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Recently Funded Awards
June 2023
David Siegel - Supporting Ent Center for the Arts. City of Colorado Springs
Gedare Bloom - RTEMS. UChicago Argonne, LLC
Leilani Feliciano - Improving Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training for Assessing and Treating Comorbid Substance Use. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Jose Cantu & Susan Taylor - Co Re-enrollment Initiative (CORE). Colorado Department of Higher Education
Caitlin Lowans - Theatreworks 23-24 Shakespeare in American Communities. Arts Midwest Grant
Crystal Vander Zanden - Galectin-3 and Engineered Variants for Clustering Glycolipids and Glycopoteinson Membrane Surfaces
July 2023
Jane Rigler - The Arts & Resiliency Gathering Interactive Multidisciplinary Arts Events for the City of Colorado Springs. National Endowment for the Arts
Jessi Smith, Sylvia Mendez, Emily Skop, & Heather Song - Adaption: Project CREST - Changing Research Experiences, Structures, and (in)Tolerance through the Adaptation of Promising Equity Practices. National Science Foundation Supplement
August 2023
Catherine Simmons, Cortny Stark, Daniel Segal, Deborah Pollard - Behavioral Health Incentive Grant Program - Round 2. CDHE
Mary Hayden- Collaborative Research: IHBEM: Three-way coupling of water, behavior, and disease in the dynamics of mosquito-borne disease systems. National Science Foundation
Oluwatosin Oluwadare - Can one size fit all? - High-Resolution 3D Genome Spatial Organization Inference with Generalizable Models. NIGMS Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early State Investigators
UCCS Authors
Kling, Jennifer. "Uncivil Obedience: A Method for (Potentially) Decreasing Political Polarization." In Politics, Polarity, and Peace, edited by William Barnes, chapter 1. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2023.
Skop, Emily and Stephen Suh. 2023. Ethnicity and Transnationalism. Chapter in A Companion to the North American Landscape, edited by Chris Post, Geoff Buckley and Alyson Grenier. London: Routledge Press, 101-110.
Recent Publications
Citations are gathered based on when they appear in a variety of databases or when a faculty member supplies the information. Publication dates will vary but are generally those that appeared in print since the last issue of this bulletin.
Faculty, Staff, Students and Research Associate names in bold. In alphabetical order by first UCCS author.
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Adamson B, DiFilippo K, Frasca E, Clarke CV. Using Autoethnographic Writing to Teach Critical Thinking in Health Behavior Theory Courses. Pedagogy in Health Promotion. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/23733799231174247
Bopp, Trevor, Joshua D. Vadeboncoeur, and Thomas J. Aicher. 2023. "Am I Welcome? Youth Perceptions and Feelings of Racialized Welcomeness in Sports." Managing Sport and Leisure: 1-19., DOI: 10.1080/23750472.2023.2217182
Akpokiro, Victor, Chowdhury, H. M. A. Mohit, Samuel Olowofila, Raisa Nusrat, and Oluwatosin Oluwadare. 2023. "CNNSplice: Robust Models for Splice Site Prediction using Convolutional Neural Networks." Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 21: 3210-3223. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.05.031
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D. M. G., Ghossainy, M. E., Kennair, L. E. O., Miklousic, I., Schwarz, S., & White, K. P. (2023). No support for two hypotheses about the communicative functions of displaying disgust: Evidence from Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia. Evolutionary Psychology, 21(3), 14747049231179408-14747049231179408. https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049231179408
Anquillare, E., & Selmeczy, D. (2023). Developmental differences in value-based remembering: The role of feedback and metacognition.Developmental Psychology, 59(7), 1181–1189. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001539
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Tan, Rachel, Marissa N. Baranauskas, Sean T. Karl, Joaquin Ortiz de Zevallos, Ren-Jay Shei, Hunter L. Paris, Chad C. Wiggins, and Stephen J. Bailey. 2023. "Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Muscular Power Output: Influence of Supplementation Strategy and Population." Nitric Oxide 136-137: 33-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.niox.2023.05.003
Benight, C. C., Hurd, J. A., Morison, M., & Ricca, B. P. (2023). Big ideas series: Self-regulation shift theory: Trauma, suicide, and violence. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, , 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2242281
Rego, A., Bluhm, D. J., Valverde, C., & Pina e Cunha, M. (2023). Are gritty leaders happier or unhappier? it depends on how prudent they are. Group & Organization Management, , 105960112211474. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011221147439
Brady, Patrick Q. 2023. "Stalking Victims' Decisions to Access Victim Services: A Social Ecological Approach." Journal of Criminal Justice 87: 102085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102085 C
