Beginning in Spring 2005, each Spring semester, a group of faculty and students in the department of mathematics, called the Armstrong Problem Solvers, worked on problems posted in mathematics journals, and submitted their solutions. Four of the Armstrong Problem Solvers' solutions written in Spring 2009 were published in Mathematics Horizons and Mathematics Magazine, and 13 additional solutions were acknowledged in College Mathematics Journal, the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, and more. See the following website for more details. The group begins this year's session, and would like to invite students and faculty members who enjoy thinking about math problems, to participate via our website: the Armstrong Problem Solvers

Richard Wallace (chemistry) and co-author Markku Hakkinen from the University of Helsinki have published a recent paper in the journal Folia Malaysiana. The paper, "Challenges Ahead For The Banana", Markku Häkkinen and Richard H. Wallace, Folia Malaysiana, 2009, 10, 23-3, describes a number of diseases that attack bananas and their potential impact on the fourth most important food crop in the world. These diseases include Black Sigatoka disease, Banana Bunch Top disease and a new form of the Panama disease. This review contains historical as well as current state of the issues that banana production faces as well as possible solutions for the problems faced.

In 2010, Crystal Growth & Design begins publication of its 10th volume. This journal has the #1 impact factor for crystallography in the scientific community and has 7,670 total citations and an ISI Impact Factor of 4.215. Dr. Clifford Padgett, chemistry, has published six research articles in the journal in the past decade on research in both single crystal and powder diffraction. His 2001 publication, titled “Crystal Engineering through Halogen Bonding: Complexes of Nitrogen Heterocycles with Organic Iodides” has been recognized by the journal as the 4th most cited article in the journal’s history. You may read the article by clicking here or going to http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cg005540m.

Psychology faculty member Brad Sturz and student Stephanie Diemer co-authored "Reorienting when cues conflict: A role for information content in spatial learning?" in the journal Behavioural Processes, 83, 90-98.

Brad Sturz was also selected as Behavioural Processes's Top Reviewer for 2009, in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the development of the journal.