Dr. Allison McNickle (Medicine) participated in the "Hot Topics in Pediatric Trauma: Best Practices and Review of the Literature" Panel at the 2025 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. Her segment, Thinking BIG — Putting Pediatric Brain Injury Guidelines into Practice, reviewed management strategies for mild…
Henry Krasner and co-authors, Dr. Sukanta Maitra (Orthopedic Surgery) and Dr. Allison McNickle (Trauma Surgery) published the article, "A comprehensive analysis of traumatic atlanto-occipital and atlanto-axial dislocations: A case series from a level one trauma center," in Trauma Case Reports. This series reviewed the prehospital care, concurrent…
Salman Mohammed, Justin Bauzon, Kavita Batra, and Aditi Singh (all Medicine), along with other medical professionals, published a study titled, “Bradycardia Associated with Remdesivir Treatment in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis,” in the journal Medicine. This study examines the potential cardiac side…
Joshua Khorsandi, Liahm Blank, Kaloyan Momchilov, Michael Dagovetz, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published a study "From Ocean to Table: How Public Awareness Shapes the Fight Against Microplastic Pollution" in the journal Urban Science. Initiated and driven by medical students, the study synthesizes global public perceptions of microplastic…
Cannabis Policy Institute Director Riana Durrett and CPI Director of Research Marla Royne Stafford presented "Cannabis and Gambling" research at the 2025 Cannabis Research Conference on October 7th in Portland, Oregon. The research, which examines the intersection of gaming and cannabis — including the effect of legal status on usage patterns…
Professor Shih-Chun “Steven” Chien (Law) co-authored an article titled, “The Bamboo Ceiling in Law: Asian American Perceptions of Inequality in the Legal Profession,” which examines Asian American experiences and perceptions of inequality in the legal workplace.
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Patience Crowder (Law) presented her paper, "Critical Geography: Rebuilding America’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem," at the 2025 Clinical Law Review Writers' Workshop at NYU Law.
Alexa Bejinariu (Criminal Justice) published an article titled, “NGO–Government Relations in States With Weak Institutions: Avoiding the State While Supplementing Resource Gaps” in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Drawing on interviews with Romanian NGOs supporting migrants in the early months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine,…

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