College Research Review

This week in College research

Doctoral candidate Agnes Phoebe Muyanga's paper in the Journal of Philosophical Investigations examines the steps women’s organizations, activists, and advocates are taking to increase the age of consent in Tanzania. Read the entire article.

Nancy Brady (Speech-Language-Hearing) has been selected to receive the 2025 Honors of the Association from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). It is the highest honor awarded by ASHA in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field.
Kim Beets and Nancy Snow (Philosophy) are co-PIs on a three-year grant for “Character Development at the University of Kansas: The IRISE Virtues Initiative,” $699,287 from the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University. The grant will begin on August 1, 2025 and end on July 31, 2028.

Glenn Adams, Dongyu Li (Psychology), (2023). Reverence and reciprocity in prioritization of care to a parent: The role of cultural ecologies and implications for decolonizing relationality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 51 (8), 1374-1395. Media link
Folashade Agusto (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2025). An agent-based model for household COVID-19 transmission in Gauteng, South Africa. PloS one, 20(7), e0325619. Media link
Kristy Allen (Applied Behavioral Science), (2025). Training directors’ perspectives on admissions barriers in clinical psychology doctoral programs for individuals from marginalized backgrounds. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 19(3), 237-244. Media link
Hala Altamimi (School of Public Affairs & Administration), (2025). Lower cost at a cost? The effects of flexible labour on non-profit operational outcomes. Public Management Review, 1-34. Media link
Michael Amlung (Applied Behavioral Science), (2025). Research synthesis in behavior analysis I: An introductory guide to conducting systematic reviews. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 124 (1), e70040. Media link
Nancy Brady, Olivia Boorom (Speech-Language-Hearing), (2025). Prelinguistic Communication Complexity of Children With Neurogenetic Syndromes. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-18. Media link
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
Donald Haider-Markel (Political Science), (2025). Beyond Group Membership: New Way of Measuring Environmental Interest Group Strength in the American States. State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 25(2), 237-259. Media link
Michelle Heffner Hayes (Theatre & Dance), (2025), Chapter "Burla y Bulla," in the edited collection Funny Moves: Dance, Humor, and Politics. Oxford University Press, eds. Savigliano and Shwadron, p. 48.
Katherine Hoemann (Psychology), (2025). Psychosocial dynamics of suicidality and nonsuicidal self-injury: a digital linguistic perspective. npj Mental Health Res 4, 28. Media link
Jeffrey Holliday (Linguistics), (2025). The Perception of Foreign Accent in Isolated Korean Words. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Media link
Kelsey Jorgensen (Anthropology), (2025). Stepwise neofunctionalization of the NF-κB family member Rel during vertebrate evolution. Nature immunology 26 (5), 760-774. Media link
Christopher Koliba (School of Public Affairs & Administration), (2025). Truth and Democratic Accountability: Considerations for the Public Sphere, Public Leadership and Performance Management. Public Performance & Management Review, 1–30. Media link
Noah McLean (Geology), (2025). Temperature dependence of uranium and thorium partitioning in igneous zircons. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 402, p.62-75. Media link
Isaac Melanson (Applied Behavioral Science), (2025). Comparison of Caregivers’ and Children’s Preference for Mand Topography During Functional Communication Training. J Dev Phys Disabil 37, 429–447. Media link
Zachary Mohr (School of Public Affairs & Administration), (2025). Pinching pennies at the polls: A public financial management research agenda for election administration. Public Money & Management, 1–9. Media link
Mark Reaney (Theatre & Dance), (2024). MODEL BEHAVIOR: Intricate, accurate, and adaptable, digital models embrace the technological capabilities available to artists today. Theatre Design & Technology, Summer2024, 60(2),10-21.
Daniel Reuman (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2025). Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-11. Media link
Panying Rong, Erin Liston (Speech-Language-Hearing), (2025). An Explanatory Model of Speech Communication Centered on Multiscale Rhythmic Modulation: Implications for Motor Speech Assessment and Intervention for Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, p. 1-25. Media link
Misty Schieberle (English), (2025). Thomas Hoccleve's Trilingual Glossary: A Critical Edition from London, British Library, Manuscript Harley 219 (Medium Aevum Monographs Series). Media link
Ward Thompson, Thanuja Jayawardena, Sahan M. Godahewa (Chemistry), (2025). Beyond Force Field Mixing Rules to Model Silica–Water Interfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 129(29). Media link
Yan Zhang (Communication Studies), (2025). Chinese International students’ Culturally Salient Communication Experiences with U.S. Host Nationals. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 1-18. Media link
Hui Zhao, Ting Zheng, Neema Rafizadeh (Physics & Astronomy), (2025). Optical properties tuned by alloying monolayer MoWS_2 with graded composition. Optics Letters 50 (14), 4510-4513. Media link

S. Mohsen Fatemi (School of Public Affairs & Administration) has launched a new monthly column, titled "Bedtime Stories for Public Servants," in PA TIMES Online, the digital publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). The series blends storytelling, reflective dialogue, and research-based insights to explore the ethical and emotional dilemmas faced in public service. The first installment (introduction) was published on July 21, 2025, and is available here.
Jeffrey Hall (Communication Studies) presented the paper, "Three Tests of Compensation by Mobile and Social Media: How Change in Social Resources Over Time Moderates its Effects on Well-being" at The International Communication Association conference June 2025 in Denver.
Marcy Lascano (Philosophy) delivered the keynote address, "But that the dread of something after death: Cavendish’s exploration of the afterlife" at the tenth annual Dutch Seminar at University of Groningen. Media link
Zachary Mohr (School of Public Affairs & Administration) was an invited speaker at the Election Assistance Commission's "2025 EAC Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers" at MIT on July 9, 2025. Media link
Sam Zipper (Geology) presented "Integrating renewable energy into agricultural landscapes for water-energy-food-environment synergies: Co-development of a novel approach in southwestern Kansas, USA" at the The 2nd International Sociohydrology Conference. Media link

Call for Applications
FRESSH: Fostering Research Expansion in the Social Sciences & Humanities
FRESSH is designed to help scholars in the arts, social sciences, and humanities in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences apply for and obtain external funding for their research. The program consists of workshops during the academic year during which scholars work with invited guests and each other to develop a proposal suitable for submitting to an external funding agency such as the NEH, ACLS, NSF, or a foundation or residential fellowship program outside the University of Kansas.

Applications are due to fressh@ku.edu by 5 p.m. on August 12. More details at link above.

College Research Product Awards
These awards seek to recognize College faculty members for creating an outstanding research product that makes significant contributions to the scholar’s discipline. Depending on the discipline, the product can be a book, a book chapter, a journal article (or a set of journal articles on a theme), a presentation, a public resource, a piece of art, an exhibit, a play, etc. The award amount is $1,000, which can be paid as summer salary (taxable) or used to support research-related activities and travel. Click here for more details.

Nominations for the Fall awards are due September 1 and should be submitted on the Qualtrics site. Questions can be addressed to Rachel Decorie.

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Volume 46 | July 29, 2025