Volume 58 | January 27, 2026 |
Meghan Davidson, associate professor of Speech-Language-Hearing and director of the Comprehension and Language Learning (CALL) Lab, is leading a team of researchers that are using eye-tracking technology and text analysis to understand how much of a story autistic children comprehend--and how we can better tell stories to them. Watch a brief video about their research.
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- Shannon Stewart (Theatre & Dance) received a 2026 Creative Capital State of the Art Prize for Kansas. The award provides a $10,000 unrestricted grant to artists in each U.S. state and territory.
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Marzi Ashrafian (Theatre & Dance) received a grant from the National Humanities Center to present her project "The Uninvited Guest" as part of the 2026 Being Human Festival, which takes place April 18 to May 2, 2026.
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Nancy Snow (Philosophy) was awarded a $2,262,393 grant from the Templeton Religion Trust (with co-PI Dr. Elizabeth Mancuso of Pepperdine University) to lead teams from three universities in a three-year project entitled, "An Investigation into Roles Played by Intellectual Humility, Courage, and Religious Literacy in Covenantal Pluralism."
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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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K. Christopher Beard (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). Climate changes in Anatolia across the late Eocene and the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: successive warming and cooling, aridification, and implications for the westward dispersal of Asian terrestrial mammals. EGUsphere, 1-37. Media link
- Rafe Brown (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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Zongwu Cai (Economics), (2026). A panel quantile model via correlated random effects approach for testing pecking order theory. Econometric Reviews, 45 (2), 206-232. Media link
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Geng Chen (Mathematics), (2026). Poiseuille flow of hyperbolic Ericksen-Leslie system in dimension two: G. Chen et al. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 65 (2), 65. Media link
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Chris Crandall, Samuel Arnold, Jennifer Wong-Chavez, Kelly Swanson (Psychology), (2026). Changing Norms Following the 2024 US Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672251411348. Media link
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Christopher Cushing (Applied Behavioral Science), (2026). Insights and Advances in Physical Activity Research on Youth with Type 1 Diabetes. Current diabetes reports, 26 (1), 2. Media link
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Tyrone E. Duncan, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan (Mathematics), (2025) Discrete-Time Mean-Field-Type Control Problems with Higher-Order Costs. 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 3540-3545. Media link
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Rachael Farber, Lindsey Penland, H. Hirushan, N. Dissanayake (Chemistry), (2026). Spatially Resolved Understanding of Electronic Metal–Support Interactions on Cu/TiO2(110). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Media link
- Kelsie Forbush, Marianna Thomeczek, Samiya Rasheed, Jeffrey Girard (Psychology), (2025). Examining the Role of Insomnia in Maintaining Binge Eating and Restricting in United States Veterans. European Eating Disorders Review. Media link
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Jeffrey Hall, Maura Corder (Communication Studies), (2026). Adult sibling relationships and media multiplexity theory. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 43 (1), 181-200. Media link
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Jeffrey Holliday (Linguistics), (2026). The Role of Gender in the Social Evaluation of Korean Short Tongue Pronunciation. Language and Speech, 00238309251388973. Media link
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Brian Laird, Micah Welsch (Chemistry), (2026). Dependence of Water Adsorption on Aluminum Content in the BEA (Polymorph A) Zeolite Using Monte Carlo Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Media link
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Dionyssios Mantzavinos, Chris Mayo (Mathematics), (2026). Well-posedness of the higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation on a finite interval. Journal of Evolution Equations, 26 (1), 11. Media link
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Katya Mack, Joseph Ward (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). Alternative splicing contributes to plasticity and regulatory divergence in locally adapted house mice from the Americas. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 43 (1). Media link
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Kelly Matsunaga (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2025). Homology and heterochrony in the evolution of conifer seed cones. New Phytologist. Media link
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Ludwin Molina, Ekin Birdir (Psychology), (2026). Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violence. British Journal of Social Psychology, 65 (1), e70042. Media link
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Robert Moyle (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), (2026). When high dispersal meets high diversification: the case of the White-bellied Cuckooshrike, Coracina papuensis. Emu-Austral Ornithology, 1-13. Media link
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Ashley Muddiman (Communication Studies), (2026). What Kind of Depolarization Should We Aim For? Making Communication Transformative. Political Communication, 1-8. Media link
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Berl Oakley (Molecular Biosciences), (2026). CsdA‐LaeB Regulatory Hub Contributes to Aspergillus fumigatus Virulence via Fumiquinazoline C Biosynthesis. Advanced Science, e19021. Media link
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Hartwin Peelaers (Physics & Astronomy), (2026). Vibrational signatures of hydrogen defects in delafossite CuMO2 (M= Al, Ga, In): Hybrid density-functional calculations. Journal of Applied Physics, 139 (3). Media link
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Cameron Piercy, Wenrong Cui (Communication Studies), (2026). Big five traits and self-determination in preferences for working in person: the moderating role of communication overload. Journal of Communication Management, 1-18. Media link
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Christopher Rogan (Physics & Astronomy), (2026). Simultaneous Probe of the Charm and Bottom Quark Yukawa Couplings Using 𝑡¯𝑡𝐻 Events. Physical Review Letters, 136 (1), 011801. Media link
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Sofia Rojas (Political Science), (2026). Blame Avoidance and Corruption: How Politicians' Denials Shape Citizen Perceptions and Political Accountability. Governance 39 (1), e70109. Media link
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Misty Schieberle (English), (2026). ‘Writen In Th'eir': The Courts in Christine De Pizan's "Epistre Au Dieu D'Amours" And Thomas Hoccleve's "Letter of Cupid." Notes and Queries.
