vowels. Speech Communication, 103243. Media link
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Mark Joslyn (Political Science), (2025). Gun Ownership: The Bridge Between Rural and Urban Voters in 2020. Social Science Quarterly 106 (3), e70016. Media link
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John Kelly, Lucas DeCicco, Robert Moyle (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology); Paul Hime (Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum), (2025). Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator. Systematic Biology, syaf023. Media link
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Changwan Kim (Sociology), (2025). Culture and Immigrant Selectivity in Shaping Asian American Education: Evidence from Historical Census Data. American Sociological Review. Media link
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Changhwan Kim, Yurong Zhang (Sociology), (2025). Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers. Social Science Research 129, 103178. Media link
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Brian Laird, Nuong P. Nguyen, Deepak, Deepak Timalsina (Chemistry), (2025). Interference of PFAS sorption on zeolites from natural water characteristics. Chemosphere 378, 144414. Media link
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Ting Lei (Geography & Atmospheric Science), (2025). Computerized Proof of Fundamental Properties of the p-Median Problem Using Integer Linear Programming and a Theorem Prover. International Journal of Geo-Information 14 (4), 162. Media link
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Xi Li (Communication Studies), (2025). The convergence of public sphere and state advocacyA case study of the Qing Lang movement in China’s entertainment industry. Journal of Argumentation in Context 13 (1), 49-73. Media link
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Erik Lunkquist (Molecular Biosciences), (2025). The DPY-14 cuticle collagen regulates left-right asymmetric neuronal migration in Caenorhabditis elegans. microPublication Biology. Media link
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Erik Lundquist, Vedant Jain, Celeste Gormly (Molecular Biosciences), (2025). Consensus furin cleavage sites in the cuticular collagens DPY-17 and SQT-3 are required for Q neuroblast left-right asymmetric migration in Caenorhabditis elegans. microPublication Biology. Media link
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Rolfe Mandel (Anthropology), (2025). ’Ain Ghazal, Jordan. Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, 1-3. Media link
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Dionyssios Mantzavinos (Mathematics), (2025). On the proximity of Ablowitz–Ladik and discrete nonlinear Schrödinger models: A theoretical and numerical study of Kuznetsov-Ma solutions. Wave Motion, 103547. Media link
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Andreas Mӧller, Christine Chan, Joseph Andrew, Noah McLean (Geology), (2025). Magmatism and extension in the Death Valley extensional region with convergence of two migrating Cenozoic regional magmatic fronts. Geosphere. Media link
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Joonha Park (Mathematics), (2025). Adolescent self‐construal across cultures: Measurement invariance of the Aspects of Identity Questionnaire‐IV in 30 countries. Journal of Research on Adolescence 35 (2), e70017. Media link
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Raymond Pierotti (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2024). Domestication and Human/Wildlife Mutualism. Humans 4(4):371-384. Media link
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Andrew Townsend Peterson (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2025). Why the growth of arboviral diseases necessitates a new generation of global risk maps and future projections. PLOS Computational Biology, 21 (4), e1012771. Media link
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David Rahn, Nathaniel Brunsell (Geography & Atmospheric Science), (2024). Assessment of the Urban Heat Island and Differential Responses to Extreme Heat Events. AGU24.
- John Ralson (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). CMB low multipole alignments across WMAP and Planck data releases. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 539, 542–556.
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Jason Raibley (Philosophy), (2024). Objectivity/Subjectivity of Values. Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research, 4786-4790. Media link
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Christopher Rogan (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). Safety and efficacy of combined portal and hepatic vein embolisation in patients with colorectal liver metastases (DRAGON1): a multicentre, single-arm clinical trial. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 53. Media link
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Christophe Royon (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). Gluon saturation effects in exclusive heavy vector meson photoproduction. Physics Letters B 864, 139394. Media link
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Gregory Rudnick (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). Insights into environmental quenching at z ∼ 1: an enhancement of faint, low-mass passive galaxies in clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, staf635. Media link
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Robert Schwaller (History), (2024). The Spanish Conquest of Panama and the Creation of Maroon Landscapes, 1513–1590. Overlooked Places and Peoples, 19-46. Media link
- Anton Shirikov (Political Science), (2025).
