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“I’M Never Enough”: Associations Of Childhood Emotional Abuse Subtypes With Overweight Preoccupation And Dietary Restraint Among Women, Kayla Queen, Megan Sweeney, David A. Frederick

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Childhood emotional abuse from authority figures encompasses verbal abuse, emotional rejection, and overexpectations. Although global emotional abuse is an established correlate of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, the unique roles of these specific subtypes remain underexamined. Across two studies of adult women recruited from CloudResearch (Ns = 2566; 824), we evaluated associations between authority figure abuse subtypes, body image, and dietary restraint. Bivariate correlations revealed that all subtypes related to poorer body image and higher restraint. Hierarchical regressions demonstrated that emotional abuse subtypes explained incremental variance across outcomes beyond demographic factors. When modeled simultaneously, overexpectations emerged as the …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 10.12.26, Notre Dame Law School

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The Latest News

• Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to reject state-sponsored religious instruction

Alumni News

• Jorge Barrera-Rojas ’25 J.S.D.
• Josephine Ndagire ’08 LL.M.

Faculty Briefs

• Rick Garnett
• Paolo Carozza
• Msgr. John Paul Kimes
• Mark Hill KC
• John Nagle
• Derek Muller
• Dennis Wieboldt ' 26 J.D.
• Diane Desierto

ND Law in the News

• University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., has established a new committee tasked with authoring a report on respectful dialogue at Notre Dame. Dean G. Marcus Cole will co-chair the committee alongside Kate Marshall, associate dean in the College of …

Investigating The Effect Of Oral Probiotic Capsules On Postpartum Sleep Quality In Primiparous Women: A Triple-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial, Maryam Rastegar, Nahid Jahani Shoorab, Roshanak Salari, Sedigheh Rastaghi

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: Quality of sleep is an important indicator of health. Sleep disturbance and daytime fatigue is one of the most common problems in the postpartum period. Early postpartum (first 4 weeks) is when sleep is most disturbed. The gut microbiota may affect sleep quality and affect host health through the production of metabolites and compounds. This study aimed to determine the effect of oral probiotic capsule on the quality of sleep after delivery in primiparous women. Method: This triple-blind randomised controlled trial study was conducted in August to November 2023 with eligible primiparous women who gave birth at Health Centers …

Meeting The Moment Through Strategic, Measurable Institutional Equity-Minded Indicators, Sabrina Gentlewarrior, Isis Artze-Vega, Roman Liera, Raquel M. Rall

Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works

In Short

• Equity-minded practice, developed for higher education by Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon, is ideally suited to aid the academy in meeting the challenges of the moment.

• Most equity-minded literature focuses on tools to aid individual practitioners. Strategies are needed to help campuses engage in institution-wide equity-minded practice.

• The Racial Equity and Justice Institute’s Institutional Equity-Minded Indicators offer campuses strategic, measurable, equity-minded goals focused on closing disparate outcomes and supporting the success of all students.

Many campuses are being forced to eliminate or modify their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies due to state prohibitions, while others have engaged in …

Growing In The Shadow Of Mental Illness: Quality Of Life, Health Status, Social Functioning, And Health Care Utilization Among Adults With Parents Who Have Severe Mental Illness, Alexander Shestiperov, Ilya Kagan, Orly Grinstein-Cohen

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

This study aimed to address important gaps in knowledge through a cross-sectional quantitative investigation of adults who grew up with a parent with severe mental illness (SMI). Specifically, the study examined:

(1) the associations between general self-efficacy, resilience, and quality of life;

(2) the relationships between childhood traumatic experiences and parental bonding and their associations with physical and mental morbidity and social functioning;

(3) the associations between morbidity, quality of life, and healthcare service utilization; and

(4) the moderating role of resilience in the relationships between childhood trauma and both morbidity and social functioning.

