Dr. Evan Zucker, professor of Psychological Sciences has been elected the new Vice-President of the Southwest Region of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society for Psychology.
Congratulations to Psychological Sciences major Amy Sprout, whose senior research work won the award for best undergraduate poster presentation in the Social Sciences division of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences (LSA).
In March, 2012, Ranmali DeSilva presented research findings on improving Hurricane Evacuation Practices in New Orleans to City Council members
Dr. Patricia Dorn and her co-authors' article on Chagas disease, which shows that kissing bugs in California and Arizona are both infected with the Chagas parasite and have fed on humans will be published and highlighted on March 14 in the 'Emerging Infections Diseases' journal.
Dr. Barnes and Biology alumna, Michele Abbene, who is currently studying at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University publish paper on litter decomposition.
Patrick Garrity has been awarded a research grant from the Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE). The grant will fund an experimental investigation focusing on the development of geometrically patterned nanoscale materials to be used in critical flow measurement applications.
Dr. Anthony E. Ladd, Professor of Sociology, recently presented his research on "Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power, and Social Injustice: Building a Sustainable U.S. Energy Policy for the 21st Century."
Dr. Glenn Hymel was the recipient of two awards at the annual meeting of the American Massage Therapy Association. Dr. Hymel is also the editor of three journals.
Armin Kargol, Assoc. Professor of Physics, received the Marquette Fellowship for Summer 2012. He will conduct research on the effect of nanoscale electric fields generated by nanopatterned electrodes and magnetoelectric nanoparticles on voltage-gated ion channels.
Dr. Capowich is working with the City of New Orleans on it's newly funded violence reduction project which has received $50,000 in funding from the New Orleans Business Council.