Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), along with colleagues Gabriela Buccini, Miguel Fudolig, Manoj Sharma (all Public Health), William McCarthy (UCLA), and Stephanie Pitts (East Carolina University), has been awarded a four-year, $748,052 grant (1R16GM154708-01) from the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The…

Ph.D. student April Wallace (Life Sciences) has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for her proposal, "Exploring shikimate pathway disruption as a possible intrinsic isolating barrier in trees." This $1,500 award will be used to determine if disruption of a key biochemical pathway in…

Annie Vong (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), Zachary Billot (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), and Nicole Dias Del Valle (Political Science; Philosophy Law & Justice; Brookings Public Policy) recently co-authored a Brookings Institution blog post titled, "Youth voices in the 2024 election: What students want to see on the…

Jungnam Kim and Ching-Chen Chen (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published, “Beyond the model minority myth: Student-counselor interactions and college enrollment of Asian American students” in Psychology in the Schools. This study found Asian American (AA) students' connectedness to school in 9th grade can…

Sarah Wolff, Wilson Hatcher, and Dan Wright (all Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) recently published "Task-irrelevant visual distractions and mindful self-regulated learning in a low-stakes computer-based assessment" in Frontiers in Education. They examine how impactful distractions are during an assessment. 

Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) received the 2024 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of the Philippines Alumni Association on Aug. 17 in Manila, Philippines. The award honors Sy for devoting five decades of his life to public health and the empowerment of communities, and for mentoring and supporting…

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) competed in the summer Flagstaff Epee Event fencing competition on Saturday, August 24, earning a bronze medal in the D and Under event and 7th place in Senior Mixed Open. These results renew Cohen's national D rating, previously earned in 2022.    

Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published Improving physical activity and screen time in Australian Outside School Hours Care: Study protocol in the journal Pediatric Research. 

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published a new Informed Informality (his blog) post about the subtle power of appreciation. It draws on Mary Rowe's idea of microaffirmations and includes some hands-on knowledge garnered from my recent workshops for incoming students.  For more information about the Ombuds Office or to make an…