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Virginia Tech's Leading Research Universities Unite to Advance Biomedical Innovation
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 1 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
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Virginia's leading research universities unite to advance biomedical innovation
The state's Biomedical Research Diamond universities highlight collaboration across Virginia's research enterprise.
By John Pastor
The next generation of medicine won't be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops - and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible.
That vision united researchers from Virginia Tech, the ... Show Full Article BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 1 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Virginia's leading research universities unite to advance biomedical innovation The state's Biomedical Research Diamond universities highlight collaboration across Virginia's research enterprise. By John Pastor The next generation of medicine won't be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops - and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible. That vision united researchers from Virginia Tech, theUniversity of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Old Dominion University at the inaugural Biomedical Research Diamond symposium in Richmond, where scientists described advances spanning neuroscience, cancer, rare diseases, cardiovascular and metabolic health, immunology, artificial intelligence, and drug discovery.
Although the diseases differed, the scientific strategy was consistent: understand the biology, identify the mechanisms that drive disease -- and those that promote health and longevity such as exercise and nutrition -- and use that knowledge to develop more precise interventions at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels.
Anthony LaMantia of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC presented research that traces a genetic mutation associated with schizophrenia and autism to the brain circuits the mutation disrupts during development, identifying a way to restore healthy neural connections by activating an alternative biological pathway rather than correcting the original mutation.
In all, the presentations illustrated why Virginia's leading research universities have chosen to work together.
Advances in biomedical research increasingly depend on expertise distributed across disciplines and institutions, combining basic science, engineering, computation, clinical research, and pharmaceutical development to move discoveries more efficiently toward patient care.
"The challenges facing human health today are too complex for any one investigator or even any institution to solve alone," said Michael Friedlander, executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Virginia Tech vice president for health sciences and technology. "The Biomedical Research Diamond, and the commonwealth's continued financial support and prioritization, reflects a shared commitment to bringing together expertise, infrastructure, and talent across Virginia's leading research universities to accelerate discoveries that improve lives.
"There are scientific opportunities now that weren't here 10 years ago for early-stage discovery, computational modeling, drug design, and running very informed trials that use biomarkers that enable strategic stratification of patients and higher success rates for clinical research outcomes," Friedlander said.
Frank Gupton, chair of pharmaceutical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, where the symposium was hosted, said translating discoveries into therapies requires capabilities that no single institution possesses.
"Collectively, we have them all," Gupton said.
Gupton said Virginia's opportunity extends beyond discovery to one of the most difficult stages of biomedical innovation: translating promising laboratory findings into therapies that can reach patients.
"Discoveries can't be laboratory curiosities," he said. "They've got to be things that we can actually show a line of sight to commercialization."
By combining expertise in basic science, engineering, clinical research, pharmaceutical development, and manufacturing, the Biomedical Research Diamond aims to bridge the gap between laboratory discovery to patient care.
Jason Powell, director of government affairs at Hunton Andrews Kurth and a former senior advisor in Virginia state government, said the partnership reflects years of evolving state investment in research.
Early efforts focused on strengthening individual universities, he said, but the Biomedical Research Diamond represents a shift toward supporting a coordinated statewide enterprise.
"The commonwealth has shown that it's willing to be an investor and is looking for results that benefit the entirety of the commonwealth, and not just one university, because it's Virginia versus the world," Powell said.
The goal was to have a "single coordinated entity" capable of generating returns that no one university could achieve alone.
The effort grew from a recognition that Virginia already possesses internationally recognized strengths in biomedical research, engineering, clinical medicine, biotechnology, and data science.
The partnership seeks to connect those capabilities, creating a statewide research enterprise to move discoveries more efficiently from laboratory science to patient care.
The collaboration also represents a shift in how Virginia's universities work together.
"What we've seen is a transition from those relationship-based collaborations to more institutional collaborations," said Eric Weisel, senior associate vice president for enterprise research and innovation at Old Dominion University. "Institutional collaboration is what's going to allow us to compete with other states."
Mark Esser, chief scientific officer of the University of Virginia's Manning Institute for Biotechnology, said the partnership is ultimately about people. After 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry, he has watched companies search the world for the scientists and entrepreneurs who drive biomedical innovation.
"The name of the game is talent," Esser said.
Virginia already educates many of those people, Esser said, but too many leave the commonwealth after graduation. Building a stronger biomedical research and biotechnology ecosystem will help keep that talent in Virginia while strengthening the nation's ability to compete globally.
"This isn't just about competition within the state," Esser said. "This is really about national security and national economic security."
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Original text here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/06/research-fralinbiomed-researchdiamond.html
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Virginia's leading research universities unite to advance biomedical innovation
The state's Biomedical Research Diamond universities highlight collaboration across Virginia's research enterprise.
By John Pastor
The next generation of medicine won't be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops - and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible.
That vision united researchers from Virginia Tech, the ... Show Full Article BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 1 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Virginia's leading research universities unite to advance biomedical innovation The state's Biomedical Research Diamond universities highlight collaboration across Virginia's research enterprise. By John Pastor The next generation of medicine won't be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops - and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible. That vision united researchers from Virginia Tech, theUniversity of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Old Dominion University at the inaugural Biomedical Research Diamond symposium in Richmond, where scientists described advances spanning neuroscience, cancer, rare diseases, cardiovascular and metabolic health, immunology, artificial intelligence, and drug discovery.
Although the diseases differed, the scientific strategy was consistent: understand the biology, identify the mechanisms that drive disease -- and those that promote health and longevity such as exercise and nutrition -- and use that knowledge to develop more precise interventions at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels.
Anthony LaMantia of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC presented research that traces a genetic mutation associated with schizophrenia and autism to the brain circuits the mutation disrupts during development, identifying a way to restore healthy neural connections by activating an alternative biological pathway rather than correcting the original mutation.
In all, the presentations illustrated why Virginia's leading research universities have chosen to work together.
Advances in biomedical research increasingly depend on expertise distributed across disciplines and institutions, combining basic science, engineering, computation, clinical research, and pharmaceutical development to move discoveries more efficiently toward patient care.
"The challenges facing human health today are too complex for any one investigator or even any institution to solve alone," said Michael Friedlander, executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Virginia Tech vice president for health sciences and technology. "The Biomedical Research Diamond, and the commonwealth's continued financial support and prioritization, reflects a shared commitment to bringing together expertise, infrastructure, and talent across Virginia's leading research universities to accelerate discoveries that improve lives.
"There are scientific opportunities now that weren't here 10 years ago for early-stage discovery, computational modeling, drug design, and running very informed trials that use biomarkers that enable strategic stratification of patients and higher success rates for clinical research outcomes," Friedlander said.
Frank Gupton, chair of pharmaceutical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, where the symposium was hosted, said translating discoveries into therapies requires capabilities that no single institution possesses.
"Collectively, we have them all," Gupton said.
Gupton said Virginia's opportunity extends beyond discovery to one of the most difficult stages of biomedical innovation: translating promising laboratory findings into therapies that can reach patients.
"Discoveries can't be laboratory curiosities," he said. "They've got to be things that we can actually show a line of sight to commercialization."
By combining expertise in basic science, engineering, clinical research, pharmaceutical development, and manufacturing, the Biomedical Research Diamond aims to bridge the gap between laboratory discovery to patient care.
Jason Powell, director of government affairs at Hunton Andrews Kurth and a former senior advisor in Virginia state government, said the partnership reflects years of evolving state investment in research.
Early efforts focused on strengthening individual universities, he said, but the Biomedical Research Diamond represents a shift toward supporting a coordinated statewide enterprise.
"The commonwealth has shown that it's willing to be an investor and is looking for results that benefit the entirety of the commonwealth, and not just one university, because it's Virginia versus the world," Powell said.
The goal was to have a "single coordinated entity" capable of generating returns that no one university could achieve alone.
The effort grew from a recognition that Virginia already possesses internationally recognized strengths in biomedical research, engineering, clinical medicine, biotechnology, and data science.
The partnership seeks to connect those capabilities, creating a statewide research enterprise to move discoveries more efficiently from laboratory science to patient care.
The collaboration also represents a shift in how Virginia's universities work together.
"What we've seen is a transition from those relationship-based collaborations to more institutional collaborations," said Eric Weisel, senior associate vice president for enterprise research and innovation at Old Dominion University. "Institutional collaboration is what's going to allow us to compete with other states."
Mark Esser, chief scientific officer of the University of Virginia's Manning Institute for Biotechnology, said the partnership is ultimately about people. After 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry, he has watched companies search the world for the scientists and entrepreneurs who drive biomedical innovation.
"The name of the game is talent," Esser said.
