Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" from the Bangkok Film Awards Festival for the short script "The Phatman."

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) coauthored an article titled “Bio-efficacy of field aged novel class of long-lasting insecticidal nets, against pyrethroid-resistant malaria vectors in Tanzania: A series of experimental hut trials” in the journal PLOS Global Public Health, in association with researchers from London, Canada…

Barbara Roth (Anthropology) presented the plenary talk at the 22nd Annual Mogollon Archaeology Conference in Silver City, New Mexico on October 4. The talk, titled "Transformation, Resilience, and Connectivity" highlighted the contributions of several major projects to archaeologists' understanding of the Mogollon.  

David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published a book chapter titled "Material Forces in the Brain Sciences" in the "Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power" edited by Nathan Crick. The chapter initially reviews the scholarly literature sitting at the intersection of the neurosciences and rhetorical studies and argues that three sub-areas have…

Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) spoke at the HS OnlineEd roundtable, "Strengthening the Bond Between Academic Libraries and Faculty," viewed by more than 400 registrants from 70 countries. Her invitation followed a presentation on the intersection of information literacy and faculty development at LILAC 2024: The Information Literacy…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as part of GBD 2021 Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators were coauthors in “Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021”…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) spoke to students in the Advocacy Scholars Program at the American Medical Student Association about the free Antiracism Module,  funded by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, on which she has worked for the past three years. The Module, videos, and resources are available to everyone online.

Gregory Koenig (Music) presented Guitar class: An opportunity for transformative music education at the National Association for Music education 2024 biannual music research and teacher education conference. 

Scholars working on research at the International Gaming Institute presented four posters at the 25th annual International Center for Responsible Gambling (ICRG) Conference on Sunday, October 6, 2024.  Samantha Wells (Learning & Technology) presented her work on using LLM-based chatbots for supporting responsible gambling education.…