BATON ROUGE – Six LSU school members have been chosen to obtain Rainmaker awards
this yr by the LSU Workplace of Analysis & Financial Improvement, or ORED. These school
members present excellent analysis, scholarship and inventive exercise for his or her respective
ranks and disciplines. The Rainmaker awards acknowledge each sustained and persevering with
work in addition to the affect that work has had on the educational group and past.
“At this time, we’re saying six of our esteemed school members who’re leaders of their
respective analysis disciplines and at LSU. Their high-caliber analysis helps understand
the college’s mission to affect and serve Louisiana and the world. It’s an honor
to have a good time these six LSU Rainmakers,” mentioned LSU Interim Vice President of Analysis
& Financial Improvement Robert Twilley.
The Rainmakers embrace school who’re on the early, center and senior phases of their
careers. They’ve established observe information in securing exterior analysis funding
and publishing in high-impact journals.
The Rainmakers award is made doable in partnership with Campus Federal Credit score Union.
Campus Federal Credit score Union is proud to proceed supporting the Rainmaker awards,
which acknowledge the accomplishments of those excellent members of the LSU group.
These people and lots of others make our group vibrant and robust. Campus Federal
was fashioned in 1934 by seven LSU school members to serve the group and stays
dedicated to service excellence.
Jane Verret, Campus Federal Credit score Union President and CEO
Every of the next award-winning school members has met a number of of the factors
for high-quality analysis or artistic actions and scholarship. The factors embrace
however usually are not restricted to: publication in a high-impact journal(s); a extremely cited work;
exterior awards; invited displays at nationwide and worldwide conferences; excessive
journal publication productiveness; critically acclaimed e book publication(s), efficiency(s),
exhibit(s) or theatrical manufacturing(s); excessive grant productiveness and for extra senior
candidates, excellent quotation information and high-impact invited displays at
nationwide and worldwide conferences.
Nominations are solicited from school, departments and faculties for the rising,
mid-career and senior scholar awards. For every award class, one award is given
to a school member within the space of Arts, Humanities, Social or Behavioral Sciences
and one to a school member within the space of Science, Know-how, Engineering or Arithmetic.
Nominations are reviewed and prizes awarded by members of LSU’s Council on Analysis.
Every award comes with a one-time money stipend of $1,000 and recipients might be acknowledged
at a reception on April 5 on the LSU Heart for River Research.
Lutrill & Pearl Payne Faculty of Schooling Assistant Professor Yu April Chen.
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Rising Scholar
Arts, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Science
Yu April Chen, Lutrill & Pearl Payne Faculty of Schooling, Faculty of Human Sciences & Schooling
Yu April Chen is an assistant professor within the Lutrill & Pearl Payne Faculty of Schooling.
She acquired her doctoral diploma in Academic Management specializing in Greater
Schooling with a minor in Statistics from Iowa State College in 2014.
She applies each superior statistical and qualitative strategies to check group faculty
switch college students, STEM success amongst underrepresented scholar populations and the
experiences of worldwide college students. Her work has been revealed in top-tier increased
training journals together with Analysis in Greater Schooling, Group Faculty Evaluation,
Group Faculty Journal of Analysis and Follow and Journal of Faculty Pupil
Retention. She has delivered greater than 40 scholarly displays at premier nationwide
analysis conferences together with the American Academic Analysis Affiliation, Affiliation
for the Research of Greater Schooling, or ASHE, and the Council for the Examine of Group
Schools, or CSCC.
She acquired the LSU Alumni Affiliation Rising College Analysis Award in 2020 for
her excellent information of scholarship and revealed analysis.
Dr. Chen has served as an editorial board member for the Journal of The First-12 months
Expertise and College students in Transition since 2021. She serves on the convention analysis
committee for ASHE (2021-2023) in addition to the Division Co-chair for Fairness, Variety,
and Worldwide Division in CSCC (2020-2021, 2021-2022).
Learn extra about Dr. Chen’s scholarship.
LSU Division of Physics & Astronomy Affiliate Professor Emmanouil Chatzopoulos
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Rising Scholar
Science, Know-how, Engineering & Arithmetic
Emmanouil Chatzopoulos, Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science
Emmanouil Chatzopoulos is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist specializing
in supercomputer simulations to know excessive astrophysical occasions, equivalent to supernovae
and large stellar evolution. He presently works on quite a lot of analysis initiatives
having an ideal affect on many alternative elements of astrophysics and astronomy. He
conducts analysis geared toward higher understanding the deaths of stars and probably the most luminous
transient astrophysical occasions within the Universe. He’s on the forefront of making use of
totally 3D numerical fashions in excessive environments and his outcomes are impacting many
totally different astrophysical issues.
Dr. Chatzopoulos’ analysis is supported by each the Nationwide Science Basis and
by the U.S. Division of Power via a prestigious Early Profession Award. His present single investigator grants complete about $1.2 million.
He’s an affiliate professor within the LSU Division of Physics & Astronomy. He’s an internationally acknowledged researcher. His h- index is 21. At the moment, Chatzopoulos has 13 papers with greater than 50 citations,
and greater than 2,300 citations complete.