Virginia already educates many of those people, Esser said, but too many leave the commonwealth after graduation. Building a stronger biomedical research and biotechnology ecosystem will help keep that talent in Virginia while strengthening the nation's ability to compete globally.
"This isn't just about competition within the state," Esser said. "This is really about national security and national economic security."
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Original text here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/06/research-fralinbiomed-researchdiamond.html
University of Oklahoma Health: Clinical Trial to Evaluate Immunotherapy Drug for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Following Surgery
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 1 -- The University of Oklahoma Health campus issued the following news:
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Clinical Trial to Evaluate Immunotherapy Drug for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Following Surgery
Muhammad Furqan, M.D., professor of hematology-oncology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Associate Director of Clinical Research at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, is leading a national clinical trial evaluating whether immunotherapy can improve outcomes for patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following surgery.
Lung cancer remains the leading ... Show Full Article OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 1 -- The University of Oklahoma Health campus issued the following news: * * * Clinical Trial to Evaluate Immunotherapy Drug for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Following Surgery Muhammad Furqan, M.D., professor of hematology-oncology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Associate Director of Clinical Research at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, is leading a national clinical trial evaluating whether immunotherapy can improve outcomes for patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following surgery. Lung cancer remains the leadingcause of cancer-related death among both men and women in the United States, accounting for approximately 20% of all cancer deaths. NSCLC represents about 85% of all lung cancer diagnoses.
While overall incidence of NSCLC has declined in recent years, a growing proportion of cases are being diagnosed at earlier stages, including stage I disease, largely due to increased screening and earlier detection of smaller tumors. Surgery is the standard treatment for patients with stage I NSCLC. Following surgery, patients are monitored with routine imaging to detect recurrence. Approximately 20% to 30% of patients experience disease recurrence, which is often no longer curable. Currently, there is no postoperative therapy for patients with stage I NSCLC removed through surgery.
Over the past decade, immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of lung cancer and significantly improved outcomes for patients with stage II, III and IV disease. Researchers now hope to determine whether immunotherapy can also benefit patients with stage I NSCLC by reducing the risk of recurrence and potentially preventing the development of new lung cancers.
"The success of immunotherapy in more advanced stages of lung cancer raises an important question: Can we improve outcomes for patients with stage I disease who currently have no approved postoperative treatment options?" Furqan said. "This trial is designed to answer that question."
This question is particularly relevant in Oklahoma, where lung cancer incidence and mortality remain high, and ongoing efforts at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center and across the state are focused on improving lung cancer screening and early detection to enhance outcomes for patients.
The phase III trial, AASI-NSCLC (A082302), is a national study conducted through the National Cancer Institute's National Clinical Trials Network, including the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, SWOG Cancer Research Network, ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, and NRG Oncology.
Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either one year of the immunotherapy drug atezolizumab following surgery or standard surveillance alone. Investigators will evaluate whether the addition of immunotherapy improves disease-free survival and overall survival. More details are available at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07388524.
If successful, the trial could establish the first postoperative treatment strategy for patients with stage I NSCLC that has been surgically removed and potentially change the standard of care for thousands of patients diagnosed each year.
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About the University of Oklahoma
Founded in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is a public research university with campuses in Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. As the state's flagship university, OU serves the educational, cultural, economic and health care needs of the state, region and nation. In Oklahoma City, the OU Health Campus is one of the nation's few academic health centers with seven health profession colleges located on the same campus. The OU Health Campus serves approximately 4,000 students in more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs spanning Oklahoma City and Tulsa and is the leading research institution in Oklahoma. For more information about the OU Health Campus, visit www.ouhsc.edu.
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Original text here: https://inside.ouhsc.edu/news/article/clinical-trial-to-evaluate-immunotherapy-drug-for-stage-i-non-small-cell-lung-cancer-following-surgery
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Clinical Trial to Evaluate Immunotherapy Drug for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Following Surgery
Muhammad Furqan, M.D., professor of hematology-oncology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Associate Director of Clinical Research at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, is leading a national clinical trial evaluating whether immunotherapy can improve outcomes for patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following surgery.
Lung cancer remains the leading ... Show Full Article OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 1 -- The University of Oklahoma Health campus issued the following news: * * * Clinical Trial to Evaluate Immunotherapy Drug for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Following Surgery Muhammad Furqan, M.D., professor of hematology-oncology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Associate Director of Clinical Research at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, is leading a national clinical trial evaluating whether immunotherapy can improve outcomes for patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following surgery. Lung cancer remains the leadingcause of cancer-related death among both men and women in the United States, accounting for approximately 20% of all cancer deaths. NSCLC represents about 85% of all lung cancer diagnoses.
While overall incidence of NSCLC has declined in recent years, a growing proportion of cases are being diagnosed at earlier stages, including stage I disease, largely due to increased screening and earlier detection of smaller tumors. Surgery is the standard treatment for patients with stage I NSCLC. Following surgery, patients are monitored with routine imaging to detect recurrence. Approximately 20% to 30% of patients experience disease recurrence, which is often no longer curable. Currently, there is no postoperative therapy for patients with stage I NSCLC removed through surgery.
Over the past decade, immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of lung cancer and significantly improved outcomes for patients with stage II, III and IV disease. Researchers now hope to determine whether immunotherapy can also benefit patients with stage I NSCLC by reducing the risk of recurrence and potentially preventing the development of new lung cancers.
"The success of immunotherapy in more advanced stages of lung cancer raises an important question: Can we improve outcomes for patients with stage I disease who currently have no approved postoperative treatment options?" Furqan said. "This trial is designed to answer that question."
This question is particularly relevant in Oklahoma, where lung cancer incidence and mortality remain high, and ongoing efforts at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center and across the state are focused on improving lung cancer screening and early detection to enhance outcomes for patients.
The phase III trial, AASI-NSCLC (A082302), is a national study conducted through the National Cancer Institute's National Clinical Trials Network, including the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, SWOG Cancer Research Network, ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, and NRG Oncology.
Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either one year of the immunotherapy drug atezolizumab following surgery or standard surveillance alone. Investigators will evaluate whether the addition of immunotherapy improves disease-free survival and overall survival. More details are available at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07388524.
If successful, the trial could establish the first postoperative treatment strategy for patients with stage I NSCLC that has been surgically removed and potentially change the standard of care for thousands of patients diagnosed each year.
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About the University of Oklahoma
Founded in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is a public research university with campuses in Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. As the state's flagship university, OU serves the educational, cultural, economic and health care needs of the state, region and nation. In Oklahoma City, the OU Health Campus is one of the nation's few academic health centers with seven health profession colleges located on the same campus. The OU Health Campus serves approximately 4,000 students in more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs spanning Oklahoma City and Tulsa and is the leading research institution in Oklahoma. For more information about the OU Health Campus, visit www.ouhsc.edu.
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Original text here: https://inside.ouhsc.edu/news/article/clinical-trial-to-evaluate-immunotherapy-drug-for-stage-i-non-small-cell-lung-cancer-following-surgery
University of Arkansas: English Doctoral Students Receive Dissertation Research Awards
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 1 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news:
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English Doctoral Students Receive Dissertation Research Awards
John Plavcan and Abigail Ross, two doctoral candidates with the Graduate Program in English, have received Dissertation Research Awards for 2026 from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
The grants, each for $8,000, are annually presented to Ph.D. students who have been nominated by their departments and selected by the college. Plavcan and Ross will use their awards to travel for the purpose of researching their respective dissertation ... Show Full Article FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 1 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: * * * English Doctoral Students Receive Dissertation Research Awards John Plavcan and Abigail Ross, two doctoral candidates with the Graduate Program in English, have received Dissertation Research Awards for 2026 from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The grants, each for $8,000, are annually presented to Ph.D. students who have been nominated by their departments and selected by the college. Plavcan and Ross will use their awards to travel for the purpose of researching their respective dissertationprojects.
Plavcan's dissertation will focus on the ways in which medieval architecture is recreated and preserved in digital media for modern consumers to interact with and learn from. A lot of his focus will be placed on the video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, which recreates in detail the art and architecture of medieval Bohemia.
With the grant's funding, Plavcan will be able to travel to Czechia to document all of the cities and historical sites recreated in the game.
"Considering how extensively the game and its relation with history is discussed," Plavcan said, "it is surprising how little direct comparison there is between the in-game assets and the real-life environments recreated and referenced."
Plavcan will have the opportunity to gather a great deal of material "not only for [him]self, but for public dissemination."
