Juliana Byzyka (CEEC, Transportation Research Center) has been appointed as a Planning Committee Member of the 2024 Nevada Asphalt Conference: Sustainable and Resilient Pavement. The conference will be held at the South Point Hotel and Casino, and Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada, between October 29 to 31. The conference aims to bridge the gap between…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a keynote presentation for the 2024 University of Arizona Feminist Philosophy Graduate Conference. Her presentation was entitled "Feminism and the Open Borders Debate". 

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published a review article in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. The article examines Mark Kroll's Bach, Handel, Scarlatti (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which provides a reception history of these three composers in nineteenth-century England.  

Eric Ochoa and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) published their study "Analysis of a Dental School Pediatric Patient Population Reveals Growing Inequality in Utilization of Services among Native Americans and Hispanics" in the Journal EC Dental Sciences. 

Graduate student Alexis Rice, undergraduate student Marian Espina, graduate student Tra Bui, and professor Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "The Influence of Learning Cues and Model Attractiveness on Children's Attention and Imitation," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March.

Members of the Baby & Child Rebel Lab presented, "Face Recognition and Racial Biases: The Role of Social Experience," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March. Members included Kirsty Kulhanek (graduate student), Kindy Insouvanh (graduate student), Marian Espina (undergraduate student),…

Graduate students Rodica Constantine and Kindy Insouvanh and professors Erin Hannon and Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "Perceptual Learning in Infants Across Domains," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a study, "Serum-soluble ST2 as a novel biomarker for COVID-19 severity and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis," in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. This meta-analysis identifies serum-soluble ST2 as a significant biomarker for assessing the severity and predicting mortality in COVID-19…

Amber Sewell (Libraries) is the 2024 recipient of the Libraries' Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award. She was nominated for her groundbreaking research on podcasts as a form of scholarship and her research agenda on games-based learning. Sewell is a Teaching & Learning librarian in the University Libraries.