小福利导航

Joshua Hyman

Economics

Joshua Hyman, associate professor of economics, has been selected to present his RESEARCH paper, on Nov. 30 at the fall meeting of the Hyman's article described a randomized control trial in 62 Michigan high schools that explored the impact that a college planning class had on high school seniors. Hyman found that, while the overall number of students enrolling in college did not change as a result of participating in the class, the course increased the number of students persisting through college.

Jeeyon Jeong

Biology

Jeeyon Jeong, associate professor of biology, has edited a new book titled . Part of the highly cited 鈥淢ethods in Molecular Biology鈥� series, the volume contains 16 chapters submitted by 15 research groups from around the world, including one co-authored by Jeong herself and three students from her lab鈥揝ara Omer 鈥�23, Claire Macero 鈥�25 and Kelly Zheng 鈥�22. Jeong鈥檚 team鈥檚 chapter, titled reports the establishment of an assay to quantitatively measure small changes in the pH around the roots of plants and provide a better understanding of the mechanisms that regulate the micronutrient iron. Work in the Jeong Lab is currently funded by grants from two National Science Foundation initiatives: the Research at Undergraduate Institutions and Faculty Early Career Development (known as CAREER) programs.

Nicholas Horton

Mathematics and Statistics

Nicholas Horton, Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science), has published a paper titled in the Harvard Data Science Review. Co-authored by colleagues at Calvin and Columbia universities, the article explores principled and reliable statistical coding practices and offers concrete advice to instructors seeking to improve the quality of the code their students produce.

Olufemi Vaughan

Black Studies

A new book by Olufemi Vaughan, Alfred Sargent Lee 鈥�41 and Mary Farley Ames Lee Professor of Black Studies, , has been published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The book explores a trove of more than 3,000 letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 to 1994. The collection was given to Vaughan in 2003 by his nonagenarian father, Abiodun Vaughan, who had been a civil servant in the colonial administration and the patriarch of a prominent family in Ibadan with historical roots in West Africa and connections to the Americas. The men and women who wrote the letters had emerged from the religious, social and educational institutions established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the imposition of British colonial rule. The author鈥檚 deep analysis of the letters enabled him to illuminate everyday life for this important segment of Nigerian society.

David Hall

Physics

In a significant development in the field of quantum physics, David Hall 鈥�91, Paula R. and David J. Avenius 1941 Professor of Physics, created in his campus lab an example of a long-theorized quantum vortex, called an 鈥淎lice ring,鈥� which appeared in the decay of a monopole particle in an ultracold gas of atoms. An Alice ring has the remarkable property that particles passing through it flip their charges and become antiparticles, entering a mirror world that could be familiar to the eponymous Alice character in Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice in Wonderland (hence the name). This groundbreaking research, which was conducted in collaboration with 小福利导航Research Associate Alina Blinova and their theory colleagues in Finland, was described in a paper titled 鈥淥bservation of an Alice ring in a Bose-Einstein condensate鈥� that was published by the journal.

Yael Rice

Art & the History of Art; Asian Languages and Civilizations

Yael Rice, associate professor of art & the history of art and of Asian languages and civilizations, has published her first book, . The book explores the role that Mughal court painters played as mediators of imperial visionary experience during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It was funded in part by the .

Audrey Chang 鈥�20 and Kate Sims

Economics

Audrey Cheng 鈥�20; Katharine Sims, professor of economics; and Yuanyuan Yi, a research assistant professor at Peking University鈥檚 National School of Development in China, have co-authored that has been published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Titled 鈥淓conomic Development and Conservation Impacts of China鈥檚 Nature Reserves,鈥� the paper studied thousands of Chinese nature reserves throughout four decades. It found that these nature reserves improved human development and maintained natural land cover as a result of conservation measures, but that formal employment rates declined. The authors conclude that these findings indicate both the promise of protected areas as a sustainable development strategy and the need for institutional mechanisms to ensure that local benefits and employment opportunities are broadly distributed. This project began as Cheng's senior economics thesis with Sims as her advisor; from then until last month, they have been working together with Yi to prepare it for publication.

