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Gaming As Therapeutic Modality For Military Veterans: Evidence, Mechanisms, And Program Design, Piper Hutson, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

This study synthesizes interdisciplinary evidence on game-based interventions for military veterans, mapping neurological mechanisms to clinically relevant outcomes while outlining design principles for community programs that leverage interactive media. The review characterizes how structured gameplay supports emotional regulation through attentional control, predictable feedback schedules, and reward-mediated learning that elevates motivation and mood; links to dopaminergic signaling and reduced rumination suggest plausible pathways for affective stabilization. Executive functions receive targeted engagement via strategy, puzzle, and action mechanics that demand working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibition, and rapid decision-making, providing ecologically valid practice with measurable transfer to daily functioning. Social architectures in multiplayer …

Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among United States Children With Functional Disabilities: National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey, 2021–2023, Raed A. Bahelah

Population Health Science Publications

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Progressive Insights Into 3d Bioprinting For Corneal Tissue Restoration, Ilayda Namli, Deepak Gupta, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Pallab Datta, Muhammad Rizwan, Mehmet Baykara, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat

Michigan Tech Publications

The complex architecture of the cornea, characterized by specifically organized collagen fibrils and distinct cellular layers, poses significant challenges for traditional tissue engineering strategies to replicate its native function. 3D Bioprinting offers a promising solution by enabling the precise, layer-by-layer fabrication of corneal tissues, closely mimicking the essential characteristics needed for vision restoration and long-term graft success. This Review critically examines the key biomechanical, optical, and structural attributes of the cornea necessary for its effective engineering and accurate 3D bioprinting. It provides a comprehensive overview of different 3D bioprinting modalities utilized for corneal tissue engineering and offers insights into potential …

September 2025, Office Of Research

Research Update

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Teaching Information Literacy In The Emerging And Dynamic Fields Of Preparedness And Security, Abigail Adams

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Emergency preparedness and security are comparatively new academic fields, but they have grown tremendously in the last ten years.1 Colleges and universities all over the United States and Canada are adding and expanding programs dedicated to various facets of these subjects. While the specific subtopics and focal areas can vary by program, they all explore threat assessment, risk management, and disaster mitigation in some capacity. Emergency preparedness or emergency management programs prepare students to pursue careers dealing with crisis mitigation and response, whether that crisis is a result of natural disaster, climate change, war, civil unrest, infrastructure failure, economic instability, …

Leveraging The Federal Trust Responsibility To Safeguard Net Neutrality On Tribal Lands, Morgan O. Schaack

University of Chicago Law Review

The internet plays a crucial role in modern life, but equal access to it is not guaranteed. This inequality is only starker since the recent overruling of the Chevron doctrine that afforded agencies deference in their interpretation of statutes and the second Trump administration’s hostility toward net neutrality––a policy that prevents internet service providers from charging more money for access to faster internet while slowing other users’ access. For those living on tribal lands, rescission of net neutrality policies has unique implications due to the federal government’s trust responsibility to American Indians.

The trust responsibility is a long-standing and deeply …

September 2025 Full Issue

NASIG Newsletter

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One Hundred Ninety-Nine Dead Birds: Review Of The Scientific Basis Of Ecological Incident Reporting Requirements For Pesticide Registrants Under Fifra § 6(A)(2), Nimish B. Vyas, Cynthia Palmer

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates pesticide use in the United States. The EPA is charged by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) with ensuring that a pesticide will not cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment. Incident reports (documentation of exposure and injury from pesticide applications) can serve as a reality check on the pesticide registration decisions made by the EPA scientists and risk managers. The EPA collects incident reports on human, domestic animal, and ecological injury. The FIFRA section 6(a)(2) rule requires the pesticide registrant (generally, the company or other entity that wishes to market …

Manatees In Hot Water: How The Florida Manatee Became Dependent On Power Plant Warm Water Outfalls, Michaela Morris

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

Each winter in Florida, thousands of manatees gather in the warm water outflows of power plants. These refuges play a crucial role for the Florida manatee: when ocean temperatures drop, manatees shelter at these artificial sources to survive. But in recent years, thousands of manatees wintering at the Florida Power & Light Company’s Cape Canaveral Clean Energy Center have died. The reason? Seagrass beds––a primary food source for manatees––are vanishing, killed off by pollution from agricultural, industrial, and residential sources.

This Article documents the historical, political, and regulatory conditions that led to manatees’ reliance on power plants. First, the political …

The Question Of Textbooks In Academic Libraries: To Purchase Or Not? A Scoping Review, Jeanette Aprile, Danielle Aloia, Deborah A. Crooke, Marie T. Ascher

NYMC Faculty Publications

Objectives: Textbook costs have escalated for students and the library. The objective of this scoping review is to assist libraries in developing a collection policy for course-required textbooks informed by themes and outcomes recognized in the existing body of research.

Methods: The scoping review was conducted using Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis. The team did an environmental scan, constructed a comprehensive search strategy in six databases, and conducted hand and cited-reference searching. Included papers were quantitative or qualitative studies with outcomes described and mapped to prevailing themes.

