Michael Chin (Honors) published a short story with California State University, Stanislaus's literary journal, Penumbra titled "Friendsgiving."

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils to Medi-Sota, a consortium of 39 rural healthcare organizations in Minnesota.

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article, titled “Burden of non-communicable diseases and their attributable risk factors in Africa from 1990 to 2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Africa NCD collaborators in Lancet Global Health (Impact factor…

Wendy Rein (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2026 American Library Association Century Scholarship. Rein, '25 Communication Studies, is pursuing a Master of Library and Information Sciences degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Information School, and currently work as an Information Literacy Fellow in the University Libraries.

The paper “A Single-Pass Generative Framework for Intrinsic Dense Visual Explanations,” coauthored by Hongbi Jeong, An Huang, Zuobin Xiong, and Junggab Son (all Computer Science), has been accepted in Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2026), a renowned conference in Computer Vision.

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled “Decreasing prevalence in youth depressive episodes: Evidence from the 2021-2024 national survey on drug use and health” in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, along with researchers from Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky and Illinois. The study examined changes in depressive…

Margaret Harp (World Languages & Cultures) presented a paper, "Yver's Appropriation of Pliny," at the 58th annual meeting of The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (RMMRA), hosted by the University of New Mexico's Institute for Medieval Studies in Albuquerque NM. The paper addresses late sixteenth-century understanding and…

Jarod Giger (Social Work) recently published a book chapter titled, "It Took My Village: How the Pandemic Worsened Decades of Social Isolation and Increased Loneliness" in the volume Academic Chutes & Ladders: The Hidden Curriculum That Makes or Breaks Academic Careers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). The chapter addresses campus isolation,…

New faculty member Cassie Hazelip (Law) was selected to present at the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA) Annual Rights Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. The workshop, co-presented with Marisol Orihuela from Yale Law School, is titled "Thinking Creatively about Civil Commitment Defense." This workshop…