Intouch Week Of October 12, 2026, New York Medical College

InTouch

• $10 Million Department of Defense Award Fuels Effort to Advance Civilian and Military Tactical Medicine and Prolonged Casualty Care
• Advancing Knowledge, One Publication at a Time
• NYMC Expands Emergency Preparedness Training to More Than 300 Yonkers Public School Staff
• New Automated Staining Systems Enhance Histopathology and Imaging Core
• Graduate Student Leaders Step Forward to Shape the Year Ahead
• SMHW Hosts Together in Wellness Fair
• Strengthening GME Leadership Through Shared Learning
• Minimally Invasive Procedure Halves Risk of Recurrent Brain Bleeds

Higher Education Pathways For Native American Students In Nevada, David Damore, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Policy Briefs and Reports

This policy brief examines educational performance and outcomes for Native American learners in Nevada using data from the Nevada P-20 to Workforce Research Data System provided by the Nevada Department of Education and the Nevada System of Higher Education. Based upon analysis of these data and information collected from state and national sources, we propose public policy interventions to support Native American students in Nevada. The brief also evaluates the significant measurement and data challenges that limit researchers’ ability to evaluate Native American educational pathways and the implications this has for policy decisions.

Between Shut It Off And Keep It On: The Legality Of Internet Shutdowns Under International Law, Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Internet shutdowns are on the surge across the globe, at least four dozen states-imposed internet shutdowns in 2024 alone, in armed conflicts and other situations. In some states where an authoritarian propensity or “digital sovereignty” reigns, internet shutdowns are being imposed to control political narratives during the conduct of hostilities. These states justify their actions using a “shut it off” argument, claiming that the internet is a luxury and further asserting that access to the internet may be overridden by national security or other justifications. On the other hand, there are states that advance open access to the

Internet shutdowns …

The Ever-Expanding Horizon Of Directors’ And Officers’ Duties: An Analysis Of Recent Developments In The United States And Australia, Zehra G. Kavame Eroglu, Isa Alade

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

When two Boeing 737 Max aircraft crashed within five months of each other, resulting in the deaths of 346 people, shareholders filed a suit against the directors for breach of duties. The Delaware Court of Chancery noted that while safety was “essential and mission critical” to Boeing’s business, there was no board committee assigned the specific task of overseeing airplane safety. Turning to Australia, Storm Financial’s collapse caused many clients, most of whom were retirees or nearing retirement, to suffer massive financial losses. With little or no prospect of rebuilding their financial position, these clients lost their investments, their homes …

Lawfare’S New Frontier: International Commercial Arbitration In The Shadow Of Sanctions, Sophie Yue Zhao, Han-Wei Liu

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article examines how international commercial arbitration is being reshaped by economic statecraft through the lens of lawfare—the strategic use of law as a substitute for traditional coercive tools. Building on Orde Kittrie’s framework, it identifies two modalities of State-driven lawfare affecting arbitration. Instrumental lawfare operates where domestic legal measures displace arbitral authority, exemplified by Russia’s assertion of exclusive jurisdiction over sanctions-related disputes. Compliance-leverage lawfare, by contrast, does not bar arbitration outright but raises the costs and risks of participation, evident in restrictions on legal services and banking access that complicate representation and payment in arbitral proceedings. Beyond State action, …

Improving Case Management For Refugee Child Brides, Harper Kelly Esterle

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

A significant number of forcibly displaced persons throughout the world are not only children, but children who are married. When these married minor refugees arrive in host countries, they are often met with concern, judgment, or a critical lack of understanding or regulated procedure for handling their immigration cases. Children are often forcibly separated from their partners and thus isolated from the only family they came with, or they are forced to undergo an extensive judicial review process that, by the time it is resolved, is no longer relevant as the married minors at issue have since reached the age …

Institutionalizing Protection Of Climate Migrants Through A Global Framework Convention On Climate-Induced Migration, Caroline Spencer

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Climate change poses an urgent global challenge, threatening to internally displace 216 million people across six regions by 2050. While it is difficult to predict the extent of crossborder migration, there is no question that climate change will drive cross-border migration. Human rights law and international climate change law require states to protect climate migrants’ human rights; however, the current international framework is inadequate and exhibits a significant protection gap. States possess an obligation under both international human rights law and climate change law to pursue adaptation measures that protect and restore affected human rights, including ensuring protection against refoulement. …

