William Davenport (Dental Medicine) served as an accreditation consultant to the University of Nuevo Leon School of Dentistry (UANL), located in Monterrey, Mexico. During the visit, he presented information about competency-based education and how to develop rubrics for competency assessment. UANL, the third largest dental school in Mexico, is…

Angela Silvestri-Elmore, Jennifer Kawi, and Du Feng (Nursing) co-authored “The Predictors of Cultural Competence among New Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Graduates: Implications for Nursing Education,” which appeared in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. The article, which appeared online Dec. 20, explores which teaching method — stand-…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) is featured in a National Geographic documentary titled "Gender Revolution: A Journey With Katie Couric." The documentary premiers Monday, Feb. 6, on the National Geographic channel. Davis is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (2015, NYU Press).  

The School of Nursing earned the Seven Hills Hospital Foundation Award during a ceremony in December. The annual award recognizes a community organization that works with the hospital to promote service, service-learning, and civic engagement. The school received praise for launching a mentorship/new graduate program, providing continuing…

Tanya Al-Talib (Dental Medicine) received the 2016 Orthodontic Faculty Development Fellowship Award from the American Association of Orthodontics Foundation. The $11,700 award is designed to support the scholarship of junior orthodontic faculty. She will use the award to continue her project titled " 3 D Airway Volume and Shape Comparison between…

Catherine Dingley (Nursing) co-authored “The Integration of Emotional, Physiologic, and Communication Responses to Medical Oncology Surveillance Appointments during Breast Cancer Survivorship,” with colleagues from the University of Utah. The aim of this study was to evaluate associations between emotional (uncertainty, anxiety, concerns about…

Timothy Erwin (English) presented a paper, “Venus, Pope, the Carracci, and the Stuart Court,” at the annual meeting of the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies in Oxford earlier this month and saw a book chapter, “The Changing Patterns of Iconology,” appear in the collection W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory (Routledge 2017). …

Kimberly Case-Nichols (Campus Life Facilities & Operations) has received the certified educational facilities professional (CEFP) credential from APPA, an association dedicated to leadership in educational facilities. The CEFP is a way to validate the unique knowledge and competency required of an accomplished professional in the educational…

Frank van Breukelen (Life Sciences) received a four-year, $797,810 National Science Foundation grant to study hibernation in tenrecs. The current views about mammalian hibernation were developed using traditional models such as the ground squirrel. In these models, hibernators periodically rewarm to active levels between bouts of depressed…