Volume 63 | April 8, 2026 |
Hayley Beltz, a postdoctoral researcher in Physics & Astronomy, has won a highly competitive NASA Hubble Prize Fellowship, making her the first KU scientist to receive the prestigious award in its 36-year history. The fellowship was created to support promising postdoctoral scientists in their pursuit of independent research that contributes to NASA Astrophysics. The fellowship will financially support her research for the next three years. For more information about Hayley's research, read the news release or watch the video below.
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Anna Binoy (Physics & Astronomy) has been selected for the DOE-INFN Summer Student Exchange Program, a competitive international fellowship supporting research in fundamental physics. She is one of only 11 students nationwide chosen for the 2026 program, which is jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). The program enables U.S. students to collaborate with leading scientists at INFN laboratories across Italy. Binoy will spend September and October 2026 in Bologna, Italy, working with an INFN research team on advanced particle detector technologies.
- Brian Laird (Chemistry) named the February 2026 Sutton Family Research Impact Award Recipient. Media link
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Webster McDonald (Theatre & Dance) was awarded a 2026 C.L.R. James Research Fellowship from the African American Intellectual History Society. Media link
- Silvia Park (English)
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Won the Otherwise Prize for her novel, "Luminous." The Otherwise Prize honors works of science fiction and fantasty that expand and explore ourunderstanding of gender. Media link
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Her novel, "Luminous," has been selected as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Media link
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Paul Stock (Environmental Studies | Sociology) won the Midwest Sociological Society's inaugural Teaching Excellence Award for Full Time Faculty. Media link
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Glenn Adams (Psychology), (2026). Social representations of Canadian history. Memory Studies, 0(0). Media link
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Christina Alligood (Applied Behavioral Science), (2025). Development and Demonstration of Paired Stimulus Preference Assessment and Embedded Reinforcer Validation with Adult Gorillas. Behav Analysis Practice. Media link
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Folashade Agusto (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). A Game-Theoretic Analysis of COVID-19 Dynamics with Self-Isolation and Vaccination Behavior. Algorithms, 19(1), 58. Media link
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Rafe Brown, Kin Onn Chan (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). A Genomic Perspective on Cryptic Species Reveals Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in the Gray Zone of the Speciation Continuum, Systematic Biology, syag001, Media link
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Rafe Brown, Marites Sanguila, Justin Bernstein (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). An updated herpetological inventory of the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary, eastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Zookeys. Media link
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Rafe Brown, Camila Meneses (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). A new species of fringed Forest Gecko, genus Luperosaurus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Sibuyan Island, Central Philippines. PeerJ. 14:e20504. Media link
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Zongwu Cai (Economics), (2026). Partially Conditional Average Treatment Effect on Treated for Difference-in-Differences. Working papers series in Theoretical and Applied Economics. Media link
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Josephine Chandler, Samalee Banerjee (Molecular Biosciences), (2026). Bacterial nitrogen-related phosphotransferase systems: new insights into diverse roles in virulence, physiology, and central metabolism. J Bacteriol 0:e00541-25. Media link
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Anthony Fehr, Alec Bevis, Tammy Cockerham, Catherine Kerr, Sunil More, Robin Orozco, Kathryn Rosa, Nancy Schwarting (Molecular Biosciences), (2026). An autoimmunity-associated allele of PTPN22 enhances innate antiviral immunity to protect against acute coronavirus infection, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (12) e2519903123. Media link
- Don Haider-Markel (Political Science), (2026). An Army for God: Gun Ownership, Christian Nationalism, and Support for Political Violence. Social Science Quarterly 107, no. 3: e70150. Media link
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Jeffrey Holliday (Linguistics), (2026). The Perception of Foreign Accent in Isolated Korean Words. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 36, no. 1: 667–676. Media link
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Beth Innocenti (Communication Studies), (2026). Calling Out Displays and Disclaimers of Aggression. Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice, Vol. 46 No. 1. Media link
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Yunfeng Jiang (Mathematics), (2026). Independent control of dual axial foci using a circular Pearcey beam and a single lens. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. Vol. 202, 109749. Media link
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Chris Koliba (Public Affairs & Administration), (2026). Diagnostic Tools for Assessing the Transgression of Democratic Accountability Standards: the United States election administration and public health crises of 2020. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance. Media link
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Chris Koliba, K. Noelle Broughton, Margaret Swenson (Public Affairs & Administration), (2026). Preemption and Generational Health Equity: The Role of Forced Inaction in Shaping Outcomes. The Milbank Quarterly. Media link
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Erik Lundquist, Jennifer Hackett, Brian Sanderson, Felipe Teixeira (Molecular Biosciences), (2026). Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of C. elegans Q neuroblast lineage during migration and differentiation. PLoS One 21(3): e0343734. Media link
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Alex Maile (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). The Evolution of Lures in Anglerfishes (Acanthuriformes: Lophioidei): Investigating Nature’s Tackle Box. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 114(1):103–118. doi:10.1643/i2025018. Media link
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Dionyssios Mantzavinos (Mathematics), (2026). Discrete nonlinear Schrödinger versus Ablowitz–Ladik: existence and dynamics of generalized focusing NLS-type lattices over a nonzero background. Nonlinearity 39 035024. Media link
