Lori Johnson (Law) was elected to the Executive Committee of the Legal Writing Institute as the new Ccommunications and public relations officer.

Francine Lipman (Law) moderated a CPA Academy webinar titled "Race, Wealth, and U.S. Tax Policy: Who Benefits and Who Bears the Tax Burdens?"

Marla Royne Stafford, Ph.D., (Marketing and International Business) made two presentations at National Council on Problem Gambling in Nashville. The first was “Lived Experiences of Recovered and Recovering Gamblers,” which included graduate student Raja Mallina. The second, along with two co-authors, was titled “The Need to Normalize Responsible…

Austin Horng-En Wang's (Political Science) research on cognitive warfare and espionage was quoted by a  testimony submitted to the German Bundestag. In this report, Wang documents how Chinese content firms may be used to influence the public opinion and electoral process in Taiwan through volume manipulation and disinformation. 

Kavita Batra (Medicine), a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Asia Life Expectancy Collaborators, co-authored the study, "Mapping Drivers of Life Expectancy Change in Asia from 1990 to 2023," published in Nature. The study found that life expectancy increased across all 34 Asian countries and territories between 1990 and 2023, driven by…

Tammi Kim (Libraries) is the author of the chapter, "We're All Caregivers Here: Exploring the Affective Relationships Between Accessioning Archivists and Special Collections Curators," published in Radical Visions: New Perspectives on Special Collections Curatorship. The book brings together case studies, conversations, personal reflections,…

Refat R. Srejon (Public Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Jagdish Khubchandani from New Mexico State University, published a study "COVID-19 Vaccination Refusal and Non-Uptake Among People Living with HIV in the United States" in the Journal of Community Health. The study highlights the need for targeted interventions that address…

Maggie Farrell (Libraries) recently shared her expertise at several national and professional development events. At the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, she organized and participated in the panel presentation, "An ALA Legacy Going Strong Over 100 Years: The American Library in Paris," highlighting the enduring impact of the…

Amanda Koziura (Libraries) recently chaired the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) joint subcommittee that revised the "Statement on the Terminal Professional Degree for Academic Librarians" and the "ACRL Standards for the Employment, Promotion, and Tenure of Academic Librarians." The updated national standards, approved by the…