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Paul Scott (French, Francophone & Italian Studies), published the book chapter “Intimate Intimations: Hippolyte’s Non-Normative Sexuality in Racine’s Phèdre” in Racine’s Later Greek Tragedies: Essays on Iphigénie and Phèdre, eds. Joseph Harris, Nicholas Hammond, and Paul Hammond (Leiden: Brill, 2026), 170-91. Media link
- Erin Seybold (Geology), (2026). Identifying Headwater Streams across the Conterminous United States. Ecosystems, 29 (1), 22. Media link
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Benjamin Sikes, Eric Duell, James Bever, Thomas McKenna (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) and Terrance Loecke (Environmental Studies), (2026). Functional consequences of land-use history: Plant community and soil microbiome mediation of nutrient loss, soil aggregate stability, and soil erosion. Science of The Total Environment, 1014, 181311. Media link
- Thomas Tuozzo (Philosophy), (2025). Review of Christopher Moore: The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunê and Self-Constitution in Classical Greece. The Journal of Philosophy 122 (7), 370-375. Media link
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Robert Unckless, Margaret Schedl, Kent Mulkey, Taiye Adewumi (Molecular Biosciences), (2026). The study of the Drosophila innubila Nudivirus in cells and flies. Virology, 110790. Media link
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Graham Wilson (Physics & Astronomy), (2026). First Exclusive Reconstruction of the , , and Mesons and Precise Measurement of Their Masses. Physical Review Letters, 136 (3), 031902. Media link
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Judy Wu, Andrew Schultz (Physics & Astronomy), (2026). Broadband Flexible Quantum Dots/Graphene Photodetectors. Micromachines, 17 (1), 121. Media link
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Sam Zipper (Geology), (2026). Variability of an adaptive capacity index to construction method and socio-economic context. Nat Hazards, 122, 72. Media link
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David Mechem (Geography & Atmospheric Science) coauthored the paper "Characterizing Post-Frontal Mesoscale Cellular Convective Clouds in a Regional Forecast Model," which was presented at the 106th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Houston Texas on Jan. 26.
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Isidro Rivera (Spanish & Portuguese) will deliver the paper "Embodied Emotions in Iberian Spirituality, ca. 1492" at the 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies in May in Kalamazoo, MI.
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Paul Stock (Sociology) presented on the panel "Valuing Justice in Territorial Markets: Agroecology As a Way of Knowing and Valuing for the Anthropocene" at the 5th International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, on July 7, 2025.
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IPSR Research Luncheon
Friday, February 6, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Watson Library, 3 West Reading Room
Join the Institute for Policy and Social Research for their February 2026 research luncheon. Lunch will be provided. Please email ipsr@ku.edu if you would like to attend, and if you require any accommodations or have any dietary restrictions.
Faculty Writing Circle: Spring 2026
Wednesdays: February 11, March 11, April 15, 3 to 5 p.m.
The Office of Faculty Affairs invites you to join together with your colleagues for our spring 2026 Faculty Writing Circle. Whether you want to make progress on a longstanding writing project, conceptualize and plan out a new idea, design materials for a course, or finish a manuscript, our Faculty Writing Circle can help you commit time this spring! We know that teaching, grading, mentoring, and service can push writing to the margins. In this supportive space for concentration and focus, you can dedicate time to your writing without interruption.
Faculty Learning Circle: Associate Professors Preparing for Promotion at Mid-Career
Thursdays: February 12, March 12, April 12, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Are you an associate professor planning to go up to full professor in the next 1-2 years? Join the Spring 2026 Faculty Learning Circle offered by the Office of Faculty Affairs! This series is designed as a supportive, practical space for faculty to prepare for their promotion review.
Educate & Act: Grant Funding & Non-Profits
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 5:30-6:30 pm | Virtual Event
The Educate & Act series features panelists speaking on topics of current relevance to civic action and engagement. Programs in this series feature presenters from across research and practice on campus, as well as specialists beyond the University. Click here for the Zoom registration.
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