Ross' dissertation, to be titled Monstrous Protest Literature: Southern and Indigenous Gothic Archetypes (1930-2020), will examine how Gothic literature uses monstrous figures to critique systems of oppression. Focusing on both Southern Gothic and Indigenous Gothic texts, she will explore how representations of gender, race and colonialism shape literary depictions of the monstrous.
Ross noted, "The project pays particular attention to the role of women and marginalized communities, arguing that Gothic literature often functions as a form of protest against social, political and cultural injustices."
The funding from the award will provide Ross with an important opportunity to conduct archival research in both Oxford, Mississippi, and New Haven, Connecticut, that will deepen her understanding of the literary and historical contexts surrounding Southern and Indigenous Gothic texts.
"Access to these materials will be invaluable as I complete my dissertation," Ross said.
Find more information about the achievements of the graduate students in English (https://english.uark.edu/graduate/ma-phd-english/awards-publications-and-presentations.php).
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Original text here: https://news.uark.edu/articles/82546/english-doctoral-students-receive-dissertation-research-awards
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English Doctoral Students Receive Dissertation Research Awards
John Plavcan and Abigail Ross, two doctoral candidates with the Graduate Program in English, have received Dissertation Research Awards for 2026 from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
The grants, each for $8,000, are annually presented to Ph.D. students who have been nominated by their departments and selected by the college. Plavcan and Ross will use their awards to travel for the purpose of researching their respective dissertation ... Show Full Article FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 1 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: * * * English Doctoral Students Receive Dissertation Research Awards John Plavcan and Abigail Ross, two doctoral candidates with the Graduate Program in English, have received Dissertation Research Awards for 2026 from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The grants, each for $8,000, are annually presented to Ph.D. students who have been nominated by their departments and selected by the college. Plavcan and Ross will use their awards to travel for the purpose of researching their respective dissertationprojects.
Plavcan's dissertation will focus on the ways in which medieval architecture is recreated and preserved in digital media for modern consumers to interact with and learn from. A lot of his focus will be placed on the video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, which recreates in detail the art and architecture of medieval Bohemia.
With the grant's funding, Plavcan will be able to travel to Czechia to document all of the cities and historical sites recreated in the game.
"Considering how extensively the game and its relation with history is discussed," Plavcan said, "it is surprising how little direct comparison there is between the in-game assets and the real-life environments recreated and referenced."
Plavcan will have the opportunity to gather a great deal of material "not only for [him]self, but for public dissemination."
Ross' dissertation, to be titled Monstrous Protest Literature: Southern and Indigenous Gothic Archetypes (1930-2020), will examine how Gothic literature uses monstrous figures to critique systems of oppression. Focusing on both Southern Gothic and Indigenous Gothic texts, she will explore how representations of gender, race and colonialism shape literary depictions of the monstrous.
Ross noted, "The project pays particular attention to the role of women and marginalized communities, arguing that Gothic literature often functions as a form of protest against social, political and cultural injustices."
The funding from the award will provide Ross with an important opportunity to conduct archival research in both Oxford, Mississippi, and New Haven, Connecticut, that will deepen her understanding of the literary and historical contexts surrounding Southern and Indigenous Gothic texts.
"Access to these materials will be invaluable as I complete my dissertation," Ross said.
Find more information about the achievements of the graduate students in English (https://english.uark.edu/graduate/ma-phd-english/awards-publications-and-presentations.php).
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Original text here: https://news.uark.edu/articles/82546/english-doctoral-students-receive-dissertation-research-awards
Universities of Wisconsin Award Security-Luebke Roofing the Regents Business Partnership Award
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, July 1 -- The University of Wisconsin Green Bay campus issued the following news release:
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The Universities of Wisconsin Award Security-Luebke Roofing the Regents Business Partnership Award
In a ceremony last week, Universities of Wisconsin Regent Vice President Ashok Rai and Interim President Renee Wachter, along with UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander presented Shannon Alberts, '99, president and owner of Security-Luebke Roofing with the Regents Business Partnership Award. The award was presented to the locally owned roofing business because of its support ... Show Full Article GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, July 1 -- The University of Wisconsin Green Bay campus issued the following news release: * * * The Universities of Wisconsin Award Security-Luebke Roofing the Regents Business Partnership Award In a ceremony last week, Universities of Wisconsin Regent Vice President Ashok Rai and Interim President Renee Wachter, along with UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander presented Shannon Alberts, '99, president and owner of Security-Luebke Roofing with the Regents Business Partnership Award. The award was presented to the locally owned roofing business because of its supportand collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Both Regent Rai and Interim President Wachter shared the importance of community support and partnership between the regional business and UW-Green Bay. "It's a pleasure to honor Security-Luebke Roofing today," said Regent Vice President Rai. "This illustrates how critical our business partners are to our success and highlights the amazing collaborations between our universities and local businesses that benefit students and communities."
Chancellor Alexander stressed the importance of honoring the Security-Luebke Roofing partnership for students, and the value that this partnership brings to the region. "We continue to talk about UW-Green Bay empowering people to rise, and when we look at how Shannon has done this both with his career and at Security-Luebke Roofing, he exemplifies what this means. It's not a tag line. It's what we do," said Chancellor Alexander. "Our goal is to ensure that everyone in Northeast Wisconsin finds value in having a regional comprehensive here, whether they are a student or connecting with us in countless other possible ways. We are grateful for the support we receive from Shannon and Security-Luebke Roofing. We hope we can continue to show that we deserve their belief in us."
Security-Luebke Roofing stands as a powerful example of resilience, growth and people-first leadership in Northeast Wisconsin. With roots dating back to 1934, the company faced potential closure in 2013 until Alberts and his family stepped in to buy it and start rebuilding. Since then, the business has grown into a thriving organization with 85 employees and a robust fleet serving the region. This transformation reflects not only strategic vision and operational excellence, but a deep commitment to investing in people--equipping teams with the tools, training and support needed to succeed.
Alberts spoke of how the university's mission to help everyone "Rise" resonates with him. After graduating with a psychology degree, he suddenly found himself running a business. "I love the [concept of] Rise and it represents so many things in my life in so many ways," said Alberts. "After we bought the business, I focused on surrounding myself with people who were smarter than me...and learning as much as I could. And in those 13 years, we've grown to include more than 80 employees, countless partnerships and I'm still wrapping my head around the impact we have had on the community. Thank you so much for the award. Go Phoenix!"
At its core, Security-Luebke Roofing is driven by a set of values centered on caring for people, doing what's right, being flexible and working hard. The company has cultivated a culture where employees are supported, connected and proud of their work that extends beyond the job site into meaningful relationships and community involvement. This commitment makes the company a vital contributor to the Northeast Wisconsin community, strengthening the local workforce, supporting families and setting a standard for what a values-driven business can achieve. It is this impact that makes Shannon Alberts' recognition with the Regents Business Partnership Award both fitting and significant.
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About UW-Green Bay
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is a school of resilient problem solvers who dare to reach higher with the power of education that ignites growth and answers the biggest challenges. Serving 11,519 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students as well as 101,000 continuing education learners annually, UW-Green Bay offers 200 academic degrees, programs, and certificates. With campus locations in Green Bay, Manitowoc, Sheboygan and a theatre in Marinette, the University's access mission welcomes all students who want to learn, from every corner of the world. Championing bold thinking since opening its doors in 1965, it is a university on the rise - Wisconsin's fastest growing UW. For more information, visit www.uwgb.edu.
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Original text here: https://news.uwgb.edu/phlash/releases/06/30/the-universities-of-wisconsin-award-security-luebke-roofing-the-regents-business-partnership-award/
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The Universities of Wisconsin Award Security-Luebke Roofing the Regents Business Partnership Award
In a ceremony last week, Universities of Wisconsin Regent Vice President Ashok Rai and Interim President Renee Wachter, along with UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander presented Shannon Alberts, '99, president and owner of Security-Luebke Roofing with the Regents Business Partnership Award. The award was presented to the locally owned roofing business because of its support ... Show Full Article GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, July 1 -- The University of Wisconsin Green Bay campus issued the following news release: * * * The Universities of Wisconsin Award Security-Luebke Roofing the Regents Business Partnership Award In a ceremony last week, Universities of Wisconsin Regent Vice President Ashok Rai and Interim President Renee Wachter, along with UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander presented Shannon Alberts, '99, president and owner of Security-Luebke Roofing with the Regents Business Partnership Award. The award was presented to the locally owned roofing business because of its supportand collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Both Regent Rai and Interim President Wachter shared the importance of community support and partnership between the regional business and UW-Green Bay. "It's a pleasure to honor Security-Luebke Roofing today," said Regent Vice President Rai. "This illustrates how critical our business partners are to our success and highlights the amazing collaborations between our universities and local businesses that benefit students and communities."
