Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.

Presentations

Michele Shropshire, Annette Hubbell, and Denise Hammer, MCN, co-presented the poster “‘Bringing them back’: Perspectives of staff and volunteers on dementia care using SAIDO learning,” at the Midwest Nursing Research Society, March 2025. (See corresponding publication below.)

Annette Hubbell, MCN, co-presented the abstract, “A Mixed Methods Investigation Proposal: Using a Strength-based Perspective to Explore Long-term Physical Activity Practices of African American Women,” at the Women International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2025.

Publications

Michele Shropshire, Annette Hubbell, and Denise Hammer, MCN, co-authored “‘Bringing them back’: Perspectives of staff and volunteers on dementia care using SAIDO learning,” in Geriatric Nursing, April 2025. (See corresponding presentation above.)

Allison Nguyen, PSY, co-authored “Pragmatic uses of I don’t know, boosters, and hedges in text and talk,” published in Dialogue & Discourse volume 16, issue 1.

Meenal Chaudhari, IT, co-authored “CaLMPhosKAN: prediction of general phosphorylation sites in proteins via fusion of codon aware embeddings with amino acid aware embeddings and wavelet-based Kolmogorov–Arnold network,” in Bioinformatics, Volume 41, Issue 4, April 2025.

Dawn Beichner-Thomas, CJS, co-authored “’What ails victimology?’ revisited: Assessing the growth and development of victimology as an academic discipline.”

Micheal Rowley and Luke Russell, FCS, co-authored “A History of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution Research,” in An Introduction to the History of Human Development and Family Science.

Yeunook Bae, HSC, co-authored “Dried Blood Spots to Assess Cardiovascular‐Kidney‐Metabolic Health,” in Journal of the American Heart Association.

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