Hyunhwa Lee, Rhone D’Errico, Rhigel Tan and Reimund Serafica (all Nursing) were panelists for the webinar called “Let’s Talk: Suicide Awareness in the AAPI Community." They discussed the barriers, challenges, and stigma within the Asian American Pacific Islanders and solutions and recommendations to bring understanding and offer resources…

Karl Kingsley, Katherine Howard, Dr. Victoria Sullivan, Dr. Jens Wilson, Tatiana Alhwayek, Sarah Swanbeck, and Gavin Banning (all Dental), co-authored “Assessment of Sodium Diamine Fluoride (SDF) with Light Curing Technique: A Pilot Study of Antimicrobial Effects,” which published April 7 in the MDPI Journal Methods and Protocols. Wilson is a…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Implementation of the Strategy for Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding in the Federal District in Brazil" in the Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. The Brazilian Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Strategy—Estratégia Amamenta e Alimenta…

Cass Shum and Ankita Ghosh (both Hospitality) recently published their paper "Safety or Service? Effects of Employee Prosocial Safety-Rule-Breaking on Consumer Satisfaction" in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. The paper showed that employees' prosocial safety-rule breaking hurts consumer satisfaction because it decreases…

Brittani Sterling, Aidy Weeks, Halle Burns, Mayra Corn, Jennifer Culley, Christina Miskey, Stephanie Fell, Sarah Jones, Ruby Nugent, and Rebecca Orozco (all Libraries) published the article "Working Towards Tenure Together: Creating an Intersectional Peer Supported Cohort Model" in the peer-reviewed journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe …

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with researchers from the United States, Australia, and China, published a manuscript titled "Mental disorder symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America – a systematic review and meta-analysis" in the journal Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. This study provides meta-analytical evidence on mental…

Amruta Godbole, Sheniz Moonie, Ann Vuong (all Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental & Occupational Health) along with Cai Zhang of Tongji Hospital and Aimen Chen of the University of Pennsylvania, published a paper on "Exploratory analysis of the associations between neonicotinoids and measures of adiposity…

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) gave the keynote talk "Spanishes of Peru: Diversity and educational challenges" as part of the events of the Spanish language week organized by the Professional School of Translation and Interpreting of the Women's University of the Sacred Heart (UNIFE) in Lima, Peru.

Carlos S. Dimas (History) gave a virtual talk at the University of Idaho on the history of coffee production and the influence of climate change in El Salvador. The talk is part of an article he is researching and writing on the history of nutrition, hunger, and agriculture in El Salvador during the Cold War.