Jiwon Chung 鈥�23

Chemistry

Jiwon Chung 鈥�23, former program manager in the College鈥檚 Center for Restorative Practices, was the lead author of a published in The Journal of Chemical Education. The article鈥搘hich was co-authored by the Center for Teaching and Learning鈥檚 Sarah Bunnell and chemistry professor Jacob Olshansky鈥搘as also featured as a in the July 13, 2023, issue of the prestigious journal Science.

Helen Leung and Mark Marshall

Chemistry

Chemistry Professors Helen Leung and Mark Marshall published two papers in the August 3 issue of . The pair was invited to contribute to the issue, which honors a longtime collaborator and colleague of theirs, Marsha I. Lester, Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania of the University of Pennsylvania. The first paper accepted鈥搕itled 鈥溾�濃�搃nvestigates the intermolecular interactions between pairs of molecules proposed for use as so-called 鈥渃hiral tags鈥� in a new analytical technique. The second, 鈥�,鈥� describes the gas-phase heterodimer formed between (Z)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene and acetylene using quantum chemistry calculations and observed via chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. That particular study also includes some of the work appearing in the senior thesis of Seohyun (Cece) Hong 鈥�22 and represents the second publication resulting from her thesis work. Later in August, Marshall and Leung will jointly present a talk in a symposium honoring Lester at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco.

Leah Schmalzbauer

American Studies and Sociology

Leah Schmalzbauer, Karen and Brian Conway 鈥�80, P鈥�18 Presidential Teaching Professor of American Studies and Sociology, has published a new book titled . The book explores the pathways to and experiences of educational mobility for Latino youth at elite colleges, and how their mobility has impacted their immigrant families. It pays special attention to Covid-19's effects on education and immigrant families, and concludes with suggestions of how colleges can better support low-income Latino students, lowering the emotional price of their educational mobility.

Robert Hayashi

American Studies

Robert Hayashi, professor of American studies, has authored a book titled . Centered on sports-loving Pittsburgh, Penn., Fields of Play uncovers and shares the overlooked tales of the area鈥檚 lesser-known but nevertheless very accomplished athletes, including Chinese baseball players, Black women hunters, Jewish summer campers and coal miner soccer stars. The book also chronicles how such individuals created separate spaces of play while demanding equal access to the region鈥檚 opportunities on and off the field. It will be released in late September of this year.

Ruxandra Paul

Political Science

Ruxandra Paul, assistant professor of political science, has co-authored a new book titled . The book examines how migrants manage risks, try to get ahead, and provide for their families by drawing social welfare resources available in their countries and abroad. It broadly aims to inform scholarly and policy debates about the state鈥檚 evolving role in taking care of its citizens, and the appropriate burden of responsibility that individuals can bear.

Elizabeth Aries

Psychology

Elizabeth Aries, the Clarence Francis 1910 Professor in Social Sciences (Psychology), has published a new book titled . Through interviews with 45 Black and white graduates from widely different class backgrounds from the Class of 2009, Aries explores how engagement with racially and socioeconomically diverse classmates during college impacted their lives and helped prepare them for success in the work world. 

Javier Corrales

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Javier Corrales, the Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science, has published a new book titled . The book revisits theories of democratic backsliding to explain how and why the South American country descended into autocratic rule and economic collapse.

Sean Redding

History and Black Studies

 Sean Redding, Zephaniah Swift Moore Professor of History, has published a new book titled . Published by the University of Wisconsin Press, the book investigates how the policies of the white South African state facilitated the rise of large-scale lethal fights among men, increasingly coercive abduction marriages, violent acts resulting from domestic troubles and witchcraft accusations within families and communities, as well as political violence against state policies and officials. Using multiple court cases and documents, the book provides a richer context for the scholarly conversation about the legitimation of violence in traditions, family life and political protest.

Nicholas Horton

Mathematics and Statistics

Nicholas Horton, Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society, and collaborator , have co-authored . The paper explores the barriers to and opportunities for students with associate鈥檚 degrees to pursue bachelor鈥檚 degrees and careers in the data science field.

