The National Science Foundation recently awarded two major grants: $271,602 to Lynne Bernstein for research on the brain's general principles of perceptual learning, and $576,553 to Timothy Heleniak for a study of Arctic populations entitled “Polar Peoples: Past, Present, and Future.”
Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, was selected for the 2014 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.
Eric Lawrence and John Sides published "The Consequences of Political Innumeracy" in Research & Politics.
Stuart Licht and chemistry MS students Baochen Cui, Baohui Wang, Fang-Fang Li, Jason Lau and Shuzhi Liu published “Ammonia synthesis by N2 and steam electrolysis in molten hydroxide suspensions of nanoscale Fe2O3” in the journal, Science.
Yonatan Lupu received the Bruce Russett Award for the best article published in The Journal of Conflict Resolution for his work entitled “Trading Communities, the Networked Structure of International Relations, and the Kantian Peace.”
Forrest Maltzman and political science MA student Alyx Mark published an article entitled "Stepping on Congress: Courts, Congress, and Interinstitutional Politics" in The Journal of Law and Courts.
Robert McRuer guest edited a special issue of The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.
Jozef Przytycki received a $35,000 grant from the Simons Foundation to study algebraic structures motivated by and applied to Knot Theory.
Yongwu Rong, Maria Gualdani, Murli Gupta, Yinglei Lai and Rahul Simha shared a $600,000 training, education and research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for joint efforts in mathematics, statistics and computer science. Gualdani also received a separate $170,000 NSF grant for an analysis of nonlocal effects in nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations.
Dan Rudmann, BA’05, MA ’08, and a partnership of artists and businesses will open the Studium, a gallery, event and retail space in East Austin, Texas.