Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) and Joseph M. Valenzano III of the University of Dayton received the First Place Faculty Paper award for "True Believers, Poseurs, and Becoming 'Woke': Portrayals of Religion in 'Orange Is the New Black'" by the Religion and Media Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematics) was invited to speak to students and faculty of the Government Rajindra College, Bathinda, in India. The college is his alma mater. The topic of the talk was the uniqueness in the education dystems of India and the United States.

Amy Tureen and Starr Hoffman (both Libraries) recently were selected to attend the Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians program at Harvard University. The week-long training initiative helps college-level librarians and administrators strengthen their management skills and prepare to become more effective leaders.

Bredny Rodriguez and Kathryn Houk (both Libraries) presented a poster titled "Let's Get Physical! Graphic Novels in a Digital Health Library" at the Comic Arts Conference during San Diego Comic-Con International in July. 

Jun Yong Kang (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and his research team (Hai Huang and Jeffery Ash) published a research article, "Tf2O-Promoted Activating Strategy of Phosphate Analogues: Synthesis of Mixed Phosphates and Phosphinate," in Organic Letters. This research reports an efficient, mild synthetic method of phosphates and mixed phosphonates.…

Physics and Astronomy graduate student John Boisvert, along with his advisor Jason Steffen and collaborator Ben Nelson were looking for planets hidden within archival data. There is an important degeneracy where a one-planet model produces the same signal as a two-planet model with a specific orbital configuration.  This group developed…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) has received an $80,685 Library Services and Technology Grant to support a large-scale digitization project. The project, “Building the Pipelines: Large-Scale Digitization Models for Nevada Cultural Heritage,” will build upon the University Libraries’ existing efforts to ramp up digitization capacity across the state…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) recently co-authored a research paper, "Partisan Conflict and Income Inequality in the United States: A Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Approach." The paper examines the predictive power of a partisan conflict on income inequality. 

Tanviben Y. Patel, Mark Buttner, and Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), along with David Rivas, '18 Master of Public Health, and physician Joram Seggev, wrote an article, "Variation in Airborne Pollen Concentrations Among Five Monitoring Locations in a Desert Urban Environment," which was…