Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Addiction or Transgression? Moral Incongruence and Self-Reported Problematic Pornography Use in a Nationally Representative Sample" in Clinical Psychological Science. 

Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) was awarded a Zeta Kappa-at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International grant of $2,500 for the research project titled “Coping with Coronavirus Pandemic Study” for the period of May 2020 to April 2021.

Ann M. Vuong (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Prenatal Exposure to a Mixture of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Child Reading Skills at School Age" in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants may affect child neurobehavior;…

Jason Takhtadjian, Marcos Santander, Karina Trujillo and Breanna Hernandez (all Journalism and Media Studies) were honored with a Student Programming Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Pacific Southwest Chapter. The winning students produced an episode of the "Rebel Report," a 30-minute sports…

Mohammad Nazari-Sharabian, along with Moses Karakouzian and Mehrdad Karami (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and joined by Mohammad Aghababaei of Washington State University, published a review paper, "Water on Mars—A Literature Review," in the latest issue of the journal GALAXIES. Their…

C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published her paper "How to Help when it Hurts: ACT Individually (and in Groups)" in Animal Studies Journal, which explores the moral responsibilities of individuals in a world of collective wrongs and moral conflicts. 

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) published "Beyond accessibility: Design ethics, edge users, and the role of active proxies in unwinding the spiral of exclusion" in First Monday, the peer-reviewed open-access journal focusing on internet and society published by the University of Illinois at Chicago. This article…

Cameron-Keokolo Tabion (Computer Science) has received a 2020 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program award to complete a summer research project at UNLV with a student employment award of $6,000. An undergraduate, he has been working at DataX Lab, directed by professor Mingon Kang, and he will continue his research this fall semester with…

Trevor R. Pollom, Kristen N. Herlosky, and Alyssa N. Crittenden (all Anthropology), along with Ibrahim A. Mabulla of the National Museum of Tanzania, are the authors of "Changes in Juvenile Foraging Behavior among the Hadza of Tanzania during Early Transition to a Mixed-Subsistence Economy," which appears in Human Nature.