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Growing In The Shadow Of Mental Illness: Quality Of Life, Health Status, Social Functioning, And Health Care Utilization Among Adults To Parents With Severe Mental Illness, Alexander Shestiperov, Ilya Kagan, Orli Grinstein-Cohen

Individual Open Access Articles

Introduction: Adults who grow up with a parent with severe mental illness are exposed to prolonged developmental adversity, yet little is known about how this experience shapes multidimensional outcomes in adulthood. In particular, the roles of personal adaptive resources, childhood trauma, parental bonding, and morbidity in influencing quality of life, social functioning, and healthcare utilization remain insufficiently understood. This study aimed to examine the relationships between personal adaptive resources (resilience and general self-efficacy), childhood experiences (trauma and parental bonding), and adult outcomes, including quality of life, social functioning, morbidity, and healthcare utilization, as well as to examine the moderating role …

Developing Oer For Ai Assisted Ecure Framework, Kuangchiu Joe Ho

OER at Tech Days

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Occupational Therapists Using Technology-Based Interventions For Training Cognitive Functions In Children With Developmental Disabilities: A Scoping Review, Roashni Rathod, Kevin Steede

School of Health Professions

This review aims to scope literature on how occupational therapists are using technology-based interventions for cognitive outcomes in children with developmental disabilities. The Joanna Briggs Institution methodology guided the design of this scoping review. A search for published literature was conducted on seven databases. Additionally, unpublished sources like conference proceedings, reference lists and gray literature sources were searched between 2011 and 2025. Papers were included if they investigated occupational therapists using technology-based interventions for cognitive function in children with developmental disabilities and were in English. Twelve studies were included in the review, five were Level 1 evidence, five were Level …

Coseismic Shallow Landslide Distributions Reveal Patterns Of Regolith Thickness In High Mountains, Suryodoy Ghoshal, Sarah Boulton, Tristram C. Hales, Georgina L. Bennett, Amy Beswick, Joshua N Jones, Shaun Lewin, Zoe Mildon, Martin Stokes, Michael Whitworth, Benjamin Campforts

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Earthquake-triggered landslides are a major source of sediment mobilization in steep mountain landscapes, yet the controls that organize regional patterns of coseismic shallow failure remain incompletely understood. Because shallow landslides occur within regolith, their initiation and magnitude depend strongly on near-surface material thickness, which is rarely measured directly in mountainous terrain. Here we introduce ShallowLandslider, a hybrid physical–statistical framework that combines critical-acceleration slope-stability calculations with stochastic realization of discrete landslide populations. We apply the model to two geomorphically distinct subregions affected by the 2015 ���� 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal and compare modeled and observed distributions of landslide area, elevation, …

The Perceived Impact Of Discontinuing An Intensive English Language Programme On Students› Academic Readiness, Language Development, And The Teaching And Learning Process: A Mixed-Methods Study, Majed Othman Abahussain

UB Journal for Humanities

Curriculum reform in higher education increasingly involves modifying or removing preparatory language programmes; however, evidence on the educational consequences of such changes for English majors remains limited. This study investigated the perceived impact of discontinuing the Intensive English Language Programme (IELP) on students› academic readiness, language development, and the teaching and learning process in the Department of English at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. A mixed-methods design was employed. Quantitative data were collected via a questionnaire administered to 44 second-year English majors, and qualitative data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with eight faculty members who had taught students before and after …

To Use Or Not: Differentiating Artificial Intelligence Content For Different Industries, Dayanna Jauregui, Kaiyang Wu

Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal

Artificial Intelligence continues to develop; its integration has rapidly progressed into numerous business industries, impacting business operations regardless of context. This study examines how consumers respond to AI implementation across industries that vary in perceived creativity. Using a survey and a 2 by 2 between- subjects experimental design, this research finds that AI implementation negatively affects consumers’ willingness to purchase, regardless of the perceived creativity level of the industry. Additionally, drawing on research linking gender to differential perceptions of technology, this research shows that the negative effect of AI implementation is stronger for women than for men. Based on the …

