Eve Hanan (Law) presented on the “Advancing Social Justice Through ADR” panel at the annual conference of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section in Washington, D.C.

Michelle Light (Libraries) has been elected the vice president/president-elect of the Society of American Archivists (SAA). She begins her one-year term this August and will become SAA's 75th president in 2019-20.  SAA is North America's oldest and largest national professional association dedicated to the needs and interests of…

Nicole Espinosa and Erika Abad (both Interdisciplinary, Ethnic, and Gender Studies) participated in the second annual Clexacon, a lesbian and bisexual media convention, at the Tropicana earlier this month. Espinosa, a women's studies major, participated on the "Lexa's Legacy" panel. Professor-in-residence Abad participated on the "Queer Women of…

Johan Bester (Medicine) and co-authors published an ethical analysis of a difficult case in a leading pediatrics journal, Pediatrics. The case revolves around a mother requesting that her 11-year-old child be secretly tested for a genetic disorder that runs in their family. The ethical analysis examines whether it is ethically permissible to test…

Ikseon Suh (Accounting) and collaborators Anna Rose and Jacob Rose, both from Oregon State University; Jay Thibodeau of Bentley University; Kristina Linke of University of Groningen; and Carolyn Norman of Virginia Commonwealth University won third place in the 2017-18 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting and Ethics for their paper, "…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) was interviewed by Desert Companion in a piece titled, "Not OK Computer."

Kai-Yu Ho (Physical Therapy) and program alumni Jayson McClaren (’17) and Skyler Sudweeks (’17) co-authored “Acute Effects of Walking on the Deformation of Femoral Articular Cartilage in Older Adults,” which appeared online in March (ahead-of-print) in the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. The study was a first of its kind comparing the acute…

Kate Hausbeck Korgan (Graduate College) just completed her term as president of the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and now serves as past-president, which involves serving on the Council of Graduate Schools Board. The primary purpose of WAGS is to facilitate professional networking and provide an arena for accredited institutions…

Barb Brents (Sociology) was interviewed on Air Talk, hosted by Larry Mantle on KPCC in Los Angeles. The segment was titled "Controversial Classifieds Website Backpage.com Is Now under Government Seizure, but for What Reason and on What Grounds?"