Recent recognition of the 天美影视传媒 includes American COuncil of Learned Societies Fellowship, Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship and Humboldt Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Assistant professor awarded 2026 ACLS Fellowship听

, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature at the UW, was awarded a 2026 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship recognizes excellence in humanities and social sciences research and supports scholars whose work is poised to make original and significant contributions to their fields.听Rominger听will be the 2026 ACLS Pauline Yu Fellow.听听

“It means a great deal to hold a fellowship in Pauline Yu’s name,鈥� Rominger said. 鈥淗er scholarship on Chinese poetics is part of why I do this work.”听

This year, the program awarded more than $3.5 million to 63 scholars selected from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants.听

Rominger specializes in early Chinese literary and intellectual history. His project, 鈥淎urality and the Search for Sound and Meaning in Early Chinese Texts,鈥� examines how sound-based patterning听shaped meaning in early Chinese听philosophical texts, particularly in听writings听from the Warring States period to the Han dynasty.听听

Rominger鈥檚 research shows how early Chinese thinkers employed the sound of language not only for style but also to build arguments and express complex ideas. The project brings together close readings of ancient texts, historical reconstructions of Old Chinese pronunciation, and computational tools to offer new insight into the relationship between literary form and philosophical thought.

Postdoctoral scholar awarded Arnold O. Beckman Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation听

, a UW postdoctoral scholar听in听chemistry, was awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation. The fellowship supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars in fundamental chemistry and the development and construction of chemical instrumentation.听

The award provides two years of funding, along with an听additional听$200,000 budget to support instrumentation costs.听

With the fellowship, Rebstock will build a new vibrational spectroscopy instrument designed to听observe听chemical reactions as they happen at surfaces. The instrument will allow researchers to see how molecules move and interact in real time, offering insight into surface chemistry that could help improve technologies such as batteries and clean fuels.听

This fellowship provides Rebstock with a rare opportunity to combine instrument development with fundamental chemistry questions. 鈥�I鈥檓 excited to pursue both and to explore new ways of probing the chemistry that happens at interfaces.鈥� Rebstock said.听

UW researcher receives Humboldt Research Award听

a UW professor of Earth and space sciences,听received a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award recognizes internationally leading researchers across all disciplines for their academic record and significant contributions to their fields.听

Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards to researchers from abroad. Awardees receive personal award听money and听are invited to carry out research projects of their听choosing听in cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany.听

Teng said he was deeply honored by the recognition and grateful to Professor听Harry听Becker, head听of the Geochemistry Group at听FU-Berlin, for听the nomination. The award will allow听Teng听to spend extended periods over the next few years conducting research at Freie University Berlin, beginning with his听sabbatical this听summer.听

鈥淚t is a wonderful opportunity to spend extended periods over the next few years conducting cutting-edge research at Freie University Berlin,鈥� Teng said.听

The award will also enable Teng to develop new collaborations across Germany and become part of the Humboldt Foundation鈥檚 international network of distinguished researchers.听

The American Geophysical Union honored five 天美影视传媒 faculty and researchers from the Earth and space sciences and atmospheric and climate science departments this week at the annual meeting in New Orleans.

Each year, the meeting draws thousands of scientists, educators and policymakers to discover emerging research, discuss hurdles and network. Prior to the meeting, AGU announces awards for individuals who have made significant contributions to Earth and space science and presents them in person during the week.

The theme is, 鈥淲here Science Connects Us,鈥� and the UW awardees were recognized for research that advances understanding of natural hazards, the history of Earth, weather and climate change.

Here are the UW鈥檚 five recipients and their respective awards:

, a UW assistant professor of Earth and space sciences, studies how magmas form beneath volcanoes. She specializes in work that involves using samples from past volcanic eruptions to examine the behavior of volcanic gases like water, carbon, and sulfur, which can help researchers monitor active volcanoes. Muth received the for early career scientists who have made outstanding contributions to fields of volcanology, geochemistry, and petrology.

, a UW professor of atmospheric and climate science, studies predictability, mountain meteorology and numerical weather prediction. Durran鈥檚 recent research focuses on using deep learning to change our current paradigm for numerical weather prediction, seasonal forecasting and climate modeling. He holds a joint position with NVIDIA. Durran received the award for prominent scientists who have made exceptional contributions to the understanding of weather and climate.

