Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, associate professor of physics, published "Anisotropic Optical Response of Gold-Silver Alloys" in Physica Status Solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters.

Emily Boone was promoted to senior teaching faculty of biology. Her areas of expertise include marine ecology, physiological ecology, and environmental studies.

Christine Helms, associate professor of physics, published “Variability in individual native fibrin fibers mechanics” in Physical Biology.

Ted Bunn, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of physics, published “Cosmological inflation in N-dimensional Gaussian random fields with algorithmic data compression” with Conner Painter, ’21, in The Open Journal of Astrophysics.

Shannon Jones, director of biological instruction, Isaac Skromne, associate professor of biology, and Jon Dattelbaum, professor of chemistry, along with Quan Chau ’22, and Lesly Corado-Santiago ‘21, published "Physicochemical and Inflammatory Analysis of Unconjugated and Conjugated Bone-Binding Carbon Dots" in ACS Omega.

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, associate professor of physics, published "Photonics Roadmap for Ultra-High-Temperature Thermophotovoltaics" in Joule.

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of physics. Dr. Rebello de Sousa Dias' research specializes in the fabrication of materials at the Nano scale level and her research has many practical applications that could help to develop ways to save and store solar power.

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, assistant professor of physics, and a former student co-author published "Refractory Metals and Oxides for High-Temperature Structural Color Filters" in Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Mike Norris, assistant professor of chemistry, in collaboration with undergraduate student authors published "Six-Electron CO2 Reduction Involving Participation by Benzimidazole-Derived Bidentate Ligands in Ruthenium Complexes" in ACS Applied Energy Materials. 

Christine Helms, associate professor of physics, and Najnin Rimi, UR undergraduate student, published the article "Labeling fibrin fibers with beads alter single fibrin fiber lysis, external clot lysis, and produce large fibrin aggregates upon lysis" in Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis.

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled, "Leveraging Machine Learning to Harness Non-Parabolic Effects in Semiconductor Heterostructures," in Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures. This work was created in collaboration with the University of Alfenas in Brazil.