Luke Parker

Russian Studies

The Cornell University Press has published by Luke P. Parker, visiting assistant professor of Russian. The book, which explores 20th-century Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov's fascination with early cinema, was also .

 

Laure Katsaros

French

Laure Katsaros, professor and chair of French, has co-edited a volume titled . Based on a fall 2020 , the book was published by the University of 小福利导航 Press in June 2022. Katsaros鈥� co-editors include Pari Riahi, associate professor of architecture at the University of 小福利导航 at Amherst, and Michael Davis, emeritus professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College.

Kate Sims

Economics and Environmental Studies

Kate Sims, professor of economics and environmental studies, published the article in The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Kiara Vigil

American Studies

Kiara Vigil, associate professor of American studies, has co-launched and will edit a new book series with the University Press of Kansas. Titled , the project will promote and explore issues of gender and the contributions of women within Native American and Indigenous studies and highlight new scholarship concerning law, culture, literature, and public history.

Jeffers Engelhardt

Music

Jeffers Engelhardt, professor of music, published an article co-authored with Kate Bancroft 鈥�23, Alex Rule 鈥�23 and Charlotte Wang 鈥�24 in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture: 鈥溾��

David Hall

Physics

David Hall, the Paula R. and David J. Avenius 1941 Professor of Physics, published 鈥溾�� in Nature Communications.

Victor Guevera

Geology

Victor Guevera, assistant professor of geology, published a paper in the journal Science Advances titled 鈥�.鈥�

The study, led by Guevara, examined the geologic history of the youngest exposed deep crustal rocks on Earth from the slopes of the most rapidly rising mountain in the world, Nanga Parbat in the northwestern Himalaya range of Pakistan. In comparing the geologic processes that occur at the surface of the earth at Nanga Parbat (such as weathering and erosion of rock) to those that occur tens of miles beneath our feet (the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, for example), Guevara鈥檚 work showed that the anomalously rapid geologic rise of rock that formed deep in Earth鈥檚 crust at Nanga Parbat is more likely driven by changes in the movement of tectonic plates rather than changes in Earth's climate over the past few million years, as has been previously proposed.

Maria Heim

Religion & Asian Languages and Civilizations

, by Maria Heim, George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion and chair of Religion, was published in August by Princeton University Press. Heim's work centers on ancient and classical India. Words for the Heart, a 鈥渢reasury鈥� or word book, explores 177 鈥渆motion terms鈥� in philosophy, literature, poetry, aesthetics, medical texts, and epic stories in the classical languages of Sanskrit and Pali. The book offers a landscape of emotions and reflection about them that is quite different from what is available in the modern psychology of emotions.

Rebecca Hewitt

Environmental Studies

Rebecca Hewitt, assistant professor of environmental studies, published 鈥溾�� in the journal Nature.

Carrie Palmquist

Psychology

Carrie Palmquist, associate professor of psychology, published 鈥溾�� in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Ashwin Ravikumar and Paul A. Schroeder Rodr铆guez

Environmental Studies & Spanish

Ashwin Ravikumar, assistant professor of environmental studies, and Paul A. Schroeder Rodr铆guez, R. John Cooper 鈥�64 Presidential Teaching Professor of Spanish, have published an English translation of the Spanish-language book titled by Alexis Massol Gonz谩lez. 小福利导航students collaboratively translated the publication, a 40-year history of the internationally renowned community-based organization Casa Pueblo, and Ravikumar and Schroeder Rodr铆guez then edited the students鈥� versions and shepherded the book through the editing process with open access publisher Lever Press. Student translators include Abner Aldarondo 鈥�22, Tanya A. Calvin 鈥�20, Lucheyla Celestino 鈥�23, Alexis Ch谩vez Salinas 鈥�22, Corina E. Cobb 鈥�22E, Hubert E. Ford 鈥�20, Molly Malczynski 鈥�22, Joseph A. Ramesar 鈥�20, Kyabeth Rinc贸n 鈥�22, Jeffrey Suliveres 鈥�20, Augusta S. Weiss 鈥�23, Javier F. Whitaker Casta帽eda 鈥�21.

