Melva Thompson-Robinson, Johanna E. Andrews, Tristesse Burton (all Center for Health Disparities Research) and Kristina Ricker-Boles (Public Health), along with colleagues at other institutions, have a book chapter published in Researching in the Age of COVID-19, Volume III: Creativity and Ethics. This book explores dimensions of…

John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) gave a keynote presentation as part of the virtual Norseman Endurance Science Seminar 2020. The title of the presentation was "Swimming in Warm Water: The Consequences of Wearing a Wetsuit." Norseman is an iconic extreme triathlon and the purpose of this seminar was to share research on endurance…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the co-authored article "Influencing Overseas Chinese by Tweets: Text-images as the Key Tactic of Chinese Propaganda" in the Journal of Computational Social Science. The article traced and analyzed thousands of tweets with #USAVirus hashtag and Twitter's decisions to suspend the accounts. The…

Mingon Kang (Computer Science) and Ji Yoo (Medicine) were awarded a pilot grant, "Predicting an Inpatient’s Risk of Benzodiazepine and Opioid Overdose" from The Mountain West Clinical & Translational Research Infrastructure Network program (MW CTR-IN). The interdisciplinary team will develop a deep learning model to predict risk scores of…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored three articles: “Oral Commensal Bacteria Differentially Modulate Epithelial Cell Death,” which appeared in Archives of Oral Biology; “Oral Microbiome and Gingival Tissue Apoptosis and Autophagy Transcriptomics,” which appeared in Frontiers of Immunology, and “Salivary Biomarkers For Discriminating…

Rei Serafica (Nursing) has co-presented a panel presentation, "Advice from the Editors: Best Practices for Publication” at the recently concluded 46th annual Transcultural Nursing Society Virtual Conference held last month. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Transcultural Nursing.

Laura Gryder (Medicine) recently presented traffic safety research at the American Public Health Association 2020 virtual meeting. Her co-authors include Dr. Deborah Kuhs, Samantha Slinkard, Dr. Paul Chestovich, Dr. Allison McNickle, and Dr. Douglas Fraser (all Medicine), as well as Cassandra Trummel from University Medical Center.…

Dr. Richard Baynosa (Medicine) has been selected as visiting professor for the Plastic Surgery Foundation. He specializes in breast reconstruction. As a Plastic Surgery Foundation visiting professor, he provides clinical, technical, and educational expertise in training plastic surgery residents.

Kimberly James, Timothy Jones (both Music), Louis McDonald (Art History), Olga Townsend (BFA student), Francisco Menendez (Film), Adam Paul (Theatre), Joshua Vermillion (Architecture), Phil Zawarus (Landscape Architecture), Sean Slattery, Michael Fong (both Art), Gil Kaupp (Music Technology), Julian Kilker (Journalism & Media Studies), and…