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Love, Support, Good Vibes: Unconditional Positive Regard And Lgbtqia+ Youth After-School Stories, M V. Pease, Maggie Brooks, Wilson Lazo-Salmeron, Ayushi Sarkar, Halle Ho-Yee Shen, Sharon Colvin

Journal of Youth Development

LGBTQIA+ youth face high rates of identity rejection and bullying, creating an urgent need for support and affirmation within oppressive societal structures. School environments can uniquely support LGBTQIA+ youth through after-school programming designed to provide positive community experiences. Using qualitative thematic analysis of personal stories from LGBTQIA+ youth (N=94), we examined what LGBTQIA+ youth envision as ideal support within after-school programming. Our analyses, informed by humanistic psychology principles, revealed eight major themes: good vibes, compassion and empathy, non-judgment and acceptance, multidimensional human connection, safety, proxy for home/family, adults and mentors, and altruism. Results indicate the need for warmth, safety, connection, …

Contested Citizenship And The Body In The Body Politic: Reflections On Michele Goodwin’S Presidential Address In The Shadow Of Skrmetti, Maya Manian

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This commentary is part of a series of responses to Michele Goodwin's 2025 LSA presidential address.

Keynote: Going Forward After Grants Pass, Joseph W. Mead

William & Mary Law Review

In this keynote, I explain the decision—and the stakes—of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. In Grants Pass, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause posed no barrier to cities making it a crime for their homeless residents to sleep outdoors with as little as a blanket, even when those residents have no other option. Grants Pass, Oregon undertook an aggressive campaign to drive unhoused residents out of the city through punitive ordinances that criminalized unavoidable human conduct, such as sleeping with a blanket. The plaintiffs challenged the narrowest version of these …

Grants Pass And The Innocence Limit, Gregory Cui, Emily Clark

William & Mary Law Review

This Article examines City of Grants Pass v. Johnson as an important development in the Supreme Court’s doctrine concerning the Constitution’s “innocence limit.” This limit is a fundamental boundary on the state’s power to punish; it provides that criminal punishment may only apply to that which is morally culpable or blameworthy and thus may not apply to wholly innocent conduct. This principle was famously expressed in Robinson v. California, but this Article identifies a broader network of cases in which the Court has consistently effectuated the innocence limit and intervened against prosecutions of the innocent. This Article observes that …

The Presence And Persistence Of Social Rights In U.S. Constitutional Law, Mila Versteeg, Emily Zackin

William & Mary Law Review

Although the U.S. Constitution is widely described as lacking enforceable social rights, a recent line of cases from the Ninth Circuit recognizes a limited right to shelter. Relying on the Eighth Amendment, the Ninth Circuit held that individuals who lack access to shelter have a limited right to stay on public land with their belongings. The Supreme Court reversed in 2024, portraying the Ninth Circuit’s approach as an anomalous departure from accepted constitutional norms.

This Article argues that the Ninth Circuit’s decisions were not an aberration but instead exemplify a longstanding and globally common mode of social-rights adjudication. The common …

After Grants Pass: The Case For Recentering The Criminal Legal System And Its Constitutional Constraints, Scout Katovich

William & Mary Law Review

In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment does not prohibit cities from punishing unhoused people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go. While the holding was legally narrow, the Court’s rhetoric framed criminalization as sound policy rather than punishment, obscuring the criminal legal system implications at the heart of the case. Cities responded not to the narrow holding but to the rhetorical message: In the year following the decision, they enacted hundreds of new laws criminalizing homelessness and dramatically intensified enforcement.

This Article argues for the recentering of …

Sidewalk Living, Michael C. Pollack

William & Mary Law Review

In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment does not prohibit a city from enforcing a criminal ban on encampments on public property such as parks and sidewalks. But even if municipalities are now permitted to use tactics such as policing, encampment clearing, arrests, and imprisonment, these are not the right ways to address the problems of public homelessness.