Cailin Plunkett

Physics and Astronomy 

Cailin Plunkett 鈥�23 has received the prestigious , which recognizes 鈥渙utstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students and provides encouragement to students who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment.鈥� A very rare honor, the award is given to just two students across the U.S. each year, and one of the pair must be a student from an undergraduate-only institution. (The last 小福利导航student to have received an Apker Award was Louis A. Bloomfield 鈥�79, who was a recipient the same year he graduated.) Advised by Kate Follette, assistant professor of astronomy, Plunkett was honored by the APS for her undergraduate thesis work, which involved developing an important new technique for combining detection limits and theoretical models of planet growth to rigorously quantify the underlying population of still-forming planets (also called protoplanets) in the universe. 鈥淐ailin quite literally invented a new and important technique relevant to many future protoplanet surveys with ground and next-generation space telescopes,鈥� explained Follette. But Plunkett is more than just a star in the lab and classroom, added Follette鈥搒he served as a patient, encouraging teaching assistant; a key member of the physics department鈥檚 Climate and Community Committee; a staunch advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion who educated herself about her own privilege; and a role model and mentor for other women in physics. Of Plunkett鈥檚 future, said Follette: 鈥淚 have the highest confidence in this young physicist鈥檚 potential to become a key contributor to both the science and the culture of our field.鈥�

Isabelle Caban 鈥�23

Geology

Isabelle Caban 鈥�23 was named this year鈥檚 recipient of an . The one-time, merit-based scholarship supports students who are Black, Indigenous, or Persons of Color in the United States studying the geosciences. Now a graduate student at Indiana University Bloomington, Caban鈥檚 research interests include volcanoes, landslides, and the long-term consequences they pose. During her time at Amherst, she was advised by Rachel Bernard, assistant professor of geology.

Helen Leung and Mark Marshall

Chemistry

Chemistry department chairs Helen Leung, George H. Corey 1888 Professor of Chemistry, and Mark Marshall, Class of 1959 Professor of Chemistry, have received a to use Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy and computational methods to study intermolecular forces operative between gas-phase heterodimers formed by protic acids and halo-olefins and to develop the chiral tagging method. Leung, Marshall and their students will generate molecular species held together solely by intermolecular interactions, and then examine their rotational spectra using two types of complementary spectrometers. With the up-to-date, relevant, modern instrumentation made possible with the NSF funding, the project will provide meaningful hands-on experience in modern, state-of-the-art physical chemistry for undergraduate students. It will also 鈥渆ngage the next generation of scientists in pedagogically effective ways, better prepare them to be responsible citizens in an increasingly technological world, and better position them to contribute in STEM fields,鈥� according to Leung and Marshall.

Matteo Riondato

Computer Science

Matteo Riondato, associate professor of computer science, has received a prestigious from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The initiative supports faculty 鈥渨ho have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.鈥� Riondato will use to advance his work developing algorithms for statistically-sound knowledge discovery and machine learning, assisted by the students in his research group, the

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant

Black Studies & History

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, associate professor of Black studies and history, has received a summer a book about Lowell, Mass., during the 1820s to 1860s. Focused on the community鈥檚 relationship to slavery and antislavery, the book is titled Spindles & Slavery: Grappling with Ties to the Cotton Kingdom in the Industrial North.

Nicholas J. Horton

STATISTICS

Nicholas J. Horton, Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science) has been selected as the recipient of the by the Boston chapter of the American Statistical Association. This award honors individuals from academia, industry, and government who have made exceptional contributions to the field of statistics and who have shown outstanding service to the statistical community, including the Boston Chapter. Horton was recognized for his 鈥渘umerous innovative contributions to statistics and data science education.鈥� He will be formally celebrated at an award presentation and reception at a later date (which has not yet been decided). 

Brittney E. Bailey

STATISTICS

Brittney E. Bailey assistant professor of statistics, has received the . The prize is given in recognition of 鈥渄edicated and innovative approaches to support and empower students through teaching, leadership, and efforts on behalf of the profession.鈥� Bailey has served on the faculty at 小福利导航since fall of 2018.

