Julia Alexander, assistant teaching professor of education, received a $5,000 grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for a project titled “International Literacy Association National Recognition Report Funding.”
Dr. Amy Belfi, associate professor of psychological science, has been named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Martin Bohner, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of mathematics and statistics, had a productive summer. In May, he visited the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, as part of his Australian Research Council Discovery Grant titled "Partially Observable MDPs, Monte Carlo Methods, and Sustainable Fisheries." During this visit, Bohner delivered a lecture in the mathematics department on May 16. On June 5, he was invited to give a presentation at the Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques in Porto-Novo, Benin. In June, Bohner collaborated with Dr. Giuseppe Caristi at the University of Messina in Italy and delivered a plenary talk at the APPLMATH2024 conference. In Paris, he presented a plenary talk at ICDEA2024. Finally, on June 30th, he gave another plenary talk at ATA2024 in Serbia, followed by a visit to the University of Kragujevac in Čačak, Serbia.
Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, CASE dean, presented a paper on nepotism ties in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the biannual conference of the Association for Iranian Studies in Mexico City, Mexico on Aug. 13.
Danielle Bowerman and Nicholas Fleece, Ph.D. candidates in the mathematics and statistics department, along with their advisor, Dr. Matt Insall, have a publication that is soon to appear in the journal Advances in Group Theory and Applications, titled "Introducing n-Magic Groups and Characterizing 3-Magic Finitely-Generated Abelian Groups."
Dr. Garry “Smitty” Grubbs, interim vice provost of graduate education and professor of chemistry, received a $155,351 grant from the Department of Energy for a project titled “Studying f-Electron Contributions in Thorium- and Uranium-Containing Molecules.”
Dr. Qingguo Hong, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, received a $244,561 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “LEAPS-MPS: Physics-oriented Numerical Solutions for Poromechanics.”
Courtney Jones, director of the Kummer Center for STEM Education, received a $385,644 grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for a project titled “21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Application.”
Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, chair and professor of education, was part of a group to receive a $69,466 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Build it Green!: Enhancing Middle School Science Education through an Energy Efficient Building Design Curriculum.” She also received a $37,019 grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for a project titled “Missouri S&T Child Development Center Expansion.”
Dr. Shelley Minteer, professor of chemistry and director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability, was elected a 2024 Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She also received a $173,381 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project titled “Innovative Bioelectrochemical Approaches for Sustainable Hydrazine Synthesis.”
Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry, was invited to speak at the 3rd International MXene Conference in Philadelphia, where he was highlighted by the conference organizing committee as a Prominent Speaker.
Dr. Vahe Permzadian, assistant professor of psychological science, published an article titled “Assessing the Predictive Validity of Expectancy Theory for Academic Performance” in BMC Psychology.
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, professor of history and political science, is presenting a paper at the European Association of Archaeologists meeting in Rome on Aug. 30 titled “Foundation Deposits: The Careers of Emily Paterson and Mary C. Jonas of the Egypt Exploration Society.” The paper is part of a larger panel, "Reclaiming Herstory: Women in Mediterranean Archaeology from the 18th century to Today.”
Dr. John Singler, professor of mathematics and statistics, has been appointed interim chair of mathematics and statistics.
Dr. Thomas Vojta, Curators' Distinguished Professor and chair of physics, is a co-author of the paper "Novel emergent phases in a two-dimensional superconductor,” published in New Journal of Physics. It is the result of a collaboration with scientists in India and Israel and reports exciting experiments in a system of superconducting thin films.
