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Marilyne Stains, associate professor of chemistry, received a 2019 Rising Star Award from the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee. The award, established in 2011, recognizes exceptional early-to-midcareer women chemists across all areas of chemistry on a national level.
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Marco Abel, professor and chair in the Department of English, has been awarded a Berlin Prize from The American Academy in Berlin. The semester-long fellowship is awarded annually to scholars, writers, composers and artists from the United States who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.
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J. Clark Archer, professor of geography, has received a 2019 American Association of Geographers E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award for his significant contributions to the fields of political geography, cartography, population geography and demographics. The annual award recognizes members of the Association who have made outstanding contributions to the geographic field due to their special competence in teaching or research.
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Anthony Starace, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Physics, was recently featured on NET's "Nebraska Stories" in a discussion on Nebraska's city campus Flower of Kent tree. The tree is a descendant of the ancient tree that inspired Newton and the law of gravity.
- Mikki Minton, undergraduate communication studies major, had her capstone paper "Formation of Successful Aging from Interactions with Older Adults" accepted at the 2019 Central States Communication Association conference. Minton will present her work at the conference in Omaha this April.
- Associate professor Mehmet Can Vuran and doctoral student Rigoberto Wong of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering have been honored for their research paper, “Internet of Underground Things in Precision Agriculture: Architecture and Technology Aspect,” which has been cited as one of the Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles by Ad Hoc Networks Journal.