Christopher Durr

Chemistry

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) has recognized Christopher Durr, assistant professor of chemistry, with a . Durr was one of 26 鈥渆arly career scholars鈥� in chemistry, physics and astronomy chosen by the RCSA via a rigorous peer-review process of applications from public and private research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions across the United States and Canada. Durr鈥檚 award project, which incorporates both research and science education, is titled 鈥淓xploring the Synthesis and Mechanism of Single-Site and Cationic Group V Catalysts for the Production of Biodegradable Polymers.鈥�

Lawrence Douglas

Law Jurisprudence & Social Thought

Lawrence Douglas,  the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and chair of law, jurisprudence, and social thought, was interviewed as an expert source in the National Geographic documentary film Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony. The documentary explores never-before-heard testimony delivered at the famous trial and the new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine that it reveals. and learn more about viewing options. Douglas also appears in two related documentaries: a NetFlix miniseries inspired in part by Douglas鈥� book , and , available on Amazon Prime.

Brian House

Art AND The History of Art

Brian House, assistant professor of art, was one of 66 artists from across the country selected by the , which funds the creation of 鈥渆xperimental, risk-taking projects that push boundaries formally and thematically, venturing into wild, out-there, never-before-seen concepts, and future universes real or imagined.鈥� Titled , House鈥檚 project involves capturing infrasound鈥搒ound waves with frequencies so low they are inaudible to the human ear鈥� and subsequently processing and resampling the audio upward into an acoustic range can be heard. Listeners hear infrasound spatially situated in the landscape around them as a means of perceiving distant phenomena associated with the climate crisis, such as calving glaciers and wildfires. 

Solsiree del Moral

Solsiree del Moral, professor of Black studies and professor and chair of American studies, has been named the at the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies. During her time at the Center, del Moral will teach the course 鈥淎 History of Afro-Latin America,鈥� a course surveying the history of Africans and their descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a special focus on gender and sexuality.  

Catherine Sanderson

Psychology

Catherine Sanderson, the Poler Family Professor of Psychology, submitted on the psychology of group influence to the House committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Sanderson鈥檚 statement was used to help the United States Congress understand the psychological factors that led to the attack on the Capitol.

Olufemi Vaughan

Black Studies

Olufemi Vaughan, the Alfred Sargent Lee 鈥�41 and Mary Farley Ames Lee Professor of Black Studies, was one of 180 people from around the world named a His project, 鈥淟etters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria, 1926鈥�1994,鈥� is based on 3,000 family letters from his late father鈥檚 library that focus on real-life family stories in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria. The fellows were appointed on the basis of 鈥減rior achievement and exceptional promise.鈥� 

Kate Follette

Physics and Astronomy

Kate Follette, assistant professor of astronomy, has received a from the and the . The funding, which promotes interdisciplinary research and community-building between faculty members who have not collaborated before, will support a project proposed by Follette and , assistant professor of biology at Boston University, titled 鈥淔rom Exoplanets to Microbes: Using Astronomical Image Processing Techniques to Detect Microbes in Astrobiological Contexts.鈥�

Jonathan Friedman

Physics

Jonathan Friedman, professor of physics and chair of physics and astronomy, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a professional organization for physicists in the U.S. and around the world. Friedman鈥檚 fellowship was awarded based on his 鈥減ioneering experimental research elucidating the quantum behavior of molecular nanomagnets and significant contributions to undergraduate physics research and education.鈥�

Pawan Dhingra

American Studies

Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty Pawan Dhingra has been appointed the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 2022-2023. The brings prominent faculty to serve as visiting professors at UNC and Duke for a one-year period, during which they deliver a lecture series and engage students and faculty around areas of shared interest to both institutions. Dhingra's focus will be on anti-Asian violence and how to combat it.

George Greenstein, Emeritus

Astronomy

George Greenstein, the Sydney Dillon Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, received the for his 鈥渋nnovative methods of mentoring students and other educators, and for his textbook and other writings that explain astronomical developments and ways of thinking.鈥�

Jallicia Jolly

American Studies & Black Studies

Jallicia Jolly, postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor of American studies and Black studies, won a that will support the completion of her first book manuscript, Ill Erotics: Black Caribbean Women and Self-Making in Times of HIV/AIDS, which is under contract with University of California Press.

