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November 24, 2025

Eugene Urnezius, Chemistry, published “2,5-Dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinones Appended with −P(═O)(OR)2 (R = Me or Et) Groups and Their Ammonium and Lithium Salts: Structural, Spectroscopic, and Electrochemical Properties.” Co-authors: Claire A. Kearney,  Kailin M. Mooney, Jordan N. Sanders, Kai J. Edison, Milan H. Hague, S. Joseph Lippert, Timothy J. Dobson, and Edward J. Valente. ACS Omega 10(44): 52954-52967.

Ashley Hass, Business, published “Behind the Screens: An Exploration of Social Media Marketer Burnout.” Co-author: Kelley Cours Anderson. Student Co-author: Kiley Pettit. Journal of Marketing Theory & Practice, 1-23. October, 2025. Hass also attended the 2025 Conference of the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) in Las Vegas, NV, where she sat on the discussion panels for the following sessions: “Digital Parenting Roundtable: Untangling the Marketplace of Children’s Digital Consumption”; “Sustainable Me: The Mental Health Journey of Marketing Graduate Students and Academics: A Discussion”; “Exploring Student’s Creativity with Artificial Intelligence in Marketing Higher Education”; and “Navigating Mental Health in Early Academic Careers.” Hass also presented “Empathy Without Eyes: Perceived Non-Judgment and Empathy from GenAI and Its Elects on Consumer Self-Esteem.” Student Co-presenters: Alex Tran, Danielle Hass. November, 2025.

Andra Davis, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “Chemo chair conversations: A qualitative study of how life and death influence oncology nurses’ well-being and professional care.”  Seminars in Oncology. Available at SSRN 5277000. October, 2025. Davis also published “Towards equity in evaluation: Rethinking grading for nursing students.”  Journal of Nursing Education. August, 2025.

Ian Parkman, Business, was named to the editorial board of the Journal of Design, Business & Society.

Matthew Warshawsky, International Languages and Cultures, presented an invited lecture via Zoom about his book From New Christians to New Jews: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Texts in Defense of Judaism for the Kanter Lecture Series of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. November 9, 2025.

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Nick McRee, Sociology and Social Work, published “Academic debate and civic engagement in adolescence and young adulthood: evidence from a national longitudinal study.” Argumentation and Advocacy, 61(3–4), 323–338. He also published “When Chairs Shield Faculty from Service Opportunities: Protecting Colleagues or Hindering Community?” The Department Chair, 36(3), 11-13.

Katie Danielson, Education, was awarded a grant from The Spencer Foundation in the amount of $374,940.00 for the “Collaborating Towards Transformational Visions for Digital School Systems” project. Danielson also published “Learning to let go: Transformations in teachers’ pedagogical reasoning about classroom discussion.” Co-authors: Gotwalt, E., Kavanagh, S. Teaching and Teacher Education. January 2026

Daniel Bulek, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “From monoamine deficits to multiscale plasticity: Twenty-five years of ketamine and the neurophysiology of depression.” Journal of Neurophysiology, jn.00516.2025.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice in the Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, facilitated a multi-day series of invited leadership development workshops for the staff team at Lutherhaven Ministries in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Houglum led six interactive sessions focused on DiSC-informed leadership, coaching-centered leadership, servant leadership and accompaniment, powerful feedback, and the co-creation of team commitments to support healthy culture and sustainable impact. In addition, Houglum provided multiple individual leadership coaching sessions for staff members throughout the engagement. January 2026.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published the following articles in VoiceAfrique.org: “The Saturated Wisdom of Saint Joseph: Relevant Virtues for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings of the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2025). December 19, 2025. “The Gift of the Nativity is Grounded in an Ethics of Neighborliness.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Mass on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025). December 24, 2025. “The Spirituality of Ambition and the Grace of the Incarnation.” Reflections on the Readings for the Vigil Mass of Christmas, 2025. December 24, 2025. “The Theotokos: A Mirror in Which We Discover Ourselves as Bearers of God’s Life to Each Other.” (Reflection on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.) December 31, 2025. “Jesus Christ: The Revealer of the Grace of Encounters and an Embrace of Difference.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. January 4, 2026.) January 3, 2026. “Christian Baptism as a Summon for Global Justice: What We Must Embrace for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord. January 11, 2026.) January 10, 2026. Aihiokhai also published a review of The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza. Edited by John S. Munayer and Samuel S. Munayer. Orbis Books, 2025. Catholicbooksreview.org

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

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