Prateek Arora, assistant professor of economics, had an article published in the Journal of Economic Education, “A nontraditional assessment tool in a macroeconomics classroom: Model IMF Summit.”
Mark Dallas, professor of political science, co-published an article in the Journal of Economic Geography, “Power and governance in global value chains: upgrading of Pakistani mobile application vendors in an era of platforms.” Using fieldwork and quantitative tests, it combines theories of inter-firm governance and power in global value chain to unpack the paradox of developing firm upgrading within industries that are experiencing dramatic increases in technological complexity. Fieldwork was conducted in Pakistan on mobile app software developers during the rise of mobile telecom platforms, like Apple's iOS and Android.
Luke Dosiek, the William D. Williams Professor and Horace Dodge III co-chair of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, presented a paper, “Rapid and Accurate Changepoint Detection of Power System Forced Oscillations,” at the 2026 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting in Montreal in July. Co-authored with a student from the Bronx High School of Science and a student from Niskayuna High School, the paper was named as one of the three Prize Paper winners out of a pool of 800 papers.
Additionally, Dosiek gave an invited talk, “Leveraging the Liberal Arts When Incorporating AI in the Electrical Engineering Curriculum,” in the panel “Generative Artificial Intelligence: Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities in Power and Energy Education”
Megan Ferry, professor of Chinese, is part of the Central New York Humanities Corridor working group, HF2 Language Program Vitality. She, along with fellow working group members, was awarded the CNY Humanities Corridor Outstanding Working Group for 2025-26 Award. Launched in Fall 2025, this prize recognizes Working Group Organizers for their collaborative efforts in humanities research and pedagogy.
Jennifer Fredricks, professor of psychology, received a contract from Edward Elgar Publishing to serve as the editor of the Research Handbook of Adolescent Development which is due to be published in 2027.
Yifei Guan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was co-author of “From localized dryout to convective elongated vapor structures: Reynolds number effects on boiling transition in a rectangular mini-channel,” in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. This study investigates how flow conditions affect boiling transitions and vapor-structure formation in mini-channels. The results provide insight into two-phase heat-transfer mechanisms relevant to thermal management in compact, high-heat-flux systems.
Guan was also co-author of “Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Electro-Thermo-Convection in Dielectric Liquids with Electric Conduction,” in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. This work develops a lattice Boltzmann computational framework for simulating electro-thermo-convection in dielectric liquids. The model captures the coupled interactions among fluid flow, heat transfer and electric fields, providing a numerical tool for studying multiphysics transport phenomena.
Jenna Pitera, assistant librarian, and Lindsay Bush, associate librarian, recently published an article, "When there’s no space to specialize: Embedding Research Mentors to increase instruction capacity" in a special issue of The Reference Librarian.
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