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Was in conversation with writers Eileen Myles () and emily c. danforth () in October 2020.

Invited to read and present at a number of series and festivals, including the UA Prose series at the University of Arizona at Tucson’s Creative Writing Program, with writer T. Fleischmann; at the Texas Book Festival, on the "Pop Music & Queer Identity Panel" with Karen Tongsen and the "What Makes a Classic?” panel with Elda Rotor (VP/Publisher of Penguin Classics); and at the Segue Reading Series in New York, with poet Cecilia Vicuña.

Lawrence, S. M. (2020). Collaborating, animating, improvising: Young children in mixed-gender dyads participating in digital pretend play with a story-making app. Journal of Early Childhood Education Research, 9(1), 52-75.

Jain, P. & Lay, M.J. (2021). Strategic Risk Sharing or Driven by Fairness? Evidence from a laboratory experiment in Kenya. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 191.

Lay, M.J. (2020) Pension Regulation, Firm Borrowing, and Investment Risk. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 87(4).

Lay, M.J. (2019). Pension Contributions, Pension Awareness, and Changing Personal Finances. Contemporary Economic Policy, 30(4).

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).

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.

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.

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.