Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy; Social and Behavioral Health), Smriti Neupane (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy), and Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) published a study titled, "Household Food Insecurity Risk and Weight Status Outcomes in Early Childhood: A Public Health…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "Unconditional cash transfer and polarized support," in International Political Science Review. The article examines a unique "unconditional" COVID-19 relief voucher lottery in Taiwan in 2021, in which vouchers were randomly assigned based on the last two digits of citizens’…

Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "Beyond the Plague: Intermedial Allegories of Death as Tools for Collective Liberation" at the 2026 American Association for Italian Studies in Sassari, Sardinia.

Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Global Health) received a 14-month, $1.1 million award through Nevada Health and Human Services to conduct molecular microbiological environmental monitoring and research.

Drew Simshaw (Law) presented "Misuse as Mirror: What AI Reveals About Lawyers, Law Students, and Wellbeing" at the Second Annual AI & Legal Skills Virtual Conference, hosted by the Legal Writing Institute's AI Committee and the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Nachman Gutowski's (Law) research was featured in the Emory University School of Law research guide, Artificial Intelligence, the Law, and the Legal Profession.

Danielle Finn (Law) has been elected the Chair of the Tribal Law Section of the State Bar of Nevada.

Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) and a colleague recently published an article, "Communication privacy management theory: History of development, research trends, and future applications," in the Journal of Family Communication. The article examines the state of research utilizing the theory in advancing a deeper understanding of…

Trenton Dawson, Marcedes Butler, and Kenneth Varner (all Teaching and Learning) published “What counts as competent teaching? A systematic narrative synthesis of teacher competencies in K-12 education” in the Teaching & Teacher Education journal.