Rezoanur Rahman, M., Bake, A., Jumlat Ahmed, A., Md Kazi Nazrul Islam, Sheik, Wu, L., Khakbaz, H., FitzGerald, S., Chalifour, A., Livesey, K. L., Knott, J. C., Innis, P. C., Beirne, S., & Cortie, D. (2023). Interplay between thermal and magnetic properties of polymer nanocomposites with superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 579, 170859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.170859
Chambers, G.C. Disabled Sexuality and Negotiations with Sexual Partners. Sexuality and Disability. 41, 357–386 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-023-09784-0
Bortoni, Alberto, Sharon M. Swartz, Hamid Vejdani, and Aaron J. Corcoran. 2023. "Strategic Predatory Pursuit of the Stealthy, Highly Manoeuvrable, Slow Flying Bat Corynorhinus Townsendii." Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences 290. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0138
Craighead, William D. “Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy When Tradable and Nontradable Goods Are Complements.” International Review of Economics & Finance 89 (2024): 297–309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2023.07.058.
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Dangerfield, H. J., Scott, J. M., Zohn, J. H., Segal, D. L., & Benton, M. J. (2023). Relationship between anxiety and quality of life among older adults with self-reported polypharmacy in long-term care: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 79, 3559–3568. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15691
Dolezal, M. L., Decker, M., & Littleton, H. (2023). Examining the second-order factor structure of the gender minority stress and resilience scale. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, , 8862605231190668-8862605231190668. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231190668
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Epperson, Logan, Megan Mascarenas, and Amanda Morgenstern. 2023. "Gradient Bundle Analysis of Electric Field Induced Changes in Electron Charge Density." The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, & General Theory 127 (21): 4682-4694. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01757
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Foss, F., Gibbes, C. & Skop, E. Cultivating Integration via Placemaking: an ArcGIS StoryMap and Inventory of Refugee-Centered Farming Organizations in the USA. Int. Migration & Integration (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01059-z
Fuselier, N., & Beatty, C. C. (2023). Social identities and leadership identity development. New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023(178), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20553
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Tkachenko, Ihor M., Yuriy I. Kurioz, Ruslan M. Kravchuk, Oleg V. Shekera, Anatoliy V. Glushchenko, Vassili G. Nazarenko, and Valery V. Shevchenko. 2023. "Azobenzene–N-Salicylideneaniline Based Aromatic Polymers as Efficient Light-Responsive Materials." Polymer (Guilford) 279: 125991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2023.125991
Griffin, B.J., Weber, M.C., Hinkson, K.D. et al. Toward a Dimensional Contextual Model of Moral Injury: A Scoping Review on Healthcare Workers. Curr Treat Options Psych (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40501-023-00296-4
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Harris, Spencer, Mathew Dowling, and Marvin Washington. 2023. "Political Protest and Rule 50: Exploring the Polycentric Governance of International and Olympic Sport." International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2224345
Harris, S., Jedlicka, S., Pielke, R., & Ryan, H. (2023). The politics of exclusion: Analyzing U.S. state responses to interscholastic transgender athletes. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, , 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2242878
Harvey, A. M., & Kisley, M. A. (2023). Effects of emotion, emotional tolerance, and emotional processing on reasoning. Cognition and Emotion, 37(6), 1090-1104. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2228539
Havlick, D.G. & Dao, T.H.D. (2023) Revealing vertical geopolitics: Quantifying the volume of militarised restricted airspaces in the USA using GIS. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 00, 1–14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12614
Lee K. Cerveny, Monika M. Derrien, David G. Havlick & Kerrick Robinson (2023) Evaluating diversity, equity, and inclusivity in outdoor programs for veterans on public lands, Journal of Leisure Research, DOI: 10.1080/00222216.2023.2193189
Holder, C. D., & Lauderbaugh, L. K. (2023). Progression toward maximum leaf surface storage during the rainfall interception process. Hydrological Processes, 37(9), e14959. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14959
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'Ilaheva Tua'one, N.S. "HMS Dolphin: The Ship That Lost Its Integrity and Found the Myth of the Nail." Eighteenth-Century Studies 56, no. 2 (2023): 261-284. doi:10.1353/ecs.2023.0013.
