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Dry Needling For Migraine: A Critically Appraised Topic, Deanna Lowry, Christopher Hurt

Expo Student Presentations

2026 Spring Expo Poster Presentation

• Health Sciences & Health Professions

Variability In Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Surgery In Children With Cerebral Palsy, Lena Lutz, Brandon Rocque, Caroline Davies, Jeffrey Raskin, Jeffrey Leonard, Virendra Desai, Robert Bollo, Oleszek, C Corbett Wilkinson, Sophia Blasco, Patrick Mcphee, Neena Marupudi, Joyce Trost, Paul Gross

Expo Student Presentations

2026 Spring Expo Poster Presentation

• Health Sciences & Health Professions

Gold & Blue Law Edition, Spring 2026, St. Mary's University - San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue Law Edition

This is the Spring 2026 edition of Gold & Blue Law Edition which is St. Mary's University's official School of Law publication.

Sacrifice And Survival: Encountering Colonialism And The Bounds Of Christian Humanitarianism In The Cherokee Nation From 1819-1833, Avery Maples

Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections

As Maggie Blackhawk illuminates in the 2023 foreword of the Harvard Law Review, the United States government has had free rein to legally subordinate Indian tribes throughout its history. As the first ever foreword to be written by a Native American woman, let alone on the topic of Indian borderland constitutionalism, Blackhawk explains the inextricable nature of federal Indian law from the development of American constitutional jurisprudence. This legacy of oppression has been intentionally crafted throughout nineteenth and twentieth-century litigation and forms the basis of federal Indian law. Supreme Court cases such as United States v. Kagama in 1886, Lone …

“The Black Student Union Speaks”: Rebellion And Its Response In New Haven Public Schools, 1967-1970, Aden Gonzales

Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections

This thesis studies a series of student uprisings that took place at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut, during the 1967-1968 school year. Through contemporary news reports from the mainstream and underground press, correspondences with the mayor, police records, municipal reports, student-created ephemera, and interviews with then-students, a story emerges of a student rebellion which exposed long-festering problems within the school and forced a series of constructive reforms within the district. It is also a story about how, out of a fractured response to the student rebellion, a progressive teachers’ union was made. Finally, it is a story about …

“At The Yale Women’S Center, Some Women Aren’T Welcome”: Reproductive Activism, Defining Feminism, And Determining Belonging In Women’S Spaces At Yale In 1987, Emi Glass

Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections

Tucked into the back pages of the Yale Daily News issue published on October 6, 1987 sits two opposing opinion pieces: one authored by members of the student organization Yale Students for Life (YSFL), and the other written by members of the Yale Women’s Center Coordinating Committee. While each article was addressed “to the editors,” these two groups were really in conversation with each other. The left-three quarters of the page features the piece written by YSFL, titled “Pro-life merits space at Women’s Center.” The right-hand side features a shorter piece written by the Women’s Center coordinating committee entitled “Center …

Revisiting The Missed Pigouvian Opportunity Of The First Industrial Revolution: A Carbon-Based Pigouvian Tax On Ai, Haozheng Jiang

SLU Law Journal Online

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the economy with comparative speed and scope as during the First Industrial Revolution, policymakers face a familiar dilemma: how to preserve technological progress while addressing its negative externalities. This article proposes a uniform, carbon-based Pigouvian tax on AI as a practicable and forward-looking solution to correct one of AI’s most readily measurable negative externalities without stifling innovation. Drawing on lessons from existing carbon-pricing systems, this article contends that such a tax should be designed with flexibility and transparency to promote both effectiveness and political feasibility. Properly structured, the tax would not deter AI development but …

Issue Iv: Sátya, Moby Yang, Patrick Van Hoven, Sofie Robinson, Emma Cohler, Konstandina Deleidi, Teneil Reddy

Sátya

No abstract provided.

