Despite the growth of professional women’s sports, it is a growing worry that newsrooms can not keep up with that expansion. At the center of media representation are the newsrooms, which contain the journalists and decision-makers who create content. This study aims to understand newsroom routines and how they align with publication practices regarding women’s sports. Understanding newsroom routines and practices is crucial in remedying the gap in media coverage of women’s sports. Gatekeeping theory is the theoretical framework within this study. This refers to how newsrooms present, select, and publish articles for the general public. This is a qualitative study, with the data coming from semi-structured interviews with 12 journalists throughout Los Angeles and the Bay Area. These two markets are important because both have new and successful professional women’s basketball and women’s soccer teams. Within these newsrooms, staff sizes have decreased drastically. Because of the lower number of staff, it may be difficult to cover women’s sports when most staff are assigned to other assignments that align with popular interests. Alongside that, women’s sports experience a “wait and see” phenomenon where journalists wait for the teams to be successful before meriting coverage. Even though women’s participation in sport has increased, newsrooms face structural barriers that prevent them from covering women’s sports.

While medical large language models have evolved to include multiple modalities, there is a growing need for a spatially grounded framework to reason about user interactions and motion-based feedback in interactive environments. Current LLMs rely on text-based reasoning or static visualizations to determine where an injury occurred, dictate pain levels, and describe how movement affects the injury. As a result, users cannot naturally indicate where an injury occurred or simulate movement. Additional challenges exist in reasoning, training, and evaluation across embodied environments. This study aims to explore the integration of LLMs in interactive 3D simulations for embodied decision-making to support sports injury understanding and rehabilitation.

This project examines the role of Title IX in shaping institutional athlete-compensation decisions under the NCAA House Settlement. Building upon previous research that explored how the House settlement reshaped the governance of name, image, and likeness (NIL) opportunities, this study investigates a related question that emerged from those findings. How institutions should approach gender equity when they are permitted to directly compensate student-athletes through revenue-sharing arrangements. While the House settlement expands athlete compensation opportunities and increases institutional involvement in the compensation process, it also introduces new questions regarding the relationship between market-based compensation and Title IX principles. As universities develop compensation strategies that exist alongside third-party NIL opportunities, uncertainty remains regarding how gender equity should be evaluated and promoted within this evolving framework. By examining legal guidance, policy discussions, and emerging revenue-sharing models, this analysis contributes to ongoing scholarly conversations about equity, governance, and athlete compensation in the post-settlement era of college athletics.

Although women’s participation in the United States Navy has expanded significantly over the past several decades, they remain underrepresented in senior leadership positions and continue to navigate institutional cultures shaped by historically masculine norms. Existing scholarship has documented structural barriers to advancement, yet less attention has been given to the lived experiences of women leaders and the ways they negotiate authority, mentorship, and professional identity within the Navy. This study employs a qualitative research design to examine how women in leadership positions experience and understand gender, power, and leadership within a military institution. Data will be collected through semi-structured interviews utilizing an interactive card-based prompt system, which allows participants to select questions related to leadership identity, mentorship, workplace culture, and institutional challenges. This participant-driven approach aims to foster reflective and candid discussions while providing rich narrative data. Through thematic analysis, the study seeks to identify recurring patterns and experiences that shape women’s leadership trajectories. By centering the voices of women leaders, this research contributes to broader discussions on gender equity, representation, and institutional change within the military. The findings may also provide insights for leadership development initiatives and policies designed to support the advancement and retention of women in the United States Navy.