Accomplishments: Women's Council
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited talk titled "Why Ghosts Aren't So Spooky: The Ethics of Indirect 'Relationship' Dissolution" for the University of Colorado, Boulder's Center Talk series (hosted by the CU Philosophy Department).
Mary Bondmass (Nursing) has two chapters that appear in the fouth edition of Research for Advanced Practice Nurses (Springer). The chapters are Overview of Evidence-based Practice and Sampling and Sampling Methods.
Kenneth Varner, Steven Bickmore, P. G. Schrader (all Teaching and Learning), and Danica G. Hays (Education), along with David L. Carlson (University of Arizona) and Dorothea Anagnostopolous (University of Connecticut) just had their second edited volume of the Corona Chronicles released from DiO Press. This volume, the second of two,…
Dieu-My Tran and Nirmala Lekhak (both Nursing), along with Sheniz Moonie and Karen Gutierrez (both Public Health) co-authored a new published article entitled, "Risk Factors Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Among Adult Nevadans."
Danica G. Hays (Education) has been elected to serve on the Governing Council of the American Counseling Association. Hays, interim dean and professor of the College of Education, will represent the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling on the governing board, beginning her three-year term on July 1. The association…
April Ursula Fox (Graduate College), Graduate College curriculum manager, has been invited to present to an audience of curriculum specialists in universities and other organizations across the country and abroad during the Digarc U professional conference in March.
Centered around the use of technology and innovative processes,…
Shubhra Bansal (Mechanical Engineering) has received the prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop novel Pb-free and stable mixed halide-chalcogenide perovskite materials for high-efficiency solar cells. Pb-based organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (HPSCs) have shown tremendous promise with a big…
Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was featured on "The Art People Podcast." Learn about her passion for teaching, writing, social justice, and art. She discusses the importance of murals as public art for the Latinx community, the complexities of representation in media, and so much more.
Elizabeth Johnson (Anthropology) and Shelly Volsche, '13 BA Psychology, '15 MA Anthropology, and '17 PhD Anthropology, now of Boise State University, are authors of an article, "COVID-19: Companion Animals Help People Cope during Government-Imposed Social Isolation." The article was published in the journal Society and Animals…
Michael Wong, Dharini Bhammar (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Nicholas Ross, '20 MS Exercise Physiology, published a paper, “Respiratory and Perceptual Responses to High-Intensity Interval Exercise in Obese Adults” in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports…
Rebecca Benfield (Nursing) and coauthors Huaxin Song, Jan Salstrom, Melydia Edge, Denise Brigham and Edward Newton have published an article "Intrauterine Contraction Parameters at Baseline and Following Epidural and Combined Spinal-Epidural Analgesia: A Repeated Measures Comparison" in Midwifery.
Ann M. Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently published an article, "Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Neurobehavior in US Children through 8 Years of Age: The HOME Study" in the journal Environmental Research.
The objective of the study was to examine associations between maternal serum…