Chancellor Alexander stressed the importance of honoring the Security-Luebke Roofing partnership for students, and the value that this partnership brings to the region. "We continue to talk about UW-Green Bay empowering people to rise, and when we look at how Shannon has done this both with his career and at Security-Luebke Roofing, he exemplifies what this means. It's not a tag line. It's what we do," said Chancellor Alexander. "Our goal is to ensure that everyone in Northeast Wisconsin finds value in having a regional comprehensive here, whether they are a student or connecting with us in countless other possible ways. We are grateful for the support we receive from Shannon and Security-Luebke Roofing. We hope we can continue to show that we deserve their belief in us."
Security-Luebke Roofing stands as a powerful example of resilience, growth and people-first leadership in Northeast Wisconsin. With roots dating back to 1934, the company faced potential closure in 2013 until Alberts and his family stepped in to buy it and start rebuilding. Since then, the business has grown into a thriving organization with 85 employees and a robust fleet serving the region. This transformation reflects not only strategic vision and operational excellence, but a deep commitment to investing in people--equipping teams with the tools, training and support needed to succeed.
Alberts spoke of how the university's mission to help everyone "Rise" resonates with him. After graduating with a psychology degree, he suddenly found himself running a business. "I love the [concept of] Rise and it represents so many things in my life in so many ways," said Alberts. "After we bought the business, I focused on surrounding myself with people who were smarter than me...and learning as much as I could. And in those 13 years, we've grown to include more than 80 employees, countless partnerships and I'm still wrapping my head around the impact we have had on the community. Thank you so much for the award. Go Phoenix!"
At its core, Security-Luebke Roofing is driven by a set of values centered on caring for people, doing what's right, being flexible and working hard. The company has cultivated a culture where employees are supported, connected and proud of their work that extends beyond the job site into meaningful relationships and community involvement. This commitment makes the company a vital contributor to the Northeast Wisconsin community, strengthening the local workforce, supporting families and setting a standard for what a values-driven business can achieve. It is this impact that makes Shannon Alberts' recognition with the Regents Business Partnership Award both fitting and significant.
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About UW-Green Bay
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is a school of resilient problem solvers who dare to reach higher with the power of education that ignites growth and answers the biggest challenges. Serving 11,519 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students as well as 101,000 continuing education learners annually, UW-Green Bay offers 200 academic degrees, programs, and certificates. With campus locations in Green Bay, Manitowoc, Sheboygan and a theatre in Marinette, the University's access mission welcomes all students who want to learn, from every corner of the world. Championing bold thinking since opening its doors in 1965, it is a university on the rise - Wisconsin's fastest growing UW. For more information, visit www.uwgb.edu.
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Original text here: https://news.uwgb.edu/phlash/releases/06/30/the-universities-of-wisconsin-award-security-luebke-roofing-the-regents-business-partnership-award/
SUNY-Upstate Medical Campus Joins New York's Cannabis Center of Excellence to Advance Clinician Education
SYRACUSE, New York, July 1 -- The State University of New York Upstate Medical University campus issued the following news:
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Upstate joins New York's Cannabis Center of Excellence to advance clinician education
Upstate Medical University has joined a statewide partnership to help educate healthcare professionals on the safe, evidence-based use of cannabis as New York launches the nation's first Center of Excellence for Cannabis Care and Health Equity.
Announced by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, the Center of Excellence brings together leading academic medical centers ... Show Full Article SYRACUSE, New York, July 1 -- The State University of New York Upstate Medical University campus issued the following news: * * * Upstate joins New York's Cannabis Center of Excellence to advance clinician education Upstate Medical University has joined a statewide partnership to help educate healthcare professionals on the safe, evidence-based use of cannabis as New York launches the nation's first Center of Excellence for Cannabis Care and Health Equity. Announced by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, the Center of Excellence brings together leading academic medical centersand public health institutions to develop educational resources that help clinicians navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of medical and adult-use cannabis.
As a partner, Upstate will help advance clinician education and expand access to evidence-based information for healthcare providers and other key stakeholders. Upstate's efforts will focus on the clinical use of cannabis, its safety profile, public health implications and emerging research opportunities, informed by current state and national cannabis policies.
The statewide pilot program will feature Grand Rounds presentations, clinical webinars and educational toolkits for providers in specialties including primary care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, pain management and palliative care. The initiative is designed to strengthen patient-provider communication and support informed, equitable care across New York.
"As cannabis policy continues to evolve across the nation, and especially in New York state, healthcare professionals must have access to trusted, evidence-based guidance to support high-quality patient care," said Tolani Ajagbe, MD, division chief of Addiction Psychiatry and program director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Upstate Medical University. "Upstate Medical University is honored to partner with New York state on this innovative Center of Excellence. Consistent with our mission of advancing health through education, research and patient care, this collaboration will help equip clinicians with the knowledge and resources needed to provide safe, informed and equitable care for communities across New York."
The Center of Excellence was announced as part of Gov. Kathy Hochul's 2026 State of the State agenda and reflects New York's public health-focused approach to cannabis education. Participating institutions will help evaluate educational strategies and develop programs that can be implemented statewide.
Other partners in the Center of Excellence include Stony Brook Medicine, the University of Rochester Medical Center, the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Albany Medical Center, the CUNY School of Public Health, the University at Albany College of Integrated Health Sciences and the New York State Office of Mental Health.
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Original text here: https://www.upstate.edu/news/articles/2026/2026-06-30-cannibis.php
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Upstate joins New York's Cannabis Center of Excellence to advance clinician education
Upstate Medical University has joined a statewide partnership to help educate healthcare professionals on the safe, evidence-based use of cannabis as New York launches the nation's first Center of Excellence for Cannabis Care and Health Equity.
Announced by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, the Center of Excellence brings together leading academic medical centers ... Show Full Article SYRACUSE, New York, July 1 -- The State University of New York Upstate Medical University campus issued the following news: * * * Upstate joins New York's Cannabis Center of Excellence to advance clinician education Upstate Medical University has joined a statewide partnership to help educate healthcare professionals on the safe, evidence-based use of cannabis as New York launches the nation's first Center of Excellence for Cannabis Care and Health Equity. Announced by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, the Center of Excellence brings together leading academic medical centersand public health institutions to develop educational resources that help clinicians navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of medical and adult-use cannabis.
As a partner, Upstate will help advance clinician education and expand access to evidence-based information for healthcare providers and other key stakeholders. Upstate's efforts will focus on the clinical use of cannabis, its safety profile, public health implications and emerging research opportunities, informed by current state and national cannabis policies.
The statewide pilot program will feature Grand Rounds presentations, clinical webinars and educational toolkits for providers in specialties including primary care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, pain management and palliative care. The initiative is designed to strengthen patient-provider communication and support informed, equitable care across New York.
"As cannabis policy continues to evolve across the nation, and especially in New York state, healthcare professionals must have access to trusted, evidence-based guidance to support high-quality patient care," said Tolani Ajagbe, MD, division chief of Addiction Psychiatry and program director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Upstate Medical University. "Upstate Medical University is honored to partner with New York state on this innovative Center of Excellence. Consistent with our mission of advancing health through education, research and patient care, this collaboration will help equip clinicians with the knowledge and resources needed to provide safe, informed and equitable care for communities across New York."
The Center of Excellence was announced as part of Gov. Kathy Hochul's 2026 State of the State agenda and reflects New York's public health-focused approach to cannabis education. Participating institutions will help evaluate educational strategies and develop programs that can be implemented statewide.
Other partners in the Center of Excellence include Stony Brook Medicine, the University of Rochester Medical Center, the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Albany Medical Center, the CUNY School of Public Health, the University at Albany College of Integrated Health Sciences and the New York State Office of Mental Health.
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Original text here: https://www.upstate.edu/news/articles/2026/2026-06-30-cannibis.php
FAU Nursing Dean Cameron Duncan, Ph.D., Named Fellow of the AAN
BOCA RATON, Florida, July 1 -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news:
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FAU Nursing Dean Cameron Duncan, Ph.D., Named Fellow of the AAN
By Gisele Galoustian
Cameron G. Duncan, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, Holli Rockwell Trubinsky Eminent Dean of Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), one of the nursing profession's highest honors recognizing leaders whose work has significantly advanced healthcare, nursing ... Show Full Article BOCA RATON, Florida, July 1 -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * FAU Nursing Dean Cameron Duncan, Ph.D., Named Fellow of the AAN By Gisele Galoustian Cameron G. Duncan, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, Holli Rockwell Trubinsky Eminent Dean of Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), one of the nursing profession's highest honors recognizing leaders whose work has significantly advanced healthcare, nursingpractice, research, education and policy.
