Cameron S. Kay, visiting assistant professor of psychology, published a paper titled "Investigating the structure of the Short Dark Tetrad: Evidence for a common core, distinct factors, and an oversaturated sadism subscale" in Personality and Individual Differences.
Andrew Burkett, professor of English and co-director of the Templeton Institute, along with Union faculty members Carolyn M. Rodak, Luke Dosiek, Christine Henseler, Christopher Chandler, Sohini Chattopadhyay and Nick Webb, recently published "Complementary and Contrasting Perspectives: Collaborative Teaching across Engineering, Computer Science, and the Liberal Arts" as part of the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
Osamu Miyawaki, assistant professor of geosciences, received an Editor's Award from the American Meteorological Society for effectively handling challenging reviews.
Kimmo Rosenthal, professor emeritus of mathematics, recently had two essays published in The RavensPerch. “Djuna’s Spleen” considers the fiction of Djuna Barnes, specifically her classic "Nightwood" and her book of short stories I Am Alien to Life, through the lens of Baudelaire’s notion of “spleen.” “Venice: A Journey in Word and Sound” reflects on a trip to Venice, drawing on the words of Henry James and Marcel Proust, as well as the music of cellist Anastasia Kobekina from her CD "Venice."
Holli Frey, professor of Geosciences, recently gave a talk entitled “U-Th ages and compositions of zircons in Dominica: constraints on a magma plumbing systems” at the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Co-authors included senior lecturer, Matthew Manon, and Union alums Sarah Brehm ’15 and Sarah Hickernell ’18. This research documented the explosive history and implications for future hazards in Dominica and was partially funded by a National Geographic Society Research and Exploration Grant to Frey. Hickernell (Stanford PhD) and Claire Puleio ’17 (U of Alaska-Fairbanks PhD candidate) also attended the meeting and presented posters on volcanology projects from their dissertation research.
Silvina Yi, assistant professor of Spanish and Hispanic studies authored an article titled "Street Art and Everyday Life: Vómito Attack and Cam.Bsas in Post-2001 Buenos Aires" which was recently published online in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.
Denise Snyder, director of learning design & digital innovation, was recently interviewed by Goosechase for “Like Night and Day”: The Expert Approach these Instructional Designers Use for Class Orientation."
Chad Orzel, the Gordon Gould Associate Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy presented two workshops on quantum mechanics and precision measurement this summer. The first half-day presentation on "Quantum Waves and Their Uses" was on June 11th in San Marcos, CA as part of the Quantum Information Science and Technology in the CSU workshop held at CSU-San Marcos. The second was a full-day workshop on "Demystifying Quantum: Precision Measurement" as part of the Optica Sensing Congress in Long Beach, CA on July 20.
Chad Orzel was also recently one of the co-organizers of "The Schrödinger Sessions Revisited: Quantum Information Meets Science Communication" at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland, College Park July 31-August 2. This was a three-day workshop for journalists and other science communicators, presenting key ideas in quantum science and technology and discussions of how to effectively communicate these ideas to audiences of non-scientists. The workshop was funded by a grant from the Innovation Fund of the American Physical Society (the PI was Chris Cesare of UMD, with prof. Orzel and and prof. Emily Edwards of Duke as co-PIs) in honor of the UNESCO World Year of Quantum Science and Technology in 2025.
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