Learn extra about Dr. Chatzopoulos’ analysis.
LSU Faculty of Management & Human Useful resource Improvement Affiliate Professor and the
Jones S. Davis Distinguished Professor Sunyoung Park
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Mid-Profession Scholar
Arts, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Science
Sunyoung Park, Faculty of Management & Human Useful resource Improvement, Faculty of Human Sciences & Schooling
Sunyoung Park is an affiliate professor and holds the Jones S. Davis Endowed Professorship
of Human Useful resource Improvement. She acquired her PhD from the College of Minnesota
in Human Useful resource Improvement, or HRD. Her analysis pursuits concern organizational
tradition and habits, studying and efficiency within the office, management and analysis
developments in HRD and associated fields. Her educating focuses on the fields of educational
design, efficiency evaluation, coaching and improvement and analysis strategies.
Dr. Park has acquired a number of analysis awards together with a 2016 Awards for Excellence:
Extremely Counseled Paper Award from European Journal of Coaching and Improvement and
Slicing Edge Awards on the 2011, 2014 and 2016 AHRD Worldwide Analysis Convention
within the Americas. She acquired the LSU Alumni Affiliation Rising College Analysis Award
in 2017.
Initially from Korea, Dr. Park has spent the final 10 years working with shoppers in
authorities, non-profit organizations, faculties and corporations. As a venture supervisor
and staff chief, Dr. Park has intensive expertise in planning, designing and implementing
numerous academic packages in each face-to-face and on-line environments.
Learn extra about Dr. Park’s analysis.
LSU Division of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Affiliate Professor Z. George Xue
has a joint appointment with the Heart for Computation and Know-how.
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Mid-Profession Scholar
Science, Know-how, Engineering & Arithmetic
Z. George Xue, Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Faculty of the Coast & Atmosphere and Heart for
Computation and Know-how
Z. George Xue is an oceanographer with intensive expertise in sediment, nutrient
and carbon dynamics of the Mississippi River-Gulf of Mexico and the Mekong River-South
China Sea methods. His areas of curiosity embrace physical-bio-geochemical modeling,
coastal and ocean carbon biking and matched atmospheric-hydrological modeling.
He presently leads a analysis staff funded by NASA monitoring the affect of extreme climate
disturbances on the coastal wetlands and estuaries in Louisiana and Texas. Since 2014, he has introduced in $14.9 million in exterior analysis funding, together with
initiatives from NOAA, NASA, the Bureau of Ocean Power Administration, Nationwide Science
Basis and others.
Learn extra about Dr. Xue’s analysis.
LSU Division of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures Professor Mark Wagner
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Senior Scholar
Arts, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Science
Mark Samuel Wagner, World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Mark Samuel Wagner is a professor of Arabic whose scholarship pursuits embrace Classical
Arabic literature, Arabic vernacular literature, Islamic regulation and Muslim-Jewish relations.
Dr. Wagner’s analysis focuses on classical Arabic literature, Arabic vernacular literature,
Islamic regulation, and Muslim-Jewish relations. He was just lately awarded a fellowship at
the Netherlands Institute for Superior Examine within the Humanities and Social Sciences
(NIAS), the place he’s endeavor a analysis venture titled, “The Rothschilds of Arabia
and Africa: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Mercantile Empire Below the British Raj.”
He’s writing a historical past of the Messa household of Aden and its community of satellite tv for pc communities.
Dr. Wagner can be the recipient of prestigious awards and honors that embrace the
David J. Kriskovich Distinguished Professorship (2011-2013), the SIAS Summer season Institute
fellowship, Institut d’études avancées de Paris fellowship, Nationwide Basis for
Jewish Tradition dissertation fellowship, and the IAYS analysis grant.
He’s the writer of two books, “Jews and Islamic Legislation in Early Twentieth-Century Yemen”
and “Like Joseph in Magnificence: Yemeni Vernacular Poetry and Arab-Jewish Symbiosis.”
Learn extra about Dr. Wagner’s scholarship.
LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Shengmin Guo
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Senior Scholar
Science, Know-how, Engineering & Arithmetic
Shengmin Guo, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Shengmin Guo maintain the Jack Holmes Professorship in Mechanical Engineering and is a
Louisiana-registered skilled engineer. Previous to becoming a member of LSU in 2004, he was junior
school on the College of Oxford and the College of Manchester Institute of
Science and Know-how in England.
Dr. Guo’s analysis actions are within the fields of thermal fluids, instrumentation,
energy technology, laser additive manufacturing, and high-temperature supplies. Extra
particularly, he has a longtime observe file on fuel turbine aerodynamics and warmth
switch, plasma spray coatings, high-temperature ceramics and alloys, laser-based
additive manufacturing, and solid-state friction stir-based superior manufacturing.
His analysis initiatives are funded by the Nationwide Science Basis, NASA, U.S. Division
of Power, U.S. Air Drive, LaSPACE, Louisiana Board of Regents and business. His present
analysis focus is on laser-based additive manufacturing, which supplies challenges
and alternatives for future engineers and high-tech leaders.
Learn extra about Dr. Guo’s analysis.
