Francine Barchett, a doctoral candidate in natural resources and the environment, was selected as the third youth representative for the World Food Prize Foundation Council of Advisors since the program launched in 2021.
In recognition of her work uniting students, designers and educators across generations to reimagine a play space that fosters creativity, inclusion and active play, Prof. Loebach has received this year’s George D. Levy Engaged Teaching and Research Award.
For the five graduates who have earned Ph.D.s in public policy from the Brooks School in 2025, their academic journeys included COVID disruptions and a transition from the Department of Policy Analysis and Management to Brooks.
Physicist Keefe Mitman will work with Nils Deppe, assistant professor of physics, on the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration on improving gravitational wave models to aid with the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Collaboration’s detection and characterization of compact binary encounters.
Students in the SoNIC program developed new models to help people with impaired vision to identify objects around them and citizen scientists to recognize bird species.
An anonymous donor has made three gifts to the Department of Global Development to honor the legacy of the late Daniel G. Sisler, Ph.D. ’62: an engaged learning fund that will support faculty-led study trips, a new endowed professorship and a student hub in Mann Library.
Food Science Professor Julie Goddard’s research team has engineered unique enzymes to break down microplastics in sewage and wastewater, a major route of microplastic pollution into the environment.
In a new video, Molly Edwards ’12 highlights innovations from researchers at the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) aimed at tackling the impacts of heat and drought on agriculture.