CNPD Research News | March – April 2026

Recent Research & Scholarship Activities

Reported activities can also be found on the CNPD Publication & Scholarly Work Website

Reported as of March 25, 2026.

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• • Dawn Denny has been making headlines recently, speaking about the Gero-STARR grant project. She has been featured on North Dakota Today, in interviews with AM1100/WXFG (radio/video), Prairie Public (podcast), WDAY, and the Grand Forks Herald. She was also sat down with UND President Armacost for the March 31st President’s Message
  • Dr. June-Yung Kim has been busy! She had an article Prenatal exposure to intimate partner violence and child developmental outcomes: A scoping review study, published in Trauma, Volence, & Abuse. And another one with co-authors, Family-level social determinants of child and adolescent maltreatment in Child Abuse & Neglect. She led a lead-authored study, The association of prenatal exposure to intimate partner violence with children’s socioemotional competence at five years postpartum, published in the Journal of Family Violence. She also led three presentations at the 30th Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference in Washington, D.C. this January, highlighting her research on social determinants of prenatal behavioral health and intergenerational trauma and resilience: Social determinants of health among American Indian women: Patterns and validation with prenatal substance use (Flash talk; with Hume, Lee, & Minnes), Prenatal exposure to intimate partner violence and socioemotional competence in school-age children: A longitudinal study (Flash talk; with W. Kim & Kobulsky), Maternal childhood maltreatment and longitudinal trajectory of attention problems from preschool to preadolescence (Poster; with Minnes, Min, S. Kim, & Singer)
  • Dr. Jennifer Schlinger presented “Trauma-Informed Care” at the annual North Dakota Family-Based Services Conference in Fargo on March 25, 2026.
  • The North Dakota Nursing Research Collaborative (NDNRC) Simulation Team, consisting of the CNPD’s Dr. Mary Jane Rivard, Dr. Amber Johnson, Dr. Jana Zwilling, and Minot State’s Dr. Jamie Hammer has had their publication entitled: Simulation in RN Education in North Dakota: Potential for Increasing Program Capacities While Decreasing Clinical Placement Challenges, accepted for publication in the Journal of Professional Nursing. This manuscript highlights the NDNRC’s work toward understanding simulation use in ND nursing schools and the extent this can potentially reduce burden on clinical placement. The first project was beneficial in providing evidence to support increased simulation funding during the last legislative session. The Simulation Team of Dr. Mary Jane Rivard, Dr. Kevin Buettner, Dr. Sydney Johnson, and Dr. Jana Zwilling, is currently hard at work analyzing data for the second iteration of this project.

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