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Tsai, J. C., Jiang, J. J., Klein, G., & Hung, S. (2023). Task conflict resolution in designing legacy replacement systems. Journal of Management Information Systems, 40(3), 1009-1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2023.2229120
Klocko, A. L., Elorriaga, E., Ma, C., & Strauss, S. H. (2023). Variation in floral form of CRISPR knock-outs of the poplar homologs of LEAFY and AGAMOUS after FT heat-induced early flowering. Horticulture Research, 10(8)https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhad132
Kling, Jennifer. "Resettling Refugees: State Obligations, Egalitarian Concerns." The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence. Online First, May 11, 2023. DOI: 10.5840/acorn20235923 https://doi.org/10.5840/acorn20235923
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Lac, Andrew. 2023. "COVID-19 Stress (Traumatic Symptoms, Compulsive Checking, Xenophobia, and Danger & Contamination) and Alcohol use Uniquely Explain State Alcohol Cravings." Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 45 (2): 537-548. DOI:10.1007/s10862-023-10033-z
Lac, A., & Luk, J. W. (2023). The Alcohol Relief Questionnaire: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale to measure the psychological, interpersonal, sleep, and physical relief effects of drinking. Psychological Assessment, 35(6), 533–545. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001232
Marchand, Felix, Kevin Laudner, Karl-Stefan Delank, René Schwesig, and Anke Steinmetz. 2023. "Effects of Sensorimotor Training on Transversus Abdominis Activation in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients." Journal of Personalized Medicine 13 (5): 817. DOI:10.3390/jpm13050817
Weemer, M., Eberline, A., Lee, J., Kybartas, T., & Jones, E. (2023). A framework for implementing a district-wide school wellness needs assessment: Using the WSCC model. The Physical Educator, 80(4), 443-468. https://doi.org/10.18666/TPE-2023-V80-I4-11375
Lewis, J., & Camley, R. E. (2023). Effects of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on the fermi-pasta-ulam behavior in a magnetic system. Physical Review. B, 107(22)https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.224421
Lewis, C. J., & Kling, J. (2023). Proud vermin: Modern militias and the state. Journal of Military Ethics, 22(1), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2023.2230690
Yao, Xusheng, Shoufeng Ma, Yi Wu, and Dahui Li. 2023. "So Said, so done? the Role of Commitment in Activity-Based Check-in Discontinuance on APPs." Technological Forecasting & Social Change 194: 122675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122675
Luo, J., Luo, J., Nan, G., & Li, D. (2023). Fake review detection system for online E-commerce platforms: A supervised general mixed probability approach. Decision Support Systems, , 114045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2023.114045
Huff, M., Edwards, K. M., Mauer, V. A., Littleton, H., Lim, S., & Sall, K. E. (2023). Gender-neutral bathrooms on campus: A multicampus study of cisgender and transgender and gender diverse college students. Journal of American College Health, , 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2023.2239358
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Masaud, T. M., & El-Saadany, E. (2023). Optimal battery planning for microgrid applications considering battery swapping and evolution of the SOH during lifecycle aging. IEEE Systems Journal, 17(3), 4725-4736. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2023.3285147
Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Scott A. Myers, Tiffany R. Wang & Joshua N. Westwick (2023) Study X of the basic communication course at two- and four-year U.S. colleges and universities: revisiting trends and considering new challenges, Communication Education, 72:3, 276-299, DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2023.2181366
Morreale, S. P., & Westwick, J. N. (2023). Advocating for and valuing instructional and communication education: Standing on the shoulders of giants. Communication Education, 72(4), 410-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2023.2234515
Morrow, G. J. (2023). Gambler’s ruin with random stopping. Stochastic Models, , 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/15326349.2023.2241066
