Raju Datla Ph.D. ’96, research associate professor with the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering and a researcher with Davidson Laboratory, has been appointed a NAVSEA Professor of Naval Engineering by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command, among 10 faculty nationwide selected. The designation is part of Naval Engineering Excellence for the U.S. Navy, a new federal initiative designed to strengthen the pipeline of engineers who will design, build and sustain the Navy’s most complex maritime systems. 

Samantha Kleinberg, Farber chair professor with the Department of Computer Science, has received a three- year grant from the John Templeton Foundation for her project, “Explaining Why: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Token Causality.” Kleinberg combines philosophy, computer science and psychology to create a framework for token causality, or why a particular event occurred in a specific case. 

Alex Wellerstein, an associate professor with the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, has published The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age (HarperCollins, 2025). The well-reviewed book — “Thoroughly researched, grippingly told and startling,” according to The Economist — reexamines the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan and why it has not been used since.