Radiochemistry has seven doctoral students who have received fellowships in 2013 and 2014. They are: Jamie Daum and Daniel Mast, who received graduate fellowships through the U.S. Department of Energy's integrated university program. Marc Fitzgerald, who received an internship through the Livermore Graduate Scholar Program and a nuclear forensics…

Jessica Doolen, Michelle Giddings, and Michael Johnson (all Nursing), along with Gigi Guizado de Nathan and Lysander Abadia of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, authored "An Evaluation of Mental Health Simulation with Standardized Patients." The article, which appeared in the March issue of the International Journal of Nursing Education…

Emmanuel Sarris (Continuing Education) was a presenter at the annual meeting of the software company Jenzabar in Washington, D.C., in May. His presentation was titled "Time is Now: Innovative Ways to Grow Your Continuing Education Department."

Nancy Lough and Lisa Rubin (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) made a research presentation, "Equity, Equality and Need: Reflections on 40 Years of Title IX," at the annual meeting of the College Sports Research Institute in Columbia, S.C.

Lorena Pike (World Languages and Cultures) presented two workshops, "Spanish Translation of Business Contracts" and "Adoption & Foster Care: A Vocabulary Workshop," during the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators annual conference in Las Vegas in May. She also held duties at the conference as a member of the…

Dan Bubb (Academic Assessment) and Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences) made a presentation at the Association for Assessment of Higher Learning Education's fourth annual Assessment Conference in Albuquerque in June. The presentation highlighted the value of bringing faculty, students, alumni, and employers together to discuss ways to improve…

Maulah Adanri and Paul Smith (Nursing) have been selected as Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars by the School of Nursing. Each of these doctoral students will receive $20,000 for their nursing studies during the next two years, making them part of a national effort to combat the nursing faculty shortage and prepare future nurses as America's healthcare…

Erica Marti (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) is among 25 graduate students across the country selected to conduct research in Australia as part of the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI). For eight weeks this summer, she is doing research at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, involving potable water reuse and…

Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been invited to speak at the Sun Yatsen University Conference on Chinese Workers in Guangzhou (Canton), China, in September; to the Stanford University Conference on Chinese Railroad Workers in October; and to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, in November.