The College of Engineering is proud to share that fiscal year 2017 marks its most prolific year in funded awards. A total of 130 funded proposals brought in $13.9 million in research funding, a 61 percent increase over last year. The college is committed to pursuing and conducting influential research that is key to a growing STEM-driven economic…

Katherine Keller and Matthew Murray (both Libraries) were featured on panels during “Talking Comics with America’s Educators: The Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians” hosted at the San Diego Central Library in conjunction with San Diego Comic-Con in July. Keller, a Comic Book Legal Defense Fund board member, was a panelist on “Library…

Drs. Eve Chung, Edward Herschaft, and Stanley Nelson (Dental) provided lectures about dental occlusion, tempomandibular disorders, forensic dentistry, case studies, and other topics at Nankai University in Tainjin, China. The trio also participated in a seminar with dental and graduate students at Lanzhou University that addressed multiple topics…

Sharon Tettegah (Teaching & Learning) has been elected treasurer-elect of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. The mission of the division is to expand and apply psychological knowledge and theory relevant to education and promote joint action with others having similar purposes in…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) participated in a debate with professor Eric Graf of the Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), titled "Tilting at Windmills." The July 22 debate about the multiple messages in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote, was a breakout session during the 11th  annual conference (…

Danica Hays (College of Education) was selected as the recipient of the 2017 Publication Award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) for her book, Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence: A Systems Approach. This national award is presented to one individual per year and recognizes a publication of particular…

Dana Bickmore (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Marytza A. Gawlik (Florida State University) recently published the first of two edited volumes of research focused on the charter school principal. This first volume provides a foundational understanding of the charter school principalship through the lens of culture, mission ,and…

Connie Mobley (Dental) co-authored “Association between Sugar Intake, Oral Health, and the Impact on Overall Health: Raising Public Awareness,” which examined evidence about how sugar can contribute to oral health disease and oral-systemic complications. The article appeared online July 10.

James Croft and Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and a team of researchers recently published a paper, "Universality and Chaoticity in Ultracold K + KRb Chemical Reactions," in the journal Nature Communications. The team performed the first-ever quantum-mechanical simulation of the benchmark ultracold chemical reaction between…