His induction into the AAN places Duncan among an elite group of nursing leaders. The distinguished cohort of the 2026 Class of Fellows, recently announced by the AAN, represents nurse leaders from 39 states, the District of Columbia and 17 countries who have made substantial contributions to improving health outcomes and are positioned to continue transforming healthcare for years to come.
The academy will formally welcome the 2026 Fellows during its induction ceremony and soiree on Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C., a celebration widely regarded as one of the profession's highest distinctions.
"It is a great honor to be named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing," said Duncan. "To be recognized by an organization whose members have helped shape the future of nursing and healthcare worldwide is both humbling and deeply meaningful. I am proud to join this remarkable cohort of nurse leaders and look forward to contributing to the Academy's mission of advancing health policy, promoting nursing leadership and addressing the complex health challenges facing our communities. This recognition also reflects the dedication of my colleagues, mentors, students and patients who have inspired and supported my journey, and I am honored to represent Florida Atlantic University and the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing among the Academy's newest Fellows."
Duncan was appointed the fourth dean in the 45-year history of FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and assumed leadership of the college in January 2025. He brings extensive experience as an academic leader, clinician, educator and scholar whose work has focused on advancing nursing education, mental healthcare and health policy. Prior to joining FAU, he served as interim dean of the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he also directed the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program.
During his tenure at the University of Nevada, Duncan led transformative initiatives that strengthened academic programs, enhanced teaching and research excellence, and expanded community engagement through innovative academic-practice partnerships.
A nationally recognized nursing educator, Duncan has earned distinction for implementing innovative programs that improve educational quality and student success.
His scholarship has focused on translational research that bridges evidence-based findings with practical clinical applications. Duncan's research interests include integrating mental health services into primary care settings, advancing healthcare policy, supporting the nursing profession and addressing substance use disorders. His recent work has explored transcranial magnetic stimulation as a potential treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. He has also built an extensive publication record in peer-reviewed journals and is widely recognized for mentoring students through collaborative research and scholarship.
A first-generation college graduate, Duncan earned a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2022. He also earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree and a post-master's certificate as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at the University of Arizona, and completed a MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Before that, he earned a Master of Science in Nursing in organizational leadership from Grand Canyon University. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is dually board certified as both a family nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, as well as a certified nurse educator.
Duncan's selection as a Fellow of the AAN adds to a growing list of national honors recognizing his leadership and contributions to the profession. He previously served as an Advancing Academic Excellence for Deans Fellow with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2023.
The American Academy of Nursing serves the public by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge. Fellowship in the academy is reserved for nursing leaders whose careers have demonstrated extraordinary contributions to improving health locally, nationally and globally. With more than 3,400 Fellows, the academy represents nursing's most accomplished leaders in research, policy, administration, clinical practice and academia.
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Original text here: https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/american-academy-of-nursing-duncan.php
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FAU Nursing Dean Cameron Duncan, Ph.D., Named Fellow of the AAN
By Gisele Galoustian
Cameron G. Duncan, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, Holli Rockwell Trubinsky Eminent Dean of Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), one of the nursing profession's highest honors recognizing leaders whose work has significantly advanced healthcare, nursing ... Show Full Article BOCA RATON, Florida, July 1 -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * FAU Nursing Dean Cameron Duncan, Ph.D., Named Fellow of the AAN By Gisele Galoustian Cameron G. Duncan, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, Holli Rockwell Trubinsky Eminent Dean of Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), one of the nursing profession's highest honors recognizing leaders whose work has significantly advanced healthcare, nursingpractice, research, education and policy.
His induction into the AAN places Duncan among an elite group of nursing leaders. The distinguished cohort of the 2026 Class of Fellows, recently announced by the AAN, represents nurse leaders from 39 states, the District of Columbia and 17 countries who have made substantial contributions to improving health outcomes and are positioned to continue transforming healthcare for years to come.
The academy will formally welcome the 2026 Fellows during its induction ceremony and soiree on Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C., a celebration widely regarded as one of the profession's highest distinctions.
"It is a great honor to be named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing," said Duncan. "To be recognized by an organization whose members have helped shape the future of nursing and healthcare worldwide is both humbling and deeply meaningful. I am proud to join this remarkable cohort of nurse leaders and look forward to contributing to the Academy's mission of advancing health policy, promoting nursing leadership and addressing the complex health challenges facing our communities. This recognition also reflects the dedication of my colleagues, mentors, students and patients who have inspired and supported my journey, and I am honored to represent Florida Atlantic University and the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing among the Academy's newest Fellows."
Duncan was appointed the fourth dean in the 45-year history of FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and assumed leadership of the college in January 2025. He brings extensive experience as an academic leader, clinician, educator and scholar whose work has focused on advancing nursing education, mental healthcare and health policy. Prior to joining FAU, he served as interim dean of the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he also directed the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program.
During his tenure at the University of Nevada, Duncan led transformative initiatives that strengthened academic programs, enhanced teaching and research excellence, and expanded community engagement through innovative academic-practice partnerships.
A nationally recognized nursing educator, Duncan has earned distinction for implementing innovative programs that improve educational quality and student success.
His scholarship has focused on translational research that bridges evidence-based findings with practical clinical applications. Duncan's research interests include integrating mental health services into primary care settings, advancing healthcare policy, supporting the nursing profession and addressing substance use disorders. His recent work has explored transcranial magnetic stimulation as a potential treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. He has also built an extensive publication record in peer-reviewed journals and is widely recognized for mentoring students through collaborative research and scholarship.
A first-generation college graduate, Duncan earned a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2022. He also earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree and a post-master's certificate as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at the University of Arizona, and completed a MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Before that, he earned a Master of Science in Nursing in organizational leadership from Grand Canyon University. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is dually board certified as both a family nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, as well as a certified nurse educator.
Duncan's selection as a Fellow of the AAN adds to a growing list of national honors recognizing his leadership and contributions to the profession. He previously served as an Advancing Academic Excellence for Deans Fellow with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2023.
The American Academy of Nursing serves the public by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge. Fellowship in the academy is reserved for nursing leaders whose careers have demonstrated extraordinary contributions to improving health locally, nationally and globally. With more than 3,400 Fellows, the academy represents nursing's most accomplished leaders in research, policy, administration, clinical practice and academia.
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Original text here: https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/american-academy-of-nursing-duncan.php
Dartmouth College: Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive Tenure and Promotions
HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 1 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news:
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Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive Tenure and Promotions
Fourteen faculty were promoted to full professor this year, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
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The Dartmouth Board of Trustees approved promotions for faculty across the Arts and Sciences on June 12.
This year, 14 faculty members were promoted to full professor, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
"I'm delighted to congratulate these exceptional colleagues on this well-deserved achievement," ... Show Full Article HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 1 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive Tenure and Promotions Fourteen faculty were promoted to full professor this year, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. - The Dartmouth Board of Trustees approved promotions for faculty across the Arts and Sciences on June 12. This year, 14 faculty members were promoted to full professor, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. "I'm delighted to congratulate these exceptional colleagues on this well-deserved achievement,"says John Carey, interim dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences. "Promotion and tenure recognize years of rigorous scholarship and creative work, devoted teaching, and generous service to Dartmouth. They have shaped our community and advanced their fields, and I look forward to all they will do in the years ahead."
Dartmouth evaluates faculty for promotion and tenure through a rigorous review in three areas: research, teaching, and service. The promotions take effect on July 1.
The following faculty were promoted to full professor:
Asher Auel, Professor of Mathematics
Auel is a theoretical mathematician whose work spans number theory, algebra, and geometry, much of it concerned with the rationality of algebraic varieties, the theory of quadratic forms, and K3 surfaces. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and has co-edited the book Brauer Groups and Obstruction Problems. He has been awarded multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, and the Simons Foundation. At Dartmouth, he led the effort to join the Northeastern Algebraic Geometry Research Consortium and was the founding faculty advisor to the mathematics department's Directed Reading Program. He mentors many award-winning undergraduate researchers and doctoral students.
Laurie Churba, Professor of Theater
Churba is a costume designer who works at the intersection of design and devised theater. Over more than 30 years, her costumes have appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional stages nationwide, and from 1997 to 2008 she was part of the costume design team at Saturday Night Live. Lately she has folded design into live performance: with New York's Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, she takes the stage with a sewing machine and improvises costumes in real time, stitching and sculpting alongside the music and movement around her. She brings that collaborative, experimental spirit into her work with students.
