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Paper To Pixels, A Creative Journey (Summer 2025), John Red

Staff Residencies

John Red, Sr., Maintenance Technician in General Maintenance, created and digitized his drawings.

Fantasy Novel Writing Workshop And Retreat (Summer 2025), Jacob Ferguson

Staff Residencies

Jacob Ferguson, Associate Director of Development for Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College in UM Development / Honors College, spent the week working on my fantasy novel, which is set in a fictionalized Scotland and centers on themes of forbidden magic, ostracism, hidden history, and found family.

From Seoul To Soul (Summer 2025), Jena Denise Payton

Staff Residencies

Jena Denise Payton, Graduate Activities Assistant in The Graduate School, developed a book of compiled food recipes from my County Road neighbors and beyond.

Sampling And Creating Music Using Abelton (Summer 2025), Cole Russell

Staff Residencies

Cole Russell, Graphic Designer in University Marketing and Communications, used the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) Ableton to create STEMS from songs, create beats and drum patterns, import samples into the software, and manipulate and create original pieces, while also recording my own music to accompany any pieces.

Oasis Space Lester Garden (Summer 2025), William Houston Griffith

Staff Residencies

William Houston Griffith, Staff Counselor in the University Counseling Center, developed the Oasis Space Lester Garden - a space where students, faculty, and staff can come sit and enjoy nature, and provides vegetables to the Grove Grocery.

Quilting Like A Pro (Summer 2025), Mandy Dowdy

Staff Residencies

Mandy Dowdy, Administrative Coordinator I / ACM Coordinator in Geology & Geological Engineering, practiced machine quilting.

Front Matter, Michigan Journal Of Environmental & Administrative Law

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

Front Matter for Volume 15, Issue 1 of Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

Realizing Nepa’S Reasonable, Productive, And Enjoyable Harmony: The Fiscal Responsibility Act’S Amendments And Implications For Practitioners, L. Sheldon Clark, Catherine E. Kanatas, Maxwell C. Smith

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the “Magna Carta” of environmental protection, serves two important purposes: providing (1) decision makers and (2) the public with a federal agency’s assessment of the impacts that may occur from its proposed or selected course of action before the agency acts. Despite frequent criticism about NEPA reviews causing costly project delays, NEPA’s procedural requirements and framework had remained unchanged for more than 40 years. That all changed with the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA). The writing on the NEPA wall is now very clear: agencies must now produce shorter NEPA analyses with a …

Noise Law, Joshua Ulan Galperin

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

The rumble of traffic, the drone of air conditioners, the blast of construction equipment. These are the mundane sources of noise pollution that we all experience but rarely think about. Or, if we do think about noise pollution, we don’t think of it as a central piece of federal environmental law. This Article, however, demonstrates that noise law is, or was, central to American environmental law, and it offers insights into how environmental protection and administrative governance work today.

In the 1970s, during the height of environmental activism and policymaking, lawmakers recognized noise as a serious pollutant alongside issues we …

Reclaiming Interpretation: Psgs, Asylum Law, And The Post-Loper Bright Landscape, Andrew Elkins

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

The Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo marked the end of Chevron deference, reshaping the framework that courts must use when reviewing agency interpretations of statutes. This Note examines the consequences of that doctrinal shift in the context of U.S. asylum law, where statutory ambiguity and agency discretion have long played a central role. Focusing on the “particular social group” (PSG) ground for asylum, this Note argues that Loper Bright requires courts to reclaim primary responsibility for interpreting asylum statutes. It analyzes how Chevron deference previously empowered the Board of Immigration Appeals to issue binding interpretations …

Artificial Intelligence In Head And Neck Cancer: Towards Precision Medicine, Jacob Hagen, Logan Hornung, William Barham, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Adam Bess, Kevin Contrera, Devraj Basu, Vlad Sandulache, Guillaume Spielmann, Sagar Kansara

Faculty Publications

Over the past 20 years, the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have gained significant interest. While AI has been implemented to various degrees in several disciplines, its unique applications in head and neck cancer (HNC) remain underdeveloped. This narrative review examines the existing body of literature regarding the use of AI in HNC. Studies to date have demonstrated AI’s utility across multiple phases of the HNC treatment continuum. Despite its promise, integrating AI into clinical practice faces several challenges, including concerns about system integrity, generalizability, privacy, and bias. In this review, we address these challenges and offer insights into future …

Density-Valued Solutions For The Boltzmann-Enskog Process, Christian Ennis, Barbara Rüdiger, Padmanabhan Sundar

Faculty Publications

The time evolution of a moderately dense gas evolving in vacuum described by the Boltzmann-Enskog equation is studied. The associated stochastic process, the Boltzmann-Enskog process, was constructed in [1] and further studied in [12, 13]. The process is given by the solution of a McKean-Vlasov equation driven by a Poisson random measure with the compensator depending on the distribution of the solution [1, 12]. The existence of a marginal probability density function at each time for the measure-valued solution is established in this article by using a functional-analytic criterion on Besov spaces [8, 11]. In addition to existence, the density …

Recovery Of The X-Ray Polarisation Of Swift J1727.8-1613 After The Soft-To-Hard Spectral Transition (Corrigendum) (Astronomy And Astrophysics (2024) 686 (L12) Doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450566), J. Podgorný, J. Svoboda, M. Dovčiak, A. Veledina, J. Poutanen, P. Kaaret, S. Bianchi, A. Ingram, F. Capitanio, S. R. Datta, E. Egron, H. Krawczynski, G. Matt, F. Muleri, P. O. Petrucci, T. D. Russell, J. F. Steiner, N. Bollemeijer, M. Brigitte, N. Castro Segura, R. Emami, J. A. García, K. Hu, M. N. Iacolina, V. Kravtsov, L. Marra, G. Mastroserio, T. Muñoz-Darias, E. Nathan, M. Negro, A. Ratheesh, N. Rodriguez Cavero, R. Taverna

Faculty Publications

(Figure presented) In Fig. 4, the X-ray hardness value for observation 8 was plotted using a count-based ratio instead of the energy-flux-based ratio used for other points in the figure. The correction of the position of this point in Fig. 4 does not affect any other figures, results, or conclusions in the paper.

