Ruben Garcia (Law) presented "Responding to Janus v. AFSCME" at the annual meeting of the National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions in New York City earlier this month.

Alain Bengochea (Educational & Clinical Studies) co-presented a study titled "Emergent Bilingual Children’s Use of Multimodal Practices to Support and Enhance their Varying Purposes of Show-and-Tell” at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference. 

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) gave a talk, "Cultural Aspects of Communicating with Hispanic Patients," at the UMC Emergency Medicine Research Program earlier this month.

Erin Hamilton (Accounting) was awarded a three-year fellowship  with EY. EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Hamilton is the second faculty member in accounting to be named an EY fellow.

Eve Hanan (Law) presented her research on the implications of neuroplasticity in criminal sentencing decisions at the University of New Mexico School of Law in Albuquerque earlier this month.

Michael Johnson (Nursing) presented "Cancer Risk Factors in a Sample of Sexual Minorities: Dietary Intake, Obesity, Alcohol, and Tobacco" at the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 39th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in New Orleans.  

Daniel Chi (Finance) and his co-authors' paper "Why Has the Value of Cash Increased over Time?" was published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. This publication is considered to be an A+ journal in finance. Additionally, he recently was interviewed by Las Vegas Sun and discussed issues concerning debt…

Andrea Darby (Life Sciences) recently won first prize in the Science Slam competition at the 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Philadelphia. The title of her spoken word piece was "Pet Project." She is an undergraduate student in her senior year.

Jun Yong Kang and Hai Huang (both Chemistry and Biochemistry), as well as computational study collaborators at the University of Colorado, Denver, published a research article, "Direct Aryloxylation/Alkyloxylation of Dialkyl Phosphonates for the Synthesis of Mixed Phosphonates," in Angewandte Chemie. This research demonstrates a new synthetic…