Kasra Ghaharian (International Gaming Institute) published "Players Gonna Pay: Characterizing gamblers and gambling-related harm with payments transaction data" in Computers in Human Behavior with co-authors Brett Abarbanel, Shane W Kraus, Ashok Singh, and Bo Bernhard. The study is the first to leverage gamblers' payments…

Members of the Holmes Scholars Program, Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) and Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education) were presenters at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) 2023 conference. They presented "Teacher Education Enrichment: What are universities doing to enhance…

Linh Nguyen and Class of 2022 alumnae Cynthia Le and Vivien Lee co-authored “Game-based learning in dental education,” which published online in the Journal of Dental Education. The four-year study compared game-based learning attitudes among students within different stages of their Doctor of Dental Medicine program. The results indicated that…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Extranodal manifestation of mantle cell lymphoma in the submandibular duct: A case report and review of literature,” which published in the March issue of Otolaryngology Case Reports.

The #EEGManyLabs project team, including Joel Snyder (Psychology), is being recognized with the Credibility in Neuroscience Team Award from the British Neuroscience Association. From the award announcement: "This project is led by Drs. Faisal Mushtaq and Yuri Pavlov, who are leading a collaborative international effort focused on improving…

Aidy Weeks (Libraries) is the co-recipient of the Carla J. Funk Governmental Relations Award from the Medical Library Association. The award recognizes medical librarians who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the area of governmental relations at the federal, state, or local level, and who has furthered the goal of providing quality…

Barbara Roth (Anthropology) has published a book, Households on the Mimbres Horizon, with the University of Arizona Press. The book is based on her excavations at La Gila Encantada, a Pithouse period (AD 550-1000) archaeological site located in southern New Mexico.

Andre Chiang, DMA (Voice, Music) performs this month with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra as the Baritone Soloist in Haydn’s The Seasons at the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans, LA. This concert, held on March 2, begins a month of events in and around the New Orleans area. Other performances will include an all Asian-American music…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an opinion piece in the LA Times Español on violence, non-human animals, and the "war on drugs" in Mexico.