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Odell, N. E., Whitney, P., & Lee, J. A. (2023). Changes in adult leisure-time physical activity during and after COVID-19 restrictions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Leisure Studies, , 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2023.2249253
Okun, ML & Lac, A. (in press). Postpartum insomnia and poor sleep quality are longitudinally predictive of postpartum mood symptoms. Psychosomatic Medicine. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001234
Ross, Kharah M., Harmeen Mander, Gabrielle Rinne, Michele Okun, Calvin Hobel, Mary Coussons-Read, and Christine Dunkel Schetter. 2023. "Pregnancy-Specific Anxiety and Gestational Length: The Mediating Role of Diurnal Cortisol Indices." Psychoneuroendocrinology 153: 106114-106114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106114
Oman, Greg & Charles N. Curtis (2023) Problems and Solutions, The College Mathematics Journal, 54:2, 147-160, DOI: 10.1080/07468342.2023.2186094
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A. Aghajan, K. Paarporn and J. R. Marden, "Extension Theorems for General Lotto Games With Applications to Network Security," in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2023.3272823.
Prasad, S., Borra, H., Woldt, J., Altay, N., & Tata, J. (2023). Migrant flows: Humanitarian operational aspects of people in transit. Production and Operations Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.14037
Johnson, N., Prasad, S., Zakaria, R., Vahedian, A., & Altay, N. (2023). Nonlinear interactions via machine learning: Input factor orchestration in sustainable operations. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05494-0
Svet, Mark, Laura B. B. Portalupi, Tom Pyszczynski, Daniel D. D. Matlock, and Larry A. A. Allen. 2023. "Applying Terror Management Theory to Patients with Life-Threatening Illness: A Systematic Review." BMC Palliative Care 22 (1): 74-74. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-023-01193-6
Arnoult, M., Selimbegović, L., Hirschberger, G., Pyszczynski, T., & Chatard, A. (2023). Under the veil of tolerance: A justification–suppression approach to anti-Islamic implicit bias in reaction to terrorist attacks.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(2), 237–258.https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000337
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Quezada Davalos, Jose Caleb, Michael A. Michaud, Luis E. Lowe, Emily N. Hanson, Eric P. Gaulke, and Janel E. Owens. 2023. "Dataset of Surveyed PFAS in Water, Sediment, and Soil of Fountain Creek Watershed, Colorado, USA." Data in Brief 49: 109280-109280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109280
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Hazrat, R., & Rangaswamy, K. M. (2023). Distinguishing leavitt algebras among leavitt path algebras of finite graphs by the Serre property. Archiv Der Mathematik, 121(2), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-023-01880-z
Rudd, K. L., Zhao, Q., Lisha, N. E., Graff, J. C., Norona‐Zhou, A., Roubinov, D. S., Barrett, E. S., Juarez, P., Carroll, K. N., Karr, C. J., Sathyanarayana, S., Mason, W. A., LeWinn, K. Z., & Bush, N. R. (2023). The role of prenatal violence exposure in the development of disparities in children's adiposity from birth to middle childhood. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 31(8), 2119-2128. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23794
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Schroeder, R. B., Nolan, S., Harris, L. L., Segal, D. L., & Coolidge, F. L. (2023). On the differential diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Psychiatry Research Communications, 3(3), 100135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psycom.2023.100135
Yang, Yunan, Denis Silantyev, and Russel Caflisch. 2023. "Adjoint DSMC for Nonlinear Spatially-Homogeneous Boltzmann Equation with a General Collision Model." Journal of Computational Physics 488: 112247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112247
L D Baker, A J Smith, Adapting the Primary Care PTSD Screener for firefighters, Occupational Medicine, Volume 73, Issue 3, April 2023, Pages 142–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqad019
Smith, Andrew J., David Pincus, and Bernard P. Ricca. 2023. "Targeting Social Connection in the Context of Trauma: Functional Outcomes and Mechanisms of Change." Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 28: 300-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.04.008
