Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Mai Award, Ph.D., delivered a presentation on the synergistic impacts of pesticides and heavy metals on honey bees and human health at SETAC North America 45th annual meeting, October 20-24 at the Fort Worth, Texas, Convention Center.
Director of the School of Education Curtis Garcia, Ph.D., and Associate Professor of Education Michele Mann, Ph.D., co-presented a paper at the 17th Annual Mentoring Institution Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico during the week of October 21st. The paper, Implementing a Rural School-Based Mentor-Coach Program: A Promising Practice Case Study, focuses on the work the two professors have done through the mentor teacher endorsement program and building a cadre of trained teacher mentors in a local school district. Drs. Garcia and Mann have secured nearly $300,000 in state grants to sustain the program and provide scholarships and stipends to participating teachers. The paper will also be published in the Institute’s journal later this year.
Assistant Professor of Psychology Chris Kam, Ph.D., co-authored the article, “Countering Political Polarization through Conscious and Unconscious Integrative Complexity,” in the journal “Basic and Applied Social Psychology.”
Assistant Professor of Sociology Nicholas Van De Voorde, Ph.D., will present his original research “High Crime in the Mile High City? Exploring the Association Between Marijuana Gentrification and Crime in Denver, Colorado,” at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference in San Francisco in November.