Monika Piotrowska has been awarded a 2026 Philosophy in Media Fellowship, an initiative of the Mark Sanders Foundation that trains philosophers to communicate across mainstream media and bring philosophy to the general public. Piotrowska will participate this June in an essay-writing workshop led by Joshua Rothman of The New Yorker and James Ryerson of The New York Times Opinion.

Chanup Jeung received $200,000 from the March of Dimes to evaluate whether state paid sick leave mandates improve access to prenatal care and are associated with lower risk of spontaneous preterm birth. The work aims to inform policies to improve maternal health equity.

Marina A. Petrukhina and Yikun Zhu published a new study featured on the cover of Chemical Society Reviews, the Royal Society of Chemistry's leading reviews journal (impact factor: 39). The review aims to promote further studies of supercharged molecular nanographenes — a longstanding focus of the Petrukhina Lab — and their use as advanced energy-storage materials.