Category: Faculty

Arielle Borovsky, professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, will serve a three-year term as president of the Cognitive Science Society executive committee, effective Aug. 1. The mission of the society is to promote cognitive science as a discipline and to foster scientific interchange among researchers in various areas of study, including artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and education.

Leigha MacNeill – To advance clinical utility of an emerging risk calculator for identifying when to worry and when to act when young children show signs of mental health concerns in pediatric care, we: (1) replicate an early childhood mental health risk algorithm (DECIDE); (2) determine preliminary predictive utility of additional child and parenting assets, advancing a strengths-based framework to reduce the likelihood of biased identification.

Ellen Ernst Kossek – Research on the relationship between age and the work–family interface (WFI) is critical to effective human resource management. Yet, findings remain inconsistent and lack theoretical integration.

Heather Eicher-Miller – Food insecurity occurs when household members experience a change in their diet or decrease in food amount due to limited resources. Compared with all households, food insecurity is more prevalent among those with children, affecting 18 percent in 2023. In approximately half of those, the children did not directly experience food insecurity, indicating that coping strategies may help prevent this situation by limiting changes to quality and quantity of diet.

Cordelia Running; Kameron Moding – The dual-identity of being Latino/Hispanic and living in a rural area may exacerbate the acquisition of diet-attributed chronic disease. Nutrition education serves as an important resource for teaching individuals about healthy eating patterns, but it is unknown how relevant current programming is to this specific population.

Xinran Lehto, is one of the authors on this timely and innovative book offers an inspirational and thought-provoking journey into the future world of hospitality by conceptualizing an innovative future where hotels transcend traditional boundaries and evolve into dynamic hubs of innovation, environmental stewardship, community engagement and personal growth at the guest, employee and local resident level.

Ellen Ernst Kossek – Police agencies across the country are experiencing severe recruiting and retention challenges. Concerns about work–life balance are a major barrier to entering and remaining in the policing profession. In this chapter, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a pilot to evaluate the effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Training (FSST) in policing.

Jennifer Dobbs-Oates – Experiential learning, a long-aspired-to but often neglected career readiness tool, might finally be gaining a more solid foothold on campus due to today’s workforce disruptions.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities reports that only about a quarter of surveyed faculty, staff and administrators led experiential learning opportunities last fall, highlighting a “persistent gap between aspiration and execution.”

Xinran Lehto; Libby Richards – Urban environments pose significant barriers to physical activity and public health, often due to a lack of motivation, insufficient adaptability to environmental factors, the uniformity of features in existing fitness apps, and limited opportunities for meaningful interpersonal interaction. This project proposes an AI-powered Walkability Assistant — a mobile application designed to foster healthier, more active lifestyles by addressing these challenges through personalized, adaptive, and community-oriented solutions.

Zoe Taylor; Sharon Christ – Depression is a pivotal mental health concern for Latine adolescents, with research showing they are more likely to report symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation compared with their non-Latine peers. However, rural Latine children in emerging communities may be especially vulnerable to mental health disparities given these communities often have fewer resources.