Francesca Marineo, Chelsea Heinbach, and Rosan Mitola (all Libraries) authored an article, "Building a Culture of Collaboration and Shared Responsibility for Educational Equity Work through an Inclusive Teaching Community of Practice," published in Collaborative Librarianship.

Dr. Tanya Al-Talib, Dr. Hassan Ziada, Dr. Neamat Hassan, Jana Negrescu and Laurenc Kodra (all Dental) co-authored “Molar Incisor Hypomineralization: Awareness among Postdoctoral Dental Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study,” which published April 6 in Dentistry Journal. Negrescu and Kodra are fourth-year dental students.

Patricia A. Heisser Metoyer (English, Psychology, Interdisciplinary Studies) was awarded a Los Angeles Review Board ( LARB ) Publishing Workshop Fellowship from June 27 to July 30. The Los Angeles Review of Books will host the fifth annual LARB Publishing Workshop, guiding a new cohort of students through the world of publishing with…

Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Austin Taylor and Brennan Truman (all Dental) with Keegan Lott, Paris Collier and Marc Ringor (all Medicine)  published the "Assessment and Analysis of Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) Biomarkers and Viability Following Cryopreservation Reveals Novel Association with miR-218 Expression" in the journal EC Dental…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) and Dr. Joe-Lawrence Bigcas (Medicine) presented a poster, “Hematologic Malignancy Presenting as Submandibular Duct Sialolithiasis” during the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology National Annual Meeting in April. The study’s results indicated that although metastases to the oral cavity are rare, they should…

Chericka Reese-Martin (Nursing) has been selected for the VA nurse practitioner residence program. She currently is a doctoral student in the family nurse practitioner program.

James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) was interviewed for the recently released book by Emma Loewe, Return to Nature: The Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us. The book highlights research from Navalta's laboratory group as the only study to directly measure perceptual and health benefits of the desert environment compared to…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) was co-organizer, with Karl Jacoby of Columbia University, of a conference honoring William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the occasion of his retirement. Cronon was Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies. The conference, Common…

Zahra Mojtahedi and Jay Shen (both Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper, "Home Palliative Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review" on American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care Medicine. Mojtahedi is a doctoral student.