Hasan Al Babaa, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published the research paper "On pure Willis coupling: Brillouin-zone and finite-lattice analyses" in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America as part of a special issue on Active and Tunable Acoustic Metamaterials. This work was co-authored by Jaqueline N. Anderson ’25. The study explores the fundamental physics of pure Willis coupling in discrete elastic systems, providing new insights into the origins of Willis non-reciprocity through the lens of classical vibration analysis techniques, such as modal analysis.

Niha Das '26 attended the January meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix. Her poster, "A Hunt for Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Low Mass and Low Metallicity Galaxies in SDSS-IV/eBOSS," received the AAS 247 Chambliss Student Award.

Shena McAuliffe, associate professor of English, published an excerpt from her novel-in-progress "Milkweed" in the journal Quarterly West. The publication is part of a festschrift — a collection of writing contributed by former students of writers Lance Olsen and Melanie Rae Thon — celebrating their lineage of teaching and writing.

Christopher Whitehead, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Chemistry, gave an invited seminar on Feb. 18, 2026 for the chemistry department at Colorado State University titled "The Journey to Teaching at a Primary Undergraduate Institution: Lessons Learned Along the Way."

Francis Wilkin, senior lecturer in physics and astronomy and observatory manager, and Alexia Goldenberg '27 were published in Nature Astronomy in a study titled "An adolescent and near-resonant planetary system near the end of photoevaporation." The international collaboration was led by Mu-Tian Wang of Nanjing University and the University of Hawaii. Of the four sub-Neptune class planets, three have orbital periods in near-integer commensurate ratios implying near resonance, somewhat like the 3:2 period ratio of Pluto and Neptune in our solar system.

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