Honors 
Doris Houston, Office of the President, was named the 2023 convocation speaker for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

Timothy Lash, CHE, was awarded the National Science Foundation RUI Grant for his research on new porphyrinoid architectures with extended conjugation pathways. 

Publications 
Gina Hunter, ANT, and Noha Shawki, POL, co-authored “Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement” for The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food

Presentations 
Katherine Ellison, ENG, presented “The Fabric of Secrecy: Masculinity and Foppish Information in Restoration Comedy,” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Jim Stanlaw, ANT, presented “Pronoun Problems and Pronoun-Envy,” at a conference on Gendered Expression and Gendered Perspectives: Perceptions and Experiences in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Melon Tanui, SOC, presented “Perspectives of Kenyan Women who Underwent Female Genital Mutilation/Circumcision (FGM/C),” at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.