Sharing & Impacting
Supporting Community Resilience and Capacity Dr. Tiffeny Jiménez, College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology titled Sacred Cenote Spaces: Nurturing Heart-Centered Collective Transformation . Drawing on autoethnographic narrative, her work explores sacred spaces as pathways to living more authentically. Drs. Judah Viola and Bradley Olson, and doctoral candidates Lauretta Ekanem Omale and MoDenna Stinnette, College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, published Community Readiness for Harm Reduction Approaches to Drug Use: A Qualitative Pilot Study in Nigeria in the Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community , exploring local perspectives on harm reduction strategies Preparing Caring Professionals for Success Dr. Laura Schmuldt, College of Psychology and Behavioral Science, co-authored Trauma Curriculum Integration in Counselor Education: A Delphi Study, which used the Delphi expert panel research method to develop actionable recommendations for advancing trauma education in the counseling field. Dr. Marcia Pita, College of Psychology and Behavioral Science, co-presented The Profound Ripple: Impact of Intergenerational Substance Abuse on Family Systems at the 8th Biennial Children, Couples, and Family Conference in Tampa, FL, exploring strategies to break intergenerational patterns and strengthen family communication. Dr. Tiffeny Jiménez, College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, co-presented research on Challenging Violence Across Settings: The Roles of Race and Discrimination at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, April 2025, in Chicago. Empowering through Literacy and Language Dr. Kristin Lems, National College of Education, delivered invited talks in the Netherlands, including Multimodal Expression Increases Student Engagement at Utrecht University and Orthography in English Learner Reading Comprehension at Radboud University. Technology Use Dr. Theodore Barnes, Undergraduate College, co-authored Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity: Legislate or Educate? in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (2025), examining how AI is reshaping ethical practices in academia. Dr. Angela Elkordy, National College of Education, contributed a chapter, Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education: Pitfalls and Possibilities—What Educational Leaders Need to Know, in Global Progressive Leadership (2024), offering insights on navigating AI’s challenges and opportunities in education. Dr. Abjullah Alsboul, Undergraduate College, co-authored Enhanced Cybersecurity Entity Recognition Using DeBERTa, Transformer-CNN Hybrids, and BiLSTM-Softmax, published in the proceedings of the 2025 Conference of Open Innovations Association. Policy Analysis Two faculty members published books that delved deeply into policy and politics. Dr. Todd Price, National College of Education, co-authored Public Spaces, Politics, and Policy in Education: Historical Entanglements with Irrational Momentism . Dr. Karin Steinbrueck, Undergraduate College, published Disaster Response by Ceauşescu’s Communist Regime in Romania: The 1977 Earthquake, the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to examine this response.
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