Volume 64 | April 21, 2026 |
Garrett Baber, a clinical psychology doctoral student, and his colleagues sought to test whether emotions experienced within dreams — like fear and joy — change feelings the following morning. To find out, they analyzed dream reports from more than 500 people, employing machine learning to sort emotions reported in dreams. Then they compared those dreamt emotions to participants’ emotional states the following day.Their findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Sleep. Read the full story.
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Webster McDonald (Theatre & Dance) has been awarded a 2026 CLR James Research Fellowship from the African American Intellectual History Society.
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Eileen Nutting (Philosophy) was named runner-up for the 2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics, for "Chain Accounts of Sets and Propositions."
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Silvia Park (English) won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction category for her debut novel Luminous.
- Paul Stock (Environmental Studies, Sociology) won the Midwest Sociology Society’s inaugural Teaching Excellence Award for Full Time Faculty.
- Jon Tunge (Chemistry) was named February 2026 Recipient of the Walter & Roy Cross Professional Service Award.
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Samuel Zipper (Geology) has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Zipper will travel to Sweden for the fall 2026 semester to conduct research at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Melinda Adams (Indigenous Studies), (2026). Fire Back: Rematriating Indigenous Cultural Fire and Sovereignty. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 49(1). Media link
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Michael Amlung (Applied Behavioral Science), (2026). Diagnostic validity of Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment indices for alcohol use disorder: Findings from an observational case–control study. Addiction. Media link
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Maria Brunetti (Physics & Astronomy), (2026). Sampling off-axis neutrino fluxes with the short-baseline near detector. Phys. Rev. D, 113, 072007. Media link
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Rafe Brown (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). Diversification and Colonization in the Indo-Australian Archipelago: Genomic Insights from Colubrid Snakes. Journal of Biogeography, 53: 4:e70202. Media link
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Zongwu Cai (Economics), (2026). Robust Inference for Time Series Quantile Regression: A Dependent Wild Bootstrap-Based Approach. Theoretical and Applied Economics, 202612. Media link
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Paula Fite (Applied Behavioral Science), (2026). Parental Factors Contributing To Risk for Lifetime Alcohol Use among Rural Middle School Students: Do Individual Factors Moderate these Effects? J Child Fam Stud, 35, 589–597. Media link
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Donna Ginther (Economics), (2026). The Economics of Postdoctoral Researcher Positions. NBER Working Paper 35014. Media link
- Don Haider-Markel (Political Science), (2026).
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Play fair: the impact of issue framing on attitudes toward transgender youth participation in sports. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 8:1607634. Media link
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An Army for God: Gun Ownership, Christian Nationalism, and Support for Political Violence. Social Science Quarterly.107, no. 3: e70150. Media link
- Megan Kaminski (Environmental Studies), (2026)
- Ocotillo. Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, 21, no. 1: 179. Media link
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Neighbors in the book Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods. ed. Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug. Island Press: 45-46. Media link
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Elizabeth Leatherman (Speech-Language-Hearing), (2026). Evaluative Trialing: A Grounded Theory of Preservice Speech-Language Pathologists’ Learning Processes with Speech-Generating Devices. Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, 10(1). Media link
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Erik Lundquist (Molecular Biosciences), (2026). Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of C. elegans Q neuroblast lineage during migration and differentiation. PLoS One, 3;21(3):e0343734. Media link
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Susan Lunte, Matthew Zupan, Jay Sibbitts, Meredith Hartley (Chemistry), (2026). Carnosine protects human microglia against Aβ oligomers through a multimodal mechanism of action: inhibition of oxidative stress, rescue of cellular energy status, and enhancement of phagocytosis. Front Immunol., 17:1768094. Media link
- David Mechem (Geography & Atmospheric Science), (2026). Turbulence and Cloudiness in Cumulus Topped Marine Boundary Layers. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, e250132. Media link
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Camila Meneses, Kier Pitogo, Syrus Decena, Christian Supsup, Rafe Brown (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). A new miniaturised Platymantis (Amphibia: Anura: Ceratobatrachidae) from Sibuyan and Tablas islands, Romblon Island Group, Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 74:197–219. Media link
- Kevin Mullinix (Political Science), (2026). An Eye for an Eye? The Conditional Punitiveness of Christian Nationalists. Political Science Quarterly, qqag007. Media link
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Joane Nagel (Sociology), (2026). Gender, violence, and the military. Chapter in Handbook on Gender and Violence, Edward Elgar Publishing. Media link
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Oluwaseun Sanwoolu (Philosopy), (2026). AI companions can give constant support – but distort ideas about what a relationship really is" published in The Conversation. Media link
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Jorge Soberon, Marlon Cobbs, Fernando Machado-Stredel, A. Townsend Peterson (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). Enhancing island biogeography: improving identification of potential species pools via environmental filtering. Sci Rep. Media link
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Shuai Sun (Chemistry), (2026). From Barrier to Bridge: An Engineering-First General Chemistry Course. J. Chem. Educ., 103, 3, 1404–1410. Media link
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Judy Wu (Physics & Astronomy), (2026). Flexible uncooled ultraviolet to middle-wavelength infrared ultrabroadband nanohybrid photodetectors for imaging. Nano Ex., 7 025002. Media link
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Jack Zhang (Political Science), (2026). Domestic Politics and Editorial Control Over Foreign News Coverage in the People’s Daily, 1993–2022. Journal of Contemporary China, 35(158), 1303–1319. Media link
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Samuel Zipper (Geology), (2026). Modeling Assessment of Aquifer Contamination by Sulfate and Uranium in the Upper Arkansas River Corridor in Kansas. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation. Media link
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- Maria Velasco (Visual Art)
- Presented her collaborative research 'Without The Stories, Who Are We? Reclaiming The Topeka Bottoms', at the Kansas Association of Historians 97th Annual Conference hosted by the Kansas Historical Society and Washburn University, 27-29 March 2026.
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Will participate in 'Art Is Not A Thing', at The Fez International Gathering in Morocco, from May 14th to 17th, 2026. The gathering brings together artists, curators, researchers, and cultural practitioners from around the world to engage in exhibitions, panels, and collaborative practices dedicated to dialogue, cultural diplomacy, peace-building and cross-cultural exchange.
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Faculty Development Academies Week
May 18-22, 2026 | 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. Participants are welcome to register for as many dates as they’d like. Each day of Faculty Development Academies Week features KU experts, providing interactive programming focused on a specific topic.
Topics for the week include:
Research and Discovery: Evolving Scholarship (9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 18)
Academic Leadership: Activating Relational Superpowers (9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 19)
Academic Mentorship: Mentoring Graduate Students (9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. May 20)
Accessibility & Learning: Accessibility in the Student Experience (9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. May 20)
Global Engagement: Cultivating a Global Mindset (9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 21)
Let’s Write! (9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 22).
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