Cass Shum (Hospitality) and her coauthors' paper "Breaking the cycle: The effects of role model performance and ideal leadership self-concepts on abusive supervision spillover" was published in Journal of Applied Psychology. The paper investigates factors that can break the trickle-down effect of abusive supervision. We propose and test…
In January, Jichun Li, (Mathematics), was appointed as one of the managing editors for the journal Computers & Mathematics with Applications, one of the important international journals on computational mathematics. He has been serving on the editorial board since January 2012.
School of Nursing answered an invitation from the National League for Nursing to test new simulation education scenarios focused on pediatrics patients. Assistant professor Jessica Doolen, lecturer Lisa Nicholas, graduate assistant Jennifer Pfannes, and three nursing students piloted, provided suggestions for enhancing content, and evaluated the…
Marcia Ditmyer (Dental) accepted an invitation to author an editorial from the American Journal of Public Health. Her article titled “Can Tobacco Cessation Quitlines Improve the Use of Dental Health Care” appeared in the May issue and concludes that while cessation quitlines can improve dental health care. Sufficient resources and innovative…
Nora Caberoy (Life Sciences) and Francisco Sy (Community Health Sciences) gave their research presentations at the 38th Philippine American Academy of Science and Engineering Annual Meeting and Symposium public health session at the University of Arizona earlier this month. Caberoy presented her research "Lessons from the Eye: Can We Redirect the…
Ruben Garcia (Law) presented "Responding to Janus v. AFSCME" at the annual meeting of the National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions in New York City earlier this month.
Alain Bengochea (Educational & Clinical Studies) co-presented a study titled "Emergent Bilingual Children’s Use of Multimodal Practices to Support and Enhance their Varying Purposes of Show-and-Tell” at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference. 
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) gave a talk, "Cultural Aspects of Communicating with Hispanic Patients," at the UMC Emergency Medicine Research Program earlier this month.
Erin Hamilton (Accounting) was awarded a three-year fellowship  with EY. EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Hamilton is the second faculty member in accounting to be named an EY fellow.

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