Empowering Early Childhood Leaders: A Strength-Based And Ecological Approach To Leadership Development, Dora Sanders

PhD in Education

Professional development models for early childhood (EC) leaders are often generic and deficit-focused, overlooking their diverse strengths, contexts, and experiences. This study addressed that gap by exploring how EC leaders identify and leverage their strengths to enhance leadership effectiveness and how professional development can be differentiated to meet their unique needs. Using a qualitative phenomenological design, eight EC leaders representing varied educational backgrounds and community contexts were engaged. Semi-structured interviews captured their lived experiences, which were analyzed thematically through the lens of the strengths-ecological leadership framework designed by the researcher that integrated individualized professional development, strengths-based leadership, and ecological systems. …

Experiences That Influence Nurse Educators To Stay, Dana L. Crowder

PhD in Education

By 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts a worldwide RN shortage of nearly 5.7 million (Poole & Spies, 2022; WHO, 2024a). The need for more RNs necessitates the need for more students to graduate nursing programs; however, in 2024, almost 66,000 qualified applicants were not accepted into nursing programs because of limited space due to a shortage of nurse educators (AACN, 2024b; Welch et al., 2023). A nurse educator shortage exacerbates the national nursing shortage, ultimately decreasing the quality of patient care and positive patient health outcomes. The purpose of this phenomenological, qualitative study was to understand why nurse …

Empathy, Compassion Fatigue, And Resilience In Central Florida Firefighters And Ems Personnel, Lisa M. Correll

PhD in Education

The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative study was to determine the relationship between empathy, compassion fatigue (CF), and resilience in firefighters and EMS personnel. Career firefighters and EMS personnel (N = 76) in Central Florida participated in an online survey that included demographic information, the Empathy Assessment Index, Professional Quality of Life Scale, and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10. Participants reported high perceptions of empathy (M = 4.11), resilience (M = 3.98), and quality of life (M = 3.28), but CF was perceived at low levels (M = 2.97). Empathy was not predictive of CF, indicating that overall empathy alone does …

How Leaders And Followers Make Meaning: Perceptions Of Spiritual Leadership And Organizational Culture, Joshua J. Yancey

PhD in Organizational Leadership

This dissertation was grounded in the premise that spiritual leadership behaviors significantly influence organizational culture within faith-based nonprofit organizations yet remain insufficiently understood as lived experiences across organizational levels. While prior scholarship has established theoretical links between spirituality, leadership, and organizational outcomes, fewer studies have examined how such leadership is perceived by both leaders and followers within real organizational contexts. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how spiritual leadership behaviors were experienced and interpreted in relation to organizational culture, mission alignment, morale, and work meaning within a faith-based nonprofit setting. Data were collected from fifteen participants …

A Mixed Methods Moderation Analysis Of Historical Trauma, Enculturation, And Drinking Among Southwest Indigenous Young Adults, Antonia M. Young

Psychology ETDs

Multicultural efforts to understand how enculturation could reduce alcohol-related harms among American Indian and Alaska Native and Mexican American young adults in the Southwest United States have been lacking. The present mixed methods study tested the cross-cultural applicability of Walters et al.’s (2002) Indigenist Stress-Coping Model, which suggests enculturation moderates the relationship between historical trauma and drinking, between these groups using moderated linear regression. Participants (N=120) completed an online survey with items from the Historical and Intergenerational Trauma Transmission Questionnaire (HITT-Q), the Vancouver Index of Acculturation (VIA) heritage subscale (i.e., enculturation), NIAAA’s 30-day drinking consumption questionnaire, and one …

Instrumental Avoidance Promotes Safety Learning Across Distributed Neural Circuits, Zhenfu Wen, Lihan Cui, Muhammad Badarnee, Kai Zhang, Isabel Moallem, Hannah Mcmanus, Zakiya Atiyah, Joseph Borrelli, Wen Li, L Elliot Hong, Peter Kochunov, Mohammed R Milad

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Instrumental avoidance is a coping strategy that plays a critical role in anxiety and trauma-related disorders. Yet, the neural mechanisms supporting instrumental avoidance and its interaction with extinction learning remain incompletely understood.

