Faculty Highlights

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  Barney Awarded Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award Dr. Timothy Barney was awarded the prestigious Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award by the Eastern Communication Association at their recent convention in Providence.
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  Skromne Publishes on Spinal Cord Development Dr. Isaac Skromne: Cdx4 regulates the progression of neural maturation in the spinal cord. Developmental Biology, 2019, vol 499, pages 132-142 Co-authors: Piyush Joshi and Andrew J. Darr.
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  Winiarski awarded NEH Stipend

  Dr. Douglas Winiarski has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend of $6,000 for Shakers & the Shawnee Prophet: A Microhistory of Religious Violence on the Early American Frontier, 1805–1815.
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  Spera Wins Climate Change Fellowship

  Dr. Stephanie Spera has been awarded the Second Century Stewardship Research Fellowship at Acadia National Park for Climate Change, Fall Foliage and Leaf-Peepers: Effects of Precipitation and Temperature on Senescence and Visitation in Acadia National Park. 
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  Sackley Receive Rockefeller Funding

  Dr. Nicole Sackley has received a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center for Mapping the Foundations: US Philanthropy in a Cold War World, 1947-1991, in partnership with Dr. Timothy Barney. This project also recently received $10,000 in start up funds from the Provost's CIE initiative.
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  Barney Receive Rockefeller Funding Dr. Timothy Barney has received a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center for Mapping the Foundations: US Philanthropy in a Cold War World, 1947-1991, in partnership with Dr. Nicole Sackley. This project also recently received $10,000 in start up funds from the Provost's CIE initiative.
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  Jessica Chan Publishes First Book

  Dr. Jessica Chan has published Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics, and Internationalism, 1949–1966 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2019) and has a forthcoming article “Literature of the Oppressed: Lu Xun and Nikolai Gogol,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China.

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  Davis Awarded NSF Grant

  Dr. James Davis has been awarded $25,000 from the National Science Foundation in support of "Finite Fields and their Applications at Simon Fraser University,” a biannual conference being held in Vancouver, Canada that explores finite fields, an area of discrete mathematics.

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  Dr. Amy Treonis wins Fulbright

  Dr. Amy Treonis, Associate Professor of Biology, has received a Fulbright Scholar award for travel to Namibia. Her project, “Immortality and Fairy Circles: Nematode Ecology of the Namib Desert” explores nematodes, an understudied group of microscopic organisms ubiquitous to soils and sediments.

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  Scott Allison Publishes across Two Generations at UR

  Allison and  student co-author, Owen Parker, published "The Metamorphosis of the Hero: Principles, Processes, and Purpose," in Frontiers in Psychology. Parker is the son of a student Allison published with in 1992, Lynn Schaerfl Parker.