Run Up The Score, And The Profits; Analysis Of Nba Revenue Using Gameplay Statistics As Predictors Of Higher Revenue, Brandon C. Penticoff

Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal

This study examines the basketball gameplay factors that influence revenue for NBA teams. This study is a quantitative analysis of NBA team real revenue and gameplay statistics, with a focus on style of play implications for revenue. This study utilizes fixed effect regression analysis on NBA revenue with basketball gameplay statistics as predictors. This study reveals that a particular style of play, “Run and Gun,” and other fast- paced playstyles, are associated with higher revenue. These findings have critical implications for NBA front offices, owners, and coaching staffs.

From Dante’S Inferno To California: Visualizing The Marginalized In Sandow Birk’S Social Critique, Lorenzo N. Williams

Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal

This research explores the intersection of medieval literature and contemporary visual art, focusing specifically on Sandow Birk’s reinterpretation of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. By examining Birk’s illustrated adaptations of Inferno and Purgatorio, this paper analyzes how he translates and visually reimagines Dante’s moral and spiritual journey as a modern critique of California’s social crises, particularly those affecting unhoused populations. It investigates Birk’s recontextualization of Dante’s allegory in relation to the urban decay of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ultimately, this study aims to reveal how Birk’s visual narrative bridges historical understandings of religious and social issues with contemporary experiences of …

Afterword: Reimagining Higher Education Internationalization As A Practice Of Racial Justice, Louise Michelle Vital, Jing Yu, Benjamin Denga

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This afterword reflects on the two-part special issue, “Examining Race, Racism, and Racialization in the Internationalization of Higher Education from Global Perspectives,” published in the Summer 2026 edition of the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education. Bringing together twenty-nine contributions, the issue centers race as foundational to how higher education internationalization is imagined, organized, practiced, and contested across global contexts. The afterword synthesizes key insights across both volumes, showing how internationalization is shaped by colonial histories, geopolitical inequalities, market logics, legal regimes, linguistic hierarchies, and racialized structures of belonging. Contributors challenge celebratory and neutral accounts of global engagement …

Selected Others In A Non-Western Host: Racialized Governance Of Southeast Asian Students In Taiwan’S Technical And Vocational Higher Education Under The New Southbound Policy, Chia-Ming Hsueh

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This article examines how Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy constructs and governs Southeast Asian students within higher education internationalization. Drawing on critical discourse and policy analysis of public policy documents, institutional materials, recruitment discourse, and related media sources from 2016 to 2024, the study argues that Southeast Asian students are positioned as “selected others”: welcomed as regional partners and future talent while also subject to differentiated forms of linguistic, administrative, and labor-oriented governance. Focusing particularly on Taiwan’s technical and vocational higher education sector, the analysis identifies three interrelated dynamics: selective inclusion by nationality and educational track, Mandarin as a technology of …

Advancing Equity Through Mentorship: Supporting Racialized Immigrant And International Students In Canadian Higher Education, Cecilia Bukutu Phd, Viola Manokore Dr, Michael Safo Ofori

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Mentorship initiatives have increasingly supported racialized students in Canada, yet gaps remain in addressing their intersectional needs. This study examines the experiences of Black postsecondary immigrant, refugee, and international students in the Mentorship and Resilience Project (MRP), a racially concordant mentorship initiative. Using a convergent mixed-methods design, data were drawn from interviews, focus groups, and post-workshop surveys. Guided by Anti-Black Racism and Intersectionality frameworks, the study explores how institutional diversity discourses may operate as non-performative practices that obscure structural inequities. Findings show students faced intersecting challenges related to migration status, race, and gender, marked by tensions between invisibility and hypervisibility. …

‘Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind’: Refugee Students And Internationalization Practices In Canadian Higher Education Institutions, Zuhra Abawi, Nidhi Menon

