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Archive: Sep 2025

  • Stacey Weber-Fève publishes chapter on Danse Film

    Stacey Weber-Fève, professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published an invited chapter in the anthologie, “Danser au féminin en Afrique: État des lieux, défis et perspectives” (Présence Africaine Éditions, 2025), was recently published over the summer. In her chapter, Stacey began a new research trajectory into…

    September 10, 2025

  • Meisam Mohammady awarded National Science Foundation grant

    Meisam Mohammady, assistant professor in the Department of computer Science, recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant through the inaugural Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (PDaSP) program. This project, titled ” A Holistic Privacy Preserving Collaborative Data Sharing System for Intelligent Transportation,” addresses the growing need for privacy in…

    September 10, 2025

  • Mengdi Huai receives National Science Foundation CAREER award

    Mengdi Huai, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the highest honor awarded to junior faculty. Dr. Huai’s proposal “CAREER: Enabling Reliable Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making with Unreliable Data” works with conformal inference, a statistical distribution-free and model-agnostic technique that offers statistically…

    September 10, 2025

  • Megan Myers publishes Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora

    Megan Myers, Department chair in the Department of World Languages and Cultures and LAS Interim Associate Dean of Student Success, recently published a book titled, Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora by Routledge.

    September 10, 2025

  • Matthew Sivils publishes in American Gothic Studies

    Matthew Sivils, professor in the Department of English, recently co-edited an article in the publication American Gothic Studies titled “An edition of William Leete Stone’s “The Spectral Fire-Ship.” American Gothic Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic. Sivils, Matthew Wynn (co-edited with…

    September 10, 2025

  • Kaili Meyer
    Keeping AI-generated content authentic

    Where some see artificial intelligence (AI) flattening human creativity, Kaili Meyer (‘17 journalism and mass communication) sees an opportunity to prove that authenticity and individuality are still the heart of communication. As founder of the sales and web copywriting company Reveal Studio Co., Meyer built her business and later included…

    September 5, 2025

  • Sithmi Hewage
    Interns: How LAS students spent their summer 

    Summer offers college students the chance to get ahead and distinguish themselves through internships, research, and other hands-on learning experiences. As a new academic year begins, three College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) students reflect on their summer of learning, growing, and preparing for what’s next. Sithmi Hewage Sithmi…

    September 2, 2025