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Institutes and Initiatives

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Professor Receives NASA New Investigator Award

He Yin, Ph.D., assistant professor in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’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.

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute, Institutes and Initiatives

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Receives More Than $3 Million In Grants From National Science Foundation

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï 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. 

Tags: Research & Science, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Brain Health Research Institute, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Department of Psychological Sciences, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Healthy Communities Research Institute, Institutes and Initiatives

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Chemistry Professor Continues ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ Streak

There are just a handful of chemists worldwide with h-indices above 200. The h-indices of chemists awarded the Nobel Prize during the last five years range from about 30 to 160. Mietek Jaroniec, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has an h-index of 125, which places him among the top chemists worldwide.

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, AMLCI, Institutes and Initiatives

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