Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) led a webinar titled, “HPV and Oropharyngeal Cancer — The Need for Greater Action,” during a Spotlight series sponsored by the Association of State & Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD), which identified updates to the ASTDD policy about HPV and oropharyngeal cancer. HPV now accounts for 60% to 70% of…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and coauthors Christopher Zorn (Penn State University) and Jennie Sweet-Cushman (Chatham University) won the 2026 Jewell Limar Prestage Best Paper Award from the Southwestern Political Science Association for their paper “Gender and the Misperception of Women’s Representation in State Legislatures and Congress…

Louis Dumontet and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published a paper titled, "Plastic hydrolytic enzyme classification using explainable deep learning," in ACS Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The team developed PEPIC, an explainable AI framework that predicts plastic-degrading enzymes across 9 substrate types. By identifying "hot…

Aidy Weeks (Medicine; Libraries) has been elected to the el2026 Medical Library Association (MLA) Board of Directors. MLA is a global, nonprofit educational organization, with a membership of more than 2,500 institutions and professionals in the health information field. The Board of Directors serves as the governing body of MLA, representing…

An Huang, Junggab Son, and Zuobin Xiong (all Computer Science) submitted a paper that was accepted as a regular paper at ICML 2026, one of the top-tier conferences in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: "Watch Your Step: Information Injection in Diffusion Models via Shadow Timestep Embedding."

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Decreasing prevalence in youth depressive episodes: Evidence from the 2021-2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,” in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, along with researchers from Kentucky, Florida and Mississippi. The study analyzed major depressive episodes among…

James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and colleagues Jafrā Thomas (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo,) and Whitley Stone (Western Kentucky University) were recently published. The article, "Demographic Profiles and Methodologies Used in the Generation and Validation of Resting Metabolic Rate Prediction…

Dr. Sehoon Park, Dr. Alfonso Ayala, Dr. Christopher J Fang, Dr. Aaron Gray, Dr. Daniel Kokmeyer (Orthopedic Surgery), Dr. Ashley Pistorio (Plastic Surgery), and Dr. Allison McNickle (Trauma Surgery) published an article entitled "Upper Extremity Injury Patterns Unique to Utility Terrain Off-Road Vehicles" in the Journal of Hand Surgery and…

Linda Lister (Music) published "Non dimenticar: Memory, Music, and Singers" in the May/June issue of the Journal of Singing, the official journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.