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New ¸£ÀûƬ¹ú²ú Professorships

• Dr. Andrew Olney, Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Dr. Kathryn Howell, Psychology
• Dr. Roger Kreuz, Psychology

UofM Research Foundation Junior Professorship: NSF Career Recipient

• Dr. Thomas Goebel, Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)

Faculty Promoted to Associate Professor and Granted Tenure

• Emerson Bowers, Biological Sciences
• Jamie Sabel, Biological Sciences
• Thomas Watson, Computer Science
• Cookie Woolner, History
• Thang Ba Hoang, Physics and Materials Science
• Nicholas Simon, Psychology
• Hironori Nishi, World Languages and Literatures

Faculty Promoted to Full Professor

• Daniel Baker, Chemistry
• Paul Simone, Chemistry
• Xuan Zhao, Chemistry
• Evelyn Fogle, English
• Carey Mickalites, English
• Terrence Tucker, English
• Steve Stein, History
• Kristoffer Berlin, Psychology
• Helen Sable, Psychology
• Susan Elswick, School of Social Work
• Robert Kelz, World Languages and Literatures

Award Highlights from the UofM Faculty Meeting

CyberCorps: New Scholarships for Service (SFS) Program at the ¸£ÀûƬ¹ú²ú of Memphis | Kan Yang (CS)
$3,806,815 – National Science Foundation

iCODE: Investigating and Scaffolding Students' Code Comprehension Processes To Improve Learning,
Engagement, and Retention | Vasile Rus (CS/IIS) $1,999,596 – Department of Education

Change the Odds: A Multi Platform Approach to Gambling Treatment (multi-year award) | James Whelan
(Psychology) $1,205,000 – TN Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Cybersecurity education for Critical Infrastructure protection (in Community Development) through Regional Coalition | Dipankar Dasgupta (CS) $1,014,076 – National Security Agency

Investigating chemosensory evolution in longhorned beetles using a comparative phylogenomic framework
that integrates genomic, morphological, and biochemical data | Duane McKenna (Biological Sciences)
$1,271,532 – National Science Foundation 

Junior Faculty NSF Support Highlights
CAREER: From Slow to Fast, Micro to Macro, Single Events to Cascades: A Multi-scale Study of Seismic Event Triggering in Lab and Nature | Thomas Goebel $611,610 – National Science Foundation

ERI: Compositionally modulated ferrimagnets for spin-orbitronic devices | Shawn Pollard $181,745 – National science Foundation

Other CAS Highlights from the UofM Faculty Meeting

• 1112 Degrees Awarded
• Research Activity:
• 145, 162, and 182 proposals awarded over the last 3 years, over 20% growth
• CC* Integration-Large: mGuard: A Secure Real-time Data Distribution System with Fine-Grained Access Control for mHealth Research, National Science Foundation (NSF), PI: Lan Wang,, $825,000.00, Computer Science
• Catalytic H2 Evolution by Molecular Cobalt Complexes with Pentadentate Ligands in Aqueous Solutions, National Science Foundation (NSF), PI: Xuan Zhao, $475,000.00, Chemistry
• Evaluation of the Impact of Health and Education Programs in the Mississippi Delta, Data Health Alliance, PI: Wesley James, $1,381,320, Sociology
• Approaches for Reducing Alcohol Use and Consequences Among Diverse Community-Dwelling Emerging Adults, NIH, PI: James Murphy, $315,140, Psychology
• Majoring in the Minor: Forging a New Career Path to Address Teacher Diversity in Tennessee (MiM), THEC, PI: Alfred Hall, $84,800, (COE/CAS collaboration)

DEI progress:

Top 10 in nationwide black philosophy/history/mathematics PhD production, first black female commissioned into the US Space Force from aerospace studies, fully online Master of Nonprofit management program, with Social Justice and Fundraising & Philanthropy tracks launched, NSF/DOD-funded NeuroSTART program aims to increase representation of minorities in behavioral neuroscience research, anthropology general education classes redesigned to achieve DEI goals

Scholarship highlights:

Physics and Materials Science faculty using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and testing devices on the International Space Station, math faculty member delivered seminar at the ¸£ÀûƬ¹ú²ú of Cambridge, political science faculty member invited to join Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Expert Group on New Measures of the Public Acceptability of Reforms