Celebrate
- A $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Marvin Caruthers’ development in the early 1980s of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids. Caruthers is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at .
- CMCI Now earned a bronze Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for its fall 2022 edition, which offered a look back at the founding—and impact—of the Department of Journalism.
- Associate Professor of Composition Jeffrey Nytch—who directs the College of Music’s Entrepreneurship Center for Music and who was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship—considers the application of entrepreneurial principles as essential to his creative practice.
- The chemical and biological engineering professor has been invited to deliver the prestigious Dream Chemistry Lecture at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Warsaw, Poland. The honor recognizes the significant contributions of Gupta’s young research group, the Laboratory of Interfaces, Flow, and Electrokinetics.
- Daryl Maeda has been recognized by the Asian Pacific Fund as an outstanding educational Asian/Pacific Islander American leader for his role in diversity, equity and inclusion.
- The ATLAS Institute's Carson Bruns, Laura Devendorf, Grace Leslie, Ben Shapiro and Daniellle Szafir have won CAREER Awards through the National Science Foundation.
- With growing concerns about climate change, a number of “smart” technologies have emerged to reduce energy consumption and decrease reliance on fossil fuels. While most engineers tend to focus on the technology, Professor Moncef Krarti researches the acceptance of it.
- Twenty-eight engineering students have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2023.
- A team of College of Media, Communication and Information students took second place in a competition for their campaign, which was designed to help fight fake news for the News Literacy Project.
- Six students and alumni have been named Fulbright finalists for the 2023–24 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Another two students were named alternates.