Methods: Fifty-nine healthy adults completed a two-day fMRI paradigm including Pavlovian threat conditioning, avoidance learning, extinction, and memory recall. Subjective reports measuring the 'fear ratings' for each CS were administered and analyzed across all experimental phases. Neural responses were analyzed using univariate general linear modeling and multivariate pattern analysis with a validated threat/safety decoder. To assess generalizability, the analysis pipeline was repeated in an independent cohort (n=59) …

Policy Design, And The Repeal Of Ghana’S Emissions Levy Act: A Multiple Streams Framework Analysis, Anthony Amotoe-Bondzie

Collected Student Papers

Ghana’s 2023 Emissions Levy Act (Act 1112) imposed charges on large industrial emitters and vehicles, intending to internalize pollution costs and raise government revenue. This study applies to Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to explain the policy’s rapid repeal. Drawing on legislative texts, official reports, and media accounts, it categorizes influences into the problem (rising living costs), policy (design features), and politics (stakeholder mobilization) streams. Key findings reveal that the levy’s mixed design, a per-ton CO₂ fee on industry combined with a flat vehicle ownership tax, undermined its climate rationale and appeared more as a revenue grab. Implementation gaps exacerbated …

Research Day 2026 Program, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School Of Medicine

Research Day

No abstract provided.

Closing The Loop In Sustainable Fashion: Recycling Textile Waste And Its Environmental, Social, And Consumer Impacts, Anthony Amotoe-Bondzie

Collected Student Papers

Fast fashion has intensified textile waste, emissions, and social inequities across global supply chains. This study examines sustainable fashion frameworks and the role of textile recycling in advancing circularity. It employes a qualitative integrative literature review synthesizing interdisciplinary research on waste streams, recycling technologies, policy instruments, and consumer behavior. However, advanced recycling technologies offer environmental benefits but remain limited in scale. Nonetheless, rising consumption offsets efficiency gains, while economic and behavioral barriers hinder systemic change. Technological innovation alone is insufficient; circular design, regulatory enforcement, and reduced overproduction are essential for sustainable transformation.

Gender Attitudes And The Effects On Adolescent Boys' Psychosocial Well-Being In The Context Of Forced Displacement, Nicole Jones, Jennifer Seager, Sarah Baird, Zuhrat Inam, Stella Leung, Charlotte Greenbaum, Sarah Alheiwidi, Khadija Mitu, Astha Ramaiya, Kara Hunersen

GW Research Showcase 2021-2026

No abstract provided.

Law School Record, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Spring 2026), Law School Record Editors

Law School Record

• Message from the Dean
• A new program launches for public interest leadership
• Law-themed children’s books and games in the D’Angelo Law Library
• The Path To Legal Academia
• Climate in the Balance
• Asked & Answered
• Theory in Practice
• Three faculty members received distinguished professorships
• Students reflect on what they learned in the inaugural AI Lab
• Scenes from around the Law School
• Development News
• Development News: Alumna receives prestigious fellowship
• Recent Books by Alumni
• In Memoriam
• Giving Back: Sean Carney, ’90, and Mimi Gilligan JD/MBA, ’91

Unpacking Developmental Programming: A Conceptual And Historical Analysis In The Context Of Dohad, Andrea Gretchev, Heide S. Temples, Gillian England-Mason, Deborah Dewey, Sara M. Sarasua, Christopher Farrell, Vivian Haley-Zitlin

Publications

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm posits that early environmental factors may influence a child’s development and long-term health outcomes. Developmental programming (DP) is central to this paradigm, whereby specific early life exposures during critical periods of development are associated with changes to physiological and metabolic pathways, potentially predisposing individuals to disease. However, no standard definition of DP exists, and various terms have been used to describe similar processes. This analysis aimed to develop a conceptual definition for DP to inform interdisciplinary research, education, and practice. Walker and Avant’s eight-step method was employed to analyze the literature, …

Dipl 6801 Us Foreign Policy In Latin America And The Caribbean, Benjamin Goldfrank Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This seminar examines the major foreign policy doctrines applied by the United States in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine through the Good Neighbor Policy and the Alliance for Progress until the recent agendas combining the “War on Terror” and “Free Trade” (and now the “Donroe” Doctrine?). We will ask questions such as how US policy is shaped, why it has changed over time, which policies are most effective in securing mutually beneficial relationships, and what the policy options are with regard to key issues such as trade, immigration, drugs, and democracy promotion. The seminar focuses on developing analytical, writing, …

Dipl 6311 Na Master's Research Project, Omer Gokcekus Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course provides students with the opportunity to conduct supervised research on a policy issue and to prepare a formal report. The report should contribute to the understanding of a policy issue and should include more in-depth analysis and research than a term paper in a graduate seminar course. Each report should include either analytical and/or quantitative analyses, whichever is/are the appropriate and necessary one(s). Students will have an option to work either on a pre-defined project or on their own projects after getting the instructor’s written approval.

