Student Diversity and Social Justice (Student Affairs) received Congressional Commendation from U.S. Rep. Susie Lee for hosting the 32nd Annual Festival of Communities, the longest reigning campus tradition designed to acknowledge and celebrate diversity.

Susanna Newbury (Art) presented her research on Los Angeles artists engaging with the long tail of gentrification through real estate and development policy at the Aesthetics of Gentrification: Art, Architecture, and Displacement conference at the University of Oregon's Slow Lab in Portland. The conference assembled international scholars…

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity and Social Justice), published a book chapter in the second edition of Intersectionality & Higher Education: Research, Theory, & Praxis. The chapter is titled "Thinking Theoretically with and beyond #Intersectionality: Frameworks to Center Queer and Trans People of Color Experiences!" They also…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice) moderated two webinars with the American College Personnel Association Commission for Student Involvement. One focused on "Improving Campus Climate for Students with Disabilities." The topic of the second webinar was "IPlus Size Magic: Using Spoken Word for Fat Bodies." He also…

Stacey Tovino (Law) placed her latest article, “Going Rogue: Mobile Research Applications and the Right to Privacy,” in the Notre Dame Law Review. Building on her past works examining patient privacy and health information confidentiality, “Going Rogue” examines the privacy and security implications of mobile application-mediated health research…

Jason Klingler and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) published their manuscript "Aggregatibacter Ctinomycetemcomitans and Fusobacterium Nucleatum Prevalence Correlates with Salivary Microbial Burden in Orthodontic Patients" in the International Journal of Dental Research and Reviews.

Dr. Edward Lynch (Dental) co-presented a poster titled “Protocol for Anti-microbial Photodynamic Therapy (aPDT), with a Biofilm Remover and a Multiple Wavelength Diode Laser, for the Treatment of periodontitis” at the Biophotonics conference in March.

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Microbiome Profiles of Ligature-Induced Periodontitis in Nonhuman Primates Across the Lifespan,” which appeared in the March issue of Infection and Immunity. The study compared the microbiome colonizing teeth during the initiation, progression, and resolution of periodontitis in nonhuman primates at different…

Vikki Baltimore-Dale (Dance) was invited to deliver a TEDx talk and present choreography in Carson City. Her talk was two-fold. The first segment was a historical summary of the civil rights movement in the late '60s, early '70s with the focus placed on civil rights icon Angela Davis, the inspiration for Dale's choreographic work.…