Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) was awarded an NIH R16 SuRE FIRST grant titled, "Effects of time-of-day dependent exercise training on social jet lag induced susceptibility to cardiometabolic disease," for $747,500 over four years. This grant, supported by NIGMS, will investigate how social jet lag, a novel and pervasive form…
Professor Robert Futrell (Sociology) gave a keynote talk at the opening session for the Mobilization Conference on Protest, Resistance, and Democratic Retreat in San Diego, California, on June 9, 2023. The talk, “The Constellation of Extremist White Supremacism: A Cognitive-Emotional Approach,” explained how white supremacist extremism endures,…
Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "The Role of State Subsidy Policies in Early Education Programs' Decisions to Accept Subsidies: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data," in Early Education and Development. This study uses a nationwide sample of early education centers and state-…
Margaret Trnka, Ed.D., MSN, RN, (Nursing) is the primary author of an article, "Improving Student Engagement in Nursing Education through Game-Based Learning," published in Research on Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) and Drs. Bill Montagne, Spencer Muscelli, Joshua Goldman, and Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (all Medicine; Otolaryngology; Head and Neck Surgery) co-authored and presented the poster, “Primary Intraosseous Carcinoma of the Mandible Originally Diagnosed as Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Unknown Primary: Case Report,” during the…
Mohammad Sohail Akhter (Social and Behavioral Health), an incoming graduate student received the Injury and Prevention Student Research Grant from The Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus for the academic year 2023-24. His project is titled, “Theory-based determinants of stopping drowsy driving…
Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) gave a Keynote presentation titled, "Bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaw-A possible underdiagnosed entity: Case Series for a Radiographic Guide," during the Global Tech Summit 2023 in Toronto, Canada.
Tim Grigsby, Andrea Lopez (both Social and Behavioral Health), Rei Serafica (Nursing), and colleagues published a paper titled, "Mental Health and Substance Misuse Indicators Associated with First-Time Homelessness among a Community Sample of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults," in the journal Behavioral Medicine. This study explores the…
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) and his colleagues recently published a chapter titled, "Anemia in the Critical Care Setting" for the 9th edition of Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine published by Wolters Kluwer.

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