Katherine M. Howard, Karl Kingsley, Dustin Hunsaker, and James Landon Moore (all Dental) recently published "Vitamin D Receptor and CYP450 Enzyme Dysregulation May Mediate Oral Cancer Responsiveness" in the MDPI journal Targets.

Jennifer Pancyzyszyn (Medicine) was recently announced as one of two Nevada educators to win the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) for 2022. The PAEMST is the nation’s highest honor for teaching in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science.

The L.A. based nationally and internationally acclaimed Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) has commissioned the work, "Optic 3: Trying," choreographed by Victoria Dale (Dance), to be added to the LWDT repertoire.

Vikki Baltimore-Dale (Dance) authored the third edition of Survey of African American Dance titled, Survey of African American Dance and Its Contribution to the African Diaspora published by Kendall Hunt.

Arumugam Jayaraman's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) involvement in research work with researchers in Germany led to a publication in the ACS Inorganic Chemistry Journal. The work involves exploring a specific nickel complex's novel chemistry. This research not only helps deepen our understanding of coordination chemistry and the behavior of pogo-…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Spatial analysis of teen births near the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site,” in the journal Environmental Research: Health, in association with Carolina Villanueva, Susan A. Korrick, and Veronica M. Vieira. The article assesses the sociodemographic and geographic factors…

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) has co-authored a chapter in a book published by Dumbarton Oaks, "Multi-Locality of an Ancient Maya City: Archaeology, Tourism, and Indigenous Landscapes at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico," in the book, Landscapes in the Making, edited by Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton. 

Michael Vincent DiCaro, Brianna Yee, KaChon Lei, Kavita Batra, and Buddha Dawn (all Medicine) have published an article titled, "Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," in JMIR Research Protocols. This article summarizes the latest, most comprehensive evidence…

On Feb. 5, Christopher Willoughby (African American Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave an invited lecture on his book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools, in the History of Politics seminar at the Université Paris Cité. While in Paris, Willoughby and Elodie Edwards Grossi (…