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Kelly Matsunaga, Ana Andruchow-Colombo (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). Revisiting the enigmatic Cheirolepidiaceae: origins, phylogenetic relationships, and a new whole-plant concept, Annals of Botany, mcag069. Media link
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Mikhail Medvedev (Physics & Astronomy), (2026). Expansion-Driven Self-Magnetization of High-Energy-Density Plasmas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 115101. Media link
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Isaac Melanson (Applied Behavioral Science), (2025). Evaluation of a Sequential Extinction Procedure on Preference for Communication Modalities During Functional Communication Training, Behavioral Interventions: e70053. Media link
- Ashley Muddiman (Communication Studies),
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(2026). Ch. 10: Strategies for reducing partisan tensions in practical assignments. Teaching Political Communication, ed. Kevin Coe, Diana Zulli. Monograph Book. Media link
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Tyler Myroniuk (Sociology), (2026). How race, internal migration and gender are associated with consistency in healthcare-seeking behaviour in South Africa: Nationally representative longitudinal evidence from 2008 to 2015. South African Journal of Public Health, 8(3), e3635. Media link
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Malika Pritchett (Applied Behavioral Science), (2025). Behavior Analysis and Equity in Public Education: An Abolitionist Approach. Behav. Soc. Iss. 34, 388–412. Media link
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Cameron Piercy (Communication Studies), (2026). Knowledge-Sharing Tensions in Multiteam Contexts: Idealized Openness and Conditional Closedness. Small Group Research, 0(0). Media link
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Cameron Piercy, Molly Han (Communication Studies), (2026). Nonprofit Resilience and Adaptive Capacity: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital in Local Collaborative Networks. Management Communication Quarterly, 0(0). Media link
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Rikki Roscoe (Communication Studies), (2026). Ch. 4. Communicating What Is Silent: Black Women Navigating Mental Health. Mental Health Communications for Underserved Populations, ed. Do Kyun David Kim, Jin-Ae Kang. Bloomsbury Publishing. Media link
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Trina Spencer (Applied Behavioral Science), (2026). Chapter in ebook, The Science of Reading 3.0: Widening the Lens on Literacy. Media link
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Trina Spencer, Valerie Thompson, Jomella Watson-Thompson (Applied Behavioral Science), (2026). Community-Engaged Scholarship: An Interpartner Approach for Collaborative Practice. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2026). Media link
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Lilly Springer (Economics), (2026) Downstream effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans: birth rates and WIC. Economic Inquiry, 1–14. Media link
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Jordan Thomas (Psychology), (2026). Hormonal Contraceptive Use, Stress Disorders, and Cardiovascular and Thrombotic Risk in Women. JAMA Network Open. 9;(1):e2551878. Media link
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Sofia Vera (Political Science), 2026. Blame Avoidance and Corruption: How Politicians' Denials Shape Citizen Perceptions and Political Accountability, Governance: e70109. Media link
- Jomella Watson-Thompson (Applied Behavioral Science),
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(2025). Kansas city brain builders: Progress implementing a multisectoral approach promoting equity in young children's language nutrition and school readiness. American Journal of Community Psychology, 76, 293–311. Media link
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Thomas Zane (Applied Behavioral Science), (2026). Comparing interteaching and discussion forums in an asynchronous online classroom. J Appl Behav Anal. (Fall);57(4):989-998. Media link
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Sam Zipper (Geology), (2026). Potential Impacts of Groundwater Pumping on Stream Temperature Are Greatest in Streams With Substantial Cold Groundwater Inflows. Hydrological Processes, 40(3), e70444. Media link
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Sam Zipper, Don Whittemore, James Butler (Geology), Erin Seybold (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026), Modeling Assessment of Aquifer Contamination by Sulfate and Uranium in the Upper Arkansas River Corridor in Kansas. Groundwater Monit R. Media link
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Sam Zipper (Geology), Maria Elena Orduña Alegría (Kansas Geological Survey), (2026). Impacts of Policy Design and Risk Management on Groundwater Conservation Program Effectiveness. Earth’s Future, 14(3), e2025EF006745. Media link
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- Michael Amlung (Applied Behavioral Science) presented "Application of Behavioral and Neuro-economics to Investigate Contextual Influences on Alcohol and Cannabis Use" at the Global Psychology Series, University of Silesia Katowice, Poland and the School of Public Health at Brown University on Jan. 16, 2026.
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Kiera Eckhardt (Anthropology) organized a panel for the 2026 Society for Applied Anthropology Conference entitled, "Migration, Health, and Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean," where she presented "Refugee Rights and Perspectives of Service Providers in Quito, Ecuador." She also presented: "An Ethnography of Migration in Quito, Ecuador," at the Everyday Practices of Negotiating Changing Policy Environments with Immigrants Panel.
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Isaac Melanson (Applied Behavioral Science) was featured on the podcast All Things Behavior to discuss his paper, "The Potential Evocative Effect of Leisure Item Omission in the Attention and Escape Conditions of a Functional Analysis."
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Malika Pritchett (Applied Behavioral Science) will present "Behavior Analysis and Equity in Public Education: An Abolitionist Approach" at the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX this month.
- Maria Velasco (Visual Art)
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Has work currently on view at El Museo del Barro in Asunción, Paraguay for the exhibition, "50+ Conmemorando Medio Siglo de Actividades del CCEJS en Paraguay," curated by Osvaldo Salerno and Ticio Escobar. Media link
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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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Jomella Watson-Thompson (Applied Behavioral Science) presented "The road taken: Contributions to advancing community-engaged scholarship to improve health and well-being" at the College of Health and Public Service, University of North Texas on Nov. 13, 2025.
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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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