Physics Professor Mark Lusk has been invited to deliver a lecture on silicon nanostructures at the Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), Sept. 15-18 at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. Lusk's lecture is titled "Carrier Collection and Transport in Thin Film Silicon with Tailored Nanocrystalline/Amorphous Structure: Computational Design and Experimental Realization." It will focus on a new computational method developed by Lusk and his group for quantifying the way electrons interact with material vibrations.

Professor Andrew Herring (CBE) has been selected as the Division of Energy and Fuels American Chemical Society winner of the 2015 ENFL Distinguished Service award. The award recognizes significant and continued impact on the advancement of energy and fuels chemistry through research, teaching, service or a combination of the three over an extended period of time.

Assistant Professor Cecilia Diniz Behn (AMS) gave an invited presentation at the Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands last month. The presentation was titled "Sleep-wake regulation as a multi-oscillator system.”

Associate Professor Hussein Amery (LAIS) authored a book published in June by Cambridge University Press titled "Arab Water Security: Threats and Opportunities in the Gulf States (International Hydrology)."

Teaching Associate Professor Paula Farca (LAIS) has published “Essays on Energy and Its Social and Environmental Implications in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Texts.” The book shows the connections in 20th and 21st century literary texts between energy, society and environment. The edited volume includes a substantial introduction, poems on energy, eighteen critical essays from international contributors, and a photo essay.