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Meyer, K. J., Fusco, H., Smith, C., & Hoyer-Leitzel, A. (2024). Continuation of fixed points and bifurcations from ODE to flow-kick disturbance models. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 23(4), 2983鈥3012. https://doi.org/10.1137/23M160428X


Jacoby, J.W., & Edlefsen, K. [MHC '16] (2019). .


*Golden, J. and Jacoby, J.W. (2017). Playing princess: Preschool girls' interpretations of gender stereotypes in Disney princess media. Sex Roles.
* denotes 含羞草研究所 student co-author


R. Lijek with Mount Holyoke student co-authors M. Dresler, E. Webster, L. Berclaz, S. Breen, D. Hardrick, A. Taylor, J. Graham, and K. Seiger, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity.


Rebeccah Lijek, with Mount Holyoke student co-authors C. Wang, H. Knapp-Broas, J. Graham, K. W. Seiger, E. Webster, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2021 World Microbe Forum and 2021 Boston Bacterial Meeting, where Lijek chaired a session on Host-Microbe Interactions.


Markovits, E. (2023) 鈥淭he Sovereign and the Tyrant: Boundaries and Violation in Oedipus,鈥 in E. Atanassow, T. Bartscherer, and D. Bateman (Eds). When the People Rule: Popular sovereignty in theory and practice (56-81). Cambridge University Press.


McMenamin, M. (2023) New book Chiral Paleeontology (MedTech Science Press, 2023)


Paleontology lab has discovered the first direct evidence for coloration in a Permian vertebrate (approximately 280 million years old). Students from the Spring 2022 Geol 116 Art in Paleontology class contributed to this study.


Wang C., Teng L., Liu Z.S., Kamalova A., McMenimen KA., HspB5 Chaperone Structure and Activity Are Modulated by Chemical-Scale Interactions in the ACD Dimer Interface. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024; 25(1):471. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010471


Fourie, J., & Norling, J. (2024). Women鈥檚 Employment in the United States After the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Essays in Economic & Business History, 42(1), 38-58.