Instead, homelessness must be understood as one of many conflicts over limited public space. At its best, vibrant sidewalk life enhances communities and local economies. But at its worst, every use of these …

The New Necessity, Ezra Rosser

William & Mary Law Review

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, cities are free to criminalize homelessness. The 2024 case City of Grants Pass v. Johnson is the most important homelessness case in decades and was a significant blow to advocates for the unhoused. The conservative majority rejected the idea that city ordinances criminalizing sleeping in public amounted to cruel and unusual punishment insofar as they penalized status. There is no sidestepping the loss. But within the faint glow of the embers of the oral argument and of the decision itself, there is the possibility that a new understanding of necessity, supported by the same …

Setting The Stage For Grants Pass (& A Moral Constitutional Reckoning), Sara K. Rankin

William & Mary Law Review

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson marked a seismic shift in the legal landscape governing homelessness throughout the country. By permitting the criminalization of involuntary acts, such as sleeping or resting in public when no shelter is available, the Court foreclosed constitutional protections under the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause and signaled judicial deference to punitive local policies targeting unhoused people. But Grants Pass was not spontaneous; it was seeded over time. This Article situates Grants Pass within the broader legal and nonlegal contexts that made its outcome possible. Part I explores …

Family Nurse Practitioner Workforce Response To The Public Health Opioid Crisis Through Curriculum Revision, Dayle Sharp, Marcy Doyle, Michelle Capozzoli

All Materials

The opioid crisis continues to pose a critical public health challenge in the United States, demanding an adequately trained primary care workforce. In response, a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program revised its curriculum to prepare students to care for individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) through a multi-pronged educational intervention. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory, Situated Learning Theory, and Community of Practice Theory, the revised curriculum integrated a 24-hour Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) waiver training, clinical shadowing with MOUD providers, and participation in a 10-month Project ECHO telementoring series based on SAMHSA’s Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 63. Results …

Developing Collaborative Care At The Intersection Of Maternal Health And Substance Use Disorders: A Case Study On Building Community Through Shared Virtual Learning, Kimberly Persson, Susy Hawes, Sam Leiper

All Materials

This report documents the activities conducted as part of the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model (MOMM) implementation in New Hampshire. The activities detailed within are the result of partnerships between The Elliot Hospital, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and the University of New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice. All efforts were made possible thanks to funding provided by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

Impact Of Suaahara, An Integrated Nutrition Programme, On Maternal And Child Nutrition At Scale In Nepal, Edward A. Frongillo Jr. Ph.D., Shalini Suresh, Deependra K. Thapa, Kenda Cunningham, Pooja Pandey Rana, Ramesh P. Adhikari, Subir Kole, Bhim Pun, Indra Kshetri, Debendra P. Adhikari, Rolf Klemm

Faculty Publications

Suaahara was an innovative, complex, multi-sectoral, large-scale, nutrition programme in Nepal to increase exposure to nutrition-related information and services, improve nutrition-related knowledge and practices among pregnant women and mothers of infants and young children, and improve their nutrition. This study evaluated the effectiveness of Suaahara to improve nutrition and nutrition-related practices by comparing changes over 10 years between intervention and comparison districts. The samples of households at baseline in 2012 and endline in 2022 were 2040 and 2480, respectively, from 120 old wards. The impact was estimated using intent-to-treat regression models in which survey year, arm and their interaction were …

Exposure To Suaahara Ii Interventions And Knowledge Of Maternal And Child Nutrition And Health Among Mothers, Grandmothers, And Male Household Heads: An Association Study In Nepal, Shalini Suresh, Edward A. Frongillo Jr. Ph.D., Deependra K. Thapa, Ramesh P. Adhikari, Subir K. Kole, Femila Sapkota, Manisha Laxmi Shrestha, Kristine Garn, Pooja Rana Pandey, Indra Kshetri, Dipak Sharma, Kenda Cunningham

Faculty Publications

Suaahara was a USAID-funded multi-sectoral integrated nutrition program that aimed to improve the nutritional status of children under the age of five and their mothers in Nepal. The program included multiple interventions targeted to mothers and children, as well as other caregivers. Caregiver knowledge of optimal nutrition and health practices among household members is an important driver of healthy child and maternal nutrition behaviors. This study investigates the associations between exposure to Suaahara interventions and knowledge of maternal and child nutrition and health practices among mothers (n =, grandmothers (n =, and male household heads (n =. Linear and logistic …

Apoe And Plasma Ad Biomarkers: The Role Of Genetic Ancestry In Hispanics/Latinos, Caitlin Cheung, Natasha Z Anita, Paola Filigrana, Myriam Fornage, Kevin A Gonzalez, Linda C Gallo, Carmen R Isasi, Robert C Kaplan, Xihao Li, Freddie Márquez, Humberto Parada, Krista M Perreira, Alberto R Ramos, Tatjana Rundek, Wassim Tarraf, Fernando D Testai, Charles Decarli, Hector M González, Tamar Sofer

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles are well-established genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but their effects on AD biomarkers (amyloid beta [Aβ]42/40, phosphorylated tau [p-tau]181, neurofilament light chain [NfL], and glial fibrillary acidic protein [GFAP]) may vary across populations due to ancestry-, age-, and sex-related differences. We hypothesized that these effects vary across Hispanic/Latino background groups with distinct ancestral admixture.

