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CNHS Newsletter
November 2017
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Dear CNHS Faculty and Staff,
It has been a pleasure to be a part of UT in general and to be your colleague in the College of Natural and Health Sciences. I am particularly impressed with the College’s commitment to excellent teaching. As I have visited departments and walked by classrooms, and occasionally stuck my head into laboratories, there has been a palpable, positive energy. Students, faculty, and staff are working interactively to absorb, deliver, and create information in this exquisitely beautiful academic setting. Of course, there are challenges that we are working on collectively, but I am confident that we can present the most impactful solutions and opportunities for our students.
As my first semester in the College of Natural and Health Sciences passes the midway point, I have a number of additional observations to share with you:
· The faculty and staff in the college are nice, welcoming people.
· Have you seen the new boat?!
· I prefer a blizzard over a hurricane.
· One learns to live with termites.
· Our staff assistants are simply amazing!
With warm wishes for a very successful completion of the semester,
Paul
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Student/Faculty Research and Presentations
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This summer,
Professor Eduardo DeSousa
and five students presented at 2017 National Strength and conditioning Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. There were many strong presentations from universities all over the US and internationally. Masters of Science in Exercise and Nutrition Science student
Jacob Rauch
was awarded Outstanding Masters Podium Presentation for his research titled “Auto-regulated exercise selection improves lead body mass and strength gain in strength-trained males.
His award recognition can be found at:
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Professor Eric Werner
and undergraduate research students,
Sara Polzin
and
Andrew Mulville
attended the national American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. Both students delivered poster presentations in the main Inorganic Chemistry division of the conference (alongside many graduate students and postdocs). Andrew’s poster, titled “Toward selective lanthanide extraction utilizing carbamoylmethylphosphine oxide chelators,” described our work in the area of rare earth metal separations, while Sara’s poster, titled “Lanthanide coordination chemistry and luminescence properties of complexes based on a tripodal iminopyridine ligand,” detailed efforts toward developing luminescent sensors of biologically relevant anions. Sara’s poster was also chosen for an additional presentation in the “SciMix” poster session, a special session showcasing work from all of the divisions of ACS together at one time.
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Professor Eric Werner
and UT undergraduate students,
Alyssa Henry
and
Emily Connor’s
paper, "X-ray crystallographic, luminescence and NMR studies of phenacyldiphenylphosphine oxide with the Ln(III) ions Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb and Dy" was accepted for publication in the general inorganic chemistry journal
Dalton Transactions
. The paper describes a study done in collaboration with Dr. Shannon Biros and her undergrad students at Grand Valley State University. UT students Alyssa and Emily performed some of the luminescence work and helped with writing and editing of the manuscript.
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Professor Jeff Fasick
attended the 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. He gave an oral presentation on
Visual Predation during Springtime Foraging of the North Atlantic Right Whale (
Eubalaena
glacialis
) (Jeffry I. Fasick
1
, Mark F. Baumgartner
2
, Thomas W. Cronin
3
, Benjamin Nickle
4
and Lorren J. Kezmoh
3
).
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Professor Claudia Aguado Loi recently presented at the American Public Health Conference and also published three manuscripts.
Aguado Loi, C.X., Adegoke, K.K., Gwede, C.K., Sappenfield, W.M., and Bryant, C. (In Press)
Characteristics of Population at Greatest Risk for Low Up-to-Date Colorectal Cancer Screening Status in Florida: Classification Tree Analysis.
Preventing Chronic Disease
Aguado Loi, C.,
Martinez Tyson, D., Chavarria, E.A., Gutierrez, L., Klasko, L., Davis., S., Lopez., D., Johns, T., Meade., C.D., and Gwede, C. (In Press) “Easy and Simple:” Providers’ and Latinos’ Perceptions of the Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) for Colorectal Cancer Screening.
Ethnicity and Health
Biroscak, B.J., Bryant, C.A.,
Aguado Loi, C.X., Martinez Tyson, D.M., Schneider, T., Baum, L., Ewing, A., Hovmand, P.S. (In Press). From Concept to Action: Integration of System Thinking and Social Marketing for Health Disparities Elimination. In Domegan, C. (Ed.),
Social Marketing:
Tunes to Symphonies (3
rd Edition). Taylor and Francis.
