Kathi Pauli (Medicine), director of learning communities and manager of well-being and integrative medicine, was nominated by Dr. Aftab Merchant and Ann Diggins and has received the Susan Shultz Award for Professional Staff at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) National Meeting. This award recognizes outstanding professional staff…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health) and colleagues published an article on "Quantitative microbial exposure assessment of uropathogenic Escherichia coli in ready-to-eat chicken: Consumer risk and mitigation strategies in Taiwan" in the journal Food Research International. Ready-to-eat (RTE) meats, often consumed…

Nicole Thomas (Educational Psychology) presented her work titled, "Modeling the Mojave: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Student Understanding of a Complex Ecological System," at the 2025 Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education (SCIPIE) biennial conference in Norman, Oklahoma. This work examines how early college science majors…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) served as consultant and script advisor for the most recent season of the PBS Kids television show Alma's Way. One of the episodes on which she served as a consultant, "To Tell or Not to Tell," aired recently on PBS.

Acute Care Surgery Fellows Alex Chen, Alex Rowan, Chris Demme and Chris Gonzalez (all Medicine) successfully passed the American Board of Surgery's Surgical Critical Care Certifying Exam to become board-certified in critical care.

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) attended the American Society for Ethnohistory meeting in San Antonio, Texas, where he organized the panel titled, "Historicizing Politically Engaged Scholarship in Native North America." The panel explored the conceptual tools needed to examine prior instances in which anthropologists and ethnohistorians entered the…

Peter Gatto (Housing & Residential Life), Abigail Wood, and Deanna Merino Contino (both Student Life) presented "From the Boiler Room to the Board Room: Housing Planning That Matters." at the October conference of the National Association of Colleges and Universities Housing Officers and Applied Physical Plant Association Housing…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published a post on Informed Informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post asks you to consider whether, in your professional conflicts, you have fallen into the trap of conspiracy thinking, and even offers a quick test to determine whether…

Michael Brown (The Lincy Institute) recently had an op-ed titled "Hollywood handouts" published in the Las Vegas Review Journal. Brown provided commentary on Nevada's attempts to enter the film industry, discussing a recent rebrand of Assembly Bill 238 — a proposal authorizing up to $1.5 billion in transferable film tax credits against the…