Methods: We analyzed ε2 and ε4 allele associations with AD biomarkers using survey-weighted linear regression models, adjusting for demographic covariates. Secondary analyses examined genetic analysis group- and ancestry-specific effects.

Results: ε4 was associated with lower Aβ42/40 and higher p-tau181and …

An Exploratory Bayesian Network Analysis Of Weight And Feeding Outcomes In 6-Month-Old Infants With Complex Congenital Heart Disease, Amy Delaney, Mary Taylor, Julie Ann Lavoie, Roger Brown, Karen Pridhame

Speech Pathology and Audiology Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: We aimed to explore with a Bayesian network how clinically important factors related to feeding infants with complex congenital heart disease (CCHD) are associated with each other and influence feeding outcomes. Our goal was to raise questions for further study.

Method: This descriptive study included data from 19 infants on severity of neonatal illness, early oral-motor (OM) and swallowing skills, feeding patterns, liquid and solid intake, and weight-for-age at 2 and 6 months. Bayesian network analysis was used to estimate the conditional probabilities of these variables in relation to each other and predict the 6-month weight-for-age z score and …

A Hemodynamic Cascade: Tumor Embolism And Post-Bypass Systolic Anterior Motion During Nephrectomy, Anika Pruthi, Christopher Mcloughlin, Robert Thomas, Keyur Trivedi

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Departmental Research

Introduction: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) commonly invades the renal vein, and in advanced cases, the inferior vena cava (IVC). Standard management of localized RCC with venous thrombus is surgical resection, often requiring radical nephrectomy ± tumor thrombectomy. We present a unique case in which sequential intraoperative tumor embolization and post-cardiopulmonary bypass systolic anterior motion (CPB SAM) created a rare, complex hemodynamic cascade, highlighting challenges in the perioperative management of advanced RCC.

Case Description: A 71-year-old female with a history of hypertension was diagnosed with a large left renal mass with tumor thrombus extending into the left renal vein and IVC, …

The Correlation Of Vitamin D Deficiency On Clinical Disease Activity Index (Cdai) Scores In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ruha Reddy, Amanda Rodriguez Do, Amy Wu, Jasmine Sturn, Rachel Champagne, Rebekah Johnson, Marie S. O'Brien Do

USF-LVHN SELECT

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An Assessment Of Brain Mri Utilization In Inpatient Admissions For Headache And Dizziness At Lehigh Valley Health Network, Srijit Paul, Shadi Jarjous Md

USF-LVHN SELECT

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A Narrative Approach To Understanding K2 Use In The Community, Gabriella Blanco, Abby S. Letcher Md, Nyann Biery Ms

USF-LVHN SELECT

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Preoperative Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation And Patient Reported Quality Of Life In Bladder Cancer Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy, Anosh Dadabhoy, Farshad S. Moghaddam, Siamak Daneshmand

USF-LVHN SELECT

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Significant Disease In Substance-Related Deaths: A Serious Confounder, Clare F Hartman, Michael Johnson, Chandler Grant

USF-LVHN SELECT

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Sepsis At Children's Mercy: A Descriptive Study, Katlyn Mayer, Leslie Hueschen, Grace E. Arends Md, Ashley Sherman

Presentations

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Simulation Culture And Organizational Readiness In Social Work Education: Examining Faculty Perspectives., Kate Whitney

Doctor of Social Work Capstone Projects

Despite the growing emphasis on simulation-based learning (SBL), faculty perceptions of organizational readiness for this approach in social work education remain understudied. This exploratory mixed-methods study examined faculty readiness across two CSWE-accredited programs using the Simulation Culture Organizational Readiness Scale (SCORS) and qualitative open-ended questions (𝑁=21). Findings revealed modest and uneven readiness across both programs, with full-time faculty reporting significantly lower readiness scores than adjunct and part-time faculty. Qualitative data identified critical needs for foundational dialogue on SBL principles, strategic institutional investment, and targeted faculty development. Participants also expressed concerns regarding the pace of adoption and potential conflicts with the …

