Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) presented a paper and poster, "WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Framework for Wikidata Graph Exploration and Visualization," at the 4th Wikidata Workshop co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2023) in Athens Greece. The paper was co-authored by Cory Lampert and Andre Hulet (both…

Charlton Bassett, Hunter Triplett, Keegan Lott (all Medicine) with Katherine M. Howard and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) recently published their study, "Differential Expression of MicroRNA (MiR-27, MiR-145) among Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) Following Neurogenic Differentiation Stimuli," in the MDPI journal, Biomedicines. 

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) was reappointed by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), "the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world,” to be a member of its Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) Specialty Practice Section (SPS) Committee. Her term has been extended to 2025. Her article…

Ben Leffel (Public Policy and Leadership) has published a new piece in npj Climate Action (with coauthors Don Grant and Evan Johnson) on what matters for decarbonizing power plants: They show that for the world's power plants, what matters for carbon emissions reductions (2009-2018) is not national-level climate policy, but city-level climate…

Skip Crooker (Decision Support), along with Aju Fenn (Colorado College), have published a paper titled, "The Dollar Value of an NFL Rivalry." The analysis within the paper quantifies the dollar value of a divisional rivalry between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers by asking survey respondents how much they would be…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published a paper titled, “Asynchronous Online Teaching of Research Methods to Graduate Students: Application of the Multi-Theory Model of Health Behavior Change,” in ICERI 2023 Proceedings. The article is a case study of a successful pedagogical application of his fourth-generation…

Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently delivered a Forum Talk at the 10th Cuban Cardiology Congress in Havana, Cuba. His talk, “Translating cell therapy: Insights and scientific progress,” was focused on the preclinical as well as clinical evidence supporting the efficacy of cell therapy for cardiovascular diseases, while underscoring the challenges…

Professor John Curry (History) traveled to Reston, Virginia, for the annual Development Committee meeting tasked with producing the future versions of the Advanced Placement World History examinations for high school students throughout the global K-12 system. Acting as the Higher Education co-chair of the committee overseeing the process of…

Professor William Joseph Sipe (Honors) recently presented an article at the National Communication Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C. The paper, titled "Fantasies of Whiteness Lost: Eco-Fascism in the Modern Viking Community," was a chapter of his 2023 dissertation.