Accomplishments: Women's Council
Kristen Costello (Libraries) is the Libraries' Spring 2022 Inspirational Customer Service Award recipient. She was nominated in recognition of the outstanding customer service she provides in her multiple roles, both as the interim head of access services and the systems librarian, going above and beyond to problem-solve and improve processes鈥
Linda Lister (Music) was in residence earlier this month at the University of Mississippi (UM), presenting a vocal master class and leading yoga practices for both the music department and the Honors College. UM Opera Theatre commissioned a new chamber orchestration of Lister's opera State of Grace, which premiered at Ole Miss April 23 and 24鈥
Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Kimberly Hile of the University of Alabama in Huntsville published an article with practical considerations for supporting families of infants and toddler with disabilities across medical services, early intervention, and childcare, specifically with insight into lessons鈥
Kavita Batra (Medicine), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Jennifer R. Pharr, and Emylia Terry (both Environmental and Occupational Health) published a study, "Assessing Psychological Impact of COVID-19 among Parents of Children Returning to K-12 Schools: A U.S. Based Cross-Sectional Survey," in the Healthcare journal. The purpose鈥
LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues from other institutions have been selected, via a peer-reviewed process, to present a session, Critical Pedagogies and Pedagogies in Times of Crisis: Dialogues Across Latinx Studies and Sites of Engagement, at the annual meeting of the American Studies鈥
Emily Budd (Art) has had her sculptural work selected for the group exhibition, Mixed Media, at Site:Brooklyn Gallery. The exhibition runs until May 22.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-edited a research monograph, "Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Healthcare." The monograph complies latest research advances on these modalities of treatment being employed in health care. The intended audience for this monograph are researchers鈥
Several Nursing faculty, staff, and students were inducted into the 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Faculty: Hyunhwa 鈥淗enna鈥 Lee and Angela Silvestri-Elmore
Staff: Nakia Jackson-Hale and Yaa Obeng
Students: Carissa Hernandez, Tamara Boll, and Joo-Hee Han (All graduate students)
Hyunhwa Lee, Rhone D鈥橢rrico, Rhigel Tan and Reimund Serafica (all Nursing) were panelists for the webinar called 鈥淟et鈥檚 Talk: Suicide Awareness in the AAPI Community." They discussed the barriers, challenges, and stigma within the Asian American Pacific Islanders and solutions and recommendations to bring understanding and offer resources鈥
Karl Kingsley, Katherine Howard, Dr. Victoria Sullivan, Dr. Jens Wilson, Tatiana Alhwayek, Sarah Swanbeck, and Gavin Banning (all Dental), co-authored 鈥淎ssessment of Sodium Diamine Fluoride (SDF) with Light Curing Technique: A Pilot Study of Antimicrobial Effects,鈥 which published April 7 in the MDPI Journal Methods and Protocols. Wilson is a鈥
Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Implementation of the Strategy for Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding in the Federal District in Brazil" in the Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. The Brazilian Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Strategy鈥擡strat茅gia Amamenta e Alimenta鈥
Cass Shum and Ankita Ghosh (both Hospitality) recently published their paper "Safety or Service? Effects of Employee Prosocial Safety-Rule-Breaking on Consumer Satisfaction" in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. The paper showed that employees' prosocial safety-rule breaking hurts consumer satisfaction because it decreases鈥