Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) was elected as the student representative chair 2022-23 for the National Latinx Psychological Association. 

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with collaborators from New York University, Princeton University, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies.  Their paper, "Ancestral polymorphisms shape the adaptive radiation of Metrosideros across the Hawaiian Islands" presents the…

Melissa Argueta (Dental) received a 2021 Mars Wrigley Foundation’s Healthier Smiles Grant of $5,000 from the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Institute for Oral Health. She will use the funds to expand the local Early Childhood Caries Prevention Project, which aims to reduce the number of cavities among children by the time they enroll in…

Kathryn Houk (School of Medicine Library) has earned the Level 2 Consumer Health Information Specialization from the Medical Library Association. The credential demonstrates a commitment to offering quality consumer health information services and to staying current with developments in consumer health information resources,…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) published her paper entitled "Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Synthesizing Creativity, Contagious Motivation, and Unique Projects Into the Course Experience" in the Journal of Marketing Education. The goal of this study is to examine relationships between creative divergent…

Katherine Feather (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored a book chapter, "Understanding and applying trauma stewardship," in Advising and Supporting in Student Affairs along with Dian Squire of Loyola University, Scout Miller of Nortern Arizona University, and Natalie Schmitz of Christopher Newport…

Jerome "JT" Davis (Facilities Management) was named the first-ever employee of the month for the landscape, grounds, and arboretum department.

Dr. James Mah (Dental) co-authored “An in vitro evaluation of orthodontic aligner biomechanics around the maxillary arch,” which appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.

  Brittani Sterling (Libraries) presented at the 11th Annual National African American Librarians Conference hosted by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. First, the panel, "Identity Politics: The Weightiness of Black Womanhood in LIS" used the lens of Kimberle Crenshaw's 1989 definition of the term…