Results: Nine hundred twenty-three records were identified …

Item 1: Syllabus: Advocacy In Action: Civic Engagement Through Social Sciences, Natascia Boeri

Natascia Boeri, Advocacy in Action: Civic Engagement Through Social Sciences

This course introduces students to civic engagement and advocacy through a social sciences framework. Students will explore how social change occurs, analyze sociopolitical structures, and develop practical advocacy skills. A key component of the course is a hands-on social action project.

Item 6: Activity: Information Literacy And Advocacy Groups, Natascia Boeri

Natascia Boeri, Advocacy in Action: Civic Engagement Through Social Sciences

This activity guides students in reviewing an advocacy organization. Using critical information literacy skills, students will evaluate the organization’s mission, activities, leadership, and funding, analyzing how it presents information. Students will also consider the role of power in shaping the information presented by the organization, examining how power dynamics may influence the framing of an issue and the strategies used for advocacy.

Item 4: Activity 3: Nurses Of World War Ii, Lisa Bratton

Lisa Bratton, African American Women in the United States

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Item 1: Syllabus: African American Literature, Scott Hicks

Scott Hicks, African American Literature

This syllabus surveys African American literature via the reading and discussion of canonical texts enriched by relevant documentaries. It is divided into a series of topics, organized thematically and roughly chronologically, that foreground consideration of core concepts (such as consciousness, freedom, love, and self-actualization) and tropes (such as tricksters, enslavement, vernacular, and double consciousness) and culminate in consideration of voting advocacy within the context of civil rights activism. Finally, the syllabus makes space for synchronous collaborative writing, in support of students’ development of skills of interpretation and critical thinking in relationship with each other.

Item 2: Assignment 1: Polarization, Identity, And Democratic Voice, Parakh Hoon

Parakh Hoon, United States Government

This capstone assignment invites students to critically analyze the 2024 US election cycle using civic and policy lenses. Students examine voting outcomes, campaign strategies, demographic shifts, and broader public engagement trends. They submit recommendations for political parties and policymakers based on historical patterns, political behavior research, and public opinion data. Students may choose their output format (e.g., essay, infographic, podcast) and optionally use generative AI, accompanied by a structured AI Use & Reflection Report. The assignment is designed to integrate civic reasoning, historical context, and action-oriented political learning.

Item 7: Activity 2: Civic Engagement Warm-Up Discussion: How Do You Show Up In Civic Life?, Parakh Hoon

Parakh Hoon, United States Government

This low-stakes discussion activity introduces students to the broad and inclusive concept of civic engagement. Before analyzing legal frameworks, case studies, or public policy, students begin with a personal lens. This activity helps them activate prior knowledge, identify with civic values, and recognize that engagement comes in many forms. It works well in the first 1–2 weeks of a course and is adaptable for online, hybrid, or in-person settings.

Item 1: Syllabus: Civic Leadership: Theories And Action, Kara Dillard

Kara Dillard, Civic Leadership: Theories and Practice

Civic leadership involves students learning key skills to foster collaboration across differences, embracing complex decision-making in dialogue with others, and valuing pragmatic solutions that advance the common good. This class answers questions such as: “What are the essential traits, key skills and mindsets of a civic leader?” “How do history, legal frameworks, and socioeconomic theories shape the way civic leaders should approach solving wicked issues?” “How might civic leaders harness technology and design thinking to improve civic life?” “What are models of civic engagement that work and how can civic leaders implement them in real communities?” “How can James Madison’s …

Utilizing Generative Ai To Counter Learner Groupthink By Introducing Controversy In Collaborative Problem-Based Learning Settings, Andrew Wiss, Mary Showstark, Kyle Dobbeck, Jennifer Pattershall-Geide, Elke Zschaebitz, Dawn Joosten-Hagye, Kirsten Potter, Erin Embry

Montclair State University Scholarship & Creative Works

This article highlights the foundational challenge of rapid interprofessional student team formation and the potential challenges that groupthink poses for newly-formed teams participating in collaborative problem-based learning activities. This article describes a mixed-methods study that addresses groupthink by introducing a generative artificial intelligence-based agent (genAI agent) into the small group processes of student teams engaging in a session of a well-established virtual interprofessional education methodology. The integration of this novel genAI tool into each student team was an intentional pedagogical technique, introduced in response to the challenges that newly-formed student teams may encounter as they rapidly come together and potentially …

Premenopausal Transition In Neurodivergent Women With Musculoskeletal Syndromes: Mechanisms, Risks, And Neuroinclusive Therapeutics, Piper Hutson, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

