Jeanette Altarriba, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, received the Senior Career Excellence in Mentoring award from the Midwestern Psychological Association, a chapter of the American Psychological Association. The award will be presented in April at the MPA’s annual meeting in Chicago.

A paper co-authored by Richard Perez of UAlbany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center won a 2025 Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award. The paper improves his method for calculating how sunlight hits tilted solar panels, making solar energy predictions more accurate and easier to use.

Alex Valm received $89,700 from Colgate Palmolive Company to support his project “CLASI-FISH imaging of in vitro oral biofilms.”  Valm’s team will examine the impact of at least one oral care ingredient or formula on both healthy and diseased saliva biofilms, focusing on biofilms and organisms that cause oral disease.