Satish C. Bhatnagar (Math) addressed the graduate students and faculty of the mathematics department of the Central University of Punjab, Bathind, India, earlier this month. The topic was the "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Academic Excellence." The department was started in 2015, while the university established in 2009.

Mira Han (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Life Sciences) won the National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) Young Investigator/Student Travel Award for her poster, "Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Negative Correlation between Mitochondrial Genes and Transcripts of L1HS, and Positive Correlation between…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) completed the first year of his two-year term as co-chair of the National Leadership Symposium with the 2018 symposium in Tampa, Florida, earlier this month. The event, a 28-year-old program that draws together academic and co-curricular leadership educators to explore timely…

Brittany Paloma Fiedler (Libraries) was a member of a panel, "Building Our Village: A Conversation with Librarians of Color in Tenure Track Positions," at the inaugural People of Color in Library & Information Science Summit at Loyola Marymount University. 

Katherine Thornock Luebke (Chemistry and Biochemistry) won an award for best poster presentation at the annual Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D) University Program Review (UPR) meeting in June. Luebke's poster…

Sophie Ladd (Teaching and Learning) and Amanda Melilli (Libraries) recently had an article, "Sacrifices and Scars, Trials and Triumphs, Resilience and Resolve: Reflections of Refugee and Immigrant Experiences" published in the spring 2018 edition of the Journal of Children's Literature. 

Arya Udry (Geoscience) and James Day of the UCSD–Scripps Institute of Oceanography are the authors of a paper, “1.34 Billion-Year-Old Magmatism on Mars Evaluated from the Co-genetic Nakhlite and Chassignite Meteorites,” which was recently published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. The paper focuses on the formation and emplacement of the…

William Bauer, Michael Green, Greg Hise, Andy Kirk, and Michelle Turk (all History); Karen Harry (Anthropology); and Su Kim Chung and Claytee White (both Libraries) recently spoke as part of "Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West," a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty. Julian Kilker…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) was interviewed by BYU Radio about "Slowing Down in our Accelerated, Technological Life"  and his newly released  book The Terminal Self.