Kudos, February 2015

Our congratulations and appreciation for the awards, presentations, new books and professional honors that distinguish Frankln faculty and their scholarship at home and abroad. A few recent examples:

Assistant professor of history Jennifer Palmer and associate professor in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music Peter Jutras are 2015 recipients of the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Noel Fallows, professor of Spanish and associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Hyangsoon Yi professor of comparative literature and director of the Center for Asian Studies met with a delegation from the Vietnam National University in Hochiminh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities in January 2015.

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins – Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity by Distinguished Research Professor of comparative literature Dorothy Figueira will be re-issued in 2015 by Navayana Press in India. SUNY Press originally published the book in 2002.

In January David P. Landau, Distinguished Research Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Simulational Physics, presented a Plenary Invited talk at the 9^th International Conference on Computational Physics ICCP9 in Singapore.  The title of his presentation was: Replica Exchange Wang-Landau Sampling:  A New Paradigm for Petascale Monte Carlo Simulations.  This series of international meetings began in Beijing in 1988 and has been held at various locations around the Pacific Rim. 

Research by professor of physics and astronomy Philip Stancil was featured in the 2104 issue of Discover magazine.

Michael Bachmann, associate professor of physics and astronomy and in the Center for Simulational Physics, presented an Invited talk at the Joint 15^th NTZ Workshop on Computational Physics/Special Physics Colloquium at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany. In his talk, “A 20^th century physics no-no problem: The reasons of us being,” Bachmann introduced concepts of statistical mechanics for finite systems and presented computer simulation methodologies and results for generic molecular formation process including protein folding, polymer aggregation and macromolecular adsorption at solid surfaces.

Professor of plant biology Zheng-Hua Ye and research professional Ruiqin Zhong, were named among the world's highly cited researchers for 2014 by Thomson Reuters. The list includes more than 3,000 authors worldwide in 21 science and social science fields. They represent the top 1 percent of researchers most cited in their specialty areas from 2002 to 2012.

Part-time instructor of rhetoric and linguistics David Harrill Roberts received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year from the Alumni Association of Lander University in Greenwood, S.C., where he received his undergraduate degree in 1970.