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Margaret (Gretchen) Lay

Publication

Lay, M. J., & Norling, J. (2020). The Consequences of the 1959–1961 Chinese Famine for Educational Attainment. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 20(2).

Catherine Le Gouis

Publication

Le Gouis, C., Mikhailova, M. (2021). “” [“Maria Bashkirtseva in the Newspapers: A Creative Dialogue Between Ivan Bunin and Galina Kuznetsova”] Russian Literature. Special issue: “Russian Newspaper Strategies and Practices of the First Half of the 20th Century.” Vols. 120-121,March-April 2021, 173-202.

 

Honor

Lectured on "The Russian Silver Age and its Impact on the West" at RGGU (The Russian State University for the Humanities) in Moscow on December 27-28, 2019.

Kate Lepore

Grant

Received a subaward from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) via the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) PDART for Acquisition of Multi-Parameter LIBS Reference Database of Geological Materials. The project is for three years.

Barbara Staudt Lerner

Grant

Barbara Lerner (Computer Science) received a sub award from Harvard under National Science Foundation (NSF) award 1450277 “S12-SSI: Collaborative Research: Bringing End to End Prevenance to Scientists.” The project is for one year.

National Science Foundation

Publication

Emery R. Boose and Barbara S. Lerner, “Replication of data and metadata: a case-study of the analytic web”, in There and back again: the challenge of replication in long-term biodiversity research, Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison, eds., Yale University Press, 2017.

Barbara S. Lerner and Emery R. Boose. “RDataTracker: Collecting provenance in an interactive scripting environment”, in 6th Usenix Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP), Cologne, Germany, June 2014.

Barbara Lerner, Emery Boose, Leon Osterweil, Aaron Ellison, Lori Clarke, "Provenance and Quality Control in Sensor Networks", Environmental Information Management Conference, Santa Barbara, California, September 2011.

Barbara Staudt Lerner, Stefan Christov, Leon J. Osterweil, Reda Bendraou, Udo Kannengiesser and Alexander Wise, “Exception Handling Patterns for Process Modeling”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Exception Handling, March/April 2010, 162-183.

Katie Lester

Publication

Lester, K., Howell, S., Matson, R., Furlan, E., Gnilka, C., Littlefield, C., Ciardi, D., Everett, M., Fajardo-Acosta, S., & Clark, C. (2023) "Visual Orbits and Alignments of Planet-hosting Binary Systems", The Astronomical Journal, 166, 166