Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been appointed to chair the Higher Education session for the 1st International Online Conference on Education Sciences, scheduled for 2026. Watson currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Higher Education section of the Journal of Education Sciences.  

Anam Fatima, Md. Sohail Akther, Sharmistha Roy, Rupam Mitra, Blessing Imade, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), with Amar Kaneker of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, published an article titled “A scoping review of the use and determinants of social media among college students" in the journal Healthcare (Impact factor…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" for "The Phatman" script from the Seoul International AI Film Festival.

Jessica Immonen (Dental) and Jason Ciccotelli (Physical Therapy) mentored fourth-year dental students Nathan Kent, David Patterson, Alyssa Luu and Samantha Pipkin in the production of a research article titled "Temporomandibular Joint Osteoarthritis and Systemic Inflammation: A Cadaveric Study for Dental Insights." The student first author, Nathan…

Adjoa Mensah (Online Education) delivered a presentation, “Not Just Surviving, Strategizing: Designing Your PhD for Career Success,” at the COE Holmes Scholars Research and Mentoring Summit focused on strategic career planning during doctoral studies.

Kara Radzak (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences) has received a $964,806 grant from the Department of Defense’s Military Health System Research Program to lead a two-year project aimed at enhancing telehealth-based care for musculoskeletal injuries in military personnel. In collaboration with partners from the Uniformed Services University, A.T…

Tazveen Fariha, Farhana Khandoker, and Jalal Uddin (all Public Health Ph.D. students) coauthored a paper titled, “Awareness, knowledge, and attitude towards basic life support among healthcare professional students in Bangladesh,” in the journal PLOS Global Public Health, along with researchers from Bangladesh. The paper surveyed healthcare…

Assistant professor Araceli Hernandez's (Hospitality) article, "AI-Powered Predictive Modeling for Food-service Crowdfunding Success: An Integrated Approach with Business Intelligence and Supervised Machine Learning for Smart Business Ecosystem" was recently published in the Electronic Markets Journal.  This study investigates the potential…

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction has selected Simon Gottschalk (Emeritus, Sociology) as the recipient of the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Accomplishments in Symbolic Interaction. It is presented to a scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of symbolic interactionism and recognizes a scholar's…