As part of an international panel of experts in physical activity promotion, associate professor Sara Rosenkranz and professor Richard Rosenkranz (both in Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published an article, "Development and evaluation of the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation to deliver Physical Activity in School Scale (…
Katherine A. Feather and Heather Dahl-Jacinto (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), along with student collaborator Gurjot Kaur (Northern Arizona University) published an article, "'Being Able to Think Outside the Box': Exploring Counselors' Competency Development Working with Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum…
Graduate student Daniel Valdes (Engineering) and advisor Ke-Xun [Kevin] Sun (Electrical and Computer Engineering), recently published a paper in the Review of Scientific Instruments titled, "Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) energy dependent scintillation response to fast neutrons and flash gamma-rays." The material is based upon work supported by…
Michelle Tusan's (History) book, The Last Treaty, was featured on the New Books Network. The interview is available online.
Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), along with colleagues Gabriela Buccini, Miguel Fudolig, Manoj Sharma (all Public Health), William McCarthy (UCLA), and Stephanie Pitts (East Carolina University), has been awarded a four-year, $748,052 grant (1R16GM154708-01) from the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The…
Ph.D. student April Wallace (Life Sciences) has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for her proposal, "Exploring shikimate pathway disruption as a possible intrinsic isolating barrier in trees." This $1,500 award will be used to determine if disruption of a key biochemical pathway in…
Annie Vong (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), Zachary Billot (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), and Nicole Dias Del Valle (Political Science; Philosophy Law & Justice; Brookings Public Policy) recently co-authored a Brookings Institution blog post titled, "Youth voices in the 2024 election: What students want to see on the…
Jungnam Kim and Ching-Chen Chen (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published, “Beyond the model minority myth: Student-counselor interactions and college enrollment of Asian American students” in Psychology in the Schools. This study found Asian American (AA) students' connectedness to school in 9th grade can…
Sarah Wolff, Wilson Hatcher, and Dan Wright (all Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) recently published "Task-irrelevant visual distractions and mindful self-regulated learning in a low-stakes computer-based assessment" in Frontiers in Education. They examine how impactful distractions are during an assessment. 

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