Kim Nehls (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) is the recipient of the 2018 ASHE Distinguished Service Award. The award was presented at the recent conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Tampa, Florida, in recognition of exceptional commitment and significant contribution to the success of the…

Danny Young (Physical Therapy) co-authored “Routine Inpatient Mobility Assessment and Hospital Discharge Planning,” which appeared online earlier this month in JAMA Internal Medicine. The authors found that patient mobility at hospital admission and change in mobility are associated with discharge to a post-acute facility. Their findings may help…

Daniel Proga (Physics and Astronomy) has been awarded a three-year grant for $464,618 from NASA to study radiation-magnetohydrodynamics of clouds in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Proga and his collaborators will continue their quest to develop a comprehensive and quantitative theory for cloud formation, destruction, and acceleration based on…

David Orentlicher (Law) authored an article, "The Physician's Duty to Treat During Pandemics," that was published in the American Journal of Public Health. As he observed, physicians assume a fundamental ethical duty to place the welfare of their patients above their own interests. Thus, for example, doctors must not exploit the patient–…

Victoria Pine (World Languages and Cultures) presented her research at the IV Congreso Internacional De Jovenes Investigadores. Mundo Hispanico: Cultura, Arte y Sociedad (IV International Conference of Young Researchers. Hispanic World: Culture, Art and Society) at the University of León, Spain, earlier this month.

Ji Won Yoo (Medicine), and Pearl Kim and Jay Shen (both Health Care Administration) recently published an article along with Yong-Jae Lee (Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea) and Sun Jung Kim (Soonchunhayng University, South Korea). The article, "Ten-Year Trends of Palliative Care Utilization Associated with Multiple…

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) recently was awarded the 2018 WACES Special Recognition Award for his extensive contribution to research and service in the western region of the United States. He received the award at the 2018 Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (WACES)…

Fatma Nasoz (The Lincy Institute) recently presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' 8th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS). Her presentation, "Machine Learning Applications in Genomics," was featured in a special session on "Applications of Computational Biology to…

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) co-authored an article, “Gendered ‘Long Arm’ of Parental Education?: Life Course Influences on Functional Limitations Among Older Adults in India,” that was published in the Journal of Aging and Health. Bhatta also co-authored a chapter with Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) and Moushumi Roy (Michigan State University), “The…