Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on a podcast titled, "Birtherism: The Birthing of MAGA," in which he provided historical context for the movement and connected it to the rise of Donald Trump in 2016.
Alisha Kerlin (Barrick Museum of Art), Zida Wang (Barrick Museum of Art), Deanne Sole (Barrick Museum of Art), Jackie Gaetos (Care Center), and Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. (Asian & Asian American Studies) co-presented 鈥淟iving Here, Being Here: Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art as Third Places鈥 at the Artists Thrive Summit 2026 as part of a local鈥
Researchers from the Auditory Cognitive Development Lab and the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab co-authored a large-scale study attempting to replicate findings from 164 papers across the social and behavioral sciences.
The study showed that only about 50% of findings were replicable, similar to another landmark study about the鈥
John Curry (History) was a presenter on a roundtable at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) this past weekend. The roundtable was titled "Reactions to Authoritarianism: Connecting the Historical to the Contemporary," and included several 性视界传媒 faculty members from various global fields鈥
Sam Inayat (Psychology; Neuroscience) published an article in Scientific Reports (Springer-Nature) titled 鈥淒istinct neural signatures of hippocampal population dynamics during locomotion-in-place.鈥 The study investigates how brain activity changes during different movement states, focusing on the hippocampus, a region critical for memory,鈥
Lex de Asis (Psychology) and Adrianna N. Tsao (Biological Sciences; Neuroscience) were named 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholars.The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation鈥檚 premier undergraduate award for students pursuing research careers in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. This year, 1,485 students from 482 institutions were nominated鈥
Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) presented at the 2026 European Hip Hop Studies Network Conference, 鈥淭hings Done Changed,鈥 held March 18-21, 2026, at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. His presentation, 鈥淭here鈥檚 No Book: Master Practitioner Publishing as Breaking鈥檚 Knowledge Infrastructure,鈥 examined the gap between embodied cultural鈥
Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) co-authored "Buckle Rib Fractures Are More Than a Pleural Surface Phenomenon: A Case Report and Literature Review" in Forensic Anthropology. Drawing on a literature review and a forensic case example, the authors explore how buckle rib fractures are defined and offer recommendations to practitioners for more accurate鈥
Bailey Way and Shane Kraus (both Psychology), along with their colleagues, have recently completed a comprehensive landscape scan titled The Landscape of Pornography Use by Men in the United States. This work is now published online as part of an ongoing, grant-funded project supported by the American Institute for Boys and Men.
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Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published five recent scholarly papers.
The first paper, "A critical appraisal of how to employ 鈥 or not to employ 鈥 the Sexual Risk Survey in international populations," was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
The second paper, "The Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Scale (鈥
Barb Brents (Sociology), alumni Chris Wakefield and Alessandra Lanti, and an international team of researchers recently co-authored "How crime-based legal regimes shape sexual harm: Sex work, consent and vulnerability," published in the British Journal of Criminology. The research examines how legal regimes in the UK, US, and New Zealand shape the鈥
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Conversion to Judaism: A Model of Ethnoracial Identity Change" at the virtual workshop Race at the Margins: Context, Contingency, and Identity.