Dr. Kristen Purcell (Medicine), a senior emergency medicine resident from the Department of Emergency Medicine, was awarded the Best Oral Research Presentation in the Pediatrics/Global Emergency Medicine Section at the Western Regional Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Conference held at UC Irvine on April 10-11, 2025.  Purcell…

Dr. Steven Mowen (Medicine) won the Exemplary Plenary Research Presentation Award at the Western Regional Society of Academic Emergency Medicine meeting held at UC Irvine on April 10-11, 2025. Mowen is an emergency physician (completed his EM residency at the KKSOM, Department of Emergency Medicine) and is a current Critical Care Fellow at the…

Ph.D. candidate Analiesa (Annie) Delgado (History) won the Huggins-Quarles Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Huggins-Quarles Award supports graduate students to travel to archives for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation. Delgado will use the award to conduct research at the National Archives for her dissertation about…

Anam Fatima and Asma Awan (both Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a poster titled, "Mentoring and Training the Entry-Level Public Health Workforce on Experiential Learning in an Academic Setting" at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Annual Conference held…

Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) qualified as a Board Certified Entomologist (BCE) with a specialty credential in Medical & Veterinary Entomology. The BCE highlights professionals who work in increasingly complex entomological disciplines where credentialing provides assurance of training and expertise. The specialty…

On April 21, Roberto Lovato (English) delivered a seminar on Memoria Historica: The Politics and Poetics of Memory in Creative Nonfiction to students in Columbia University's School of the Arts Writing Program.  

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the current issue of IEEE Computer titled: "Cyberdidacticism: The New Epistemic Paradigm for Cognitive Minimalism and Generative Artificial Intellitence." In this critical article Berghel advances the Cyberdidact Hypothesis: To the extent that it makes sense to correlate personality traits…

DMA oboe student and P.T.I. Nicholas Carozza (Music) is heading to Colorado for a sold out performance at the Saddlehorn Amphitheater on the Colorado National Monument for National Parks week. Nick will perform with Justin G. Russell Jr. on double bass. The duo will perform music from the renaissance to modern day, including a world premiere by…

Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing) and Reimund Serafica (Nursing) published an article in the Health and Technology journal titled, "Task Effectiveness, Usability, and Acceptability of mHealth Technologies Among Older Adults At Risk for Cardiovascular Disease: A Feasibility Study."