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Steven Soper, Mengjia Hu, Malgorzata Witek (Chemistry), (2025). MK2 promotes p16 negative head and neck cancer migration, invasion, and metastasis. Cancer Letters, 217690. Media link
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Daniel Tapia Takaki (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). Energy-energy correlators in charm-tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at TeV. HAL Open Science. Media link
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Ilya Vasker, Amar Singh, Vineeth Kumar Ambati, Matthew Copeland, Petras Kundrotas (Computational Biology), (2025). Highly Optimized Simulation of Atomic Resolution Cell-Like Protein Environment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Media link
- Amber Watts (Psychology), (2025). Lifetime estrogen exposure and domain-specific cognitive performance: results from the IGNITE study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 17, 1524474. Media link
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Alexander Williams, Annaleis Giovanetti, Victoria Perko, Westley Youngren, (Psychology), (2023). A metascientific review of the evidential value of acceptance and commitment therapy for depression. Behavior Therapy 54 (6), 989-1005. Media link
- Graham Wilson (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). Search for charged-lepton flavour violation in top quark interactions with an up-type quark, a muon, and a lepton in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV. hal-05038176. Media link
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Liang Xu, Xiaoqing Wu (Molecular Biosciences), (2025). HuR inhibition reduces post-ischemic cardiac remodeling by dampening myocyte-dependent inflammatory gene expression and the innate immune response. FASEB J; 39(6):e70433. Media link
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Hui Zhao, Ryan J. Scott, Neno Fuller, Adithya Sadanandan, Pavel Valencia-Acuna, Wai-Lun Chan, Qunfei Zhou (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). Long-Lived Charge-Transfer Excitons in a Graphene–PTCDI–TiOPc Trilayer Heterostructure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Media link
- Jiakun Zhang (Political Science), (2025). Domestic Politics and Editorial Control Over Foreign News Coverage in the People’s Daily, 1993–2022. Journal of Contemporary China, 1-17. Media link
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S. Mohsen Fatemi (School of Public Affairs & Administration) was chosen as a Selected Participant for the 2025 New Energy Summer Summit, Irving Institute for Energy and Society, Dartmouth College. Media link
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Zach Mohr (Public Affairs and Administration) was invited to present his research on behavioral budgeting to the World Bank Governance and Institutions Seminar Series. The talk given on April 8th at World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC was entitled "Experiments and Applied Behavioral Economics in Public Budgeting" and was presented with his co-author Whitney Afonso (UNC).
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Sam Zipper (Geology) gave an educational presentation at Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop that was spotlighted in the Lawrence Journal World. Media link
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Send us your book jackets!
The hallway in the Dean’s Office in Strong Hall is uniquely decorated with a display of book covers of College faculty members’ recently published scholarly works. The display is very popular as we receive many compliments on the quality and variety of book covers. The exhibit is updated annually and we are now soliciting submissions for the next group of book covers. This includes images of creative works. If you would like to submit the cover from your recently published work for consideration, please send an email containing the electronic image of the cover or creative work to the Dean’s Office (clasdean@ku.edu) by Monday, June 2. The images will go on display over the summer and submissions will hang in our office for the 25-26 academic year. We invite you stop by and see your book cover in our gallery.
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Advancing University Research in an Uncertain Federal Funding Landscape
Friday, April 25, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Virtual event
Join KU colleagues to hear from our partners at Lewis-Burke Associates the latest updates on the federal funding landscape — and actions you can take to continue advancing your research amid shifting priorities. Register on Zoom
Red Hot Graduate Research
Friday, April 25
4-5:30 p.m., Anschutz Library, 3 North
Red Hot Graduate Research brings together graduate student researchers from all disciplines, to reveal overlaps and connections across areas of interesting and methodological approaches. The format of these sessions is inspired by Pecha Kucha, which features short, slide-based talks that introduce audiences to a topic. Each installment features researchers, speaking for six minutes each.
Presenters:
Christine Singleton, English
Maddy Enlow, Museum Studies/Indigenous Studies
Austin Nguyen, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Hayley Yocum, WGSS
Syed Muhammad Omar, Social Psychology
Jayhawks Elevate
Tuesday, April 29
2:30 p.m., Burge Union, Forum C
Jayhawks Elevate is the continuous improvement program at KU and KUCR. This program is designed to give your ideas on how to improve KU visibility so we know what is going wrong and what can be done about it. Join Dean Mafi and Jayhawk Elevate's Craig Alexander at this kickoff event, which will take place in person and also be live-streamed. The link will be provided closer to the event.
Faculty Development Academies
May 19-23, Registration Required
Faculty Development Academies are day-long intensives, focused on a particular topic, giving faculty time to delve deep and develop a core capacity in a chosen area. Days will focus on international partnerships, graduate student mentorship, academic leadership, research, and writing. Join for as many days as you'd like.
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