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- Dr. Baojun Bai, the Lester R. Birbeck Endowed Professor of petroleum engineering, was honored in the Journal of Petroleum Technology as a 2024 Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) Pioneer award recipient.
- Dr. Chen Hou, an associate professor of biological sciences, had his research featured by Phys.org. His newest paper, titled “Energetic cost of biosynthesis is a missing link between growth and longevity in mammals,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, vice provost and dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education, often speaks with reporters about Iranian politics. He spoke to DNYUZ about electoral issues gripping the country and NPR about the country’s first reformist president.
- Dr. Dave Westenberg, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of biological sciences, was featured in an Atlas Obscura story on agar art, also known as microbial art, as a way to demonstrate the link between art and science. The story was also highlighted in the May 15, edition of ARTnews.
- Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, professor of history and political science, was interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about her newest book, Women in the Valley of Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age.
- Dr. Chen Hou, an associate professor of biological sciences, recently had his research featured in the Phelps County Focus. His newest paper, titled “Energetic cost of biosynthesis is a missing link between growth and longevity in mammals,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- TheWall Street Journal published a review of Dr. Kathleen Sheppard’s book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age.
- NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi about the Reformist party in Iran, whose candidate won the presidential election there this summer.
- Strewn across the Pacific Ocean’s seafloor, potato-sized rocks called nodules are a treasure in the deep sea. Dr. Shelley Minteer, director of the Kummer Institute for Resource Sustainability and a bioelectrochemist, was interviewed for an article about these items and the ability to use them as geobatteries.
- People have been dreaming of flying cars for a long time. The Jetsons, for instance, was a 1960s-era television cartoon show that depicted a family living in the future. The technology to make flying cars already exists, says Dr. Xiaosong Du, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. His research is featured in an article by ScienceNewsExplores.
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