Appointments, honors and activities

Faculty and staff honors: 

- Adina Loomis and Abby Molzer, program coordinators for Orientation Programs, were named Indiana state co-coordinators on behalf of Region VII of NODA, the Association for Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education. Loomis and Molzer will represent the state’s higher education institutions in NODA’s regional efforts and facilitate networking opportunities for NODA members within the state. 

- Darrin Karcher, associate professor of animal sciences, was awarded the Dr. Charles Beard Research Excellence Award for his exceptional research focused on addressing producers’ concerns with laying hen management, bird welfare and food safety. The award, presented by the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) and the USPOULTRY Foundation, recognizes outstanding completed research projects funded by the two organizations. Karcher has been the principal investigator for five USPOULTRY-funded projects and a co-investigator for two additional projects. 

- Lin Nan, the Brock Family Chair Professor and senior associate dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, has been ranked the No. 4 top analytical author over the past six years in the 2023 accounting research rankings produced by Brigham Young University. The rankings include the total research output of faculty in top accounting journals in periods of six, 12 and all years dating back to their inaugural publication in 1990. Nan, who serves as the management department head at the Daniels School, has ranked in the top 10 analytical authors in all topics globally each year since 2019.   

Student honors: 

- Humberto Monsivais, a PhD candidate in the School of Health Sciences, has been awarded the highly prestigious extramural F31 Fellowship from the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. His current research is focused on quantitative MRI for brain metal deposition mapping in human studies on manganese neurotoxicity. This work also employs network-based computational neuroscience approaches to understand how excess accumulation and distribution of metals affect the brain. Monsivais is a member of professor Ulrike Dydak’s MR Spectroscopy Lab. Dydak and Joaquin Goñi, associate professor of industrial engineering and biomedical engineering, both serve as his graduate mentors on this grant.