The Wrap-Up: April
Vaishali Raval, professor of Psychology, has been appointed as the chair of the U.S. National Committee for Psychological Science (USNC/IUPsyS), a part of the Board on International Scientific Organizations of the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine. The USNC is one of the 18 committees along with similar committees for biological sciences, earth sciences, math, physics, and engineering sciences. The USNC represents U.S. psychology at the international level at the International Union of Psychological Sciences (IUPSyS).
Kathleen Knight Abowitz, professor of Educational Leadership, has been appointed as president-elect of the Philosophy of Education Society. She will serve as president from 2025-2026. She previously served on the society’s executive and program committees, and as editor of the society’s publication Groundworks.
Nicholas Money, professor of Biology and director of the Western Program, is author of a new book, ”Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi,” published in March by Princeton University Press.
Jenny Minier, professor and chair of Economics, is one of 16 faculty members from across the U.S. to participate in a Fulbright-Hays seminar for university faculty in Colombia this summer. The seminar focuses on climate change and sustainability in Colombia. They'll visit Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, and Leticia, meeting with scholars and leaders throughout the country.
Leland Spencer, chair and professor of Interdisciplinary and Communication Studies, received two top paper awards from the Southern States Communication Association: top paper in Gender Studies (shared with co-author Eletra Gilchrest-Petty, University of Alabama-Huntsville) and top paper in Language and Social Interaction (shared with co-author Mark Ward, University of Houston-Victoria).
Carole Dabney-Smith, professor, and Andrea Kravats, associate professor, of Chemistry and Biochemistry, received $465,010 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU SIte: Summer Research in Chemistry and Biochemistry at Miami University."
Hongmei Li, associate professor of Media, Journalism, and Film, and Alia Wegner, Digital Collections Librarian, received $120,000 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a project entitled "Making the Invisible Visible: Documenting Asian Histories in Ohio through a Collaborative Digital Edition."
David Berg, University Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, received $60,058 from the Missouri Department of Conservation for a project entitled "Conservation Genomics of the Northern Brokenray (Lampsilis brittsi) and Arkansas Brokenray (L. reeveiana) in Missouri."
Cory Rusinek, assistant professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, received $50,244 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, pass-through funds from the U.S. Department of Energy, for a project entitled "Diamond-based Spectroelectrochemical Sensors for Fundamental Understanding of Radioactive Molten Salt Chemistry."
Dmitriy Garmatyuk, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received $35,271 from the United States Air Force for a project entitled "Secure Joint Sensing and Communications via Random Sequence Encoding."
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