Michael Bricker (Facilities and Operations) recently earned the Certified Educational Facilities Professional (CEFP) credential, through APPA (formerly the Association of Physical Plant Administrators). The CEFP credential is an advanced level of certification that represents a mastery of professional expertise and is a mark of…
Julián Barroso-Merino and Sergio Guzmán (both World Languages and Cultures) presented preliminary results of their ongoing research into actions taken to combat declining enrollments by world languages departments in community colleges across the country. The presentation titled, "What are we doing about low enrollment?" was part of the Community…
Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, and Haniyeh Shariatma (all Healthcare Administration and Policy), along with their collaborators at the Optum Care, recently presented a paper, "Hit by the COVID-19: Who Are Using Telehealth Services in Outpatient Care Settings?," at the International Health Economics Association World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.…
Jyoti Mago (Clinical Sciences, Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) have published research titled, “The Potential Usefulness of ChatGPT in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology” in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. The research shows ChatGPT-3 being efficient in describing the…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) co-authored the lead chapter in the edited volume, Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century (University Press of Mississippi, 2023). Combining rhetorical analysis with folklore studies, their chapter, "…
Jay Shen and Zahra Mojtahedi (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), Heiley Ephrem and Parsa Khawari (both Public Health) recently presented a paper, "Disease and Economic Burdens of Respiratory Conditions prior to and since the COVID-19," at the International Health Economics Association World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. Mojtahedi…
Chia Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Exploring yoga behaviors among college students based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and…
Professor John Curry (History) has been elected as treasurer of the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), and will serve a three-year term as part of the organization's Board of Directors. He will oversee the management of an endowment of over $2 million in funds that are used to support research in archaeological, historical, and…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed, "Adults-only culture entails bad faith," in The Nevada Independent. 

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