Dr. Fran Pomaville, professor, Department of Communicative Sciences and Deaf Studies, and Dr. Maria Briggs, professor, Department of Music, published "The Impact of Crohn's Disease on a Classical Singer: Vocal Fold Function, Voice Production, and Implications for Quality of Life" in the September 2026 issue of Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups.

Dr. Qiang Li, associate professor, Department of Communicative Sciences and Deaf Studies, published "The Effect of Cervical Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Word Memory in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Single-Blind Study" in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Dr. Jacob Wenger, associate professor of plant science, recently published the paper "Adaptation to Plant Defence in an Agricultural Insect Pest: Integrating Genome Scans and Gene Expression in the Soybean Aphid Reveals Multi‐Genic Pathways" in the Molecular Ecology journal.

The project confirmed findings from his doctoral dissertation at Ohio State University with new research by his graduate advisor and post-doctoral researchers.

Their project generally found that aphid adaptation to natural resistance genes in soybeans appears to be multigenic, instead of a single resistance gene that spreads in the population.

Congratulations to Our Dispatch Center and Dispatchers!

We are proud to recognize our dispatch center and our dedicated dispatchers for their outstanding 9-1-1 call-answering performance.

Our results demonstrate an exceptional commitment to answering our campus community’s emergency calls quickly and efficiently.

Our dispatch center achieved an impressive 95.42% overall performance, demonstrating the dedication, professionalism, and commitment of our dispatchers to providing timely and dependable service to our campus community.

These results are especially significant when measured against the Cal OES (Office of Emergency Services) 9-1-1 Branch standards of 90% of calls answered within 15 seconds and 95% within 20 seconds.

Fresno State Police Department 9-1-1 Call Answering Results

• 95.42% of calls answered within 0–10 seconds
• 2.72% of calls answered within 11–15 seconds
• 0.91% of calls answered within 16–20 seconds

These results reflect the hard work of our dispatchers and the importance of teamwork, focus, and dedication in answering every 9-1-1 call when our campus community needs us most.

Thank you to our dispatchers for your continued hard work and dedication. Your quick response can make all the difference when every second matters.