Accomplishments: College of Sciences
Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) has been invited to give a seminar in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Nov. 6. She has also been named the 2025 Marsha Betley Named Lecturer.
Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) gave a public lecture as part of the science series for the Goettingen Literary Festival in Germany. This invitation was for his book "Hidden in the Heavens" about NASA's Kepler mission. The festival spans two weeks in October and November. Several dozen speakers, including journalists, athletes, authors,鈥
Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) co-edited a book on Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, which contains 31 papers and published in the book series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics;(PROMS, volume 486).
Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) received acceptance for his paper titled, 鈥淯ncovering Alterations in Cancer Epigenetics via Trans-Dimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Hidden Markov Models,鈥 in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). The study introduces a novel statistical鈥
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new journal article in New Phytologist quantifying drought mortality effects in global tree ring datasets. The paper is titled "Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings."
Mohammed Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) recently coauthored a paper, "On Nonlinear Distributed Order Fractional Differential Equations for Star-Sun Graphs Clique Polynomials," in Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (founded in 1880).
The Center for Urban Water Conservation, a joint research facility managed by 性视界传媒 College of Sciences and UNR Extension, hosted a group of international visitors who were invited to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State鈥檚 International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). The IVLP is the U.S. Department鈥檚 premier鈥
Arumugam Jayaraman (Chemistry and Biochemistry), University of Wuerzburg professor Holger Braunschweig in Germany, and University of Sussex professor Alfredo Vargas in the UK published "Olefin 蟺-coordination chemistry at low-oxidation-state boron" in the Nature Portfolio鈥檚 Nature Chemistry journal on September 19,鈥
Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) recently coauthored two papers, "Developing and analyzing a DG method for modeling of metasurfaces" and "A novel finite element method for simulating surface plasmon polaritons on complex graphene sheets," in Journal of Computational Physics (3.8 Impact Factor), one of the very top journals in Computational鈥
Boo Shan Tseng (Life Sciences), Ranjani Murali (Life Sciences), and Christy Strong (Life Sciences), in collaboration with researchers at South Dakota State University and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, were awarded a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Through collaboration of biologists, mathematicians,鈥
Mohammed K A Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) has been included in the 2025 Elsevier鈥揝tanford list of the world鈥檚 top 2% scientists in the fields of General Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.
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Donald Price, Kristian West, Michelle Cevallos-Zea. and Matthew Medeiros (all Life Sciences), along with Sara Cahan, Joaquin Nunez, and Emily Longman from the University of Vermont and Joanne Yew from the University of Hawaii, have recently published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Kristian West and Michelle Cevallos-Zea have鈥