Yifei Guan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, recently published "Analytical and AI-Discovered Stable, Accurate, and Generalizable Subgrid-Scale Closure for Geophysical Turbulence" in Physical Review Letters. The paper was selected as a Featured in Physics article and an Editors' Suggestion. The research uses an artificial intelligence tool to identify long-sought equations that describe small-scale features in two-dimensional turbulent systems. The paper is also discussed in an APS Physics synopsis.
David Hemmendinger, professor emeritus of computer science, and co-author William Aspray, of the Charles Babbage Institute, wrote "The Making and Meanings of a Computing Reference Work: Exploring the Encyclopedia of Computer Science," published in January by SpringerBriefs. It examines the roles of encyclopedic books, with the "Encyclopedia of Computer Science" — which Hemmendinger co-edited 30 years ago — as a case study.
Jillmarie Murphy, the William D. Williams Professor of Literature and director of interdisciplinary studies, has been awarded a space in the Fall 2026 Corridor Writing Retreat, scheduled for Nov. 6–8 at the Minnowbrook Conference Center in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. During the retreat, Murphy will be completing work on her current monograph "Anthrozoology: The Neurobiology of Human-Nonhuman Attachments in Naturalist Fiction." This study actively unites the relatively new field of anthrozoology with studies focused on the neurobiology of attachment behaviors, taking into consideration the brain’s attention to environmental factors related to networks shared among human and nonhuman animals. The study also highlights the intersectional framework of human-nonhuman animal attachments in the complex systems of power and oppression that play out in fictional human responses to situational precarity.
Kimmo Rosenthal, professor emeritus of mathematics, has had a poem, "Reading (A Cento)," accepted for publication in the poetry journal Indefinite Space. A cento — from the Latin word for "patchwork garment" — is a poem composed entirely of lines taken from other writers and collaged together. In this case, the writers are Marcel Proust, Louise Glück, Gerald Murnane, Anne Carson, Colette, Giacomo Leopardi and Maurice Blanchot.
Aja Belle Schiller '25 wrote the psychological thriller "Little Creatures" as her English honors thesis during the 2024-25 academic year with Judith Lewin, associate professor of English and chair of the department, and Jenelle Troxell, associate professor of English. The work is accessible only to the Union community. Schiller's new short story, "Pigs," has been accepted for publication as a chapbook by Bottlecap Press in California and is available for preorder.
Jordan Smith, the Edward Everett Hale Jr. Professor of English, recently published the poem "Tattoo" in Vox Populi. The poem explores pandemic isolation and the persistence of memory.
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