Professor Samantha Levell And Her Incredible Students!

NCF professor, Samantha Levell's thesis student, Katie Sands, presented her work on pipefish and herring in Alaska at both the Western Society of Naturalists in November and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in January. SICB also saw Caralise Maloy (primarily mentored by Samuel Bedgood) presenting on their work on recovery of seagrass at Midnight Pass, and Savannah Buckner (bryozoan microbiomes) and Matthew Rossi (shrimp coloration in Sarasota Bay) from Kent Hatch's lab. Dr. Jose Moscoso, Kent's previous postdoc and current VAP, played a role in mentoring many of these students.

Cory Clark Published an Article & Co-Authored One - From Worriers to Warriors & On the Relationship Between Automatic Associations and Discrimination

NCF professor Cory Clark, published  From worriers to warriors: The cultural rise of women. Journal of Controversial Ideas on 27, 2025. This article is about how women now have more power in society and institutions like universities, and how this has changed culture. The article explains that women tend to value equity, harm-avoidance, and social justice more than men, which helps explain things like DEI programs, safe spaces, cancel culture, and changes in academia. It also looks at how these changes have both good and bad effects. Click Here to read the article

Cory J. Clark also co-authored an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, examining how implicit racial attitudes relate to discriminatory behavior. Using 2,114 White Americans, the study found that implicit bias explained only ~2.5% of discrimination, while self-reported attitudes explained ~45%, showing stated beliefs were stronger predictors. Click Here to read the article

Alicia Mercado-Harvey Published an Article - El Juego de Dobles y Espejos Posmodernos

NCF professor Alicia Mercado-Harvey published an article on September 30, 2025, in the peer-reviewed journal SIC titled “The Postmodern Game of Doubles and Mirrors in Mercedes Rosende's Detective Saga”, which analyzes Rosende’s use of doubles and mirrors to explore crime, corruption, and social realities in Latin America. Click Here to read the article

Thomas McCarthy - Publication: Ad Limina Apostolorum: The Investiture Contest

Professor McCarthy published “Ad limina apostolorum: the ‘Investiture Contest’ and the transformation of the papacy in eleventh-century historical writing” in 2025. It appears in Quellenforschung zwischen Mittelalter und Zeitgeschichte. Festschrift für Martina Hartmann (Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 287–302). Click Here to read it

Necmettin Yildirim - Cellular Decision Making and Signal Adaptation Via Incoherent Feedforward and Negative Feedback Loop

Mathematics professor Necmettin Yildirim published an article on September 2nd, 2025 about how cells respond to signals using two control mechanisms: incoherent feedforward loops (IFFL) and negative feedback loops (NFBL). The study compares how these two systems adapt, respond, and return to normal after stimulation. Read the full article Here