Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) was selected by the English Department as their 2025 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Department Alumni. The 2025 Distinguished Department Alumni Cohort was recognized at the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation and presented with "COLA Keys to Success."

John Starkey (Kerestesi Center for Insurance and Risk Management; Business) was honored with the Showstopper of the Year title at the American Cancer Society’s Fork Cancer event in Las Vegas. Fork Cancer recognized twenty distinguished "Showstoppers," each tasked with raising critical funds to support the American Cancer Society’s mission. Through…

Steve Pace (Criminal Justice), Stephen Benning (Psychology), Logan Kennedy (Criminal Justice), and Jade Laughlin published an article, "Predictors of Successful Resolutions and Avoidance of Harms in Crisis Negotiations: An Analysis of the FBI’s HOBAS Database from 1982 to 2023." Crisis negotiation incidents can be emotionally charged events and…

Kenyon Lee Whitman (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) co-authored a paper in AERA Open titled "Secondary and Postsecondary Education Outcomes of Students with Experience in Foster Care: Systematic Review of the Literature From 2000–2023." This study provides a definitive publication that reports secondary and postsecondary…

Michael Don Fraser (University Libraries) is the recipient of the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivist (CIMA) 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. Presented by the peers and colleagues of the recipient, the prestigious CIMA Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledges and demonstrates appreciation for a life of service and…

Dr. Gregory Brown (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; Medicine) published "Advanced Integrative Therapy: Practice and Research" with co-author Elizabeth Pace in the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) Energy Field Quarterly Digital Newsletter, Spring 2025.

Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by CBS News for the story titled, "Experts cast doubt on Trump's claim that Abrego Garcia's finger tattoos prove MS-13 membership."

Dr. Emma Little (Medicine), an emergency medicine resident from the Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered an outstanding oral research abstract presentation at the Western Regional SAEM Conference held at UC Irvine on April 10-11, 2025. Little presented her team's abstract titled: Little E, Limov A, Anderson K, Altholz J, Yim J, Domanski K…

Dr. Skylar Riggs (Medicine), a senior emergency medicine resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered an outstanding oral research abstract presentation at the Western Regional SAEM Conference held at UC Irvine on April 10-11, 2025. Riggs presented his team's abstract titled: Riggs S, Edrissi C, Molion M, Herrera P, Giles G,…