Carlos Tkacz (English) published "Is Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns Fascist? Resolving the Paradoxes of Heroic Violence​" in the Popular Culture Review, in which he argues that The Dark Knight Returns traces the polarizing paradoxes seen between the political left and right in the United States—the right at once advocating for…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with Global Demographic Collaborators published a study "Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with the Global Nervous System Collaborators published a study "Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" in the Lancet Neurology.  This study estimated nervous system health loss caused by 37…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Sidath Kapukotuwa, Liliana Davalos, Laurencia Bonsu (all Social and Behavioral Health) published an article titled, “Theory-based antecedents…

Dr. Tooba Laeeq, Dr. Kyaw Tun, Dr. Tahne Vongsavath, Dr. Aditi Singh and Dr. Vignan Manne (all Internal Medicine) published "Incidence and Risk Factor of Clostrodium Difficile infection in liver transplant patients: A comprehensive literature review" in Clinical Liver Disease.    

Professor Courtney Cross (Law) presented on "Parenting Under Siege: Reckoning with Coercive Control" as part of the University of California, Irvine's Initiative to End Family Violence. 

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) is the recipient of the SOPHE Leaders in Equity & Diversity (LEAD) Fellowship Award, which will be presented during the 2024 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri from Mar. 19-21. This award is being presented for completion of the fellowship, which sought…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues published an article on "Measurements of brown carbon and its optical properties from boreal forest fires in Alaska summer" in the journal Atmospheric Environment. In this study the team investigated emission and aging of brown carbon (BrC) aerosol from boreal…

Professor Mary Beth Beazley (Law) gave several workshops on Logic and Opinion Writing for the National Judicial College's training on March 13 and 14 at the Thomas & Mack Moot Court.