Georgia College & State University has selected LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) as a visiting scholar for spring 2024. As a visiting scholar she will share a special lecture series and guest appearance on campus in the spring of 2024. She is elated to represent the great work happening at…

Nachman Gutowski (Law) presented and moderated several sessions at LexCon ’23 by AccessLex in Chicago. His talks were entitled “Measuring Success: Evolving Approaches to Data Collection and Reporting,” as well as "The Genius Hour: Academic and Bar Success." He moderated two panels, “ChatGPT in the Classroom,” and “Put Your Oxygen Mask On First:…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) and a colleague wrote a profile on the 2024 American Sociological Association (ASA) president in the publication Footnotes.

Mary Bondmass and Karen Holt (both Nursing) presented an oral platform at the 47th Biennial Convention of Sigma, the International Honor Society for Nursing on Nov. 12 in San Antonio, TX. Their presentation was titled "Mastery Learning with Adaptive Quizzes Compared to Traditional Online Quizzes to Promote Content Competency."  

Alexandria Evans and Gabriela Buccini (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 2023 APHA Conference on Nov. 12. Their presentation was part of the Perinatal and Women's Health Poster Session titled "Perceived discrimination when utilizing maternal-child perinatal care: A qualitative study."    

Amanda Saragosa, Jason Flatt, and Gabriela Buccini (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 2023 APHA on Nov. 12. Their presentation was part of the Food and Nutrition Section Poster titled "Using concept mapping to co-design intervention strategies to tackle maternal-child food insecurity across racial/ethnic underserved communities in…

Ben Leffel (Public Policy and Leadership) is lead author in a new study published in Cities , titled "Not so polycentric: The stratified structure & national drivers of transnational municipal networks" that has mapped the known universe of cities in these global governance networks. This analysis of over 10,000 cities and their…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) and team from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, recently had their article, "Analyzing aberrant DNA methylation in Colorectal cancer uncovered intangible heterogeneity of gene effects in the survival time of patients," accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. The study employs advanced…

Nancy Lough (Education and UNLV Sports Innovation); along with Nicole M. LaVoi from the University of Minnesota; Alysse Soll, CEO of Underdog Advisory and Board Chair of Women in Sports Tech; and Marilou McFarlane, founder & CEO of Women in Sports Tech; hosted a panel on Women in Sport Innovation at the 5th Annual…