Jasmin Kumar, Angela Herrera, Sunny Zhang, and Amy Stone (all Medicine) presented "Progression of Cohesiveness of Learning Communities and Individual Participation Before vs After Scrub Games" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Samir Alkhouri, Jacob Hoer, Baylor Akhavan, Kathi Pauli, and Aftab Merchant (all Medicine) presented "Enhancing Early Medical Student Inclusion and Well-Being Through a Peer-Led Learning Community Orientation" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Baylor Akhavan, Sierra Snow, Samir Alkhouri, and Kathi Pauli (all Medicine) presented "Academic Expectation Stress and Burnout Among Medical Students: Investigating the Protective Role of Learning Communities" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Isabelle Avenido, Emma Sevoian, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine) presented "Enhancing the Medical Student Experience through Learning Communities: What We Learned from Year 2 of Implementation" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Michael Hixon, Kathi Pauli, Ann Diggins, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Clerkship Connections: Using Reflective Debrief Luncheons to Foster Community and Support Student Growth." Attendees explored the design and evolution of clerkship debrief…

Isabelle Avenido, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine), along with individuals from Heersink School of Medicine, held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Engaging Student Leadership in Learning Communities: Building from Scratch or Leveling Up: Practical Models,…

Zhiling M. Shea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with colleagues published an article "Is Use of Literacy-Focused Curricula Associated with Children’s Literacy Gains and Are Associations Moderated by Risk Status, Receipt of Intervention, or Preschool Setting?" in Education Sciences.  Integrating literacy-…

Professor Nachman Gutowski (Law) presented on Disclosing the Machine: Trends, Policies, and Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Use in Law Review Authorship at the Central States Law Schools Association 2025 Scholarship Conference.

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) received acceptance for his paper titled, “Uncovering Alterations in Cancer Epigenetics via Trans-Dimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Hidden Markov Models,” in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). The study introduces a novel statistical…