Brisa Rodriquez Alcantar, Priyambda Kumra, Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma (all Public Health) published an article titled, “Promoting physical activity in Hispanic adults: A systematic review of interventions from 2018-2023,” in the American Journal of Health Promotion (Impact factor 2.4).  The review found that…

Alli Reviglio, Tanya Al-Talib, D’Sean To, Hassan Ziada, Neamat Hassan (all Dental), recently published a research article titled, "Prevalence and distribution of impacted canines: a retrospective cross-sectional study " in the Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry.

Frank Rudy Cooper (Law) gave the keynote address at the Vulnerability, Inequality and Justice Workshop at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. The address was on Police Targeting of Racial Minorities: A Challenge for Vulnerability Theory.

Saunak Basu (Information Systems) presented a research paper titled "Explainability in Human-AI Hybrid Decision-Making on Crowdfunding Platforms" at the INFORMS 25 Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. This study investigates the role of explainability in artificial intelligence recommendations and how it can enhance human-AI collaboration in…

Alanna Bitzel (Writing Center) co-delivered two presentations at the 2025 National Academic Advisors Association (NACADA) Annual Conference, held last week at Caesars Palace. Her sessions, "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose: Holistic Student Support Lessons from Friday Night Lights" and "Bet on Yourself: Strategies for Self-Advocacy,"…

Kristen Keach (Art) presented two papers, "Coloring Outside the Lines: Female Painters in the Bolognese School" and "Reframing Judith: Elisabetta Sirani and Commercial Politics of Female Violence," at the 2025 Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Ami Pritchard, along with Peter Wiens (both Teaching and Learning), Charles Brown (Education), and alumnus Andromeda Hightower published "Teacher leadership and teacher mentoring: Understanding the preparedness of mentors and their educational practices" in the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education.

Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) gave a public lecture as part of the science series for the Goettingen Literary Festival in Germany. This invitation was for his book "Hidden in the Heavens" about NASA's Kepler mission. The festival spans two weeks in October and November. Several dozen speakers, including journalists, athletes, authors,…

Reimund Serafica, Andrew Thomas Reyes (both Nursing), Francisco Sy (Public Health), and their co-authors from Veteran's Affairs Long Beach Health Care System, CA, University of Texas Health, Houston, TX, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and University of California, Irvine, CA, received the 2024 Journal of Transcultural Nursing Best…