Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has published her work "Development and Initial Validation of the Mindful Self-Regulated Learning Scale (m-SRLS)" in a special collection in Mindfulness (Mindfulness Mechanisms, Methods, and Measurement) . The m-SRLS provides a reliable, valid, and context-…

Whitney Elks, Declan Feery, Celica Cosme, Kavita Batra, Lance Horner, Charles St. Hill, and Ovunc Bardakcioglu (all Medicine) published a study, “Comparison of Surgical Treatment Patterns and Temporal Trends for Stage I–III Invasive Rectal Adenocarcinoma Among Regions in the United States,” in Heliyon. Using National Cancer Database data (2004–…

A paper authored by Daniel Ogenrwot  and John Businge (Computer Science) titled:  "How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests" has been accepted in the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). MSR is the top-ranked venue for software evolution and repository…

Brenna Renn and Katie Singsank (Psychology), Ishrat Zaman (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Kimberly Cobos and Samantha John (Brain Health) recently published an article titled, "Differential item functioning of the Geriatric Depression Scale-short form in the NACC dataset," in Alzheimer's & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer's…

Ruben Garcia (Law) presented on United States Preemption Doctrine: New Considerations at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) Professionals Forum.

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Global Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health & Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), and Selam Ayele (Environmental and Global Health) published "Household insecticide use and pyrethroid…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Suicidal Ideation and Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Marijuana Among U.S. Adults: Findings from the 2021-2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,” in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, along with researchers from California and Mississippi. The study…

Rupam Mitra and Mahsa Pashaeimeykola (both Social & Behavioral Health) have been selected to receive the Emerging Scholar Award at the Sixteenth International Conference organized by Health, Wellness & Society to be held at the University of Guadalajara in México on 10-11 September 2026. Mitra and Pashaeimeykola are both doctoral…

J. Abigail Saavedra (Psychology) and colleagues published their article, "Radical Accountability: A Strategy for Addressing Challenges and Inequities in Research Mentoring Relationships" in Feminisim and Psychology. Their paper paper argues that while research mentoring in psychology can either reduce or reinforce systemic inequities,…