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Staton J.L., Borgianini S.A., Gibson I.B., Brodie R.J., Greig T.W. (2014) Limited gene flow in Uca minax (LeConte 1855) along a linear estuary. Central European Journal of Biology. 9(1):28-36.


Borgianini, S., Styles, R., Brodie, R. 2012. A simple model of megalopal transport in narrow-river dominated estuaries. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 452:179-191.


Received the 2020 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for his book  "Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies", at the virtual 237th American Astronomical Society meeting.


Received the 2020 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award from the American Astronomical Society for his undergraduate textbook, Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies (Cambridge University Press, 2017), a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduction to minor planets, their meteorite fragments and their comet and trans-Neptunian object cousins.


Cassarino, S. (2023). Each Luminous Thing: Poems. Persea Books.


Grant from the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles for Special Covid-19 Relief Grant for Japanese Teaching Materials.


Chen, C. “Some Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises” (2008) Harvard University Press.


Received the Distinguished Civic Engagement Teaching Award from the Provost's Office at UMass.


Chumley, T., Feres, R., & Garcia German, L. A. (2021). Knudsen diffusivity in random billiards: spectrum, geometry, and computation. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20 (3), 1655–1682. doi: 10.1137/20M1349552


Chumley, T. & Feres, R. (2021). Entropy production in random billiards. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 41 (3), 1319-1346. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020319