Brianne Heinle, Elizabeth Kahane, Kate Korgan, and Kara Wada (all Graduate College) attended the Western Association of Graduate Schools 63rd annual conference this month. They facilitated one session and conducted three presentations: Heinle, with Kristen DeBoer (Boise State University), facilitated a session that provided attendees working…
Dr. Ji Won Yoo, Dr. Scott Lee (both Medicine); Nicole Jeong (Psychology); and Jay Shen (Public Health), along with Hee-Taik Kang, a past visiting scholar in the School of Public Health;    Joungyoun Kim, Hyo-Sun You, Ye-Seul Kim, all of Chungbuk National University in Korea; Hyung-Jin Hyun of Seoul National University in…
Susanna Newbury (Art) published "In Residence," a chapter in Amsterdam University Press' new Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City (ed. Christoph Linder and Gerard Sandoval, 2021). Newbury's contribution focuses on artists' role in urban economic development, …
Kenneth M. Miller (Political Science) spoke with the Associated Press about Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to Las Vegas as part of the White House's efforts to promote the recent pandemic relief legislation passed by Congress.
Dr. David Glenn Weismiller (Medicine) presented (virtually) at the Fourth Congress of the Emirates Family Medicine Society held in March. His presentations at this international medical education conference were "The COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges and Primary Health Care Services" and  "Choosing Wisely - A Means of Integrating…
Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) has won the Goldsmith Book Prize for the best trade book about the media and democracy, awarded by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The $5,000 prize honors his book An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That…
Karl Kingsley, Melissa Trumbo, Namgu Kim, Beanca Samiano, Matthew Marrujo. Patrick Perkins, Kevin Foote, and Katherine M. Howard (all Dental) published the manuscript "Scardovia wiggsiae and Streptococcus sobrinus Prevalence among Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Patients" in the current issue of the Microbiology…
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training ''18e siècle: le combat des Lumières'' organized by Paris Lumières University/ Université Paris Lumières in Paris. She attended eight weeks of training this year and was awarded a certificate of success this month.
Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Scaling up of Brazil's Criança Feliz Early Childhood Development Program: An Implementation Science Analysis" in the journal ANNALS of the New York Academy of Sciences.  To address inequities that prevent socioeconomically vulnerable young…

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