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Research & Science

Students at the Black Lives Matter protest on campus.

Â鶹ӰԺ State has established a new school within its College of Arts and Sciences focused on the social sciences and humanities. The School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences & Humanities will provide an academic home for innovative approaches to complex questions.

The image on the left features a computer scientist coding with code in the background and the image on the right is of a scientist researching with a vaccine in the background.

Â鶹ӰԺ State's Jonathan Maletic, Ph.D., in the Department of Computer Science and Tara Smith, Ph.D., in the College of Public Health are the winners of the 2021 Faculty Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards (ORSAs). The ORSAs recognize the hard work and dedication of faculty members who have been with Â鶹ӰԺ State for more than 10 years. Read more about the winners and how they display the highest levels of scholarship.

Â鶹ӰԺ students make their way to the Integrated Sciences Building on the Â鶹ӰԺ Campus.

A research group in the College of Arts and Sciences at Â鶹ӰԺ is searching for potential treatments for men who have suffered spinal cord injuries and hope to regain bladder control and sexual functions.

Left image of stone tools by Peter Holmes from Pixabay and right image of a bowl of fruit from Couleur on Pixabay

Â鶹ӰԺ State has announced the winners of the 2021 New Faculty Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards (ORSAs). The ORSAs recognize the hard work of junior faculty members who have been with Â鶹ӰԺ State for less than 10 years. The 2021 winners are Shana Klein, Ph.D., in the School of Art and Metin Eren, Ph.D., in the Department of Anthropology. 

Project Shield banner, woman and baby reading

A research team from Â鶹ӰԺ's School of Information working in partnership with Â鶹ӰԺ State’s College of Nursing received a National Leadership Planning Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) for $99,982. The funds will support the first stages of what investigators have named Project SHIELD (Supporting Healthy Infant Early Learning and Development).

Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
Picture of Chihuahuan Desert landscape

Researchers from Â鶹ӰԺ and the University of New Mexico determined how nitrogen-fixing plants and soil microbes contribute to the overall nitrogen availability in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico.

Division of Research & Economic Development
Image of an empty country road by Wolfgang Borchers from Pixabay

He Yin, Ph.D., assistant professor in Â鶹ӰԺ’s Department of Geography, recently received NASA’s New (Early Career) Investigator Award in Earth Science. Yin will lead evaluation and research of the devastating effects that the Syrian civil war has had on croplands throughout the eastern Mediterranean region.

College of Aeronautics and Engineering