Neurodivergent women with chronic musculoskeletal syndromes experience disproportionate premenopausal symptom burdens that are poorly characterized in extant clinical paradigms and practice. The compounded interplay of estrogen fluctuations in premenopause with sensory–executive differences and baseline nociception from joint or connective-tissue pathology yields intensified pain, mood dysregulation, and functional decline. Evidence indicates estrogen modulates nociception, neuroinflammation, bone remodeling, and monoaminergic signaling; premenopausal variability magnifies pain, affective lability, and cognitive drift—effects accentuated in autism and ADHD. Coexisting hypermobility, fibromyalgia, or connective-tissue disorders compromise joint integrity and proprioception, increasing susceptibility to estrogen-dependent changes in bone microarchitecture and tendon homeostasis. This article advances an integrative …

Auditory Cognition Lab: A Music Therapy And Speech-Language Pathology Co-Treatment For Military-Connected Populations With Auditory And Cognitive Impairment, Danielle Vetro-Kalseth, Rebecca Vaudreuil, Heather Morrison, Kathleen Howard, Hannah Bronson

Faculty Works

Military personnel are particularly at risk for auditory processing difficulties as their training, occupational, and combat experiences increase the likelihood of long-term damage to the auditory system as well as negatively impact physical, psychological, cognitive, and sensory functioning. This article introduces a music therapy and speech-language pathology co-treatment program, Auditory Cognition Lab (ACL), that treats auditory and cognitive deficits in military-connected populations (service members, veterans) with traumatic brain injury (TBI). ACL addresses auditory discrimination, temporal and binaural processing, and trains compensatory strategies related to auditory processing, cognition, and hearing function. ACL has been clinically implemented at multiple military treatment facilities …

The Fate Of Intra- And Extracellular Antibiotic Resistance Genes Through Advanced Wastewater Treatment Process, Celestene Adrianne Sebag

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

More areas across the globe are becoming affected by water stress or water scarcity. The decrease in available freshwater due to overconsumption reveals the direct need to consider other sources for necessities such as drinking water or food production. Agricultural irrigation uses 70% of the world’s freshwater, making the focus on safe and reliable reclaimed water for agricultural reuse imperative. However, contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), such as antibiotics and their resulting antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), can spread and affect human health if reclaimed water is not treated to the proper level. Antibiotics are widely used in human medicine and …

Item 1: Syllabus: American National Government, 100-200 Level Introductory Course, Michael Williams Jr.

Michael Williams, American National Government 100-200 Level Introductory Course

This course explores American national government, balancing institutional standards with government beyond amendments. The course equips students to understand their roles as citizens. Key components include blended learning, a civic engagement letter project, and coverage of civil liberties, civil rights, public opinion, interest groups, the media, political parties, political campaigns, voting behavior, elections, the presidency, bureaucracy, the US Congress, the judiciary, and public policy. ThThis course explores American national government, balancing institutional standards with government beyond amendments. The course equips students to understand their roles as citizens. Key components include blended learning, a civic engagement letter project, and coverage of …

Item 1: Soc 1100 - Introduction To Sociology (Civic Engagement Emphasis) Syllabus, Fatima Sattar

Fatima Sattar, Soc 1100 - Introduction to Sociology with a Civic Engagement Emphasis

This is an Introduction to Sociology course syllabus with a civic engagement emphasis. Sociology is one of the most well-suited disciplines to address civic issues and civic engagement. Sociology examines social life, social problems, and civic issues from “private troubles” to “public issues” and how these are interconnected (see C. Wright Mills). Social activism, which is a form of civic engagement, is one of sociology’s core commitments.

Item 4: Diverse Conversations - Unify America Challenge Assignment, Fatima Sattar

Fatima Sattar, Soc 1100 - Introduction to Sociology with a Civic Engagement Emphasis

The purpose of this assignment is to build civic-communication skills through a one-on-one, paired conversation on important societal issues (e.g., economy, health, immigration and more) and written reflection. These are also important topics examined by the social sciences and humanities. To productively work toward civic engagement, it is important to learn to have a civil conversation and dialogue about issues affecting our society with someone who has a different perspective than your own The purpose of the Unify Challenge, run by Unify America, is “to spark conversation with other college students across the country who might be politically and socially …

Item 1. Course Syllabus: History Of Civic Engagement And Voting Rights Since Reconstruction, American History Ii, Tanja Bacani

Tanja Bacani, History of Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Since Reconstruction

This syllabus is for a survey course that combines common themes in American history since 1865 with a specific focus on civic engagement and voting rights. It is centered around the stories of everyday Americans who participated in the Progressive Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, labor rights, and other turning points in American history related to civic engagement. The syllabus and course assignments highlight the role of oral history in preserving stories and introduce students to the methods and impact of historical advocates for justice. The goal is to help students reflect on their own roles in advocacy, allyship, and …

Gw Ophthalmology On-Call: 09/2025, Mike Nguyen, Sophie Gorup

GW Ophthalmology On-Call

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Ds 637-001: Python And Mathematics, Nikita Nemane

Data Science Syllabi

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Ds 636-005: Data Analytics With R Programming, Jaini Bhavsar

Data Science Syllabi

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Ds 644-001: Introduction To Big Data, Ravneet Kaur

Data Science Syllabi

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Ds 677-001: Deep Learning, Akshay Rangamani

Data Science Syllabi

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