Dr. Trent Brown, professor of English and technical communication, delivered an invited lecture, "The Ordeals of Hattie Lee Barnes," at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson on June 28.
Dr. Marco Cavaglia, professor of physics, received a $10,000 grant from the American Physical Society (APS) for a proposal to host the 2024 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Missouri S&T.
Dr. Richard Dawes, adjunct professor of chemistry, received a $30,000 grant from the Sandia National Laboratories for a project titled “Theoretical Prediction of Nitrogen Dioxide Potential Energy Surfaces and Absorption Spectra.” With this addition, the award totals $130,244.
Dr. Larry Gragg, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus of history and political science, was featured in this story about his over 40-year S&T career.
Anne Groniger, business support specialist in psychological science, was elected vice president of S&T’s Staff Council.
Dr. Halyna Hodovanets, assistant professor of physics, received a $249,132 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “LEAPS-MPS: Design and discovery of new magnetic Weyl semimetals.”
Dr. Tseggai Isaac, Chancellor’s Professor of history and political science, published “The Cycles of Progress and Regress in Ethiopian Civilization” in Comparative Civilizations Review.
Dr. Irina Ivliyeva, professor of Russian, and Perry Koob, S&T’s acting chief information officer, published an article titled "Experimental multi-dimensional scaling of web-scraping results from the A.A Zalizniak Grammatical Dictionary and the Russian National Corpus. Creating a corpus fragment of all possible word forms of modified Russian sound verbs using the web-scraping methodology. Compilation of a summary table for the present tense, future tense, imperative, imperfective and perfective gerund forms" in Research Data (2023). Irina also received a 2023 summer research grant through the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) and the Slavic Reference Service (SRS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for a project titled “On the hierarchical structure of the terminological system in Russian word-formation synthesis and its practical applications.” REEEC and SRS support scholars through in-person and virtual programming, research assistance, professional development opportunities, and collections and database access.
Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, professor and chair of education, Julia Alexander, assistant teaching professor in education, Tammy Taylor, a high school business teacher in Waynesville, Missouri, and Dr. Michelle Schwartze, assistant teaching professor of education, led a substitute teacher and paraprofessional certification workshop July 10-12 in Pacific, Missouri. This was an interactive workshop approved by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for paraprofessional and substitute teacher certification. The workshop was created by faculty in the education department and covers the legal responsibilities of teachers, student engagement strategies, classroom management and more. The workshop will be provided again in Rolla Aug. 1-3.
Dr. Alanna Krolikowski, assistant professor of history and political science, was nominated to present her research at the 2023 Breakthrough Discuss conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The title of her presentation is “Protect Scientific Opportunity on the Moon Now.”
Dr. Dan Reardon, vice provost of undergraduate education and professor of English and technical communication, and Beth Reardon, instructional technician in educational innovation, performed in the casts of Ozark Actors Theatre's summer productions of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (June 15-25) and Sunday in the Park with George (July 6-16). Ozark Actors Theatre (OAT) is one of only four professional summer stock theatres in Missouri. Beth Reardon also serves on the OAT board of directors.
Dr. Shun Saito, assistant professor of physics, is a co-PI on the project title “Project Infrastructure for the Roman Galaxy Redshift Survey.” It just received funding from NASA. Our S&T cosmology group will officially join the Nancy Roman Space Telescope, which is NASA’s $3.2 billion flagship mission.
Dr. Andrea Scharf, assistant professor of biological sciences, attended the 27th Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus in Prague, Czech Republic, June 19-23. She co-chaired the session titled “Nuclear Compartments and Gene Expression” and gave a talk titled “The nucleus is the command center for populations and ecosystems.” She was also invited to join the International Committee of Wilhelm Bernhard’s Workshops-International Workshop on the Cell Nucleus before the meeting. Andrea also attended the 24th International C. elegans Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, where she gave two poster presentations: “What can we learn about aging from an experimental population system with C. elegans?” and “Using wormPOP to broaden access to hypothesis-driven research.”
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, professor of history and political science, was named director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society. She also co-hosted a panel at the British Society for the History of Science's 2023 Digital Festival. The panel was titled "Immersive Storytelling, History of Science/Technology, and Popular Culture, part 2: Assassin's Creed Origins."
Dr. Alexey Yamilov, professor of physics, published an article in Nature Physics.
