Janelle Yasukochi (Student Success), Kevin McVay (Sciences), & Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as co-chairs for the 2025 Annual NACADA Conference, the global community for academic advising, which was held at Caesars Palace from Oct. 26 - 29, 2025. Co-chairs are invaluable volunteer leadership roles that establish the…

Graduate student Grace Goodwin (Psychology), undergraduate Sebastian Mehrzad (Princeton University), and faculty Jorge Fonseca (Computer Science), Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health), and Samantha John (Brain Health) recently published their research article, "Classification of AD and bvFTD using neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric variables: a…

Esmeralda Clark (Nursing) presented  a podium presentation, “A Double-Edged Sword: Lived Experiences of Latinx Nursing Students who Speak English as an Additional Language,” at the 51st Transcultural Nursing Society National Conference in Portland, Maine, on Oct. 31, 2025.   

Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) has been invited to give a seminar in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Nov. 6. She has also been named the 2025 Marsha Betley Named Lecturer.

Brisa Rodriquez Alcantar, Priyambda Kumra, Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma (all Public Health) published an article titled, “Promoting physical activity in Hispanic adults: A systematic review of interventions from 2018-2023,” in the American Journal of Health Promotion (Impact factor 2.4).  The review found that…

Alli Reviglio, Tanya Al-Talib, D’Sean To, Hassan Ziada, Neamat Hassan (all Dental), recently published a research article titled, "Prevalence and distribution of impacted canines: a retrospective cross-sectional study " in the Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry.

Frank Rudy Cooper (Law) gave the keynote address at the Vulnerability, Inequality and Justice Workshop at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. The address was on Police Targeting of Racial Minorities: A Challenge for Vulnerability Theory.

Saunak Basu (Information Systems) presented a research paper titled "Explainability in Human-AI Hybrid Decision-Making on Crowdfunding Platforms" at the INFORMS 25 Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. This study investigates the role of explainability in artificial intelligence recommendations and how it can enhance human-AI collaboration in…

Alanna Bitzel (Writing Center) co-delivered two presentations at the 2025 National Academic Advisors Association (NACADA) Annual Conference, held last week at Caesars Palace. Her sessions, "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose: Holistic Student Support Lessons from Friday Night Lights" and "Bet on Yourself: Strategies for Self-Advocacy,"…