Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's Jonathan Maletic, Ph.D., in the Department of Computer Science and Tara Smith, Ph.D., in the College of Public Health are the winners of the 2021 Faculty Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards (ORSAs). The ORSAs recognize the hard work and dedication of faculty members who have been with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ for more than 10 years. Read more about the winners and how they display the highest levels of scholarship.
Researchers from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ and the University of New Mexico determined how nitrogen-fixing plants and soil microbes contribute to the overall nitrogen availability in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico.
He Yin, Ph.D., assistant professor in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s Department of Geography, recently received NASA’s New (Early Career) Investigator Award in Earth Science. Yin will lead evaluation and research of the devastating effects that the Syrian civil war has had on croplands throughout the eastern Mediterranean region.
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences.
One of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s newest faculty members in the Department of Geology has already made her mark with the recent publication of her and her colleagues’ work to better understand the effects of global warming as it relates to the arctic ocean. Allyson Tessin, assistant professor, specializes in biochemistry, oceanography and sedimentary geology. She is currently studying the relationship between the chemistry of the ocean and climate change.