, a UW postdoctoral researcher of atmospheric and climate science, studies the formation and evolution of aerosol particles in the atmosphere, which play a pivotal role in both air pollution and climate change. By identifying and characterizing the fundamental chemical processes governing aerosol behavior, his research supports efforts to predict current atmospheric conditions and the trajectory of air quality and climate moving forward. Kenseth received the recognizing outstanding science and accomplishments by researchers that are within three years of receiving their doctorate.

, a UW assistant professor of Earth and space sciences, uses simulations to study the interactions between planetary atmospheres, interiors and biospheres to better understand the long-term evolution of Earth, Venus and rocky exoplanets. By building a holistic understanding of planetary evolution, this work will help enable scientists to search for life on other planets. Krissansen-Totton received the recognizing significant contributions to planetary science by early career researchers

, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences, studies the ratio of elements and their isotopes in rocks and minerals to understand how planets form and evolve. His research introduced a new method for analysis involving isotopic 鈥渇ingerprints鈥� that allows scientists to learn about Earth鈥檚 crust, the composition of the mantle, the origins of magma and even the early solar system. Teng was inducted as a , a program that recognizes AGU members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through a breakthrough, discovery or innovation in their field.

New 天美影视传媒 research shows that a common type of volcano is not just spewing molten rock from the mantle, but contains elements that suggest something more complicated is drawing material out of the descending plate of Earth’s crust.

Geologists have long believed that solidified volcanic lava, or basalt, originates in the mantle, the molten rock just below the crust. But the new study uses detailed chemical analysis to find that the basalt’s magnesium 鈥� a shiny gray element that makes up about 40 percent of the mantle but is rare in the crust 鈥� does not look like that of the mantle, and shows a surprisingly large contribution from the crust. The paper was published the week of June 13 in the .

“Although the volcanic basalt was produced from the mantle, its magnesium signature is very similar to the crustal material,” said lead author , a UW associate professor of Earth and space sciences. “The ocean-floor basalts are uniform in the type of magnesium they contain, and other geologists agree that on a global scale the mantle is uniform,” he said. “But now we found one type of the mantle is not.”

The study used rock samples from an inactive volcano on the Caribbean island of Martinique, a region where an ocean plate is slowly plunging, or subducting, beneath a continental plate. This situation creates an , a common type of volcano that includes those along the Pacific Ocean’s “.”

Researchers chose to study a volcano in the Caribbean partly because the Amazon River carries so much sediment from the rainforest to the seabed. One reason scientists want to pin down the makeup of volcanic material is to learn how much of the carbon-rich sediment from the surface gets carried deep in the Earth, and how much gets scraped off from the descending plate and reemerges into the planet’s atmosphere.

Analyzing the weight of magnesium atoms in the erupted basalt shows that they came not from the mantle, nor from the organic sediment scraped off during the slide, but directly from the descending oceanic crust. Yet the volcanic basalt lacks other components of the crust.

“The majority of the other ingredients are still like the mantle; the only difference is the magnesium. The question is: Why?” Teng said.

The authors hypothesize that at great depths, magnesium-rich water is squeezed from the rock that makes up Earth’s crust. As the fluid travels, the surrounding rock acts like a Brita filter that picks up the magnesium, transferring magnesium particles from the crust to the mantle just below the subduction zone.

“This is what we think is very exciting,” Teng said. “Most people think you add either crustal or mantle materials as a solid. Here we think the magnesium was added by a fluid.”

Fluids seem to play a role in seismic activity at subduction zones, Teng said, and having more clues to how those fluids travel deep in the Earth could help better understand processes such as volcanism and deep earthquakes.

He and co-author , a UW doctoral student in Earth and space sciences, plan to do follow-up studies on basalt rocks from the Cascade Mountains and other arc volcanoes to analyze their magnesium composition and see if this effect is widespread.

The other co-author is at the University of Grenoble in France. The research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the French National Research Agency.

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For more information, contact Teng at fteng@uw.edu or 206-543-7615.

Grants: NSF: EAR-1340160 and ANR-10-BLAN-0603