Amy Wilson, associate professor of higher education administration, has received the 2023 Mid-Career Faculty Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Faculty Council. This award is given to full-time faculty members who have distinguished themselves in research and teaching. In particular, the award is reserved for scholars who have produced evidence of published scholarly works on the student affairs profession or field, have established themselves as excellent teachers to their students, and have contributed to the field through their service.

Leigh Duffy, assistant professor of philosophy, presented her paper "Creating Consciousness in Klara and the Sun" at the 2023 national conference of the Popular Culture Association, held in San Antonio, Texas, April 5–8. She also presented her paper "Using Yoga and Meditation Practices to Teach Philosophy" at the 2023 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, held in San Francisco, California, April 5–8.

Clemon George, assistant professor of health, nutrition, and dietetics, published the article "Surveillance of Injecting Drug Use as a Global Health Imperative" in Lancet Global Health (2023; published online March 27). The article was led by Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D., associate dean of global health sciences and Harold Simon Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine; co-director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH); and phage guru and author of The Perfect Predator, and written in conjunction with Heena Brahmbhatt, Ph.D., M.P.H., global health security team lead with USAID South Africa and adjunct associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Lisa Berglund, professor and chair of the English Department, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Executive Council of the Association of Departments of English of the Modern Language Association. Her term commences in January 2024.

Luke Haumesser, associate director of student leadership and engagement, co-published an article, "Falling through the Cracks: Examining One Institution’s Response to Food Insecure Student-Parents," in the Journal of Higher Education (DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2023.2187175). This article explores how institutional culture affects the ways that universities respond to the needs of food-insecure student-parents. Using Schein’s analysis of culture, the article considers the ways that one institution’s culture assumes that the normative college student is both food secure and childless, creating obstacles for anyone who does not fit that norm. Although the university had programs in place to support food-insecure student-parents, the data suggest that the campus continues to privilege the normative student.

Deborah Silverman, chair and associate professor of communication, served as a judge for the national Public Relations Society of America's Silver Anvil Awards on March 10. PRSA's Silver Anvil Awards are regarded as the "Oscars" of the public relations industry. Awards will be presented to the winners during a ceremony in New York City on June 8.

Kimberly Hart, associate professor of anthropology, discussed her artwork Pandemic Garden in conversation with Joseph Winters, associate professor at Duke University, with his piece Just a Touch of Love at Indiana University Bloomington's Noli Me Tangere Symposium, sponsored by the Center for Religion and the Human and the Luce Foundation, March 2–4. Pandemic Garden is on view in the Process Gallery, is viewable online, and is included in the catalogue Noli Me Tangere.

Work by Kim Chinquee, associate professor of English, recently appeared in the journal NOON. This is her 22nd consecutive appearance in the journal since 2002. She has published a total of nearly 50 pieces in NOON, two of which have gone on to win a Pushcart Prize. This issue of NOON includes portraits by her late grandfather, Walter J. Strupp.

NOON is a highly esteemed independent literary annual archived at Indiana University's Lilly Library. It has received accolades from the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Quarterly Conversation, Poets and Writers, Time Out New York, and the Library Journal.

Arjun Pathak, assistant professor of physics, has received a U.S. Patent (Patent No.: US 11,585,000 B2) along with other inventors for the discovery of new materials for the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction. The electrochemical splitting of water (electrolysis) is among the most versatile methods of hydrogen generation that is expected to play a significant role in long-term, high-volume hydrogen gas production. An embodiment of the present invention provides electrode materials useful for the electrolysis of water comprising certain transition metal chalcogenides having four or more chemical elements as single-phase, solid solution cathode materials without any expensive elements such as platinum. The patent was issued on February 21, 2023.

Clemon George, assistant professor of health, nutrition, and dietetics, published the article "Preexposure Prophylaxis in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Barbados Experience" in the February 2023 issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 34 (1): 58–73; DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2023.0005. The article contributes to the body of knowledge on HIV prevention in the Caribbean. The Caribbean region is still highly affected by HIV, although there has been significant progress in reducing new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths. The UNAIDS 2020 report suggests an HIV incidence-to-prevalence ratio (IPR) of the region decreasing steadily from 6.1 percent in 2010 to 3.9 percent in 2019. A rough rule of thumb is that an IPR threshold for controlling HIV is 0.03.