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant

Black Studies & History

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, associate professor of Black studies and history, won a Harvard to support a book she is writing about abolition.

Jeeyon Jeong

Biology

Jeeyon Jeong, associate professor of biology, won a the organization鈥檚 most prestigious award for young faculty members, in March.

Min Jin Lee

Writer-in-residence

Min Jin Lee will be inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame on October 18 in New York. 

Yang Sun 鈥�23

Theater & Dance

Poet, an original work by Yang Sun 鈥�23, was selected in May as the fifth alternate for inclusion in the . Sun attended the three-day gathering with her thesis advisor, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance Jungeun Kim, and performed her newest solo during an informal showing at the festival.

Photo by Paul Bloomfield

Darryl Harper

Music

Darryl Harper, John William Ward Professor and chair of music, has released a new album titled Chamber Made. Examining the boundaries between chamber music and jazz, the album is part of a restorative tradition of Black performers upending assumptions about where they 鈥渂elong鈥� in terms of genre and cultural access.

Jallicia Jolly

American studies & Black studies 

Jallicia Jolly, assistant professor of American studies and Black studies and co-chair of the (BEJMA) coalition, has been awarded a grant from Good Neighbor Fund to bolster the efforts of the BEJMA coalition. The fund supports organizers and community-based groups working at the intersection of health equity and economic prosperity, particularly work pertaining to historically disenfranchised or geographically isolated communities. 鈥淭his grant鈥檚 support of BEJMA鈥檚 work reflects a vision of a just and robust community and an understanding and consideration of additional social drivers that impact overall well-being,鈥� noted Jolly. The Wagner Foundation鈥檚 mission is to confront the social and historical disparities that perpetuate injustice by accompanying organizations aligned with this goal, serving as advocates for change and convening thought leaders. Its focus on health equity and shared prosperity is balanced by a holistic approach which aims to develop and strengthen equitable systems throughout the world.

Kiara Vigil

American Studies

 Kiara Vigil, associate professor of American studies and dean of new students, has received a for her project titled 鈥�Iapi Oaye 鈥� Unlocking a Hidden History of Dakota Language and Culture within The Word Carrier.鈥�

The funding will support her work in publishing new scholarship based on a collaborative project that includes a team of Dakota linguistic and cultural experts. Together they will work closely with the issues of the rare Dakota-language newspaper Iapi Oaye, held in the College鈥檚 Archives & Special Collections, to prepare print and digital versions of an annotated English translation. Iapi Oaye was published monthly by Christian missionaries and Dakota printers from May of 1871 to March of 1939. The Word Carrier is an English-language companion to Iapi Oaye that was published by the Santee Normal Training School Press from 1884 to 1903.

Ivan Contreras

Mathematics

The National Science Foundation has awarded Ivan Contreras, assistant professor of mathematics, a grant in support of the ninth annual 鈥淕one Fishing鈥� conference in Poisson geometry that the College is hosting in the spring of 2023.  The event, the second-largest conference in that particular area of mathematics study worldwide and the largest in North America, will bring together more than 50 researchers from all over the world. In addition to Contreras, Chris Elliott, visiting assistant professor of mathematics, is helping organize the event, as well as several 小福利导航students.

Rob Benedetto

Mathematics

Rob Benedetto, the William J. Walker Professor of Mathematics and chair of the mathematics and statistics department, received a grant for investigations that seek to answer open questions in arithmetic dynamics, a field bridging number theory and dynamical systems.

Rachel Bernard

Geology

Rachel Bernard, assistant professor of geology, received an (the two capital letters in 鈥渆arly鈥� is the official spelling) to fund a conference that convenes stakeholders for the 50th anniversary of the first national conversation on minority participation in Earth science and mineral engineering.