Jeffrey Friedman, Professor of Government
Friedman is a political scientist who studies international security, foreign policy decision making, and public opinion on foreign policy. His 2023 book, The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy, draws on decades of polling, survey experiments, and historical cases to argue that voters often reward leaders for projecting toughness, even when they disagree with the position the leader is taking. He hosts a podcast for International Security, the field's leading journal, and directs Dartmouth's Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security.
Feng Fu, Professor of Mathematics
Fu is an applied mathematician and one of the world's experts on evolutionary game theory, which uses mathematics to address complex social and system dynamics, such as the spread of misinformation, disease and vaccine resistance, and the way competing AI agents learn to cooperate. His work has produced numerous papers with undergraduate and graduate mentees and conference talks. Much of his energy goes to undergraduates: he created and teaches an undergraduate game theory course that recently drew more than 330 students, and has worked on research projects with dozens of undergraduates.
Ash Fure, Professor of Music
Fure is a composer and performer who has become a major figure in contemporary music, working between musical composition, art installation, and spatial design, often building new instruments and using architecture so that audiences become participants in the piece. Ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the BBC Scottish Symphony have performed Fure's compositions across the U.S. and Europe. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for Bound to the Bow, Fure has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, and, more recently, a Creative Capital Award. Fure directs Dartmouth's MFA in Sonic Practice program.
Justin Mankin, Professor of Geography
Mankin is a climate scientist and earth-system geographer whose research connects the physical causes of climate change to its concrete human costs, from crop losses to violent conflict to the economic damages traceable to the largest carbon emitters. His work combines observations with climate models and econometrics to answer both fundamental and applied questions, and regularly appears in journals such as Nature Science and PNAS. In 2024 he received the American Geophysical Union's Global Environmental Change Early Career Award. His funded projects have brought more than $2 million to Dartmouth. He regularly provides public and legislative testimony and contributes to NASA, NOAA, and National Academies assessments on drought and the water cycle.
Janice McCabe, Professor of Sociology
McCabe is a sociologist who studies how college shapes students' friendships, their sense of belonging, and where they end up later in life. Her 2025 book, Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students' Networks, draws on in-depth interviews with students at Dartmouth, the University of New Hampshire, and Manchester Community College to show how a school's structures shape the friendships formed inside it. The work has made her one of the leading authorities on college friendships, and she was recently elected president of the Sociology of Education Association. McCabe served as Allen House professor from 2017 to 2026.
Paul Novosad, Professor of Economics
Novosad is an economist mobilizing digital data to answer policy research questions in the Global South. Using satellite imagery, administrative data from governments and app platforms, and--via LLMs--text from legal and historical documents, his work tackles questions like how well courts deliver justice, who gets access to economic opportunity, and how cities sort by class and identity. A core part of his work is dedicated to open science infrastructure: his team builds public data platforms so researchers everywhere can work on these questions. His lab is currently building a new open platform to enable better research on cities in low- and middle-income countries. More than 30 undergraduates have worked in his lab.
Roopika Risam, Professor of Film and Media Studies
Risam helped found the field of postcolonial digital humanities, and her work traces how race, empire, and technology shape the modern world. Her first book, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, has been taught in over 100 courses worldwide. Her scholarship often takes digital form, such as Torn Apart/Separados, which built visualizations that helped locate children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Her first trade book, Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate, was an NPR Summer Reading pick. She holds a joint appointment with the Comparative Literature Program and is part of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster.
Robert St. Clair, Professor of French
St. Clair studies 19th-century French literature and culture, using theory to open up historical questions. He is one of the leading scholars of Arthur Rimbaud. His recent book, Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert, his second monograph with Oxford University Press, shows how those writers dwell on loss and defeat, while making a case for reading as an act of hope, a way of imagining a future that stays open. His work on France's 19th-century political upheavals includes his reassessments on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.
Zaneta Thayer '08, Professor of Anthropology
Thayer is a biological anthropologist who studies how early-life and prenatal environments, from poverty to discrimination, shape human biology and health across a lifetime. She has examined the effects of maternal exposure to genocidal violence in Rwanda and links between cesarean delivery and child cortisol levels in Brazil. She is currently working on a book project about how evolution and culture shape pregnancy and birth experiences. Dartmouth recognized her with the Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2025. Several of her undergraduates have co-authored her research.
Emily Walton, Professor of Sociology
Walton brings a racial lens to enduring questions about community, health, and inequality. As expanded immigration and desegregation policies have encouraged racial integration in many of our nation's communities, her mixed methods research has pushed scholars in both sociology and public health to rethink old assumptions about racial integration and assimilation. Walton's recent book, Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England, examines the consequences of the demographic transition happening in the Upper Valley. Her work has drawn support from the National Institutes of Health and the Russell Sage Foundation, and she serves as faculty director of Dartmouth's Society of Fellows.
D.G. Webster, Professor of Environmental Studies
Webster studies why governments and citizens respond, or fail to respond, to environmental problems such as deep sea mining, water pollution, and climate change. Much of her work focuses on what she calls the precursors to governance: how processes like learning, innovation, and institutionalization can advance or hinder our collective ability to design and carry out effective environmental policy. She is the author of two books and many peer-reviewed articles. She also edits the journal Global Environmental Politics. A Fulbright Distinguished Fellowship in Oceans Governance took her to the University of Sao Paulo in 2024 and 2025.
Jacqueline Wernimont, Professor of Film and Media Studies
Wernimont is a scholar of how human life becomes data, tracing across history and into the present the ways the dead get counted and bodies become numbers. Her first book, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media, charts that history from the 16th century to today, through technologies from body counts to wearable devices. She also works on "data visceralization," using everyday tools to turn data into something you can take in with all five senses. The co-editor of Bodies of Information: Feminist Debates in Digital Humanities, she chairs Dartmouth's Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster.
The following faculty were promoted to associate professor, with tenure:
Cesar Alvarez, Associate Professor of Music
Alvarez is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create large experimental musicals as non-normative possibility spaces for embodiment, inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship, and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, band leader, and sound artist, Alvarez works in the space between theater, music, performance art, and social practice. Alvarez was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow and has received the Jonathan Larson Award, the Edward Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre for lyrics, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Amanda Amodeo, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Amodeo is a biologist who studies how cells know their size as an organism develops. She works in the early embryo of the fruit fly Drosophila, where the usual rules are reversed: rather than growing before it divides, a single giant cell divides again and again without growing, until its cells reach a normal size. One of her key discoveries is the role maternal histones play in tracking cell size. Her lab pairs genetics, biochemistry, and sophisticated imaging with mathematical modeling. She has raised significant federal research funding and teaches in the Molecular and Cell Biology graduate program.
Hsien-Chih Chang, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Chang is a theoretical computer scientist who studies the shapes behind computing: the visible ones, like networks and maps, and the hidden ones that surface in seemingly unrelated problems. He uses abstract mathematics to prove how efficiently such problems can be solved. His results have appeared at the ACM Symposium on Theory and Computing, a top conference in theoretical computer science, including a way to compress a sprawling network into a compact "sketch" that preserves the distances within it. His work has earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and both graduate and undergraduate students have co-authored his papers.
Maron Greenleaf, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Greenleaf is a cultural anthropologist who studies green capitalism, environmental restoration, forests, and energy transitions across Brazil, the United States, and the UK. Her 2024 book, Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon, grew out of more than 16 months of fieldwork in Acre, Brazil, and gives a close account of carbon offsets in the Amazon. Her current research turns to tree planting and environmental restoration in postindustrial England. She co-founded Dartmouth's Energy Justice Clinic.
Matt Hooley, Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Hooley writes about the cultural histories of colonialism and anticolonialism, with particular attention to Indigenous literary and visual-arts modernisms, poetics, and the environmental humanities. His first book, Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities, traces a tradition of Ojibwe anticolonial writing that took shape both alongside and against the extractive colonial infrastructure of Minneapolis and St. Paul. He is at work on two new books, one about Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and another about the cultural histories of colonial water seizure across Turtle Island and Palestine.
Mingwei Huang, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Huang is an interdisciplinary scholar of race and migration, trained in American studies and gender and sexuality studies. Her first book, Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century, draws on fieldwork among Chinese migrants and businesses in Johannesburg, showing how race, money, and the exploitation of workers shape life there as China's global power rises, much as European and American empires shaped earlier eras. The book received an honorable mention for the 2025 African Studies Association Best Book Prize. Her new research follows global race and migration, the afterlives of gold, and new forms of extraction, all from the vantage of South Africa.
C. Brenhin Keller, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
Keller studies how Earth's layers have interacted and been shaped by outside events over hundreds of millions of years. He pairs computational modeling with data from public repositories and his own fieldwork, and shares his software as open source. His research ranges from the formation of the moon to the volcanic eruptions behind mass extinctions, and it has earned two of his field's top early-career honors: the American Geophysical Union's James B. Macelwane Medal and the Geological Society of America's Donath Medal, both in 2024.
