Holmes Scholar Anel Rojas (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), presented her research, "Cultivating Success: Unraveling Community Cultural Wealth and Impact in the Latino Youth Leadership Conference (LYLC)," at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Aurora, Colorado. Her research…
Darnelle Melvin, Andre Hulet, and Cory K. Lampert (all Libraries) had a paper, "WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Framework for Wikidata Graph Exploration and Visualization," published in the Proceedings of the Wikidata Workshop 2023, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference. 
Holmes Scholars Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) presented their research "An Expectancy Value Theory Approach to Understanding Science Teacher’s Persistence" at the AACTE Annual 2024 conference, supported by Tina Vo and her NSF-funded grant.…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Effectiveness of pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid and chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) compared with pyrethroid-only LLINs for malaria control in the third year post-distribution: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial…
The NIH National Institute of Aging has awarded Jinyoung Kim an R21 grant ($226,500) for her study titled, "Sleep Depth and Circadian Genes as Potential Markers to Reflect Symptom Variation and Early Risk of Alzheimer's Disease in Shift Workers." The aim of her study is to investigate the potential of objective sleep quality…
Holmes Scholars Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) and Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) were presenters at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) annual 2024 conference. Through an NSF Grant project headed by PI’s Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and Erica Marti (Civil and…
Associate professor Miguel M. Gonzales (Educational Policy and Leadership), along with co-authors Tiberio Garza (Florida International University) and Elizabeth Leon-Zaragoza (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay), published their manuscript, "Pathways to School Improvement: Uncovering Network Patterns of School Principals," in the Journal…
Todd Jennings and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Compulsive Sexual Behavior in LGBTQ Individuals and Minority Stress Theory: A Literature Review and Theoretical Integration," in Current Addiction Reports.  Kraus and members of the International Sex Survey published a paper, "Global cross-…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published a "Guide to the Larry Fotine Music Collection." This publication serves as an index to the large archive, made available through the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center, of the composer and jazz band leader Larry Fotine (1911–1990). Born Lawrence Constantine Fotinakis in Camden, New Jersey, this son of a…

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