Presentation: Juliana Byzyka, William Van Vlerin, Shashi Nambisan, Billy Bai, Mehmet Erdem
The Transportation Research Center (TRC) recently participated in the 2025 Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center (UTC) Annual Congress at the University of California, Berkeley. Assistant research engineer Juliana Byzyka (TRC) presented their project titled, 鈥淎 Methodology to Evaluate Complete Streets Development in Small鈥
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published an article titled, "A Restless Nature," in Humanities 14.4. The article looks at two Golden Age Spanish adaptations of Plotinian ideas on curiosity, and is part of a special issue of the journal Humanities dedicated to Curiosity and Modernity in Early Modern Spain. Byrne studies鈥
Faculty member Nicole Short, graduate student Mattea Pezza, and research coordinator Rachel Weese (all Psychology), along with an external collaborator, Michele Bedard-Gilligan (University of Washington Department of Psychiatry), recently published a systematical review in Behaviour Research and Therapy entitled, "Anxiety sensitivity and鈥
Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) paper, "Socially, Not Legally, Undocumented," was published in The Latinx Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 2025), edited by Lori Gallegos, Manuel Vargas, and Francisco Gallegos.
Tim Tran (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave presentations at the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry (MARC XIII) titled, "Using Neutron Activation to Study Heavy Metals in Water Samples of Lake Mead" and 鈥淓valuating Cosmic-ray Background in an HPGE Detector System:鈥
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) performed as a guest artist at the Arizona Bach Festival in Phoenix. Lee, a harpsichordist, joined soloists from across the country in a program of concertos in the Vivaldian tradition.
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently delivered a lecture at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Heart Research 鈥 Indian Section in Chennai, India. His talk, 鈥淢esenchymal stem cell therapy: Translation to the clinic,鈥 in the 鈥楯oint Session with ISHR 鈥 East meets West鈥 was focused on the significant progress in clinical applications鈥
Dieu-My T. Tran (Nursing) was elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association by the Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing. This fellowship recognizes Tran's excellence, innovative, and sustained contributions in scholarship, practice and education, and volunteer service within the American Heart Association and the American Stroke鈥
Professor Nancy Rapoport (Law) wrote a blog post titles, "Hanging Separately," about the recent executive orders targeting law firms like Perkins Coie and Paul, Weiss raising serious concerns about political retaliation and the independence of legal representation.