Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) served as a panelist for the professional development initiative hosted by the Zeta Omega chapter of Delta Sigma Pi at Northern Arizona University.  The topic of the presentation centered on the inter-generational significance of best business practices and how identity can inform how…

Xue "Cher" Xing (Teaching and Learning) recently published an article, "Understanding Postsecondary Education Enrollment of First-Generation Students From a Social Cognitive Perspective,"  in the Journal of Career Development. The study found postsecondary educational self-efficacy and goals, together, had a substantial positive…

Marla Royne Stafford (Hospitality) recently had her co-written article, "Managerial–Consumer Eco-Harmful Media Perceptions and Eco-Conscious Attitudes," published in the Journal of Advertising Research. The article explores managers' estimates (and mis-estimates) of consumer eco-harmful perceptions of paper and electronic-…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, "Prevalence of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress during COVID-19 Pandemic," with Ram Lakhan (Berea College) and Amit Agrawal (All India Institute of Medical Sciences), which was published in the Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published two papers. The first, "Predicting Problematic Pornography Use among Male Returning US Veterans," was published in Addictive Behaviors. The second paper, "Spotlight on Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder: A Systematic Review of Research on Women," was published in Neuropsychiatric Disease…

Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) has published the article "‘It’s This One Teacher … I Just Don’t Like Him’: The Role of Gender in Establishing Culturally Relevant Caring Relationships" in Gender and Education. This manuscript centers students’ perceptions of care when a race-match but gender-mismatch is present in the…

Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) coauthored the article "A Triple-Star System with a Misaligned and Warped Circumstellar Disk Shaped by Disk Tearing," which has been published in Science. 

Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) wrote "The Werther Effect," an essay published in the Interpoezia literary magazine, New York. 

Susan Belliston (Nursing) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation. Her dissertation was "The Effect of Asynchronous Versus Synchronous Online Course Delivery on HESI Scores and Student Engagement for Rural Pre-Licensure Nursing Students."