Reimund Serafica and Andrew Thomas Reyes (both Nursing) participated in a webinar to honor AAPI Heritage Month. The purpose of the webinar was to educate the audience on how to get resources in the community for Asian America Pacific Islander individuals dealing with mental health issues, food insecurity, and other pandemic-related issues.

Noah Romero (Teaching and Learning) recently published an article in the Waikato Journal of Education examining the effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on children in Aotearoa, New Zealand. One intriguing finding was the strength of children’s feelings of loss with regard to their friendship groups. Hegemonic thinking and attachment theory are…

Dr. Sonal Shah and Dr. Jyoti Mago (both Dental) co-presented their poster, “The Pivotal Role of Ultrasonography in Detecting Metastatic Head and Neck Cancers: A Review of Five Cases,” during the American Academy of Oral Medicine National Annual Meeting last month. The study found ultrasonography has superior soft tissue spatial resolution compared…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with a researcher from Fiji, published an article, "Knowledge or Awareness of Non-communicable Diseases and their Associated Risk Factors among University Students from Fiji: A Cross-sectional Study ," in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. Additionally, Batra, along with a researcher from Indiana, published…

Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Comparative Analysis of Gene Expression Patterns for Oral Epithelial Cell Functions in Periodontitis,” which published May 23 in Frontiers in Oral Health, within the Oral Infections and Microbes section.

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) and Shi-Quan Nettingham, '20 MA Journalism and Media Studies, presented their research, "'Stick to Sports” and Critical Sports Media Industry Studies," at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference in Paris. 

Marta Soligo (International Gaming Institute and Sociology) gave a presentation last month at the Sustainable Tourism Africa Summit 2022. Her speech centered around sustainable tourism, popular culture, and the post-pandemic recovery.

Kyaw Min Tun, Annie S. Hong, Kavita Batra, Yassin Naga and Gordon Ohning (all Medicine), published an article, "A Systematic Review of the Efficacy and Safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy and Clostridioides difficile Infection in Patients With Cirrhosis" in the Cureus journal.

Hyunhwa 'Henna' Lee (Nursing) published "Detection of Walking Features Using Mobile Health and Deep Learning" in Applied Sciences, with Sungchul Lee (Computer Sciences) of Sun Moon University in South Korea. Acceleration and rotational data of walking movement collected in real time from a small sample of mild traumatic brain…