Dipl 6277 Global Health Security In A Changing World, Matthew Brown Phd, Mps

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course provides an interdisciplinary survey of global health security at a critical juncture in international health governance. The Spring 2026 semester unfolds against the backdrop of dramatic shifts in U.S. global health policy, including the withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the dismantling of USAID, and the introduction of the "America First Global Health Strategy." These changes, coupled with ongoing threats such as the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak and climate-driven health challenges, create an unprecedented moment for examining the intersection of health and security.

Students will analyze how the reconfiguration of global health architecture affects disease surveillance, pandemic preparedness, …

Dipl 6105 International Political Economy, Robert Shaver Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

Over the course of history the world has witnessed successive waves of what we today call globalization, resulting in increasing economic interdependence between otherwise independent political communities. Simultaneously, the dominant type of these communities has become the modern territorial nation-state. This course explores these processes, studying the interlinkages of political and economic systems within an increasingly globalized world. Over the course of the semester, we will take an interdisciplinary approach to examine IPE theory, history, trade, development, multinational corporations, the international monetary system, and finance. Primary source readings are paired with the textbook so that students may understand ideas in …

Dipl 3350/6350 Religion, Race, And International Relations, Brian K. Muzas Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course offers an overview of the role of religion and race in international relations. Students explore the causes, nature, and consequences of key issues related to the interplay of religion and race in history at the practical and theoretical levels. By understanding what scholars have learned and connecting these lessons to current events, students will acquire tools to approach contemporary and future issues.

Because of the nature of religion, some guiding questions naturally arise. These include questions like: What is the best way to live? What is the relationship between religion and society? Is religion a strictly private matter? …

Dipl 6002 International Organizations, Purnaka L. De Silva Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

The focus and aim of this Course – DIPL 6002: International Organizations – is to understand International Organizations from the vantage point of the concept of Global Governance.  Global governance, central to international relations, refers to the loose framework of global regulation – both institutional and normative – that constrains conduct and attempts to maintain order.  When we speak of order, we need to specify order for whom – states, peoples, groups, or individuals.  Order may denote any regular or discernible pattern of relationships that are stable over time or may additionally refer to a condition that allows certain …

Dipl 4108 International Political Economy, Robert Shaver Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

Over the course of history the world has witnessed successive waves of what we today call globalization, resulting in increasing economic interdependence between otherwise independent political communities. Simultaneously, the dominant type of these communities has become the modern territorial nation-state. This course explores these processes, studying the interlinkages of political and economic systems within an increasingly globalized world. Over the course of the semester, we will take an interdisciplinary approach to examine IPE theory, history, trade, development, multinational corporations, the international monetary system, and finance. Primary source readings are paired with the textbook so that students may understand ideas in …

Dipl 2110 Aa/Ab Comparative Foreign Policy, Michael Curtin

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course is an introduction to theories of foreign policy analysis and a survey of the foreign policy of major states. The first part of the course examines alternative theoretical approaches to the study of foreign policy. These conceptual models are then applied to a series of seminal events, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The second part of the course examines the foreign policy trajectories of several important States and explores critical foreign policy dilemmas through two in-class simulations.

Dipl 3104 Public International Law, Philip Moremen Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course explores the nature and content of the law governing relations between states and relations between states and non-state actors.  The first part of the course examines the building blocks of international law; the second part applies this knowledge to particular topics, such as the use of force, human rights and international humanitarian law.  By the end of the course, students will possess an understanding of the operation of the international legal system and the role of international law in international affairs.

Students will also develop their critical thinking skills and gain an introduction to legal reasoning and to …

Dipl 4106 Aa Human Rights Law And Policy, Belachew Fikre Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course introduces students to the historical development and emergence of the human rights movement, particularly following World War II and during the consolidating period of the 1970s. This period is often labeled the golden decade of human rights, as the movement that commenced at the end of World War II was consolidated through the adoption of two crucial international instruments. Furthermore, human rights advocacy, which works through victims’ testimony and evidence-based reporting on violations, began to take center stage, departing from the basic rules of humanitarian engagement that include impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

With four interrelated parts, the course …