Tammy Kernodle, University Distinguished Professor of Music, was recently named one of 14 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year. She has also been selected as the Phi Beta Kappa annual Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar for her work in the humanities.

Neringa Klumbyte, professor of Anthropology, received the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies’ 2022 Women's Forum Book Prize, announced this month, for her book “Authoritarian Laughter.”

Damon Scott, assistant professor of Geography, is author of “The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Development in Postwar San Francisco,” published by the University of Texas Press in January. 

Six faculty members in the College of Engineering and Computing and the Department of Engineering Technology received $696,429 from the Ohio Department of Higher Education for a project entitled "Future-Ready Workforce Development by Advancing Manufacturing and Cybersecurity Education with Smart Factory Lab." The faculty are Giancarlo Corti, associate professor, Kumar Singh, professor, and Fazeel Khan, professor, of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering;  Reza Abrisham Baf, associate professor of Engineering Technology;  Chi-Hao Cheng, professor, and David Hartup, associate teaching professor, of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and James Walden, professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering.  

Cricket Meehan and Debora Robison in the Department of Psychology and affiliated with the Center for Human Development, Learning and Technology received $650,000 from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, of which $545,750 is for the project entitled "Youth & Young Adult (ages 10-25) Early Intervention (EI) Initiative." 

Gary Lorigan, chair and University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, received $388,400 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project entitled "EPR Spectroscopic Studies of Membrane Proteins."

Elizabeth Wardle, director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence, received $300,000 from the Lumina Foundation for a project entitled "Sensemaking for Student Success: A Cohort-Based Faculty Change Method." 

Renee Baernstein, senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Science and professor of History, and Timothy Melley, director of the Humanities Center and professor of English, received $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "A New Humanities Hub at Miami University."

Robert Applebaum, director of the Ohio Long-Term Care Research Project,  and Ian Matt Nelson, research scholar in the Scripps Gerontology Center, received $45,149 from Ohio State University, pass-through funds from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, for the project entitled "Survey of Home Care Agencies in Ohio." They also received $87,641 from Ohio State University, pass-through funds from the Ohio Department of Medicaid and the Department of Health and Human Services, for the same project. 

Wil Haygood, Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film, received $60,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "Comfort Sounds."  

Katherine Abbott, executive director of the Scripps Gerontology Center, received $53,625 from the Ohio Department of Aging for a project entitled "Curriculum Development Responsive to the Ohio Governor's Nursing Home Quality and Accountability Task Force's Report."

Cricket Meehan, director of the School-Based Center of Excellence, and  Jason Osborne, professor of Statistics and affiliated with the center, received $27,024 from the Butler County Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Services Board, pass through funds from the U.S. Department of Justice, for a project entitled "Butler County Cossup."

Yue Li, associate director of the Discovery Center for Evaluation, Research, and Professional Development, received $25,111 from the Ohio Campus Compact for the project entitled "Evaluation of the OCC's AmeriCorps Student Resource Centers (SRCs) Program."

Jonathan Wolff, associate professor of Economics, received $20,000 from the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority for the project entitled "SORTA Data Analysis Class Project."

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