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  • Vela and team published in American Chemical Society’s Catalysis

    Abstract Motivated by increased awareness about nitrate contamination of surface waters and its deleterious effects in human and animal health, we sought an alternative, non-noble metal catalyst for the chemical degradation of nitrate. First-row transition metal phosphides recently emerged as excellent alternatives for hydrogen evolution and hydrotreating reactions. We…

    February 26, 2020

  • Daniel Butler publishes study on how incarceration impacts women

    Daniel Butler, assistant professor of sociology, had his study, “Understanding How In-prison Experiences Influence Female Offenders’ Maladjustment to Prison,” published in the Dec. 23, 2019, online edition of Justice Quarterly. In this paper, Butler examined whether what women experience while in prison influences assaults, filing of grievances and mental health…

    February 5, 2020

  • David A.M. Peterson publishes article in the Washington Post

    David A.M. Peterson, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Whitaker-Lindgren Faculty Fellow in Political Science published an article in the Washington Post. The article, How Are Iowa Voters Picking Candidates?, is based on data from the Iowa State University/Civiqs poll. The poll is funded by…

    January 29, 2020

  • Kovnir group featured in Chemical & Engineering News

    Work published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society was highlighted in a recent issue of Chemical & Engineering News: https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/III-V-semiconductors-sport-clathrate/98/i4 Abstract follows: Three novel unconventional clathrates with unprecedented III–V semiconducting frameworks have been synthesized: Cs8In27Sb19, Cs8Ga27Sb19, and Rb8Ga27Sb19. These clathrates represent the first…

    January 28, 2020

  • Assistant Teaching Professor Alissa Stoehr published

    Alissa Stoehr, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, has published three articles in “Women’s Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia.” The three articles are titled: -Anti-Human Trafficking Organizations; -Women Baseball Players in Cuba; -Canada Published by ABC-CLIO in 2018, this multi-volume reference set…

    January 27, 2020

  • Assistant Teaching Professor Alissa Stoehr publishes book

    Alissa Stoehr, Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, together with Heather Rellihan, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Anne Arundel Community College, co-authored a book chapter “The Status of Women’s and Gender Studies at Community Colleges” in the 2019 book “Theory and Praxis: Women’s and Gender Studies…

    January 27, 2020

  • collage of fingerprints, models of molecules and crime scene tape
    Lee and collaborators published in Analytical Chemistry

    Police have long relied on the unique whorls, loops or arches encoded in fingerprints to identify suspects. However, they have no way to tell how long ago those prints were left behind — information that could be crucial to a case. A preliminary new study in ACS’ Analytical Chemistry suggests…

    January 22, 2020

  • Rachel Meyers published in the journal Ancient Society

    Rachel Meyers, assistant professor of classical studies, published “On Her Own: Practices of Female Benefaction in the Western Roman Empire” in the 2019 volume of the journal Ancient Society. In this article Meyers uses a quantitative approach in analyzing a body of over 400 Latin inscriptions from the…

    January 13, 2020