Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs
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- Angelina Castagno, professor of the Department of Educational Leadership, Darold H. Joseph, assistant professor of the Department of Educational Specialties, Pradeep Max Dass, director of the Center for Science Teaching and Learning, and former graduate student Hosava Kretzmann had a paper recently published based on their research in the Diné Institute for Navajo Nation Educators. The paper is titled “Developing and piloting a tool to assess culturally responsive principles in schools serving Indigenous students.”
- Marti Canipe, principal investigator and assistant professor from the Department of Teaching and Learning, and Ron Gray, co-principal investigator and associate professor of STEM Education, were recently awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. This Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant will fund the development and implementation of science content courses for elementary education majors. These courses will focus on science content ideas that are part of the K-8 science education standards and will utilize the practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to engage students in phenomenon-based science explorations.
- Samantha Sabo, associate professor for the Department of Health Sciences, and Louisa O’Meara, senior researcher at the Center for Health Equity Research, along with members of the Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care and members of community health representative programs in the White Mountain Apache Tribe, Hualapai Tribe, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, recently published Community Health Representative Workforce: Meeting the Moment in American Indian Health Equity in Frontiers in Public Health.
- Regents’ professor Julie A. Baldwin, director of the Center for Health Equity Research, and colleagues from the University of South Florida and Pokhara University in Nepal recently published “Post-earthquake self-reported depressive symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder and their correlates among college-youths in Kathmandu, Nepal” in Psychiatry Quarterly. This study explored the association of retrospective extent of exposure on current day depressive symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among 125 youth attending a college in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Nicolette Teufel-Shone, professor for the Department of Health Sciences, and 26 colleagues from S. Research Centers in Minority Institutions, recently published “Community engagement practices at research centers in U.S. minority institutions: priority populations and innovative approaches to advancing health disparities research” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
- Alark Saxena, assistant professor in the School of Forestry, presented in the international dialogue on “Impacts of the pandemic on forest communities and forest resource use – What do we know, what do we need to know and how to find out?” Saxena’s speed-talk was titled “The Role of Forests in a ‘Green Recovery’ from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.” Alder Keleman Saxena, assistant research professor for the Department of Anthropology, and Patrick Jantz, assistant research professor for the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, also contributed to the talk.
- Kristen Waring, professor in the School of Forestry, and Amy Whipple, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, were recently published in Communications Biology journal alongside nine other contributors. The article is titled “Adaptive evolution in a conifer hybrid zone is driven by a mosaic of recently introgressed and background genetic variants.”
Kudos to these students
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- Melinda Smith, a doctoral student in Northern Arizona University’s Interdisciplinary Health Program and a researcher at the Center for Health Equity Research, was recently awarded $30,000 through the Northwest NARCH Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program (TRCCFP). The award supports TRCCFP Fellows in designing and implementing cancer prevention and control projects within Indigenous communities over a one-year period.
- Jose G. Martinez-Fonseca received registration and a travel award to attend the North American Annual Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology where he will present preliminary research results from his dissertation. The meeting will take place in Riverside, California, on March 27-21, 2022.