Anthony Bishop

Chemistry

Anthony Bishop, professor of chemistry, won a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant in support of his project titled 鈥�

Sara Brenneis

Spanish

Sara Brenneis, professor and chair of Spanish, has been awarded a grant from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Center of the Humanities to support her project titled 鈥淭he Stolperstein Database in Spain.鈥� Also funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project aims to bring wider national and international attention to Spain鈥檚 role in World War II by mapping all of the country鈥檚 , which are commemorative brass plaques installed in locations throughout Europe that serve as memorial sites for Jews and non-Jews deported to Nazi concentration camps. The UNH and Mellon Foundation support will enable Brenneis to contribute to the creation of an accessible, multilingual website for students, tourists, residents, family members and others to easily find, recognize and understand the significance of the Stolperstein markers in Spain, and shed more light on Spaniards who were also victims of the Nazis.

Kate Follette

Astronomy

Kate Follette, assistant professor of astronomy, was named a 2022 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). Her project is titled 鈥淢oving Forward: Toward Accurate Recovery and Interpretation of Accreting Protoplanets and a Socially Just Undergraduate Astronomy Curriculum.鈥� Follette is one of 24 early-career scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy to receive this award.

Amanda Folsom

Mathematics

Amanda Folsom, professor of mathematics, was awarded a for the RUI project 鈥淗armonic Maass Forms and Quantum Modular Form鈥� to study the theory and applications of harmonic Maass forms, their holomorphic parts called mock modular forms, quantum modular forms and related functions. Some components of the projects will be carried out by 小福利导航student researchers under Folsom鈥檚 guidance.

Jonathan Friedman

Physics

Jonathan Friedman, professor of physics and chair of physics and astronomy, received a from the RSCA for his research on spin-clock transitions in silica defects. The Cottrell SEED award is designed to support Cottrell Scholars as they launch exceptionally creative, new research or educational activities with the potential for high impact. Friedman also received a grant with Jacob Olshansky, assistant professor of chemistry, from the NSF for the project 鈥淯sing Colloidal Nanoparticles to Host Photogenerated Spin Qubit Pairs.鈥�

Victor Guevara

Geology

Victor Guevara, assistant professor of geology, was awarded two NSF grants for research projects:

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David Hall

Physics

David Hall, the Paula R. and David J. Avenius 1941 Professor of Physics, received a for the RUI project 鈥淭opological Excitations in Spin-1 and Spin-2 Bose-Einstein Condensates.鈥�

David Hanneke

Physics

David Hanneke, associate professor of physics, received a for the RUI project 鈥淥ptical Clocks for New Physics Searches.鈥�

Nick Holschuh

Geology

Nick Holschuh, assistant professor of geology, received two NSF collaborative research awards:

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Nicholas Horton

Statistics

Nicholas Horton, the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science), received an NIH grant for research exploring the association between common eating disorders and the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome and gastroesophageal reflux disease. 

Larry Hunter

Physics

Larry Hunter, the Stone Professor of Natural Sciences (Physics), received a National Science Foundation  RUI grant for his project titled 鈥溾��

Sally Kim and Marc Edwards

Biology

Sally Kim and Marc Edwards, assistant professors of biology, were awarded a from the National Science Foundation for the acquisition of an integrated Zeiss 980 microscope with Airyscan 2 and FCS to create an advanced microscopy center. The advanced imaging capabilities of this instrument are expected to transform life science research at Amherst, opening new opportunities for student research and promoting interdisciplinary exploration of the microscopic world.

Katerina Ragkousi

Biology

Katerina Ragkousi, assistant professor of biology, won an NIH grant for a project titled 鈥溾�� The award will fund research by Ragkousi and her students on how sea anemones organize their first epithelial tissues and how they maintain them during development and growth.

Yael Rice

Art and the History of Art & Asian Languages and Civilizations

Yael Rice, associate professor of art and the history of art and of Asian languages and civilizations, received to digitize the Taza Akhbar, an Illustrated History of the Kings of Kabul. Completed in 1817, the manuscript is the only known copy of this text and includes an unusual emphasis on and rich detail about the urban topography of Afghanistan and the ethnography of its peoples.