Sunmin Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology
Kim is a sociologist who studies race, immigration, and national belonging through the lens of knowledge production, examining how supposedly self-evident categories like race and citizenship are in fact built by social scientists, officials, and activists. His book The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate turns to the Dillingham Commission, which Congress created in 1907 to study immigration, and argues that the new social science it relied on reshaped racial thinking rather than simply discrediting it. His second book will examine the role of social science research in the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Iyabo Kwayana, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
Kwayana is a filmmaker whose work experiments with themes of diaspora across African and Asian communities. She is a multiple jury award-winning filmmaker whose work spans fiction and nonfiction. Trained as a director and cinematographer, she also works as a producer, sound designer, and editor. Her films are distinguished by embodied camera movement and inventive soundscapes that create immersive sensory experiences. She has directed 12 films, with work screened at the Sundance Film Festival and at international festivals from Korea to Serbia and Finland. Supported by grants from the LEF Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation, she was recently honored with Dartmouth's Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Elisabeth Newton, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Newton is an observational astronomer who studies the synergy between stars, their planets, and the galaxy around them. Much of her work centers on small, magnetically active M-dwarf stars, how they spin and generate magnetic fields, and how planets form around young, active stars. As co-PI of the THYME collaboration, she has helped find roughly a third of all known planets younger than 500 million years, among them three planets circling a star just 120 million years old. A recent NASA grant supports her work connecting stellar flares to gravitational microlensing.
Theresa Ong, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Ong is an agroecologist who pairs theory with fieldwork to understand how the interactions among people, organisms, and the environment shape food production and the stability of ecosystems. Her research traces how the diversity of a system, across space, time, and species, builds its resilience to ecological and political shocks, and how small shifts can cascade into large, sometimes irreversible change. Agroforestry and urban gardens are among the buffers she studies. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and led USDA-funded projects totaling more than $10 million.
David Petruccelli, Associate Professor of History
Petruccelli is a historian of Europe who studies the legal and political institutions that emerged after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His book A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe traces the organization that became INTERPOL back to efforts to manage crime, migration, and political threats after World War I. Built on multilingual archival research, it has drawn praise for its scholarship and storytelling. His second book will trace the rise and fall of the global prohibition of pornography in the 20th century.
Jonathan Phillips, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
Phillips studies high-level human cognition, in particular how people make decisions among an enormous number of possible options without weighing each one in turn. He argues that humans have an implicit capacity to reason about possibilities, a finding that reaches into decision making, moral psychology, causal reasoning, theory of mind, and formal semantics. His work draws at once on psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, and neuroscience, and he has published 32 peer-reviewed articles and given more than three dozen invited talks.
Paul Robustelli, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Robustelli is a computational chemist who studies intrinsically disordered proteins, molecules that matter in the chemistry of the cell yet have no fixed structure to tie to their function. His detailed simulations have been at the leading edge of showing how these proteins behave when they meet small molecules, which points toward ways to either boost or block what they do inside living cells. His findings are already informing industry, and he consults for companies working to design therapeutics from this research. He is affiliated with Dartmouth's Neukom Cluster of Computational Science.
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Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive Tenure and Promotions
Fourteen faculty were promoted to full professor this year, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
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The Dartmouth Board of Trustees approved promotions for faculty across the Arts and Sciences on June 12.
This year, 14 faculty members were promoted to full professor, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
"I'm delighted to congratulate these exceptional colleagues on this well-deserved achievement," ... Show Full Article HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 1 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive Tenure and Promotions Fourteen faculty were promoted to full professor this year, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. - The Dartmouth Board of Trustees approved promotions for faculty across the Arts and Sciences on June 12. This year, 14 faculty members were promoted to full professor, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. "I'm delighted to congratulate these exceptional colleagues on this well-deserved achievement,"says John Carey, interim dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences. "Promotion and tenure recognize years of rigorous scholarship and creative work, devoted teaching, and generous service to Dartmouth. They have shaped our community and advanced their fields, and I look forward to all they will do in the years ahead."
Dartmouth evaluates faculty for promotion and tenure through a rigorous review in three areas: research, teaching, and service. The promotions take effect on July 1.
The following faculty were promoted to full professor:
Asher Auel, Professor of Mathematics
Auel is a theoretical mathematician whose work spans number theory, algebra, and geometry, much of it concerned with the rationality of algebraic varieties, the theory of quadratic forms, and K3 surfaces. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and has co-edited the book Brauer Groups and Obstruction Problems. He has been awarded multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, and the Simons Foundation. At Dartmouth, he led the effort to join the Northeastern Algebraic Geometry Research Consortium and was the founding faculty advisor to the mathematics department's Directed Reading Program. He mentors many award-winning undergraduate researchers and doctoral students.
Laurie Churba, Professor of Theater
Churba is a costume designer who works at the intersection of design and devised theater. Over more than 30 years, her costumes have appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional stages nationwide, and from 1997 to 2008 she was part of the costume design team at Saturday Night Live. Lately she has folded design into live performance: with New York's Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, she takes the stage with a sewing machine and improvises costumes in real time, stitching and sculpting alongside the music and movement around her. She brings that collaborative, experimental spirit into her work with students.
Jeffrey Friedman, Professor of Government
Friedman is a political scientist who studies international security, foreign policy decision making, and public opinion on foreign policy. His 2023 book, The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy, draws on decades of polling, survey experiments, and historical cases to argue that voters often reward leaders for projecting toughness, even when they disagree with the position the leader is taking. He hosts a podcast for International Security, the field's leading journal, and directs Dartmouth's Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security.
Feng Fu, Professor of Mathematics
Fu is an applied mathematician and one of the world's experts on evolutionary game theory, which uses mathematics to address complex social and system dynamics, such as the spread of misinformation, disease and vaccine resistance, and the way competing AI agents learn to cooperate. His work has produced numerous papers with undergraduate and graduate mentees and conference talks. Much of his energy goes to undergraduates: he created and teaches an undergraduate game theory course that recently drew more than 330 students, and has worked on research projects with dozens of undergraduates.
Ash Fure, Professor of Music
Fure is a composer and performer who has become a major figure in contemporary music, working between musical composition, art installation, and spatial design, often building new instruments and using architecture so that audiences become participants in the piece. Ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the BBC Scottish Symphony have performed Fure's compositions across the U.S. and Europe. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for Bound to the Bow, Fure has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, and, more recently, a Creative Capital Award. Fure directs Dartmouth's MFA in Sonic Practice program.
Justin Mankin, Professor of Geography
Mankin is a climate scientist and earth-system geographer whose research connects the physical causes of climate change to its concrete human costs, from crop losses to violent conflict to the economic damages traceable to the largest carbon emitters. His work combines observations with climate models and econometrics to answer both fundamental and applied questions, and regularly appears in journals such as Nature Science and PNAS. In 2024 he received the American Geophysical Union's Global Environmental Change Early Career Award. His funded projects have brought more than $2 million to Dartmouth. He regularly provides public and legislative testimony and contributes to NASA, NOAA, and National Academies assessments on drought and the water cycle.
Janice McCabe, Professor of Sociology
McCabe is a sociologist who studies how college shapes students' friendships, their sense of belonging, and where they end up later in life. Her 2025 book, Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students' Networks, draws on in-depth interviews with students at Dartmouth, the University of New Hampshire, and Manchester Community College to show how a school's structures shape the friendships formed inside it. The work has made her one of the leading authorities on college friendships, and she was recently elected president of the Sociology of Education Association. McCabe served as Allen House professor from 2017 to 2026.
Paul Novosad, Professor of Economics
Novosad is an economist mobilizing digital data to answer policy research questions in the Global South. Using satellite imagery, administrative data from governments and app platforms, and--via LLMs--text from legal and historical documents, his work tackles questions like how well courts deliver justice, who gets access to economic opportunity, and how cities sort by class and identity. A core part of his work is dedicated to open science infrastructure: his team builds public data platforms so researchers everywhere can work on these questions. His lab is currently building a new open platform to enable better research on cities in low- and middle-income countries. More than 30 undergraduates have worked in his lab.
Roopika Risam, Professor of Film and Media Studies
Risam helped found the field of postcolonial digital humanities, and her work traces how race, empire, and technology shape the modern world. Her first book, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, has been taught in over 100 courses worldwide. Her scholarship often takes digital form, such as Torn Apart/Separados, which built visualizations that helped locate children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Her first trade book, Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate, was an NPR Summer Reading pick. She holds a joint appointment with the Comparative Literature Program and is part of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster.
