October 2021

• Dominick Ryan, former graduate student, and Ty Robinson, assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, published a new paper titled “Detecting Oceans on Exoplanets with Phase-Dependent Spectral Principal Component Analysis.” Their research proposes a new way to possibly detect oceans on potentially Earth-like planets.
• Ryder Strauss, second-year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, helped author a new paper “The Sizes and Albedos of Centaurs 2014 YY49 and 2013 NL24 from Stellar Occultation Measurements by RECON.”
• Colin Chandler, Ph.D. student in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, and Chad Trujillo, associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, authored a paper “Physical Characterization of Main-Belt Comet (248370) 2005 QN173,” which reports new and archival observations of a newly discovered active asteroid.
• Emery Eaves, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, Jarrett Barber, associate professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), Ryann Whealy, graduate research assistant in SICCS, Sarah Clancey, program director for the Institute for Human Development, Rita Wright, faculty in the Department of Social Work, Jill Cocking, research specialist in SICCS, and Crystal Hepp, associate professor in SICCS, co-authored “Characterization of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome in Arizona from 2010-2017” published in PLoS One.
• Linnea Evans, assistant professor in the Center for Health Equity Research and the Department of Health Services, and researchers from other universities, co-authored “Coming up Short: Comparing Venous Blood, Dried Blood Spots and Saliva Samples for Measuring Telomere Length in Health Equity Research”  published in PLoS ONE.
• Anna Schwartz, associate director for research and professor in the School of Nursing and other researchers co-authored “Returning to Sport: Female Athletes Living with and Beyond Cancer” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
• Nicolette Teufel-Shone, associate director for the Center for Health Equity Research and professor in the Department of Health Sciences, along with other researchers co-authored “Psychological Distress Prevalence and Associated Stressors and Supports Among Urban-Displaced Congolese Adults in Kenya” in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
• Jaime Begay, graduate student in the Center for Health Equity Research, recently won the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona’s 2021 ITCA Climate Resilience Essay Scholarship Contest based on an essay she wrote titled “Climate Change in Tribal Communities.”