Mary K. Carroll '86, the Dwane W. Crichton Professor of Chemistry, and Ann M. Anderson, the Agnes S. MacDonald Professor of Mechanical Engineering, attended the 23rd International Sol-Gel Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference was held in the IST Congress Centre on the Alameda Campus of Instituto Superior Técnico. Carroll gave an invited lecture: "Design of Aerogel Materials for Pollution Mitigation," co-authored by Anderson and Bradford A. Bruno, professor of mechanical engineering. Carroll and Anderson also participated as mentors for early-career researchers attending the conference during the mentoring coffee breaks.

Jennifer Fredricks, professor of psychology, facilitated a roundtable on “Beyond Faculty Burnout: Reimagining Faculty Well-Being” at the annual conference for the Teaching of Psychology in St. Louis. This workshop built on the work she is doing as a member of the Presidential Task Force on Faculty Well-Being and Burnout, through the Society of Teaching Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.

David P. Gillikin, the William D. Williams Professor of Geosciences and chair of the department, and Anouk Verheyden, senior lecturer of geosciences, co-authored an article with Ian Plummer ’22 and others, “Corals Reveal Atlantic Drivers of Red Sea Surface Variability Through Indian Ocean Inflow,” published in Geophysical Research Letters. The article sheds light on Red Sea water temperature and salinity over the last 346 years, where data previously only extended back a few decades. The work was funded by the US National Science Foundation.

D. Catherine Walker, associate professor of psychology, and Daniel Haramis '26, recently published an article, “Left out of the game, unhappy with my body: Cyberball exclusion decreases state body satisfaction through loneliness,” in the journal Appetite: Disordered Eating.

Carol Weisse, the Ronald M. Obenzinger Professor of Psychology and director of Health Professions, Hannah Kimball '26 and Georgia Doing, visiting assistant professor of computer science, had a paper, “Informal Caregivers’ Administration of Opiate, Benzodiazepine, and Antipsychotic Medications to Home Hospice Patients Experiencing Hyperactive Delirium in the Last Week of Life,” published in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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