LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Kristin Kew published an article that focuses on the testimonies of accomplished Latina school leaders, shedding light on their upbringing, familial responsibilities, generational poverty, and commitment to challenge the prevailing narrative and break…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) had his work on Introspective Meditation (manan dhyana), a technique for finding complete inner contentment (Santosha), that he has copyrighted, featured in The Daily Guardian, for one of its applications. This application is, “Introspective meditation as a spiritual tool before…

Teddy Uldricks (History) recently published a book, The Second World War: A Global History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). This work examines the military, diplomatic, domestic political, economic, social, and environmental aspects of World War II. The book recounts the actions of political leaders and generals as well as the…

Pricella Morris (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with her co-authors Monica Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Monique Matute-Chavarria (New Mexico State University), published a chapter titled, "Advocating and Empowering Black families: Dismantling White abelist family engagement…

Endocrinology fellows Dr. Sanna Fatima and Dr. Ainy Aziz (both Medicine) placed 1st and 2nd for the poster competition at the Western Endocrine Association annual meeting held August 25-27 in Sedona, Arizona. Their poster titles were "Type B Insulin Resistance" and "Massive Adreno-myelolipomas due to Longstanding CAH."

Ph.D. candidate and member of the Colorado National Guard Kathryn Bell (Integrated Health Sciences) has been selected to be part of the U.S. Army's inaugural Women's Initiatives Team. This team "is composed of representatives from across the Army who will advocate for Army policy, programs and resource changes to set conditions for success in…

Steven Payne (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and his graduate students recently published a new paper on the role of human attention on the behavior of shelter dogs. In the paper, they assess whether attention serves as a reinforcer to teach new behavior to dogs, if they can condition attention to serve as a reinforcer, and…

Katie Wade-Jaimes, Micah Stohlmann, Katrina Liu (Education), Monika Neda (Sciences), and Mei Yang (Engineering) received a grant of $1.2M from the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to prepare culturally competent science and math teachers. The team will prepare a new cadre of eight undergraduate STEM students per…

Professor Roberto Lovato (English) was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times' piece about author Myrian Gurba, with whom he led the #Dignidadliteraria campaign that challenged U.S. publishing in 2020.