Mary K. Carroll ’86, the Dwane W. Crichton Professor of Chemistry, in her role as 2023 President-Elect of the American Chemical Society (ACS), attended the ACS Leadership Institute in Atlanta from January 20 to 22. Among other activities, she participated in ACS Board of Directors orientation and gave a keynote address ("Leading Together") to the participants in the Younger Leaders Track. See the Union news site for more about Prof. Carroll's election to the ACS.

Shena McAuliffe, assistant professor of fiction, has co-authored an article in Journal of Medical Humanities. “A Widely Applicable Model: Teaching Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay Across Institutions" was co-authored with Sarah Boykin Hardy, Elizabeth Starr, Cindie Aaen Maagaard, Erin McConnell and Krista Quesenberry.

Kate Feller, assistant professor of biology, is co-author, with Megan Porter of the University of Hawaii, of a perspective article in Science titled “Photonic tinkering in the open ocean” about sea animals that use light manipulation for camouflage. While photonic camouflage allows animals to vanish in their surroundings, they need to see their prey to eat. “Thus, an arms race exists between predators and prey for the ability to see and yet not be seen,” the authors write.

Hasan Al Babaa, visiting assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has published a paper, Theory of Truncation Resonances in Continuum Rod-Based Phononic Crystals with Generally Asymmetric Unit Cells, in the February 2 issue of Journal of Advanced Theory and Simulations. The paper was selected as a front cover of the issue, now published online.