Research and Honors, June 2026

Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.

Honors

Yongning Tang, IT, received the Distinguished Artifact Award at the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for the article "2FIA: Towards WIFI Sensing-Based Authentication with Unique Biometrics."

Publications

Tammy Harpel, FCS, published an article titled "Using a Simulation of Homelessness in a Human Development and Family Science Course: Student Reflections on Spending a Night in a Car" in Family Science Review, April 2026.

Tahmid Rashid, IT, published an article titled "From Recommender to Actor: The Normative Boundary When RAG Tools Become Tool-Calling Agents" in Minds and Machines Journal, April 2026.

LC Yang, HSC, co-authored an article titled "A Preliminary Study on Producing Volatile Fatty Acids from Winter Cover Crops" in Bioenergy Research, April 2026.

Maria Boerngen, AGR, co-authored an article titled "Midwestern farmers' willingness to engage with agriculture technologies and on-farm precision experimentation" in Agronomy Journal, April 2026.

Eric Kramer, KNR, co-authored an article titled "Game Without a Voice: College Athletes' Symbolic Participation in Institutional Decisions" in Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, April 2026.

Yeunook Bae, HSC, co-authored an article titled "Piezo as Energy Donor, Tribo as Catalyst: The True Mechanism of Flow-Activated Polyvinylidene Fluoride-Activated Carbon-Sodium Chloride Catalyst" in Nano Energy, April 2026.

Christy Bazan, HSC, co-authored a book chapter titled "Principles of Epidemiology: A Primer" in IOPN Open Education Resource, April 2026.

Liz Sattler, KNR, co-authored an article titled "Marketing Collegiate Women's Sports in a Shifting Landscape: Opportunities and Obstacles" in Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, March 2026.

Joshua Stout, CJS, authored an article titled "'Punishing death dealers': examining claims to expand the death penalty to people who deal drugs" in Contemporary Justice Review, April 2026.

Xi Hu, TEC, co-authored an article titled "VTECSeg: Edge-aware hybrid CNN-vision transformer network with zero-shot vision-language-guided region proposals for crack segmentation" in Automation in Construction, May 2026.

Reem Bagais, FCS, co-authored an article titled "Residents' Perceptions of Indoor Environmental Quality Across Housing Typologies: A Comparative Study in Mecca and Jeddah" in Buildings, April 2026.

For questions, please contact Valerie Welsh in Media Relations and Strategic Communications at [email protected], or [email protected].