Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in The Hill addressing the need for the House Financial Services Committee to question the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about its strategic plans for advancing consumer protection.  The op-ed was with Christopher Odinet, an associate professor of law and the Univeristy of Oklahoma College…

Lucas Graff (Office of Student Conduct) and Janna Bernstein (Service Learning and Leadership) recently presented their work, "Community in a Borderland: A Case Study of How Pet-owners Experience Community in a Gentrifying Neighborhood" at the 22nd Annual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences conference at the Flamingo.

Charlotta Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) along with co-authors Mark Callis Sanders and Marshall Tuten (Slippery Rock University) have published an opinion commentary in the journal Trends in Technical and Scientific Research titled “Over Fossil Fueled: The Fundamentals for a Low-Carbon Diet." Their commentary highlights a few of the challenges,…

Artem V. Gelis (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded a U.S. patent granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the technology, "Molybdenum Recovery from Aqueous Nitric Acid Solution by Solvent Extraction." The invention provides a method for extracting transition metals, the method comprising supplying a feedstream…

Donald Price (Life Sciences) had a paper, "Hawaiian Picture‐winged Drosophila Exhibit Adaptive Population Divergence along a Narrow Climatic Gradient on Hawaii Island,"  published in Ecology and Evolution. The paper stems from work done in Price's laboratory with Jonathan Eldon, a previous graduate student now at Indiana University, and…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) has been selected to attend the Rare Book School course "The Printed Book in the West to 1800," this June in Charlottesville, Virginia. The school is an independent institute supporting the study of the history of books and printing. 

Xue Xing (Teaching and Learning) published the article "Using the Log-Linear Cognitive Diagnosis Model to Classify Individuals in Career and Educational Assessment" in International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. This study provides a tutorial for conducting analyses using the log-linear cognitive diagnosis model (…

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science) has been awarded the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations-International Affairs Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year.  Her fellowship year will be spent at the United Nations organization UNESCO, based in Paris, where she will continue her research on digital terrorism and online radicalization by…

Katrina Harris and Wendy Hoskins (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) presented at the Nevada School Counselor Association Conference in Las Vegas earlier this month. The presentation centered on developing self-advocacy strategies for students from underrepresented groups.