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Gustavo Macintosh, university professor in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists.

Ryan Martin, professor in the Department of Mathematics, was recently honored as the recipient of the Fulbright-University of Birmingham Scholar Award (All Disciplines). He will be at the University of Birmingham from September 2025 to June 2026. This marks his second Fulbright Scholar award, having previously received the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics–Rényi Institute award.

Claus Kadelka, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, recently received a research award from the Mathematical Biology Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), starting this September. The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in all areas of mathematical sciences with relevance to the biological sciences. Successful proposals must demonstrate…

Md Shahriar Mahmud, applied mathematics Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mathematics,  has been named to the first class of Simons Dissertation Fellows in Mathematics, an honor announced this July by the Simons Foundation. This prestigious fellowship, established in memory of the foundation’s late co-founder Jim Simons, provides research support to exceptional…

Rana Parshad, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, along with colleagues Aishwarya Pawar (Department of Engineering), Ratul Chouwhury (Department of Chemical and Bio Engineering), and Jeff Essner (Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology), have been awarded an NSF grant to develop a novel multiscale digital twin framework to…

Lindsay Preseau, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published an article, “A Comparative Analysis of Gender-Just Language in First-Year German Textbooks” in the journal Teaching German/Die Unterrichtspraxis. More information can be found on the Wiley Online Library website.

Samuel Piccone, lecturer in the Department of English, has been awarded the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press. Piccone will receive a $5,000 cash prize, and his manuscript Domestica will be published in the Miller Williams Poetry Series in the spring of 2026. More information…

The leaders of the latest Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (PIRI), led my Associate Professor Robbyn Anand, Department of Chemistry, are leveraging the best insight and knowledge and latest technology of our time to deliver innovative and impactful solutions for improving water purification for human health and national defense purposes.