Dr. Brett Savary, research professor of protein chemistry, helped prepare a successful funding proposal to the Royal Society of New Zealand's Marsden Fund as an associate investigator. Working with colleagues at Massey University, he will provide consultation on biochemical and technological applications of pectin and pectin methylesterase (PME). The researchers are investigating structural and physical properties of PME, seeking to understand how it functions as a molecular machine. Details are online.

Dr. Gauri Guha (left), associate professor of economics, and Dr. Kelly Fish, professor of computer and information technology, are co-authors of an article in International Leadership Journal. In "Measuring Requisite Expatriate Personality Traits: A Partial Validation of the Bird and Osland Global Leadership Model," they present results of their surveys of U.S. repatriates who have worked in international business and their analysis of leadership traits.

Dr. Nicolas Ramos-Lara, assistant professor of biology, A-State Campus Queretaro, co-authored "Microsciurus santanderensis (Rodentia: Sciuridae)," in Mammalian Species, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Mammalogists. He and co-authors from the University of Arizona reviewed the state of knowledge on the biology of the Santander dwarf squirrel, a small threatened species found only in Colombia, South America. The article is online.

Dwayne Powell, CPA, instructor in accounting, along with his three co-authors from Indiana University Southeast, Olivet Nazarene University, and DePaul University were recipients of the "Best Paper Award" at the Academy of Business Research's recent conference in San Antonio. Their winning paper, which they presented, is titled, "Does Other Comprehensive Income Impact Equity Research Analysts’ Opinion of a Stock?"

Jill Dycus Kary, curator of education, ASU Museum, wrote about the Museum's recent Scary STEM event, which was featured as a partner highlight in the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network newsletter. For the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the museum team developed Frankenstein-themed activities and attracted a crowd using the NISE-sponsored teaching kit, "Let’s Do Science and Frankenstein200."