Stoop, C., Belou, R., & Smith, J. L. (2023). Facilitating the success of Women’s early career grants: A local solution to a national problem. Innovative Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-023-09661-w
Stone, L. E., Hurd, J. A., & Segal, D. L. (2023). The alternative model of personality disorders, trauma, and aging: Relationships with post-traumatic stress symptoms and the effect of cumulative trauma exposure. Psychiatry Research Communications, 3(2), 100106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psycom.2023.100106
Diane Stutey, Kodi Enkler, Abigail Solis, Cortny Stark, Kim Severn, Molly Cammell, Joseph Wehrman & Kylie Rogalla (2023) Photo-Elicitation and At-Promise Youth: Sharing Perceptions of Self and Identity, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, DOI: 10.1080/15401383.2023.2242268
Manitzas Hill, Heather M., Elena Svetieva, Sarah Dietrich, Emily Gallegos, Jeffery Humphries, Nicolas Mireles, Mario Salgado, Roberto Lara, and Jennifer Zwahr. 2023. "The Influence of Background Music and Narrative Setting on Anthropomorphic Judgements of Killer Whale (Orcinus Orca) Emotional States and Subsequent Donation Behavior." PloS One 18 (5). DOI: e0282075-e0282075.
Swanson, K. J., Blanchard, M. R., & Gutierrez, K. S. (2023, October). "We’re All Like One Big Family": How Teacher-Coaches' After-School PLC's Influence STEM Club Success. Journal of Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 42(2023) 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100739
Blanchard, M. R., Gutierrez, K. S., Swanson, K. J., & Collier, K. (2023, May). Why Do Students Attend STEM Clubs, What Do They Get Out of It, and Where Are They Heading? Education Sciences, 13(5), 480. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13050480
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Tapia-Fuselier, Nicholas. 2023. "“We do it all”: Understanding the Experiences of Undocumented Student Resource Center Professionals." Innovative Higher Education 48 (3): 457-475. DOI: 10.1007/s10755-022-09627-4
Tapia‐Fuselier, N. (2023). Meeting the moment: Inside‐outside strategies as a critical element to contemporary transformative leadership. New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023(202), 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1002/cc.20576
Taylor, J. A., Hanuscin, D., Lee, O., Lynch, S., Stuhlsatz, M. A., & Talbot, R. (2023). Sources and consequences of teacher attrition in large-scale intervention impact studies. Research in Education, 116(1), 43–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/00345237231155835
Thorpe, Janice G., and Sherwyn P. Morreale. "Immediacy and Presence: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary and Rhetorical Approach to Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment." The Review of Communication, vol. ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print, 2023, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2023.2186801
Titus, M. Brandon, Adeline W. Chang, Niko Popitsch, Christopher C. Ebmeier, Jeremy M. Bono, and Eugenia C. Olesnicky. 2023. "The Identification of Protein and RNA Interactors of the Splicing Factor Caper in the Adult Drosophila Nervous System." Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 16: 1114857-1114857. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2023.1114857
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Wang, Yanxing, David Vazquez Alvarez, Hui Wan, Ruben Gonzalez Pizarro, and Fangjun Shu. 2023. "Advection-Enhanced Heat and Mass Transport from Neutrally Suspended Droplet in Simple Shear Flow." Physics of Fluids 35 (6). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153117
Warrick, D.D. & Cady, Steven Herrol (2023). Is Your Organization Prepared to Manage Tsunami Change? Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 59(2), 337-340, DOI: 10.1177/00218863221132314.
Watson, Sharon, Daniel P. Sullivan, and Kathryn Watson. 2023. "Teaching Presence in Asynchronous Online Classes: It’s Not just a Façade." Online Learning (Newburyport, Mass.) 27 (2). https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v27i2.3231
Witkowsky, P., & Fuselier, N., Influence of undergraduate student affairs coursework on undergraduate engagement. College Student Affairs Journal, 41(1), 90-104. https://doi.org/10.1353/csj.2023.0006