August 1, 2022

The Work of Arte Urgente: Performative Acts of Political and Artistic Imaginations

Author: Rebecca Schreiber, PhD

Department: American Studies

Publication: Latine American and LatinX Visual Culture

Childhood stress and developmental instability: Comparing microscopic enamel defects and cranial fluctuating asymmetry in a colonial Mexican sample

Author: Emily Moes

Co-Authors: Keith Hunley, PhD; Heather Edgar, PhD

Department: Anthropology

Publication: American Journal of Biological Anthropology

The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context. 

Author: Keith Prufer, PhD

Department: Anthropology

Publication: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya

Co-Authors: Keith Prufer, PhD; Valorie Aquino; Yemane Asmeron, PhD; Victor Polyak, PhD

Department: Anthropology; Earth & Planetary Sciences

Publication: Nature Communications

Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents

Co-Author: Scott Collins, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Oecologia

Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: An example implementation over California

Co-Author: Matthew Hurteau, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Environmental Research Letters

Phylogenomics and Diversification of the Schistosomatidae Based on Targeted Sequence Capture of Ultra-Conserved Elements

Co-Authors: Eric Loker, PhD; Lijing Bu, PhD; Sara Brant, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Pathogens

A world review of the bristle fly parasitoids of webspinners

Co-Author: Kelly Miller, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: BMC Zoology

Performance Evaluation of Multiple Pan-Sharpening Techniques on NDVI: A Statistical Framework

Author: Daniel Beene

Co-Authors: Su Zhang, PhD; Chris Lippitt, PhD

Department: Center for the Advancement of Spatial Informatics Research & Education (ASPIRE)

Publication: Geographies

Implementing Remote-Sensing Methodologies for Construction Research: An Unoccupied Airborne System Perspective

Author: Su Zhang, PhD

Co-Author: Chris Lippitt, PhD

Department: Center for the Advancement of Spatial Informatics Research & Education (ASPIRE)

Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Promoter architecture of Drosophila genes regulated by Myocyte enhancer factor-2

Co-Author: Lijing Bu, PhD

Department: Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology (CETI)

Publication: PLoS ONE

Quantum computational advantage attested by nonlocal games with the cyclic cluster state

Author: Austin Daniel

Co-Authors: Vikas Buchemmavari; Tyler Thurtell; Andrew Zhao; Akimasa Miyake, PhD

Department: Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)

Publication: Physical Review Research

Excited State Magneto-Structural Correlations Related to Photoinduced Electron Spin Polarization

Author: Martin Kirk, PhD

Co-Author: Ju Chen, PhD

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Publication: Journal of the American Chemical Society

Benchmarking the Accuracy of AlphaFold 2 in Loop Structure Prediction

Author: Amy Stevens

Co-Author: Yi He, PhD

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Publication: Biomolecules

Racial privilege as a function of White supremacy and contextual advantages for Asian Americans

Co-Author: Shinsuke Eguchi, PhD

Department: Communication and Journalism

Publication: Communication, Culture, and Critique 

Mantle-derived fluids in the continental-scale Nubian aquifer

Co-Authors: Laura Crossey, PhD and Karl Karlstrom, PhD

Department: Earth & Planetary Sciences

Publication: Chemical Geology

The Impact of Institutional Arrangements on Farmland Rents in India: A Ricardian Analysis

Author: Abhradeep Karmakar, PhD

Co-Authors: Nikhil Ganvir; Robert Berrens, PhD

Department: Economics

Publication: The Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development

The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers

Co-Author: Sarah Stith, PhD

Department: Economics

Publication: Journal of Population Economics

A mass-balance approach to evaluate arsenic intake and excretion in different populations

Author: Daniel Beene

Co-Author: Yan Lin, PhD

Department: Geography & Environmental Studies

Publication: Environment International

Border crossers: Feminist decolonial geography and climate change

Author: Miriam Gay-Antaki, PhD

Department: Geography & Environmental Studies

Publication: Progress in Environmental Geography

Spatial social network research: a bibliometric analysis

Co-Author: Xi Gong, PhD

Department: Geography & Environmental Studies

Publication: Computational Urban Science

Cosmopolis, Civility, and the Practice of Heretical History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land

Author: Rajeshwari Vallury, PhD

Department: Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Publication: Modern Fiction Studies

The Van Vleck Formula on Ehrenfest Time Scales and Stationary Phase Asymptotics for Frequency-Dependent Phases

