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Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two ����Թ� professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from ����Թ� State’s College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks, Alaska, in June studying how climate change affects the availability of plant nutrients in arctic and sub-arctic ecosystems. The grant teams up two of ����Թ� State’s newest researchers. “I think it’s really great that two early-career scientists were awarded the funds to do this research,” Her...

Nationally honored strategist aims to dramatically advance ����Թ� State’s reputation, distinction Following a national search, ����Թ� has selected Karen B. Clarke as its senior vice president for strategic communications and external affairs. Clarke comes to ����Թ� State from Temple University in Philadelphia, where she has served as vice president for strategic marketing and communications. Last year, the American Marketing Association named Clarke its “National Higher Education Visionary Leader in Marketing.” She joins ����Թ� State on Jan. 3, 2017.   Clarke will report directl...

Dr. Valerie Cubon-Bell has been named one of three campus-wide recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Award presented by the University Teaching Council. Each year, ����Թ� honors full-time, non-tenure-track and part-time faculty members who are nominated by their students and peers for being among the most dedicated, highly effective and motivated professors at the university. Dr. Cubon-Bell, who is an assistant professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at ����Թ� at Trumbull, will receive the award at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12 in ����Թ� State Trumbull’s...

Nursing Instructor Angela Douglass has been announced a finalist for ����Թ�'s 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award. Three recipients will be awarded this year on Friday, October 21, 2016. ELIGIBILITY A faculty member must have been on a non-tenure-track or part-time contract at the ����Թ� Campus or any Regional Campus of the University for a minimum of five consecutive years (annually, not necessarily every semester), including the current academic year. Returning emeriti are excluded. Those receiving the awards must be on contract during the Fall semester in which the awar...

����Թ� State Biology Professor Studies How Selfish Genes Cause Male Sterility in Flowering Plants Why are plants often sterile when their parents are from different species? How do species remain separate entities in nature? Andrea L. Case, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at ����Թ�, co-authored an article that may provide some answers to these basic questions in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which was recently published online.  In their article, "Selfish evolution of cy...