Brian Schilling (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) has been awarded $510,000 of funding through a subcontract on a U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II grant. The project, “Optimizing Remote Pre-Accession Training for Air Force Special Operations Forces Using BridgeAthletic with Garmin Integration,”…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Peter D. Wiens (Teaching and Learning) and Kenneth Varner (Education; Academic Programs and Initiatives), published the article "Co-Designing Teacher Leadership Course Content: The Experiences of Teachers, Instructional Coaches, and Administrators," in the Journal of…

Hoor Ul Ain, Jaelin Isquith, and Kara Christensen Pacella (all Psychology) published "Sensitivity and specificity of self-diagnosis of eating disorders in university students with and without food insecurity" in Eating Behaviors. Graduate student Hoor Ul Ain led this analysis, which found that students with food insecurity were similar to students…

Robert Futrell (Sociology) recently published a co-authored chapter, "A Constellation Framework for White Supremacy," in Right-Wing Movements in North America and Europe: Media, Identity, and Parties (Routledge). The chapter offers a more complex, nuanced, and useful conceptual approach to understanding the expansion and normalization of…

Liliana Davalos, Brisa Rodriguez Alcantar, Marissa Martinez and Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health) published an article titled "Socio-Cultural Correlates of Breastfeeding Behavior Among Latina Mothers and Its Implications for Child Health" in the journal Children.  This article describes a secondary analysis that…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Development of a Web-Based Tool Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Improve Adherence to Diagnostic Colonoscopy Among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults in Colorectal Cancer Screening Program” in the journal, Annals of Epidemiology (Impact factor…

Ana Daniela González-Alvarez, Sidath Kapukotuwa, Larry Hurst, and Abena Gyawu Owusu-Ansah (all Public Health), Ying Guo (Environmental and Global Health), Jennifer Vaderlaan (Nursing), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published "Socioeconomic Disparities in Perinatal Substance Use Emergency Department Visits Before and During COVID-…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) presented his work on animal protection activism and politics in Mexico at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS, Center for Research and Higher Education in Sofial Anthropology) Northeast (Monterrey, Mexico) on August 22.

John Ojeogwu (Teaching and Learning) published as lead author for "Preparing Pre-Service Teachers in Engineering Design Integrated Science Teaching: A Systematic Review" in Journal of Science Education and Technology.