Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) was awarded a pilot grant through the Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) for a project titled "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use Among U.S. Older Adults, 2015-2019." The project is a secondary data analysis of publicly available nationally…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies), Richard Johnson (Arizona State), Miles Romney (Brigham Young University), and Kia Cummings (MA graduate in Journalism and Media Studies) presented "The Rinaldi Frame: College Gameday, the NCAA, and Black Hardship" to the AEJMC annual conference from Aug. 3-6 in Detroit, MI. 

April Ursula Fox (Sponsored Programs) recently published the book Social Media Analytics Strategy: Using Data to Optimize Business Performance through Apress/Springer. She is a grant specialist as well as a PhD student in educational psychology. The book is a result of her 10 years of work in analytics. From understanding the data and…

Dak Kopec (Architecture) published the novel "Broken Boys Beyond Friendships." The novel tells the story of three young men navigating life in the early to mid-1990s. While the content is fictional, many of the situations and circumstances are based on real-life events.  

Deepal Patel, Shaun Andersen, Genesis Leon, Cynthia Lee, and Edward Simanton (all Medicine) recently published an article in the journal Cureus titled "Exploration of the Role of Relationships and Virtual Learning on Academic Performance and Mental Health." The purpose of this study was to determine if correlations exist between academic…

  Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology), an associate professor in the Lee Business school, won a prestigious award for his paper titled, "Does a common mechanism engender common results? Sustainable development trade-offs in the global carbon offset market." published in Academy of Management Discoveries…

Soumya Upadhyay's (Healthcare Administration and Policy) paper titled "Physician Hospital Integration and its Effect on Hospital Performance: A Study of U.S. Hospitals" was among the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management's 'Best Paper' finalists and also received a Runners-Up award.

Cyrus Ford Zarganj (Libraries) delivered the online workshop "Cataloging Middle Eastern Video Recordings using RDA and MARC21" to the Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Cataloging. The workshop covered an introduction to cataloging visual materials in various formats, including VHS, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs, using…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented a paper titled "On Virtuous Loving Relationships with Animals" at the fifteenth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, hosted by the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.