Shuyi Chen elected to national board for atmospheric research

, 91爆料 professor of atmospheric sciences, has been elected one of to the board of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the group that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The corporation, or , is a nonprofit consortium of 120 North American universities focused on research and training in atmospheric sciences and related Earth system sciences. Its 18 board members serve three-year terms. The new trustees were announced on Oct. 26.

Chen is a meteorologist whose research involves observing how the atmosphere and ocean interact with hurricanes and typhoons in tropical areas, and the use of mathematical models to predict weather patterns.

Joining Chen as a new board trustee is a former director of the National Science Foundation. Others are from the Georgia Institute of Technology; North Carolina State University; the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Colorado Foundation.

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David Crouse story wins award from literary journal

91爆料 English professor won the 2019 from the online literary journal for a story titled “Sixty Eight to Seventy.” The prize was announced earlier this year.

The publication, founded in 2015, sponsors annual contests for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography. Crouse’s story will appear in an upcoming issue. He also has new stories coming in the journals and .

Crouse is the author of two collections of short fiction: “” in 2005 and “” in 2008. He is at work on a collection of Alaska-themed stories, which will include “Sixty Eight to Seventy.”

One online reviewer wrote that Crouse’s writing “has a cool, measured urgency to it that invites his readers not to miss the most delicate flickers of language as he describes his characters’ often confused or detached states of mind.”

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Devin Naar does research for PBS show ‘Finding Your Roots’

, 91爆料 professor of history and Jewish studies and chair of the Jackson School’s Sephardic Studies Program, conducted research for a recent episode of the PBS program “,” hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The program, which aired Oct. 13 on PBS, features Gates talking with fashion designer Diane von 贵眉谤蝉迟别苍产别谤驳, whose mother was a Sephardic Jew from Salonica and survivor of the Auschwitz death camp.

Naar, author of the 2018 book “,” did extensive research on von 贵眉谤蝉迟别苍产别谤驳‘s family and is noted in the credits of the episode. In 2016 he did similar research, and was featured, in TLC’s “Who Do You Think You Are.”