Jesse Fager-Larsen (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Political Science) attended the 23rd annual Public Policy Leadership Conference (PPLC) held at the Harvard Kennedy School campus. During the conference, attendees meet with professors, attend mock graduate-level courses, and learn about career and funding opportunities in public…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) will be receiving the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs (ATOD) Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) at their 151st Annual Meeting in Atlanta. This national award celebrates an individual who has long and distinguished career…

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) received the Locke-Paisley Outstanding Mentor Award at the 2023 Association for Counselor Education and Supervision national conference in Denver, Colorado on Oct. 14. The Locke-Paisley award honors an individual who has been a significant mentor to graduate counseling…

Prosun Roy (Mechanical Engineering), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Yi-Tung Chen (Mechanical Engineering), Sajjad Ahmad, Eakalak Khan (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and Mark Buttner (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on "Pollen Dispersion and …

Linder Lister's (Music) musical compositions were performed by the National First Ladies' Library and Museum on Oct. 15. The world premiere performance, titled, "East Wing Songs Volume II," featured a lecture-recital format. The premiere was made possible through a Missouri State University faculty research grant, and supported by the…

Stine Odegard (Service Learning & Leadership) co-authored an article in the new special issue of the journal New Directions for Student Leadership, no. 179: Teaching Sustainability through Leadership Education. The article, titled, "Leadership education as democracy-in-action: In pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," is…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership) edited a special issue of the journal New Directions for Student Leadership, no. 179: Teaching Sustainability through Leadership Education. Satterwhite, alongside Kate Sheridan (Chatham University) and Whitney McIntyre Miller (Chapman University), authored an editorial and an article in the…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) and co-author David Wolf of Kobe University, Japan, recently published an article, "Is it really bridging the gap? Fiber internet's impact on housing values and homebuyer demographics," in The Journal of Regional Science, the pre-eminent journal in regional and urban economics. The paper examines the…

Professor emeritus Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) has just published his 17th book, The Fallacy of Composition: Critical Reviews, Conceptual Analyses, and Case Studies. It is a volume in a book series of “Studies in Logic and Argumentation,” published by College Publications in London. This is the first book-length study of the fallacy of…