Faculty Highlights

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  Charlesworth Award

  Computer science professor Art Charlesworth was recongized with the 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the field. 

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  Lowder Presentation

  Psychology professor Matthew Lowder was invited by the University of Maryland Linguistics department to give a colloquium talk on his recent research, "Prediction in the Processing of Repair Disfluencies."

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  Pollock Articles

  In collaboration with researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, chemistry professor Julie Pollock has published two articles on toll-like receptor signaling inhibition in inflammatory pathways; 1. Identification of Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors based on selective activation of hierarchically acting signaling proteins, in Science Signaling and 2. "Triaryl pyrazole Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors: Structure-activity relationships governing pan- and selective signaling inhibitors," in ChemMedChem.

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  Johnson Article

  Chemistry professor Miles Johnson published "Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes Invoked in C–N Cross-Coupling," in Organometallics.

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  Ayers elected to Colonial Williamsburg board

  Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was elected to the board of trustees for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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  Gilfoyle Grant

  Physics professor Jerry Gilfoyle received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support his on-going project, “Medium Energy Nuclear Physics at the University of Richmond."

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  Calvillo Book

  Art history professor Elena Calvillo published the book Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe.

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  Kissling Studies

  LALIS professor Elizabeth Kissling published research studies exploring the potential of cognitive linguistics for teaching Spanish prepositions in What is Applied Cognitive LInguistics? and exploring the methodological challenges of phonetics research in the highly variable population of Spanish heritage learners in the U.S. in the Heritage Language Journal.

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  Bukach Grant

  Psychology professor Cindy Bukach has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to supplement her original grant for "Collaborative Proposal: Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM-related fields Using Electrophysiology (PURSUE)."

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  Gunkel Book

  Classics professor Dieter Gunkel co-edited the book Language and Meter, and contributed a chapter to the book on Rigvedic Versification.