Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues at University of Kansas (led by Kelsie Forbush, Ph.D.) published a new paper in JMIR Formative Research detailing the development of their new mobile health program to treat eating disorders among university students, "The Building Healthy Eating and Self-Esteem Together for University…

Gary Totten (English) has published the article, "Edith Wharton's Island Ecologies and The Cruise of the Vanadis," in the journal Edith Wharton Review. Totten examines what readers learn about the U.S. writer Edith Wharton’s view of island ecosystems in her 1888 diary of her Aegean cruise, The Cruise of the Vanadis, when we approach…

Madeline (Maddy) Anderson, Erika Busbee, and Melissa Barber recently presented on "Leveraging Hybrid Teams In the Modern Certification Environment" at the Western Association of Veteran Education Specialists (WAVES) conference held this year in Reno, Nevada. The trio are VA School Certifying Officials (SCOs) on staff within the UNLV Military…

Asma Awan and Manoj Sharma (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper titled, “Protocol for youth healthcare dashboard: An integration of public health informatics with a contemporary behavioral model,” at the VIII-International European Conference on Interdisciplinary Scientific Research held in Rome, Italy on July 14, 2023.  The…

John Curry (History) has just been appointed for a two-year term as the Higher Education co-chair for the Advanced Placement World History Exam Development Committee, where he will head up the committee that vets and prepares the questions for the AP World History: Modern Exam for over 360,000 high school students throughout the U.S. and…

Amanda Melilli (Libraries), along with colleagues Alicia G. Vaandering (University of Rhode Island) and James W. Rosenzweig (Eastern Washington University), presented, "Stories to Empower our Communities: Promoting Diverse LGBTQIA+ Narratives in Picture Book Collections," at the 2023 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago,…

Christian Jensen, Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science), and assistant teaching professor Steven Landis (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) have recently published new research in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe that examines the relationship between vulnerability to climate change, political institutions and…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) co-authored a chapter titled, "Leadership Learning," in the new book, A Research Agenda for Leadership Learning and Development Through Higher Education, published by Edward Elgar. Satterwhite and his co-author, Benjamin Correia-Harker of Marquette University, explore brain-based factors…

Deborah A. Kuhls, MD FACS, FCCM, chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery and chief of Trauma at UMC (Medicine), along with Susan Briggs, MD, FACS associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, co-presented "Leading through Challenging times: Mass Casualties" webinar series sponsored by the Society of Vascular Surgeons, July 12, 2023. This…