Accomplishments: College of Sciences
Scott Abella (Life Sciences) has partnered with University Libraries to showcase his research on conservation in America's national parks system in the digital exhibit space in the Leisure Reading Zone on the second floor of Lied Library. "Conserving America's National Parks" pulls images and information from Abella's 2015 book of the same name,…
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) has been awarded a National Science Foundation Early Career Award, which recognizes and supports the early career development activities of teach-scholars who are considered most likely to become future academic leaders. The five-year, $593,489 grant was awarded to Zhu for his research on understanding how the…
Lawrence Walker and Fred Landau (both School of Life Sciences) recently published a book, A Natural History of the Mojave Desert. In it, the authors explore how a combination of complex geology, varied geography, and changing climate has given rise to intriguing flora and fauna — including almost 3,000 plant species and about 380…
Matthew Le Claire (Liberal Arts), Erdogan Kaya (Education), and Michael Isaacs (Life Sciences) are this year's recipients of the Graduate College's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards.
1st Place - Matthew Le Claire (College of Liberal Arts)
2nd Place - Erdogan Kaya (College of Education)
3rd Place - Michael Isaacs (School of Life…
Oliver Tschauner and Shichun Huang (both Geoscience) recently published an article titled, “Ice-VII Inclusions in Diamonds: Evidence for Aqueous Fluid in Earth’s deep Mantle,” in Science magazine.
The research team discovered the first direct evidence that fluid water pockets may exist as far as 500 miles deep into the Earth’…
Jeremy Smallwood (Astronomy), Sara Black (History), Tyler Stalbaum (Mechanical Engineering), and Cheryl Anderson (Anthropology) are the recipients of this year's Graduate College Outstanding Thesis & Dissertation Awards.
Each year the college gives four awards — within each category, one for STEM and one for non-STEM. This year’s winners are…
Hokwon Cho (Math) has been selected as this year's winner of the Graduate College's Outstanding Graduate Faculty Leadership Award. The award recognizes graduate faculty who demonstrate leadership by, for example, serving on committees; mentoring graduate students; and engaging in, leading, or significantly advancing efforts that help move the…
The National Science Foundation will fund Kurt Regner and Eduardo Robleto's (Life Sciences) proposal, REU SITE: Mechanisms of Evolution (DBI 1757316 - $333,830). REU Sites offer paid summer undergraduate research internships supplemented with workshops on careers in science. The overarching goal of this proposal is…
Casey Dakus (Fine Arts), Annie Lu, (Business), Schetema Nealy (Sciences), and Kaela Palmer (Liberal Arts) have been chosen to receive the spring 2018 Southwest Travel Awards. They were selected from almost 100 student applicants.
Recipients of the awards receive a round-trip travel voucher from Southwest Airlines to allow them to travel…
Bing Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) recently published a paper in the journal Nature Communications. The most important discovery in astronomy in 2017 was the groundbreaking discovery of a gravitational wave event GW170817 due to the merger of two neutron stars as well as its associated short GRB (gamma ray burst) 170817A and other…
Erin Cassin (Life Sciences) attended and presented her work at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM in Washington D.C., earlier this month. Her work is based on a collaborative project between the lab of professor Philippos Tsourkas and the lab of professor emeritus Penny Amy in the School of Life Sciences. Cassin, an undergraduate…
Jacklyn Newsome (Life Sciences) successfully defended her master's thesis in the Schiller Laboratory of Applied Bioinformatics in December. She worked on personalized diets and a new single-cell technology called the GigaAssay. Both have been licensed commercially.