Accomplishments: College of Sciences
Nemanja Novakovic (Sciences and Honors) is the 2017 性视界传媒 undergraduate recipient of the Regents' Scholar Award. The award is bestowed upon one undergraduate student from each NSHE institution for their academic achievements, leadership ability, and service contributions. Each honoree receives a $5,000 stipend.
Novakovic is pursuing a double major鈥
Jacqueline Phan and her mentor, Ernesto Abel-Santos (both Chemistry and Biochemistry), placed second and won the People's Choice Award in the three-minute thesis (3MT) competition at the Western Association of Graduate School's (WAGS) 2017 conference, earlier this month. In November, under professor Abel-Santos鈥 mentorship, Phan placed first鈥
Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) and colleagues, including Donald Price (Life Sciences), published "Incipient Ecological Speciation between Successional Varieties of a Dominant Tree Involves Intrinsic Postzygotic Isolating Barriers" in the journal Ecology and Evolution. This study demonstrates that partial intrinsic postzygotic barriers may be鈥
Vivian Sam and Matt Rader (Life Sciences) were featured in "Study Breaks," a national undergrad write-up. Both are pursuing biology degrees with concentrations in ecology and evolution.
Christopher Adcock, Oliver Tschauner, Elisabeth Hausrath, Arya Udry, and Minghua Ren (all Geoscience) and a team of international researchers recently published a research paper titled, 鈥淪hock-transformation of Whitlockite to Merrillite and the Implications for Meteoritic Phosphate鈥 in Nature Communications.
The research focuses on how shock鈥
Bing Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) co-organized an Aspen Center for Physics conference titled, 鈥淔ast Radio Bursts: New Probes of Fundamental Physics and Cosmology鈥 in February. The conference hosted approximately 80 scientists from around the world to discuss the nature of fast radio bursts, mysterious radio bursts discovered 10 years ago. The鈥
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) has been named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow. He is one of 126 researchers from 60 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 鈥 and the first 性视界传媒 scientist 鈥 to be awarded the prestigious fellowship for early career scholars considered the 鈥榥ext generation of scientific leaders.鈥
Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences) and a team of international researchers recently published a research article titled 鈥淥rigin of Microbial Biomineralization and Magnetotaxis During the Archean鈥 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that shows magnetic navigation by swimming bacteria may be more ancient than previously鈥
Ai-Sun "Kelly" Tseng (Life Sciences) published an article, 鈥淪eeing the Future: Using Xenopus to Understand Eye Regeneration鈥 in genesis: The Journal of Genetics and Development. Graduate student Cindy Kha鈥檚 images were selected for the journal cover illustration. This invited review article is part of of a special issue focusing on biological鈥
Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) recently had a research paper published in Angewandte Chemie. The paper, titled "The Structure of Glycine Dihydrate: Implications for the Crystallization of Glycine from Solution and Its Structure in Outer Space," looks at long-term puzzling crystal structure determination of glycine at low鈥
Frank van Breukelen (Life Sciences) received a four-year, $797,810 National Science Foundation grant to study hibernation in tenrecs.
The current views about mammalian hibernation were developed using traditional models such as the ground squirrel. In these models, hibernators periodically rewarm to active levels between bouts of depressed鈥
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) received a $444,188 grant from the NASA ATP (Astrophysics Theory Program) for Predicting Observational Signatures of Planet Formation in Realistic Models of Protoplanetary Disks .
He will hire a postdoc to be included in the research. The postdoc will work with Zhu and Jim Stone from鈥