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Professor Elizabeth H. (Arruda) Sassatelli
, PhD(c), RN, presented the preliminary findings from her dissertation research at the State of the Art in Dementia Research Conference in Rome, Italy on September 9, 2017. The focus of Mrs. Sassatelli’s research is examining the grief process that family caregivers of individuals with dementia experience when their loved ones die in long-term care facilities.
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Professor Kristine White attended the 17
th International Colloquium on Amphipoda in Trapani (Sicily), Italy, this September, where she presented the research she completed with two recently graduated students,
Katherine Duval and
Kevin Travis. The research involved the molecular confirmation of an invasive amphipod crustacean species in Hawaii, U.S.A. and Okinawa, Japan and confirmed the likely introduction of this species through fouling on the hulls of U.S. military vessels. This research was funded by a Delo grant through UT.
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Professor Cindy Parsons
, DNP, ARNP-BC presented two sessions at the Florida Nurse Practitioner Annual Conference this fall: Managing Anxiety and Depression in Primary Care and Scope of Practice Issues in Treating Mental Health Issues in Primary Care. Dr. Parsons was also chairperson of the American Psychiatric Nurses – Florida Chapter’s Annual Conference this past spring held here at UT.
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Professor Robert Masserini's
article, “A Coastal Surface Seawater Analyzer for Nitrogenous Nutrient Mapping” in currently in press in the journal Continental Shelf Research
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.09.010
T
he analyzer was designed for coastal studies and has nanomolar detection limits for all three inorganic nitrogen nutrients (nitrite, nitrate, and ammonium). A field test of the instrument followed the biogeochemical cycling of a sewage release into the Gulf of Mexico and demonstrated the necessity of monitoring all three nutrients.
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Professor Carol Botwinski, EdD, NNP-BC was a speaker this past May at the University of Michigan, Bronson’s Children’s Hospital Conference in Kalamazoo. She spoke on “Use of Biomarkers in Neonatal Septic Shock” and “Bleeding Disorders in the Newborn”.
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Additionally, this July, Dr. Sode was awarded the
American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Undergraduate New Investigator grant. The grant is for $55,000 over two years (Sept. 2017 - Aug 2019) and the money is mostly to support students doing research in his group. Lastly, the first research article from Dr. Sode’s group was recently accepted at the Journal of Computational Chemistry. One of the undergraduate students in his research group,
Jasmine Cherry (junior biology major), was a co-author on the paper. The article will be published online soon: O. Sode, J. N. Cherry
J. Comput. Chem. 2017.
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Professor Johnna Yealy has been awarded her PhD in Health Science with a concentration in Global Health Education and Research and has authored a book chapter in the Physican Assistant text book: “Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice 6
th Edition.”
Congratuations Dr. Yealy!
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Professor Taegan McMahon
recently had four articles accepted for publication!
McMahon
, Rohr, Bernal. (2017). Light and noise pollution interact to disrupt interspecific interactions.
Ecology.
98(5):1290-1299.
McMahon
, Boughton, Martin and Rohr. (2017). Exposure to the herbicide atrazine nonlinearly affects tadpole corticosterone levels.
Journal of Herpetology.
51(2):270-273.
Rohr, Brown, Battaglin,
McMahon
, Relyea. (2017)
.
A pesticide paradox: fungicides indirectly increase fungal infections.
Ecological Applications.
Cohen, Venesky, Sauer, Civitello,
McMahon
, Roznik, Rohr. (2017) The thermal mismatch hypothesis explains outbreaks of an emerging infectious disease.
Ecology Letters.
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Health Sciences and Human Performance Department's
Public Health Program was selected and inducted into the National Eta Sigma Gamma (ESG) Honorary this fall.
Twenty public health students were initiated as scholarly members of this new health honorary.
Professors Claudia Aguado Loi and Mary Martinasek
, curernt faculty members of ESG, helped to facilitate the University of Tampa Chapter induction.
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Congratulations to the
Sports Management team
!
The department recently received excellence in Sports Management Education accreditation from the Commission on Sports Management.
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The University of Tampa is now an Institutional Member of the Association of Marine Laboratories (AMLC) of the Caribbean. With the
Biology Department
joining this organization, collaborative opportunities for students and faculty to work throughout the Caribbean should increase. Michael Middlebrooks is serving as our institutional representative to the organization. Below is the description of the AMLC from their website:
The Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC) is a confederation of more than 30 marine research, education, and resource management institutions endeavoring to encourage the production and exchange of research and resource management information, and advance the cause of marine and environment.
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