Faculty Highlights

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  Donald Awarded NSF Grant

  Kelling Donald, associate dean and professor of chemistry, has received more than $375K in grant support from the National Science Foundation for his research on chemical bonding. Read more here.

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  George Flanagin

  George's current areas of research interest are Natural Language Processing in English and Spanish, synthetic text generation, simulations, and data analysis using Python and pandas.

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  Russell Published

  Kristin M. S. Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies, and Anthony Presti Russell, associate professor of English and comparative literature, published their co-edited book "William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership" with Edward Elgar. 

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  Leopold Receives $275k Grant

  Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a nearly $275,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the development of a nanoparticle-based sensor used for detecting explosives. Read more

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  Bezio Published

  Kristin M. S. Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies, and Anthony Presti Russell, associate professor of English and comparative literature, published their co-edited book "William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership" with Edward Elgar. 

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  Management professor submits statement to U.S. Committee on Agriculture

  Deniz Besik, assistant professor of management, recently submitted a statement to the U.S. Committee on Agriculture regarding the food supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Hunger and food insecurity are crucial societal problems that need to be addressed all over the world. Food is essential to our well-being, and we need food to survive. This past year has helped us to identify weaknesses within our food system or food supply chains. COVID-19 crisis elevated the already existing inequalities regarding healthcare and food insecurity status of vulnerable communities, including low-income people, children, older adults, and immigrants living in the United States."

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  Sackley Receives NEH Grant

  Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American Studies, has received $6,000 in summer funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to advance her book project, which explores the history of cooperatives in the United States. Read more: http://bit.ly/Sackley-NEH-Grant

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  Sweis Published

  Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology, published "The Matter of Child Lives: Police Violence and the Limits of Children’s Rights" in the Spring 2021 issue of NEOS.

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  Hass Published

  Jeff Hass, associate professor of sociology, published Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockage of Leningrad, 1941-1944 through the Oxford University Press.

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  Sevin Received NSF Grant

  Jennifer Sevin, visiting lecturer of biology, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project focused on undergraduate research exploring the wildlife trade. Read more here.