The office of undergraduate research (OUR) recently held its Fall 2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium and the College of Sciences brought home several honors, including: The School of Life Sciences earned the Champions of Undergraduate Research Award for its commitment to excellence in research education. The…

Angela Chen (Finance) and Justin de Leon (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) placed second out of 14 teams in the Sherwin-Williams Marketing Design Competition with the digital marketing plan they created and presented. Chen is a junior in the finance program at the Lee Business School. De Leon is a junior in civil…

Alisha Kerlin (Barrick Museum) will take part in an online "Director's Discussion" at New Mexico State University Art Museum during the opening night of “Sorry for the Mess (SFTM),” featuring work by artists Justin Favela and Ramiro Gomez, originated at the Barrick Museum of Art. The discussion takes place at 6 p.m., Jan. 21 via Zoom.

Dana Bickmore, Maria Roberts, and Miguel Gonzales (all Educational Psychology and Higher Education) recently presented at the University Council of Educational Administrators annual conference.  Their presentation, “Exploring Principal Communities of Practice and School Improvement,” reviewed their research conducted in conjunction with Clark…

Arnold M. Salazar, Amanda M. Leisgang, Andrew A. Ortiz, and Jefferson W. Kinney (all Brain Health) published a paper titled, “Alterations of GABA B Receptors in the APP/PS1 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease” in the journal of Neurobiology of Aging. The paper describes the changes occurring in an Amyloid Beta mouse model of Alzheimer's disease…

Dañelle Sundell and Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) presented a co-authored paper at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Titled "Community College Students with Disabilities: An Intersectional Analysis," the study examined the academic progress and college completion of more…

Dr. Jessica Immonen (Dental) was elected to serve a two-year term as a member of the American Association of Clinical Anatomist's Branding and Promotion Committee to spearhead the evolution of the AACA's digital materials.

Harriet E. Barlow, executive director of The Intersection, joined a panel of Southern Illinois University students, staff, and alumni to discuss African American historical events in the regions surrounding SIU System campuses and highlight influences these historical episodes have had on SIU System development. Airing on Nov. 16, the panel…

Drs. Neamat Hassan and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) are serving as guest editors for a special issue of the Journal of Functional Biomaterials titled "Recent Advances in Dental Implants and Biomaterials."

Rebecca Martin (Physics and Astronomy) was awarded a NASA Exoplanets grant for $541,460 to study planet formation in binary star systems.

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was invited to speak at the Utah Health Information Network Health Information Technology 2020 conference. The presentation discussed Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Sources and Applications in Administrative Data Sets. Specifically, the presentation addressed the importance of tracking SDoH…

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented a paper, "S or no s?  A lesson plan for integrating dialectal phonology in the beginning Medical Spanish classroom," at the Medical Spanish Summit.