Leroy Cooper, Associate Professor of Biology and the Pauline Newman Director of Science, Technology, and Society, received a research grant from NIH for his study titled “Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of smoking behavior with measures of subclinical vascular brain injury and microvascular function,” which will explore how smoking and quitting smoking affect blood vessels and brain health over time.

In collaboration with two colleagues from Yale University, Zhengren Zhu, Assistant Professor of Economics, received a grant from the Urban Institute’s Student Upward Mobility Initiative (SUMI) for a research study titled Dual Enrollment Courses and Upward Mobility: Which Skills, and for Whom?

Trevor Hyde, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, received the American Mathematical Society’s AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant for Primarily Undergraduate Institute (PUI) Faculty for his research in arithmetic dynamics.

Maria Hantzopoulos, Professor of Education, Coordinator of Secondary Teacher Education, and Director of International Studies, co-edited the recently published book Partnering for Transformation in Schools and Beyond: Community-Engaged Learning in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights Education (Teachers College Press, 2026).