Robert St. Clair, Professor of French
St. Clair studies 19th-century French literature and culture, using theory to open up historical questions. He is one of the leading scholars of Arthur Rimbaud. His recent book, Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert, his second monograph with Oxford University Press, shows how those writers dwell on loss and defeat, while making a case for reading as an act of hope, a way of imagining a future that stays open. His work on France's 19th-century political upheavals includes his reassessments on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.
Zaneta Thayer '08, Professor of Anthropology
Thayer is a biological anthropologist who studies how early-life and prenatal environments, from poverty to discrimination, shape human biology and health across a lifetime. She has examined the effects of maternal exposure to genocidal violence in Rwanda and links between cesarean delivery and child cortisol levels in Brazil. She is currently working on a book project about how evolution and culture shape pregnancy and birth experiences. Dartmouth recognized her with the Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2025. Several of her undergraduates have co-authored her research.
Emily Walton, Professor of Sociology
Walton brings a racial lens to enduring questions about community, health, and inequality. As expanded immigration and desegregation policies have encouraged racial integration in many of our nation's communities, her mixed methods research has pushed scholars in both sociology and public health to rethink old assumptions about racial integration and assimilation. Walton's recent book, Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England, examines the consequences of the demographic transition happening in the Upper Valley. Her work has drawn support from the National Institutes of Health and the Russell Sage Foundation, and she serves as faculty director of Dartmouth's Society of Fellows.
D.G. Webster, Professor of Environmental Studies
Webster studies why governments and citizens respond, or fail to respond, to environmental problems such as deep sea mining, water pollution, and climate change. Much of her work focuses on what she calls the precursors to governance: how processes like learning, innovation, and institutionalization can advance or hinder our collective ability to design and carry out effective environmental policy. She is the author of two books and many peer-reviewed articles. She also edits the journal Global Environmental Politics. A Fulbright Distinguished Fellowship in Oceans Governance took her to the University of Sao Paulo in 2024 and 2025.
Jacqueline Wernimont, Professor of Film and Media Studies
Wernimont is a scholar of how human life becomes data, tracing across history and into the present the ways the dead get counted and bodies become numbers. Her first book, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media, charts that history from the 16th century to today, through technologies from body counts to wearable devices. She also works on "data visceralization," using everyday tools to turn data into something you can take in with all five senses. The co-editor of Bodies of Information: Feminist Debates in Digital Humanities, she chairs Dartmouth's Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster.
The following faculty were promoted to associate professor, with tenure:
Cesar Alvarez, Associate Professor of Music
Alvarez is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create large experimental musicals as non-normative possibility spaces for embodiment, inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship, and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, band leader, and sound artist, Alvarez works in the space between theater, music, performance art, and social practice. Alvarez was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow and has received the Jonathan Larson Award, the Edward Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre for lyrics, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Amanda Amodeo, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Amodeo is a biologist who studies how cells know their size as an organism develops. She works in the early embryo of the fruit fly Drosophila, where the usual rules are reversed: rather than growing before it divides, a single giant cell divides again and again without growing, until its cells reach a normal size. One of her key discoveries is the role maternal histones play in tracking cell size. Her lab pairs genetics, biochemistry, and sophisticated imaging with mathematical modeling. She has raised significant federal research funding and teaches in the Molecular and Cell Biology graduate program.
Hsien-Chih Chang, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Chang is a theoretical computer scientist who studies the shapes behind computing: the visible ones, like networks and maps, and the hidden ones that surface in seemingly unrelated problems. He uses abstract mathematics to prove how efficiently such problems can be solved. His results have appeared at the ACM Symposium on Theory and Computing, a top conference in theoretical computer science, including a way to compress a sprawling network into a compact "sketch" that preserves the distances within it. His work has earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and both graduate and undergraduate students have co-authored his papers.
Maron Greenleaf, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Greenleaf is a cultural anthropologist who studies green capitalism, environmental restoration, forests, and energy transitions across Brazil, the United States, and the UK. Her 2024 book, Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon, grew out of more than 16 months of fieldwork in Acre, Brazil, and gives a close account of carbon offsets in the Amazon. Her current research turns to tree planting and environmental restoration in postindustrial England. She co-founded Dartmouth's Energy Justice Clinic.
Matt Hooley, Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Hooley writes about the cultural histories of colonialism and anticolonialism, with particular attention to Indigenous literary and visual-arts modernisms, poetics, and the environmental humanities. His first book, Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities, traces a tradition of Ojibwe anticolonial writing that took shape both alongside and against the extractive colonial infrastructure of Minneapolis and St. Paul. He is at work on two new books, one about Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and another about the cultural histories of colonial water seizure across Turtle Island and Palestine.
Mingwei Huang, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Huang is an interdisciplinary scholar of race and migration, trained in American studies and gender and sexuality studies. Her first book, Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century, draws on fieldwork among Chinese migrants and businesses in Johannesburg, showing how race, money, and the exploitation of workers shape life there as China's global power rises, much as European and American empires shaped earlier eras. The book received an honorable mention for the 2025 African Studies Association Best Book Prize. Her new research follows global race and migration, the afterlives of gold, and new forms of extraction, all from the vantage of South Africa.
C. Brenhin Keller, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
Keller studies how Earth's layers have interacted and been shaped by outside events over hundreds of millions of years. He pairs computational modeling with data from public repositories and his own fieldwork, and shares his software as open source. His research ranges from the formation of the moon to the volcanic eruptions behind mass extinctions, and it has earned two of his field's top early-career honors: the American Geophysical Union's James B. Macelwane Medal and the Geological Society of America's Donath Medal, both in 2024.
Sunmin Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology
Kim is a sociologist who studies race, immigration, and national belonging through the lens of knowledge production, examining how supposedly self-evident categories like race and citizenship are in fact built by social scientists, officials, and activists. His book The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate turns to the Dillingham Commission, which Congress created in 1907 to study immigration, and argues that the new social science it relied on reshaped racial thinking rather than simply discrediting it. His second book will examine the role of social science research in the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Iyabo Kwayana, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
Kwayana is a filmmaker whose work experiments with themes of diaspora across African and Asian communities. She is a multiple jury award-winning filmmaker whose work spans fiction and nonfiction. Trained as a director and cinematographer, she also works as a producer, sound designer, and editor. Her films are distinguished by embodied camera movement and inventive soundscapes that create immersive sensory experiences. She has directed 12 films, with work screened at the Sundance Film Festival and at international festivals from Korea to Serbia and Finland. Supported by grants from the LEF Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation, she was recently honored with Dartmouth's Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Elisabeth Newton, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Newton is an observational astronomer who studies the synergy between stars, their planets, and the galaxy around them. Much of her work centers on small, magnetically active M-dwarf stars, how they spin and generate magnetic fields, and how planets form around young, active stars. As co-PI of the THYME collaboration, she has helped find roughly a third of all known planets younger than 500 million years, among them three planets circling a star just 120 million years old. A recent NASA grant supports her work connecting stellar flares to gravitational microlensing.
Theresa Ong, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Ong is an agroecologist who pairs theory with fieldwork to understand how the interactions among people, organisms, and the environment shape food production and the stability of ecosystems. Her research traces how the diversity of a system, across space, time, and species, builds its resilience to ecological and political shocks, and how small shifts can cascade into large, sometimes irreversible change. Agroforestry and urban gardens are among the buffers she studies. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and led USDA-funded projects totaling more than $10 million.
David Petruccelli, Associate Professor of History
Petruccelli is a historian of Europe who studies the legal and political institutions that emerged after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His book A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe traces the organization that became INTERPOL back to efforts to manage crime, migration, and political threats after World War I. Built on multilingual archival research, it has drawn praise for its scholarship and storytelling. His second book will trace the rise and fall of the global prohibition of pornography in the 20th century.
Jonathan Phillips, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
Phillips studies high-level human cognition, in particular how people make decisions among an enormous number of possible options without weighing each one in turn. He argues that humans have an implicit capacity to reason about possibilities, a finding that reaches into decision making, moral psychology, causal reasoning, theory of mind, and formal semantics. His work draws at once on psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, and neuroscience, and he has published 32 peer-reviewed articles and given more than three dozen invited talks.
Paul Robustelli, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Robustelli is a computational chemist who studies intrinsically disordered proteins, molecules that matter in the chemistry of the cell yet have no fixed structure to tie to their function. His detailed simulations have been at the leading edge of showing how these proteins behave when they meet small molecules, which points toward ways to either boost or block what they do inside living cells. His findings are already informing industry, and he consults for companies working to design therapeutics from this research. He is affiliated with Dartmouth's Neukom Cluster of Computational Science.
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