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Faculty-Staff Achievements

April 28, 2021

Kris Covey

Kristofer Covey, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, has received two grants that will support student research. A $22,241 grant from former Vice President Al Gore will allow students to conduct soil carbon inventories and contribute to the development of a national-scale soil carbon inventory effort. A second, $41,557 grant from Kendall Jackson Family Wines in Sonoma County, California, will support student research there and at the Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate & Gardens. 

James HelickeJames Helicke, managing editor in the Office of Communications and Marketing, spoke on PRI’s “The World” about his research on the history of U.S.-Turkish relations following President Joseph Biden’s recognition of the mass killings of Armenians during World War I as genocide. 

Stephen IvesStephen Ives, associate professor of health and human physiological sciences, published a commentary in the Journal of Applied Physiology on “Commentaries on Viewpoint: Differential impact of shear rate in the cerebral and systemic circulation: implications for endothelial function.”      

James KennellyJim Kennelly, professor of management and business, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and conduct research at the International Management Center, University of Applied Sciences, Krems an der Donau, Austria. This is his second Fulbright Award: His first was interrupted by the pandemic last year.    

William LewisWilliam S. Lewis, professor of philosophy, recently published two recent articles, one in a Slovenian journal on Marxist Aesthetics and another on the Verso books blog website on the philosophy of science, positivism and Stalinism.    

Cathy SilberCathy Silber, teaching professor of Chinese, spoke about her research to the BBC and the Italian-language publication Il Tascabile.  

    

Catherine TalleyCatherine Talley, visiting assistant professor of French, published the article “The Absurdity of the Aftermath in Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête” in the journal French Forum.     

 

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