Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published an invited commentary in the Journal of Nutrition on the role of culinary spices in reducing inflammation associated with cardiovascular disease. The commentary involved a recent article published in the same journal that showed a high-saturated fat and high-carbohydrate meal with…

Pramen P. Shrestha (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) is receiving $299,704 from the Transportation Research Board of the Airport Cooperative Research Program for the research proposal "Quantifying the Impacts of Delayed Maintenance of Airport Assets." Shrestha is a principal investigator.     

Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health), recently published an article, “An Actigraphy-Based Validation Study of the Sleep Disorder Inventory (SDI) in the Nursing Home" in Frontiers in Psychiatry. It studied the use of the SDI to identify disrupted sleep in dementia patients in nursing homes, which was proven to be useful when done properly…

L.-W. Antony Chen, John Olawepo, and Aman Gebreselassie (all Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Schoolchildren’s Exposure to PM2.5: a Student Club–Based Air Quality Monitoring Campaign Using Low-Cost Sensors" in the journal Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health.  The study aimed to assess…

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) has had his research on a facility standardization strategy featured in The Voice magazine. The Voice is the official magazine of the Construction Users Roundtable.

Blanca Rincon (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) recently published an article, "Anchoring Comunidad: How First- and Continuing-Generation Latinx Students in STEM Engage Community Cultural Wealth," in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.    

Chad L. Cross (Medicine) recently was interviewed by a health writer at the popular website "HowStuffWorks" about parasitic infections. In particular, this piece was about common soil-transmitted nematode parasites.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) has published the chapter "The DPP in Opposition" in the book Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years edited by Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond. The chapter focuses on how DPP, the major opposition party in Taiwan during 2008-2016, gradually presidentialized itself. It…

Karen E. Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article, "Cancer Mortality Among US Blacks: Variability between African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Africans" in the journal Cancer Epidemiology. Aggregation of all black populations in U.S. cancer mortality profiles masks remarkable heterogeneity by place of birth…