Tara McManus (Communication Studies) published the article “Providing support to friends experiencing a sexual health uncertainty” in Journal of Applied Communication Research. The study found that when college-aged people had greater positive expected outcomes for the conversation with their friend, communication efficacy, and factual sexual…

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity & Social Justice) delivered the keynote address at Sigma Sigma Rho & Delta Epsilon Psi national convention titled "Resisting Policing Logics in Higher Education and Coalition Building". 

Dr. Ross P. Berkeley (Medicine) published a manuscript, "Duty To Warn In The Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Provider’s Broad Risk and Liability" in the August issue of Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine. The manuscript delves into medical-legal cases that define a physician’s duty to…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was appointed the senior editor of Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. A leading publication in Black intellectual history, Parry will review pitches, commission pieces, and make final editorial decisions regarding the…

Chia-Liang Dai, Ching-Chen Chen, Ezgi Yesilyurt, Samantha Godbey (Education) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article "Yoga as an Alternative Therapy for Weight Management in Child and Adolescent Obesity: A Systematic Review and Implications for Research" in Alternative Therapies in Health and…

Jay Shen, Pearl Kim (Health Care Administration), and Ji Yoo (Medicine), along with Sung-Youn Chun and Jinwook Hwang, former international visiting scholars at the School of Public Health, and others recently published an article, "U.S. Trends of Opioid-use Disorders and Associated Factors among Hospitalized Patients with Spinal Conditions and…

Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing) published an article, “A Mindfulness Mobile App for Traumatized COVID-19 Healthcare Workers and Recovered Patients: A Response to “The Use of Digital Applications and COVID-19,” in the Community Mental Health Journal.

Marie Falcone (Political Science and Brookings Mountain West) was named Pietro S. Nivola Intern at the Brookings Institution in recognition of her "commitment to the Brookings values of intellectual curiosity, collegiality, inclusion, and leadership." Marie is a 2020 summer intern with the Governance Studies program at the Brookings…

MaryKay Orgill (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently was selected as a fellow of the American Chemical Society. She is one of 53 people named fellow for 2020.  Orgill was recognized for contributions to biochemistry education research, for making theoretical frameworks accessible to the chemistry education research…