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English Faculty Member Selected to study and collaborate with humanities experts 
DR. CHRISTOPHER ALLAN BLACK has been selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Scholar
from a national applicant pool to attend “Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism
and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau.”
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NIH Funds Murphy’s Research Meant to Enhance Opioid Treatment 
DR. JAMES MURPHY, professor in the Department of Psychology, will serve as Principal Investigator on
a subaward from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) on an NIH
funded R33 award with Dr. Karen Derefinko, associate professor in the Department of
Preventive Medicine, as the UTHSC Principal Investigator.
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NSF Funds Pollard with ERI Award 
DR. SHAWN POLLARD, assistant professor in the department of physic and material science, was recently
awarded an engineering research initiation (ERI) grant from the National Science Foundation
(NSF). Pollard’s award for $195,490, entitled “Compositionally modulated ferrimagnets
for spin-orbitronic devices.”
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