Statistics and geography faculty help launch Insitute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics
Trevor Hefley, associate professor of statistics, and Shawn Hutchinson, professor of geography and geospatial sciences, are part of the core administrative team of the recently launched Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics. The interdisciplinary institute will work to transform learning, research and outreach around digital technologies and advanced analytical methods to enhance agricultural, environmental and socioeconomic decision making. read more
Pickering earns Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award
Jeffrey Pickering, professor of political science and security studies, has received a 2023-2024 Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award. read more
Baral receives American Lung Association grant
Pankaj Baral, assistant professor of biology, received a $200,000 grant from the American Lung Association to study interactions between the nervous and immune systems in regulating influenza A infection and viral pneumonia. read more
Heidbreder contributes to Topeka Capital-Journal
Brianne Heidbreder, associate professor of political science, has written multiple opinion pieces for cjonline.com/Topeka Capital-Journal. Recently, she wrote about Kansas’s need to weigh the benefits and risks of restricting foreign land investment. read story
Kisangani and Pickering win book award
Emizet Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering, professors of political science, have won the biennial J. David Singer Book Award from the International Studies Association-Midwest for their book “African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces.” read more
Faculty Promotions
Every year, the provost’s office announces promotions of tenure-track and tenured faculty whose promotion cases have been fully approved through every step of the process. Non-tenure-track faculty promotions are handled within the college, and our college has many outstanding non-tenure-track faculty members who excel and advance in their areas.
We are happy to announce that in the past year, many excellent ArtSci faculty members have been promoted. Please help us congratulate these hard-working individuals, if you haven’t already:
Amanda Arrington (music, theatre, and dance), to senior professor of practice; Sabreen Gad (geology), to teaching associate professor; John Kilgore (music, theatre, and dance) to teaching assistant professor; Rachel Levitt (social transformation studies) to teaching associate professor; Stephen Loch (music, theatre, and dance) to teaching assistant professor; Lorenza Lockett (sociology, anthropology, and social work) to teaching associate professor; George Matthews (music, theater, and dance) to senior professor of practice; Susan Maxwell (music, theater, and dance) to teaching associate professor; Melissa Neville (music, theater, and dance) to senior professor of practice; Nadia Shapkina (sociology, anthropology, and social work) to teaching associate professor; David Wood (music, theater, and dance) to advanced instructor.