Spotlight

The English department’s podcast, CultureKlatsch, will be partnering with the philosophy department and welcoming a new cohost: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Faculty of Women and Gender Studies, Sarah Tyson. The first interdisciplinary episode of season two will launch on October 14 th and will focus on race, police...

Mia Fischer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, recently received the 2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). The award recognizes the most outstanding scholarly book published during the previous calendar year, and Fischer is receiving the award for the book, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility...

Brian Buma, Integrative Biology Assistant Professor, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of historical management patterns on future carbon sequestration projects in the US and Canada. The support totals $476,254 over three years and will result in the first spatially explicit carbon...

A timely publication from six Geography and Environmental Sciences faculty titled “Pandemics and the future of human-landscape interactions,” appeared August 27 th in the journal Anthropocene . While early reflections on COVID-19 from the academic community have tended to target the microbiology, medicine, and animal science communities, this article articulates...

Associate Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Audrey Hendricks recently received a National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) award to develop efficient methods to improve the use of genetic summary data. The Genomic Innovator Awards was developed to support innovative work by genomics investigators who are early in their careers...

Gary Olson, Senior Instructor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, will co-PI on a new National Science Foundation award (PI of the award is Heather Johnson from the School of Education & Human Development). The project, titled " Promoting Mathematical Reasoning and Transforming Instruction in College Algebra ,”...

Associate Dean for Diversity, Outreach, and Initiatives, and Professor of History, Marjorie Levine-Clark contributed to the edited collection A Cultural History of Work: Volumes 1-6 , which recently won the Association of American Publishers 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference: Humanities. Her chapter, “Work and Society” was included in Volume...

Peter A. Kopp, Associate Professor of History, recently began a yearlong National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Grant in the hopes of finishing his second book, “Fabián García: Father of the New Mexico Chile Pepper.”

In “Logos on Everest: Commercial Sponsorship of American Expeditions, 1950–2000,” published in July by Cambridge University Press , the History Department’s latest hire, Assistant Professor Rachel Gross lays out the impact companies have had on the history of summiting Mount Everest. “The funds dedicated to sponsorship by the end of...

Incoming Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Sara Branco has been awarded one of the Mycological Society of America’s most prestigious honors, the 2020 C.J. Alexopoulous Prize. The MSA’s Alexopoulous Prize is given annually to the most outstanding mycologist early in their career. The nominees are evaluated primarily on the basis...