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Barb Brents (Sociology)  participated in the panel on California Prostitution Law at Stanford University on Nov 11. Other panelists were Casey Bates, deputy district attorney for California's  Alameda County; Maxine Doogan, president of the Erotic Sex Providers Legal, Education and Research Project; and Shelby Quast, policy director for…

Michelle Light (Libraries) co-presented a paper titled "The Evolving Archival and Scholarly Record" at the Society of American Archivists’ annual meeting. The paper shows how archival practices and expertise may help in the long-term management of new forms of scholarly communication.  

Megan Bavaro, Katie Woods, and Anne White (all Academic Success Center) presented "Innovation of Bridge: Creating Specialty Programs to Enhance Math Outcomes" at the 48th annual College Reading & Learning Association Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Peter Gray and Shelly Volsche (both Anthropology), along with colleagues at Indiana and Rutgers universities, will have a paper published in Anthrozoos concerning the role of pet dogs and cats in human courtship and dating. A leading human-animal interaction scholar, Hal Herzog, has crafted a blog post based on the study that provides a flavor of…

Susan Wainscott (Libraries) has been a key partner in a year-long, federally funded, multidisciplinary review conducted by the 51�ԹϺ��� College of Engineering faculty of available literature and data on renewable energy and water resource projects in central Africa. She trained the research team in search strategies, assisted with hard-…

Professors Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences) and Abbie Kirkendall (Social Work) are conducting a project with nearly $15,000 funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to form a Palliative Care Research Network in Nevada through a variety of community engagement activities. The project will help…

Daniel Young (Physical Therapy) co-authored “A prevention initiative to decrease HAPUs at two acute care hospitals,” which describes the implementation of a comprehensive pressure ulcer prevention program and its effects at two sister hospitals in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The article appeared in the November issue of Nursing Management.

Karla Irwin and Emily Lapworth (both Libraries) presented Growing Pains: Implementing ArchivesSpace at 51�ԹϺ��� Libraries Special Collections at the Amigos Library Services virtual conference. They described how ArchivesSpace, a open source collection management application for archival collections, was implemented in 2014 and has helped improve…

Biochemistry professor Ernesto Abel-Santos and former postdoctoral scholar Amber Howerton were recently issued patent #9,079,935, which describes a novel compound designed to prevent Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections.