Christopher Kearney (Psychology) recently presented a keynote address at the inaugural conference of the International Network for School Attendance in Oslo, Norway.  The address, "A Bird's-Eye View of School Attendance and Absenteeism: Moving from Fragmentation to Reconstruction," involved a comprehensive overview of school attendance and…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) was a member of a panel, "Digital Double Bind?: Exploring the Impact of More Product, Less Process (MPLP) on Digital Collections," at the Digital Library Federation 2019 Forum in Tampa, Florida. 

Rachel Kelly, Elli Tian, and Dr. David Howard (all Medicine) presented their research at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2019 Annual Districts V, VII & IX meeting in Kapalua, Hawaii, earlier this month. The project was, "A Comparison of Nutritional Content of Prescription versus Nonprescription Prenatal Vitamins." Kelly…

John M. Bowers (English) had his book Tolkien's Lost Chaucer published by Oxford University Press. It is his seventh single-author book. He is now working on the follow-up volume Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959 and has been awarded a four-week visiting scholar position at Merton College, Oxford, during summer 2020 to pursue research on Tolkien's…

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Marya Shegog (Environmental and Occupational Health and Lincy Institute), and co-authors Mikayle Lowery and Dea'Jiane' McNair, former Congressional Black Caucus Foundation interns and graduates of UC San Diego and UC Berkley, respectively, have published a health policy report on the connection between health…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) has published the single-author article "Do Social Movements Encourage Young People to Run for Office? Evidence from the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan" in the Journal of Asian and African Studies. This article shows that a student-led movement did not enhance the attractiveness of young candidates in…

Nathan Higgins, Breanne Yerkes, Karli Nave, and Joel Snyder (all Psychology), along with former post-doctoral psychology fellows David Little and Abin Kuruvilla-Mathew, as well as Mounya Elhilali, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, have published a paper on the neural basis of auditory consciousness titled "Neural Correlates of Perceptual…

Dr. David Glenn Weismiller (Medicine) presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians held in Philadelphia last month. His presentation, "Adult Immunizations. Are You Ready for your Vaccine Today?" addressed the ongoing challenges of vaccine declination in the United States. Vaccines are considered one of the…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology & Educational Leadership) and co-author Elizabeth Domangue, superintendent in the Manitou Springs School District in Colorado, published in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership by SAGE Publishing. The article, “Leadership for Social Justice in High-Poverty Schools: Exploration of Equity and…