School of Humanities and Social Sciences Instructor of Distant Education George Ackerman, Ph.D., published “Sports & Slowing the Progression PD: A Collection of Personal Stories & Research,” in memory of his mother for Parkinson’s Disease awareness and hope for a cure.

Mai Awad, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of biology, contributed two chapters, “G2 Premature Chromosome Condensation (G2-PCC) by Calyculin A to Analyze DNA Double-Strand Breaks and Their Repair,” and “Modified Alkaline Comet Assay to Detect Oxidative DNA Damage,” in the published book, “DNA Damage Detection: Methods in Molecular Biology.”

School of Business Professor Zena Buser, Ph.D., recently received a Colorado Department of Agriculture 2025 NextGen Ag Leadership grant for $25,000.

Lucas Alan Dietsche, Ph.D., adjunct professor of Prison Education Program: (Forthcoming) “Totalizing Aesthetics and the Feminist Critique of (S)place: Anarchafeminism, Foucault, and Bachmann on Potter’s Fields.” Anarchafeminism. AK Press.
(Published) “Resisting Carceralizing (s)places through the Prisoner Zines: The Signification, index, and shifting through Adorno, Piepmeier, and Krauss.” Peace Studies. April 2025 issue
(Forthcoming) “I no longer doing penance”:Poetic Inquiry Criminological analysis of the  Duluth Model’s Carceral Feminism from carceralized voices in activist (s)places. Convict Criminology: Voices from Within Publication.”
(In Press). “Examining our role as abolitionist educators: Ethics of “Educational” prison tours. Feminist Pedagogy. Special Issue: Abolitionist Principles and Pedagogy: Teaching to Build the World Anew.”
Accepted to the SLSA conference with presentation: “Subversion of Poietic Law: A Heideggerian Inquiry through Hugo Ball’s ‘Gadji Beri Bimba.’”
Accepted to the SECAC with presentation: “Resisting Carceralizing (s)places through the Prisoner Zines: The Signification, index, and shifting through Adorno, Piepmeier, and Krauss.”

Professor and Director of the School of Education Curtis Garcia, Ph.D., and Associate Professor of Education Michele Mann, Ph.D., were awarded a fifth round of grant funding from the State of Colorado to fund a mentor endorsement cohort for teachers in the San Luis Valley during the 2025-2026 academic year. The grant will provide scholarships and stipends for 15 SLV teachers to undergo training as mentors/coaches while supporting Adams State preservice or alternative licensure candidates. To date, the School of Education has trained nearly 80 teachers in this program, which is co-taught by Dr. Garcia and Dr. Mann.

In June, School of Counselor Education Clinical Assistant Professor Melissa O’Neill, Ph.D., traveled to Nome, Alaska to present a half-day training to the Norton Sound Healthcare Corporation entitled Clinical Essentials in Eating Disorders Care. “It was an amazing experience.”

Director of the Center for Teaching, Innovation, and Research Artemis Preeshl, Ed.D., recently had her new book, “Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean: Women Speak Truth to Power” (Routledge, 2025) published.

Director of PR & Marketing Linda Relyea served on the Colorado Regional Digital Collegium committee throughout the spring semester. The committee planned and organized a one-day conference on June 11, in Denver, Colo.

In April, Professor of Kinesiology and Exercise Science Graduate Program Coordinator Tracey L. Robinson, Ph.D., helped run the Rocky Mountain American College of Sports Medicine (RMACSM) Conference in Colorado Springs as a board member. Dr. Robinson helped judge student posters, and was a mentor and co-author to a graduate student’s poster presentation. Adams State had two graduate students, three undergraduate students and three kinesiology faculty attend the conference.

Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs Nick Saenz, Ph.D., consulted on an exhibit for History Colorado opening at the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver on July 17. It will be part of the state’s 150/250 programming.