Substance Use Stigma: Examining The Role Of Social Work Education., Eboni Burton

Doctor of Social Work Capstone Projects

This study explored the extent of substance use related stigma among social work students and professionals (i.e., BSW, MSW, PHD and DSW) and its relationship to specialized education/training in substance use and professional practice with people who use drugs (PWUD)/live with a substance use disorder (PWSUD). Stigma was measured using the Opening Minds Provider Attitudes Toward Opioid Use Scale and the Medical Condition Regard Scale. The final sample size was 263. Results indicate that current enrollment in a social work program, post degree or non-curriculum related substance use related training, and personal and professional experience with substance use specifically, mitigate …

Emergency Department Boarding For Psychiatric Care: The Effect Of Pointclickcare Integration., Chris Rowan

Doctor of Social Work Capstone Projects

Emergency Department Boarding for Psychiatric Care: The Effect of PointClickCare Integration

Abstract

For many individuals in psychiatric crisis, the emergency department has become the first place to seek help, highlighting gaps in how behavioral health care is accessed and coordinated. In Massachusetts, PointClickCare's Behavioral Health Treatment and Referral Platform (BH TRP) was implemented to centralize and streamline referrals between emergency departments and inpatient psychiatric facilities. This capstone evaluates whether implementation of the BH TRP was associated with changes in psychiatric boarding time at a community hospital emergency department. Using a mixed-methods program evaluation design, this study analyzed de-identified electronic medical …

The Unexplored Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Burnout, And Resiliency Among Hospital Staff., Elizabeth Davis

Doctor of Social Work Capstone Projects

This study addresses the critical issue of staff turnover at Baptist Health Floyd, where rates exceed national hospital averages. While prior research connects burnout to workplace stressors, less is known about the role of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resilience among hospital staff. Understanding these relationships is essential for improving workforce stability and patient care outcomes. A cross-sectional survey design was used, with convenience sampling of hospital employees and providers (n=207). Data were collected via a Qualtrics survey using validated instruments: the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach et al., 2016), the ACE questionnaire (Felitti et al., 1998), and the Brief Resilience …

The Changing Landscape Of International Development: An Introduction, Pascaline Dupas, Pinelopi Goldberg, Rohini Pande

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Since the late 1980s, extreme poverty has declined sharply, life expectancy and schooling have increased, and electoral democracy has expanded. However poverty reduction has slowed in recent years, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic, amid intensifying conflict, fragility, climate risks, democratic backsliding, and the erosion of global trends—including trade integration and geopolitical stability—that once supported growth. These dynamics raise three interrelated questions: what barriers impede further progress; where will future growth in lower-income countries come from; and how can growth be broadly shared. Taking stock of 15 chapters forthcoming in Volume 6 of the Handbook of Development Economics, we discuss how …

Pre-Legislative Indigenous Consultation, Erick Guapizaca Jiménez

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

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Manufacturing Accountability: Towards Executive Adjudication Of Foreign Workplace Injuries, Jake Goodman-Palmer

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

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Prospective Validation Of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Pharmacokinetic Models For Precision Dosing In Children And Adolescents, Ethan A. Poweleit, Whitney Sparks Ms, Catherine Koertje, Addison Pritchett Ms, Gail Robertson, Lindsey Malloy-Walton, Stephani Stancil, Jeffrey R. Strawn, Alexa L. Pagano, Kathryn Kyler, Jonathan B. Wagner, Brandon Retke, Paul C. Toren, J Steven Leeder Pharmd, Phd, Laura B. Ramsey

Posters

Background: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are commonly prescribed to children and adolescents with anxiety and depression. However, their clinical use is complicated by marked interindividual variability in exposure, which contributes to differences in treatment response and side effects. Further, SSRIs are commonly dosed using a trial-and-error approach. Model-informed precision dosing could improve treatment outcomes, yet existing SSRI population pharmacokinetic (PK) models have not been prospectively validated and may not generalize to pediatric patients. This study aims to evaluate how accurately these models predict exposure for three SSRIs—escitalopram (ESC), sertraline (SRT), and fluoxetine (FLX)—and refine them to develop tools for …