Yash Desai (Medicine) was selected to present his study "Characteristics and Outcomes of Out-of-Hospital Births in Las Vegas Nevada" at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition in the Section on Transport Medicine.

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published "React or Respond? The Answer That Changes the Story" on Informed Informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post explores the differences between reacting and responding to a novel or negative situation, with a case study that…

The Student Health Clinic (SHC) Laboratory has been selected as a recipient of the COLA Laboratory Excellence Award as a result of their recent rigorous on-site laboratory survey. COLA Inc. is a leading national laboratory accreditor, whose program and standards enable clinical laboratories and staff to…

Thomas Lamont (Geology) had a paper titled, "Porphyry copper formation driven by water fluxed crustal anatexis during flat-slab subduction," published on Nov. 4 in Nature Geoscience. It has long been recognized that many of the worlds largest porphyry copper deposits (copper ore formed by magmatic-hydrothermal fluids associated with granitic…

Sarah Kazemeini, Ahmed Nadeem-Tariq, Ryan Shih, John Rafanan, Nabih Ghani, and Thomas A. Vida (all Medicine) published "From Plaques to Pathways in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Mitochondrial-Neurovascular-Metabolic Hypothesis" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is expected to impact over 13 million people in…

Timothy Erwin (English) published a book chapter on the sister arts in a collection by various hands, Oliver Goldsmith in Context (Cambridge). The Irish author wrote canonical works in poetry, fiction, and drama during the Enlightenment, and the volume accompanies his new Collected Works edited by Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy.  

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented an invited public lecture titled "Early Modern Aesthetics: A Missing Link" at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. In her talk, she analyzed  the role of creative authors and writers in 16th c. Spain as part of the historical arc of changes in artistic and aesthetic developments. 

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues at Brigham Young University published the article "Reflections About Educational Leadership: Leadership Lessons Learned From School Building Leaders at the End of a Career in Public Education" in the Journal of School Leadership. This qualitative study…

Brett Gleason and Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published Wellness and Discrimination in Counselor Education in the Teaching and Supervision in Counseling journal, along with colleagues from Kent State University and Palo Alto University.