Author: Matthew D. Blair, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publication: Communications in Mathematical Physics

Uniform Sobolev estimates on compact manifolds involving singular potentials

Author: Matthew D. Blair, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publication: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana

Deep Very Long Baseline Interferometry Observations Challenge Previous Evidence of a Binary Supermassive Black Hole Residing in Seyfert Galaxy NGC 7674

Co-Author: Gregory Taylor, PhD

Department: Physics & Astronomy

Publication: The Astrophysical Journal

Social Justice and Native American Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2020 Presidential Election

Author: Gabriel Sanchez, PhD

Co-Author: Raymond Foxworth, PhD

Department: Political Science

Publication: Public Opinion Quarterly

Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos, Politics, Groups, and Identities

Co-Author: Gabriel Sanchez, PhD

Department: Political Science

Publication: Politics, Groups, and Identities

Isotropic imaging across spatial scales with axially swept light-sheet microscopy

Co-Author: Tonmoy Chakraborty, PhD

Department: Physics & Astronomy

Publication: Nature Protocols

HTR1B genotype and Psychopathy: main effect and interaction with paternal maltreatment

Co-Author: Kent Kiehl, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Psychoneuroendocrinology

Psychopathy and Risky Sexual Behavior in Incarcerated Women

Co-Author: Kent Kiehl, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Criminal Justice and Behavior

Self-Efficacy as a Potential Mechanism of Behavior Change in Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention

Author: David Moniz-Lewis

Co-Authors: Elena Stein; Katie Witkiewitz, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Mindfulness

Assessing the Integrity of Motivational Interviewing Interventions: Reliability of the Motivational Interviewing Skills Code

Co-Author: Theresa Moyers, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Response to Commentaries: Variation in Women’s Intrasexual Sociality by Life History Strategy, Patrilocal Legacy, and Polygyny

Author: Tania Reynolds, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Archives of Sexual Behavior

Testing gender and longitudinal measurement invariance of the SF-36 in American Indian older adults: The strong heart study.

Co-Author: Steven Verney, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Psychological Assessment

Occasions of Alcohol and Cannabis Use and Associated Risk for Sexual Assault among College Women with Higher Sexual Risk Alcohol Expectancies

Author: Elizabeth Yeater, PhD

Co-Authors: Katie Witkiewitz, PhD; Victoria Votaw; Ryan Ross; Kristen Vitek; Meredith Blackwell; Alexis Sheffield

Department: Psychology

Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability

Co-Authors: Young Joo Park, PhD and Xi Gong, PhD

Department: School of Public Administration; Geography

Publication: Administration & Society

On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World

Co-Author:

Sharon Erickson Nepstad, PhD

Distinguished Professor

Sociology

ADDITIONAL ITEMS

Software Submission Form

Research Project Submission

Jessie Williamson

Graduate Student

Biology



Congratulations to Jessie Williamson, who received the American Ornithological Society's Council award for her presentation titled, "Cryptic speciation of Giant Hummingbirds across an elevational migratory divide". This award goes to students with the best presentation overall. Jessie completed her dissertation defense this past Spring and will begin her postdoc at Cornell University this Fall.

Emily Jones, PhD

Regents' Lecturer

Anthropology

Rosa Vallejos-Yopán, PhD

Regents' Lecturer

Linguistics

Lindsay Lowe Worthington, PhD

Regents' Lecturer

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Congratulations to Emily Jones, Rosa Vallejos-Yopán, and Lindsay Lowe Worthington for being named as Regents' Lecturers. This title is bestowed on selected tenured junior faculty members who, in the judgment of the Dean and on the advice of a faculty selection committee, merit recognition of their accomplishments as teachers, scholars and leaders both in university affairs and in their national/international professional communities.

Ronald Christensen, PhD

Distinguished Professor

Mathematics & Statistics

Katie Witkiewitz, PhD

Distinguished Professor

Psychology

Congratulations to Ronald Christenson and Katie Witkiewitz for being named Distinguished Professors, which is the University's highest honor bestowed upon faculty. Ronald and Katie are two of seven professors throughout the University selected this year for their outstanding achievements, including their national and international renown as scholars.

Liping Yang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Geography and Environmental Studies

Congratulations to Liping Yang for being selected as a member of the 2022 cohort of fellows for the NSF-funded Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM - Geospatial Sciences program. This fellowship is designed to provide professional development for academic women in the geospatial sciences and Liping is one of 15 applicants selected from across the country. 

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