Nadia Omar-Czesky (Student Engagement & Diversity), and Janna Bernstein (Housing & Residential Life), along with Sable Manson of the University of Southern California, presented at the 2016 Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education (NASPA) Western Regional Conference in Seattle in November.. Their presentation, "Public and Private…

Lori Fazzino (Sociology) authored a blog at Huffington Post titled "No Privilege? No Problem. Why You Can Be An Interfaith Ally."  

Parvesh Kumar, (Medicine) presented his research findings at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) in Boston. The research co-authored by Dr. Kumar highlights Phase 1 -2 cancer trials to determine if a three-pronged treatment for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy (the removal of the prostate gland…

Patricia Suske (Summer Term) has been elected president-elect of the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA). She also is a member of the organization's  Communications, Membership, and Research Committee. Additionally, she has been voted in as western regional vice president of the North American Association of Summer…

Maddie Evans (Sociology) was quoted in a blog of the National Eating Disorders Association titled "Dear KJ: My Mother is Urging Me to Lose Weight for My Wedding. Help!"

Linda Berger (Law) won this year's Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section Award from the Association of American Law Schools. The award, sometimes described as a lifetime achievement award, recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of legal writing and research. 

Erin Farrar, Reginald Ungos, LaToya Burdiss, John McElrath, Sean Kinnally, Steve Kinsey, and Brigette Sohn (all Campus Recreational Services) were selected by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Region VI Conference Committee to present five topics to professional and student colleagues from nine states and two…

Ai-Sun Tseng (Life Sciences) was a speaker at the biennial International Xenopus Conference in Kolymbari, Crete, and at the 2016 Southwest Regional Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Salt Lake City. She presented her laboratory's recent research studies on vertebrate eye regeneration.

Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences) and professor Qing Wang at the School of Business, Dalian University of Technology in China, recently published a paper, "Childhood Health Status and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity in Rural China: Are They Related?" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.