Easyspec: An Open-Source Python Package For Long-Slit Spectroscopy, Raniere De Menezes, Francesco Massaro, Michela Negro, Claudia M. Raiteri, Harold Peña-Herazo, Jose A. Acosta-Pulido

Faculty Publications

In modern-day astronomy, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy are indispensable for studying a wide range of phenomena, from measuring black hole masses to analyzing chemical abundances in stellar atmospheres. However, spectroscopic data reduction is often performed using instrument-specific pipelines or legacy software well-established and robust within the community that are often challenging to implement and script in modern astrophysical workflows. In this work, we introduce easyspec, a new Python package designed for long-slit spectroscopy, capable of reducing, extracting, and analyzing spectra from a wide range of instruments—provided they deliver raw FITS files, the standard format for most optical telescopes worldwide. …

Sub-Gev Dark Matter And Mev Gamma-Ray Detection With Cosi, Yu Watanabe, Shigeki Matsumoto, Christopher M. Karwin, Tom Melia, Michela Negro, Thomas Siegert, Yuki Watanabe, Hiroki Yoneda, Tadayuki Takahashi

Faculty Publications

Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) has been attracting more attention due to the negative results searching for traditional weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Such particles are expected to produce gamma rays from annihilation in the MeV energy region. Advancements in technology have opened up possibilities to precisely detect MeV gamma rays, leading to the upcoming space-based mission of the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI). We comprehensively and quantitatively study the phenomenology of sub-GeV DM to determine if the COSI observations will probe their viable model parameter regions. We first construct models to describe sub-GeV DM based on the minimality and renormalizability …

Phase-Amplitude Separation Of Wave Function As Local Gauge Transformation, A. R.P. Rau

Faculty Publications

A quantum-mechanical wave function is complex, but all observations are real, expressible through expectation values and transition matrix elements that involve the wave functions. It can be useful to separate at the outset the amplitude and phase as real quantities that together carry the same information that is contained in the complex wave function. Two main avenues for doing so go way back in the history of the subject and have been used both for scattering and bound states. A connection is made here to gauge transformations of electrodynamics where the advent of quantum mechanics and later quantum field theory …

Research Nexus : Volume 29 - 2025, Office Of Research And Graduate Studies

Office of Research and Graduate Studies Archives

• Researcher Spotlight
• Research Milestones & News
• NCURA Excellence Award
• A New Addition to the Team
• Upcoming Research Townhall - East Africa
• Capacity Building Initiatives
• Community of Practice: Strengthening Email Communication
• Strengthening Research Integrity: Field Site Procedures, Strategy & Compliance
• Effective Project Management
• The Collective Spark: Our Academic Entities, Institutes and Centres at Work

Sustainability Hub Newsletter - September 2025, Annaliese Santoro, Neyda Gilman, Jennifer Embree

Library Sustainability Resources

Welcome back to Binghamton University! In this edition of the newsletter, we are kicking off the Fall 2025 semester with an introduction to the Sustainability Hub, resources, updates, seed-saving tips, and ways to get involved in sustainability!

Cover, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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Table Of Contents And Advertisements, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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Building A Network Of Support, Elizabeth Davis

Furman Magazine

Alumni build on lessons of care and support, for students and each other.

Athlete And Advocate, Damian Dominguez

Furman Magazine

Former Furman women's basketball player shares her path to becoming a civil rights lawyer.

Q & A: Mental Health And Well-Being, Furman University

Furman Magazine

Allyson Brathwaite is the director of the Trone Center for Mental Fitness and a psychologist who has worked in college mental health for nearly two decades. Brathwaite spoke with Furman Magazine to share some of the insights she's gleaned as a key partner in leading Furman University's mental health initiatives.

Taking Flight, Jake Grove

Furman Magazine

Brandon Parks M'25 brings his Marine Corps mentality to his passion for veteran advocacy and social change.

From The Vault: Designing And Building A New Campus, Jeffrey Makala

Furman Magazine

A look back at Furman's original design for a "most beautiful" campus.

Fruits Of Labor And Learning, Jake Grove

Furman Magazine

From Furman to Apple, Kristin Huguet Quayle '99 recalls what started it all.

Rhett Bryson Believes In Magic, Tina Underwood

Furman Magazine

Theatre arts professor brings tricks of the trade to Furman students, faculty.

Clicking In The Classroom, Damian Dominguez

Furman Magazine

There's no secret ingredient to student success at Furman. It's a recipe mixing engaged learning, reflection and mentoring, prepared by committed and passionate faculty and staff on the side.

Home-Court Advantage, Vince Moore

Furman Magazine

Timmons Arena welcomed athletes, students and fans inside a whole new world for men's and women's basketball.

The Comeback: Happy Trails, Damian Dominguez

Furman Magazine

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