Thomas Vida, Robert Sotille, Herpreet Singh, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) published a review article, "Unraveling the Mysteries of Mental Illness with Psilocybin," in the journal Cureus. This article reviews the role of psilocybin as a therapeutic molecule to treat mental illness. Sotille and Singh are students.
Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), along with colleagues Glynis Breakwell of Imperial College, Julie Barnett of University of Bath, and Rusi Jaspal of University. of Brighton, has published research on psychological influences related to COVID risk behaviours with the British Academy. 
Jennifer L. Rennels and graduate student Kindy Insouvanh (both Psychology) published "Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. This article provides examples of how utilizing naturalistic observations for developmental studies investigating…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Understanding the #MilkTeaAlliance Movement," in 2021-22 Wilson China Fellowship - Essays on China and U.S. Policy. This article implements a big-data approach and analyze 3 million #MilkTeaAlliance tweets between April 2020 and December 2021, trying to…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) delivered an invited talk, “Utilizing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Measure Determinants of the Intent to Overcome Implicit Bias among Emergency Department Personnel” to the Florida State University Emergency Medicine’s Annual Research Day. The talk highlighted a joint…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership) recently was interviewed on the Leadership Educator Podcast. He and Kerry Priest (Kansas State University) serve as co-chairs of this year’s Leadership Education Academy (LEA), hosted by the International Leadership Association. Registration for LEA is now open, and the podcast episode explores…
Patricia Benner (Nursing) was conferred the Honorary Degree Doctor of Science at the Health Sciences Convocation ceremony at McGill University.
Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental) co-authored “Precision Periodontics Quantitative Measures of Disease Progression,” which published May 4 in the Journal of the American Dental Association.
Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) co-authored “Gingival Squamous Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as Localized Periodontal Disease in the Maxilla: A Case Report," which published electronically April 25 in The Open Dentistry Journal.   

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