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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. 鈥淪ome Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China鈥檚 Rural Enterprises鈥 (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鈥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 

Chumley, T., Cook, S., Cox, C., & Feres, R. (2020). Rolling and no-slip bouncing in cylinders. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 12 (1), 53-84. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2020004


Was featured in the Mathematical Moments program of the American Mathematical Society. In the video interview, titled Exploring Thermodynamics with Billiards, he explains the connections between random billiards and the science of heat and energy transfer.


Was featured in the  (Lathisms) calendar in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.