Dr. M. Emilia Barbosa, assistant professor of Spanish, and Lily Martinez Evangelista published a chapter titled “Sex and Love in the Time of Quarantine: Re-signifying Gender and Erotic Representations—Erika Lust-Style” in Phil Shining and Jon Braddy (eds.), Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2023).
Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, CASE Dean and professor of history and political science, was interviewed on the war between Hamas and Israel by NPR (10/15/2023), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (10/16/2023), and BBC World Service (10/18/2023 and 10/25/2023). He also delivered the keynote at an Oct. 13 conference in Chicago on the Iran-Iraq War organized jointly by the University of Arkansas and Northeastern Illinois University.
Ryan Cheek (assistant professor of technical communication) received the Class of '42 Excellence in Teaching Award during the Miner Alumni Association’s Legends Luncheon on October 27.
Dr. Kathryn Dolan, associate professor of English and technical communication, was interviewed about her book, Breakfast Cereal: A Global History, for the podcast Something You Should Know.
Dr. Shane Epting, assistant professor of philosophy, published an article titled, "Philosophy of the City and Transdisciplinary Possibilities," in the Philosophy of the City Journal. He gave an invited talk at the Philosophy Department Colloquium at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in September. Epting also gave a talk at the Philosophy of the City conference at Brooklyn College in October.
Dr. Larry Gragg, Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus of history and political science, published Master Builder: The Fred S. Kummer Story.
Dr. Sarah Hercula, associate professor of English and technical communication, and Dr. Jessica Cundiff, associate professor of psychological science, coauthored an article titled "Adapting the verbal-guise technique: A STEM-focused campus community's attitudes toward nonnative Englishes," in the Journal of Language, Identity & Education.
Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, chair and professor of education, received a $70,000 DEWEY grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. This grant, which is for recruiting and retaining future teachers in the Education program, will fund high school student field trips, STEM outreach activities taught by education students in middle schools, and travel/registration fees for education undergraduate students to attend conferences.
Dr. Clair R. Kueny, chair and associate professor of psychological science, raised a giant pumpkin and brought it to campus. "Huckleberry," the pumpkin, visited campus on Sept. 29 and then weighed in at 1,293 lbs. at a statewide Illinois Pumpkin weigh-off. Then history was made when Kueny’s husband, Steve Kueny, paddled Huckleberry down the Missouri River for a world record-breaking 39.1 miles in under just 11 hours. The story was featured on CNN in this clip.
Jackie Marling, educational program coordinator for the South Central Regional Professional Development Center, received a $6,210 grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for a project titled “To guide and support Missouri schools in preparing success-ready students.”
Dr. Michael Peterson, assistant professor of philosophy, presented a paper titled “10,000 Year Waste Isolation, Institutional Survival, and the Endurance of Social Injustice,” at the International Association for Environmental Philosophy in Toronto.
Dr. Shun Saito, assistant professor of physics, received a $71,447 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project titled “Accelerating Dark Energy Science from Emission-Line Galaxy surveys and participation of women and underrepresented minority groups in Midwest.”
Dr. Michelle Schwartze, assistant teaching professor of education, presented with Dr. Courtney Janes, associate professor of education at Hannibal La-Grange University, at the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's Interface 2023 conference in Osage Beach, Missouri. Their talk, “Launching into STEM with Project Lead the Way,” focused on the PLTW Launch curriculum and how to effectively incorporate that into elementary classrooms.
Dr. Daniel Shank, associate professor of psychological science, and Dr. David Wright, professor of English and technical communication, published an article titled "The Usability of an Integrated Smart Home: A Usability Study of a Laboratory-Based Google Smart Home" in Communication Design Quarterly.
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, professor of history and political science, co-hosted the 5th annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium, online on Oct. 21. Hosted by the American Research Center in Egypt's Missouri Chapter, the focus of this year's conference was how to teach ancient Egypt in K-12 classrooms and featured speakers and attendees from all over the country. She also attended the Public Interest Technology (PIT-UN) Convening in Boston with Dr. Casey Canfield, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering at S&T. They both helped to launch S&T's PIT-UN group here on campus in October.
Dr. Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, chair and professor of chemistry, published three chapters in Springer Handbook of Aerogels (New York: Springer, 2023). These included: “Polymer Crosslinked Aerogels,” “Interpenetrating Phenolic/Oxide Networks and Carbothermal Synthesis of Metallic Aerogels as Energetic Materials," and “Phenolic-type Aerogels and Derived Carbons: The Paradigms of Resorcinol-Formaldehyde and Polybenzoxazine Chemistries.”
Dr. Robin Verble, associate professor of biological sciences and director of Missouri S&T’s Ozark Research Field Station, led a recent research report on dispatcher well-being, in collaboration with several others which was cited in an article in Mother Jones.
Dr. Kyle Wernke, assistant professor of music, had his composed piece, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," performed by the Fort Dodge Area Symphony on Sunday, Oct. 15.
