Dr. Amy Belfi, associate professor of psychological science, has been invited to be a keynote speaker for the 2024 annual meeting of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in May.
Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, CASE dean and professor of history and political science, published an article in Persian on the generational transformation of Iran’s political elite in Iran Academia Journal. He was featured in a program on Israel-Hamas War: What’s Iran’s role? produced by CAN TV in Singapore, and quoted in an article on the 45th anniversary of the Iranian revolution published by The National (United Arab Republic), and another article on ranking date of international universities in Times Higher Education.
Dr. Jessica Cundiff, associate professor of psychological science, and graduate student Abigail Wilson presented a poster at the annual convention for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego, titled "Examining how gender, academic discipline, and organizational climate predict job satisfaction and turnover intentions among university faculty members."
Dr. Michael Eze, assistant professor of chemistry, published an article in Scientific Reports, a highly respected Nature journal.
Mathew Goldberg, associate teaching professor of English and technical communication, published a story collection titled Night Watch which won the 2023 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and will be published with Willow Springs Books (Eastern Washington University).
Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, professor and chair of education, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education on Feb. 18 in Denver. Her presentation, "Walking Away from the Profession: A Statewide Mixed Methods Examination of Test Scores and Placement Data," was a research-to-action session intended to promote discussion on institutional and state policy.
Dr. Hyunsoo Kim, assistant professor of physics, is the first author of the article "Nodal superconductivity in miassite Rh17S15," which has been published through Springer Nature as part of its SharedIt initiative.
Dr. Julia Medvedeva, professor of physics, received a $108,000 grant from Arizona State University for a project titled “2243-1704 The Role of Hydrogen in the Performance and long-term Stability of High-Efficiency Silicon Cells and Modules.” With this addition, the award totals $319,000.
Dr. Shelley Minteer, professor of chemistry and director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability, received the following three grants: $349,999 from Touchlight Genetics Limited for a project titled, “DNA-enabled biobattery – seeking to address the limitations of portable power supply,” $39,917 from the Research Foundation of the City University of New York for a project titled “Instant Evolution: Testing the Endosymbiont Hypothesis Using MitoPunch Technology,” and $191,466 from the Brookhaven National Laboratory for a project titled, “Transformative Biohybrid Diiron Catalysts for C-H Bond F.”
Dr. Symeon Mystakidis, assistant professor of physics, published five different articles with his colleagues in the month of January 2024. This included an article in Nature Physics, one article in SciPost Phys, one article in Physical Review A, and two articles (see here and here) in Physical Review Letters. The last one of these articles made it to the cover of Physical Review Letters.
Dr. Michael Peterson, assistant professor of philosophy, published his first book titled Derrida and Inheritance in Environmental Ethics: The Half-Lives of Responsibility (Springer, 2024).
Dr. Ross C. Reed, lecturer in philosophy, has published a new book titled Mindscapes: A Short Introduction to Philosophy (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2024). Reed specializes in philosophical counseling, existentialism, phenomenology, addiction, love, trauma, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy in literature. He has been in private practice as a philosophical counselor since 1998. He is currently working on the new book titled Precarity and Trauma: Philosophical Counseling in the Late Anthropocene, to be published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2025.
Dr. Shun Saito, assistant professor of physics, received a $27,166 grant from the California Institute of Technology for a project titled “Project Infrastructure for the Roman Galaxy Redshift Survey.”
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, professor of history and political science, hosted a grant writing workshop on Feb. 10, with the American Research Center in Egypt, Missouri Chapter (ARCE-MO) of which she is a long-time board member. Part of ARCE-MO's professionalization series, the workshop provided a short overview of grants and funding opportunities related to Egyptology and how to write strong, fundable proposals.
Dr. Katherine (Katie) Sharp, assistant professor of education and biological sciences, Dr. Michelle Schwartze, assistant teaching professor of education, and Julie Alexander, assistant teaching professor of education, presented at the Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education spring conference on Feb. 29. They shared Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques that can engage students in creative ways for science, math, and reading. Alexander also presented a session on the Science of Reading.
