Hyunhwa 'Henna' Lee (Nursing) and her transdisciplinary team, including graduate students Cynthia Lee (Integrated Health Sciences), and Ye Eun Nam (Medicine), published “Association between depressive symptoms and dynamic balance among young adults in the community” in Heliyon. The team found a significant…

During the recent American Dental Education Association (ADEA) annual meeting, Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) led a seminar titled, “Facing a Public Health Crisis: Initiatives in Dental Sleep Medicine,” and Dr. Sonal Shah and Dr. Jessica Owens (also Dental) presented “Road to Residency” to dental students from around the country regarding the…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Assessment and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: a sexual medicine perspective," in Sexual Medicine Reviews. 

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) coauthored the recent publication, "Toward the integration of speciation research," in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. This paper outlines the major roadblocks to — and potential solutions for — both the integration of the many subfields of speciation biology and the entry into these…

Robert Futrell (Sociology) and Emily Wagner (Sociology Ph.D. student) recently published the third edition of American Swastika: Inside the U.S. White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate. Co-authored with Pete Simi (Chapman University, UNLV Sociology Alumnus 2002), the book uses powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) was recently featured on The Leadership Educator podcast as a returning guest. Satterwhite and his collaborators Kate Sheridan (Duquesne University) and Whitney McIntyre Miller (Chapman University) recently edited special issue 179 of New Directions for Student Leadership. Titled, “Teaching…

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a $400,000 award from Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the nuclear workforce fellowship program. Two Ph.D. students and two M.S. students will be supported by the program.

Ph.D. candidate Shangjia Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) has been selected as a 2024 NASA Hubble Fellow. The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research that contributes to NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observation, experimentation, or instrument development.  Zhang's work was…

Zhange Feng (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded $2.1 M from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management to develop a comprehensive training system to prepare a large number of collegiate students as an emerging workforce for soil and groundwater remediation. It includes an enhanced curriculum through hands-on…