Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, CASE dean and professor of history and political science, appeared in a BBC Persian Service live program in Washington, D.C., on the domestic and international implications of Donald Trump’s election victory.
Dr. Michael Bruening, professor of history and political science, gave a presentation at a roundtable session at the Sixteenth Century Conference in Toronto.
Postdoctoral fellow Alexander Davies in the Grubbs Microwave Spectroscopy Group in chemistry recently received the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy's Miller Prize. This conference is the premier international conference in the field of molecular spectroscopy. As part of this award, the honoree is invited to submit an invited paper over the research topic they spoke on into the peer-reviewed Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy and invited to give a 15-minute plenary talk in front of the entire conference attendance at the next ISMS meeting in 2025.
Dr. Kate Drowne, assistant provost for faculty affairs and professor of English and technical communication, received a $645,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project titled “Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM.”
Dr. Shannon Fogg, chair and professor of history and political science, presented a paper called "'I've suffered enough from this war:' Accusations, Jews, and Postwar Reparations Claims" at the Western Society for French History Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The paper is based on research she conducted this summer in Paris thanks to an OVCRI Seed Funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences grant.
The electronic engineering company, Tektronix, Inc., recently featured Dr. Garry Grubbs, interim vice provost of graduate education and professor of chemistry, and his Grubbs Microwave Spectroscopy Group on a video on their website about their unique uses of Tek's oscilloscopes and arbitrary waveform generators for chemistry and chemical research.
Drs. Sarah Hercula, Daniel Shank, Jessica Cundiff, and David Wright, from the English and technical communication and psychological science departments, co-authored an article titled "Bias toward the accents of virtual assistants" recently published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. The article explores users' perceptions of the accented voice options for Siri and Google Assistant.
Dr. Ulrich Jentschura, professor of physics, received a $31,042 supplemental award from National Science Foundation for a project titled “PM: precision low-energy quantum electroynamic theory and fundamental processes.” With this addition, the award totals $301,042.
Dr. Clair Kueny, chair and associate professor of psychological science, was invited to co-host a national workshop on combating toxic workplaces which took place on Nov. 13. This workshop is part of a larger series hosted by the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology to support practitioners and leverage the science of I-O psychology to improve workplaces.
Dr. Susan Murray, interim vice provost for online education and professor of psychological science, received a $95,000 grant from Mazoon College in Oman for the “Mazoon College Agreement” that continues the long-term cooperation between S&T and Mazoon.
Dr. Simeon Mystakidis, assistant professor of physics, delivered an invited talk and chaired a session at the 2024 Midwest Cold Atom Workshop, held Nov. 8-9 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This marked the first time in the workshop's 29-year history that Missouri S&T participated in the event, highlighting S&T's integration into the collaborative efforts of Midwest physics departments to advance future quantum initiatives. Next year, the workshop will return to its origins at the University of Illinois, and for the first time, it is expected to be hosted in Rolla, Missouri, the following year.
Dr. David Samson, assistant professor of music, has been invited to direct the Show-Me Conference All-Conference Band. The band, made up of select musicians from high schools throughout central Missouri, will rehearse and perform at Chamois High School on Feb. 13, 2025.
Dr. Michelle Schwartze, assistant teaching professor of education, presented at the Association for Middle Level Educators (AMLE) annual conference in Nashville, Nov. 6-9. She presented on the importance of building relationships with students in the middle school classroom, formative assessment techniques, and STEAM lessons for middle school students. Along with that, she was also part of a panel discussion for early career educators.
In October, Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, professor of history and political science, gave 10 talks related to her book, Women in the Valley of the Kings, from London to Columbia, and from Berkeley, California to Rolla. In November, she gave another book talk to the Northwest Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt over Zoom. She also attended the History of Science Society annual meeting in Merida, Mexico, where she presented a paper on public engagement with the history of science and ran several events for the Centennial Celebration of the society.
Dr. Gregory Tschumper, Castleman Professorship of Discovery in chemistry, received a $301,463 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Computational characterization of inter- and intramolecular non-covalent interactions.”
Dr. Risheng Wang, associate professor of chemistry, Dr. Dave Westenberg, Curators’ Teaching Professor of biological sciences, and Dr. Yishu Zhou, assistant professor of economics, recently published a new paper titled “Boosting the Power Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells by Using Dual Nanomaterial-Modified Carbon Felt Electrodes” in Energy & Fuels. This study investigates the innovative use of DNA origami — nanoscale structures formed from DNA, traditionally known for carrying genetic information — to enhance the power output of microbial fuel cells (MFCs).
