Category: Research

Congratulations to Exceptional Learning PhD candidate Vandyck Adade-Yeboah on being selected as the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts (APBA) 2025 Convention poster session award winner. Vandyck is a Ghana native who is passionate about researching needs in his home country. He and his advisor, Dr. Krystal Kennedy, have been working with professionals and parents in Ghana over the past two years to research and address behavioral needs in school-aged populations. Vandyck is currently working on his dissertation in the same area and plans to continue working with his native community.

This Friday Phil Roberson from the TTU Earth Sciences department will be giving the Undergraduate seminar. In his talk Facies Models in the Geologic Record, Phil will describe a key framework for organizing the physical, biological, and chemical properties of sedimentary rock that, among other things, provides a way to understand an increasingly diverse set of new environments using past observations. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!

This Friday we will be visited by Dr. Andi Pina from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Pina’s field is Physics Education Research, and because of the rapidly increasing prevalence of quantum technologies in science and society, Dr. Pina has a particular interest in quantum information science and engineering (QISE) education. Dr. Pina will describe how educational practices related to QISE are evolving in their talk The Landscape of Quantum Information Science and Engineering Education and the role of Physics Departments. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!

Students in Dr. Mari Ramler’s Artificial Intelligence and Technical Communication class (PC 4950, 5950) have been chosen to co-author, with their instructor, a chapter for an edited collection, AI in Technical Communication: Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies. Undergraduate students Sydney Askins, Katie Barnes, and Grace Grubbs and graduate students Nimotallahi Azeez and Amina Begum had their proposal, “Beyond Refusal: ‘Co-Intelligence’ and ‘Coded Gaze’ as AI Literacies,” accepted for inclusion in the upcoming volume that will be published by Routledge.

A very interesting feature of the Apollo program was its collaboration with geoscience, including the training of Apollo astronauts in geology. This synergy continues today, supporting our return to the moon via the Artemis mission. This Friday’s seminar will feature talks from TTU Geosciences graduate student Mary Adepoju and Geoscience/Computer Science major Tony Lamantia. Both Mary and Tony perform geoscience research that directly supports the Artemis Initiative. Titles and abstracts for the talks can be found here. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!

This Friday’s seminar will feature Carson Alfaro (TTU Mathematics/Physics), Zeke Vespie (TTU Physics), and Ethan White (TTU Physics/Mathematics) who will each describe some of their recent research work. Titles and abstracts for the presentations can be found here. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!

This Friday we will be visited by Professor Alicia Aarnio from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Professor Aarnio’s talk, Radiative transfer modeling of complex young stars’ magnetospheres, will describe why knowing about a star’s magnetic field is important and how the magnetic fields of young stars can be deduced from astronomical observations. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 119 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!