Tianyuan Xu, assistant professor of mathematics & statistics, is a recipient of the AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grants for Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Faculty. The grant supports Xu’s research in combinatorial representation theory.
Stephanie Spera, associate professor of geography, environment, & sustainability, and David Salisbury, associate professor of geography, environment, & sustainability, published “Transboundary Road-Building in the Southwestern Amazon” in the Journal of Latin American Geography.
Sandra F. Joireman, Weinstein Chair of International Studies, published “In the Shadow of the Dragon: Chinese soft power in Central Asia” in International Affairs.
Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, published “Hepatitis B (HBsAg) prevalence among obstetric patients in Caluquembe, Angola, 2023–2024” in the journal PLoS One.
Colleen Carpenter-Swanson, assistant professor of Biology, along with students, Audrey Breckenridge, '25, Sanskriti Basnyat, '26, and Eva Fitch, '25, published “Validating the antiseizure effects of vitexin and related flavone glycosides in zebrafish” in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
David Giancaspro, associate professor of Spanish, published "Lost and found? Shifts in Heritage Speakers' Processing of Mood Morphology Over the Course of a Semester Abroad" in Languages.
Aaryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, published “The Pictures by Category and Similarity (PiCS) database: A multidimensional scaling database of 1200 images across 20 categories” in Behavior Research Methods.
Tianyuan Xu, assistant professor of mathematics & statistics, published "Orthogonal roots, Macdonald representations, and quasiparabolic sets" in Forum of Mathematics.
Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, presented “Concrete Gravemarkers as Regional Cultural Heritage” at the Association for Gravestone Studies Conference and Annual Meeting.
Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, published "Contextualizing Reuse: Marble Furniture Tops in the J. Henry Brown Monuments Order Books" in AGS Quarterly: Bulletin of the Association for Gravestone Studies.
Chiles Wade Downey, professor of chemistry and Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences, along with students Katie Marchione, ‘25 and Karmen Smith, ‘25, published “One-pot enol silane formation-alkylation reactions of ketones promoted by trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate: Direct access to β,β-diarylated ketones and related compounds” in Tetrahedron Letters.
Jonathan Dattelbaum, professor of chemistry, published "Isolation and Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Alcaligenes and Chromobacterium Strains with Antimicrobial Activity Against ESKAPE Pathogen Relatives" in Journal of Genomics along with Hannah Lwin, ’25.