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

As of 2024, over 123 million people have been forcibly displaced due to war, persecution, climate catastrophe, and geopolitical instability. Among them, young people constitute a significant portion, many of whom aspire to rebuild their lives through higher education. Canada, a top destination for refugee resettlement, remains deeply inequitable for refugee access to postsecondary education. Although lauded for its commitments to diversity and inclusion, Canadian settler-colonial hierarchies and racialized politics of belonging continue to shape which displaced bodies are seen as deserving of education, opportunity, and protection. These dynamics underscore how forced migration, race, and higher education intersect within the …

Lost In Translation: How Higher Education Studies Conflates Latinx And International Latin American Experiences Through Misplaced Racialization, Eduardo Santander

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This autoethnographic study examines how higher education studies conflates international Latin American and domestic Latinx student experiences through what I term “misplaced racialization”, namely, the imposition of domestic racial categories onto international students that fundamentally misrecognizes their distinct positioning as temporary residents, adult-onset racialization subjects, and transnational knowledge holders. Colonial logics are not merely structural; they breathe through the field’s racial grammars. Drawing on Fricker’s (2007) hermeneutical injustice, I argue that higher education’s epistemological boundedness, its lack of native theory and reliance on borrowed American frameworks, does not merely contain colonial logics but is constituted by them, rendering those logics …

Seeing Through Indigenous Eyes: Language, Humility, And The Possibilities Of International Research, Janine E. Metallic

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This essay critically examines the internationalization of higher education through Indigenous epistemologies, asking: What might international research look like if guided by Indigenous values such as language, humility, and relationality? Drawing on Indigenous research methodologies and autoethnographic reflection, the essay explores how global academic norms, rooted in colonial legacies, often marginalize Indigenous ways of knowing. Theoretical constructs from Wilson (2008), Kovach (2021), and Smith (2021) inform the analysis, emphasizing relational accountability and ethical engagement. The discussion highlights that Indigenous language situates knowledge in place, humility resists prestige-driven scholarship, and relationality redefines research as reciprocal and community-centered. These insights challenge dominant …

Centering Positionality In Pursuit Of Combating Anti-Blackness In Study Abroad Via Intentional Pedagogical Design, Reka C. Barton, Taylor Woodman

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

In an attempt to address historical legacies entrenched in global learning, this case study (Yin, 2009) disrupts the white-centered norm of study abroad through intentional design and diversity of student participation. This study explores the question, In what ways did these design elements interrogate and/or disrupt occurrences of anti-Blackness? To answer this question, our case study site utilizes a long-standing graduate student study abroad fieldwork program in Cuba that explicitly discusses elements of race, identity, and nationality, with an emphasis on the unique and complex histories of manifestations of race in Cuba and the United States. This project interrogated how …

Mashin’ Up Stratified Blackness: Unpacking The Communal Responsibility Of Black International/Immigrant Academics To Black American Academics, Candice Peters, Abigail Smith

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Our duoethnographic inquiry, grounded in Intersectionality, addresses the following questions: How do intersectionality and internationalization complicate Black diasporic dynamics within the United States? What communal responsibilities do Black international/immigrant people hold toward Black American people within the U.S. academy? Through critical engagement with three previously published poems, we foreground the communal responsibility that arises at the hands of internationalization and unpack the intertwined realities of anti-Blackness, racialized hierarchies, and diasporic dynamics. Our findings unmask three themes: (1) evolving understandings of race across transnational contexts, (2) Black intraracial stratification, and (3) taking up responsibility. We conclude by urging a (re)commitment to …

The Myth Of Familiarity: Racialization & Intra-Faith Marginalization In Malaysian Islamic Higher Education, Rangga T. Nugraha

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This article examines how intra-faith marginalization operates within South–South international student mobility, challenging the assumption that shared religion and linguistic proximity facilitate belonging. Drawing on an autoethnographic study of an Indonesian Muslim scholarship student in Malaysian Islamic higher education, the analysis introduces the myth of familiarity as a critical conceptual framing, describing how shared religious or cultural identity may produce more granular hierarchies of legitimacy, thereby contradicting the belief that similarity guarantees inclusion. Using neo-racism and symbolic violence, three narrative vignettes illustrate how hierarchies of piety, nationality, and class are enacted and normalized within a shared Islamic context. The findings …