Julie 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. Andrew Behrendt, assistant teaching professor of history and political science, presented new research at the conference "American Agents in Austria -- After 1918, After 1945" held at the University of Vienna on July 2-4. His paper, "Red, White, Blue -- and Especially Green" examined the attitudes of the Austrian press towards American tourists in the 1920s and 1930s.
Dr. Amy Belfi, associate professor of psychological science, received recognition from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of music cognition, including both its Mentorship Award and Early Career Award.
Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, CASE Dean, was quoted on the Iranian presidential elections in articles in New York Times, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Hamodia, and L’Orient-Le Jour (Lebanon). He was also interviewed by National Public Radio and invited to London to provide numerous live commentary on BBC World Service, BBC Persian and BBC Arabic services.
Dr. Garry “Smitty” Grubbs, associate professor of chemistry, was appointed interim vice provost of graduate education at Missouri S&T.
Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, chair and professor of education, was appointed to a three-year term on the Committee on Transfer and Articulation representing the four-year public institutions of higher education. Membership includes representatives from all sectors of higher education by the commissioner of the Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development.
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. Hyunsoo Kim, assistant professor of physics, received a $246,390 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “LEAPS-MPS: Superfluid investigation of topological superconductor candidates at low millikelvin with controlled disorders.”
Dr. Clair Kueny, chair and associate professor of psychological science, recently published an invited editorial in Medical Research Archives, affiliated with the European Society of Medicine, on leveraging organizational psychology to advance rural healthcare, including improving provider and patient experiences as well as improving overall healthcare organizations and care delivery.
Dr. John McManus, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of history and political science, had his latest book To the End of the Earth receive this year's Army Historical Foundation Award for Excellence in U.S. Army Writing in the category of Operational/Battle History.
Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor with joint appointment in chemistry and materials science and engineering, with collaborators from Nazarbayev University and Al Farabi Kazakh National University (both in Kazakhstan), published a paper “MXene Filled Hydrogel and Aerogel Composites” in the July issue of Materials Today. With impact factor 26.9, Materials Today published by Elsevier is one of the top journals in Materials Science.
Dr. Melanie Mormile, professor of biological sciences, will be awarded the Waksman Outstanding Teaching Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology during the SIMB Annual meeting in August. This award is made in recognition of the important role that educators play in sustaining the fields of industrial microbiology and biotechnology. As evidenced by their CV and current list of publications, the recipient must have made contributions to research that have led to advances in their area of industrial or applied microbiology or biotechnology. Mormile was nominated by three of her former graduate students: Dr. Bo-young Hong, Dr. Varun Paul, and Cassie Roberts, along with Dr. Betty Elder of Georgia Southwestern State University.
Dr. Kathy Northcut, professor of English and technical communication, published her most recent piece of fiction, "Snakes," in Vol. 4, Issue 3 of The Autoethnographer: A Literary and Arts Magazine.
Dr. Michael Peterson, assistant professor of arts, languages, and philosophy, published an article titled "Language and Visions of the Future: The Praxis of Inheritance in Gramsci," in Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power. The article establishes a link between younger Gramsci's critique of utopianism and the later Gramsci's philosophy of language.
Dr. Shun Saito, assistant professor of physics, received a $4,928 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Collaborative Research: A Partnership in Central Missouri in the Era of Multi-messenger Astrophysics.” With this addition, the award totals $140,044.
