Accomplishments - September, 2026
Mark Kiesling of WSIU-TV recently received a regional professional Emmy nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Mid-America Regional Chapter for his work on the “Illinois Backroads” monthly television program in the “Program Host” category. The 50th annual regional award ceremony is Oct. 24 in Kansas City, Missouri.
John Reid Perkins-Buzo, associate professor, School of Media Arts, recently received certificates in the use of Anthropic Claude AI (artificial intelligence) in Design, Cowork, MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Code.
“Green empowerment: Meaningful decisions drive effortful recycling,” a paper co-written by Kristin Hurst, assistant professor, geography, was selected recently for the 2026 Editor’s Choice Award for the Journal of Environmental Psychology. Other collaborators were Atar Herziger of the Israel Institute of Technology and Grant Donnelly of Ohio State University.
Hui Li, assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (ECBE), and Spyros Tragouda, professor and director of the School of ECBE, had their research article, “Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Single-Cell Phenotyping for Rapid, Automated Pathogen Diagnostics,” published in Advanced Science. Li and Tragouda paired artificial intelligence (AI) with microfluidic technology and programmed the AI to monitor single-cell bacteria. In return, the technology can quickly detect the antibiotic response needed to fight the bacteria. This advancement could help toward faster infectious disease diagnosis.
