Presentation: Kathryn Houk and Bredny Rodriguez
Bredny Rodriguez and Kathryn Houk (both Libraries) presented a poster titled "Let's Get Physical! Graphic Novels in a Digital Health Library" at the Comic Arts Conference during San Diego Comic-Con International in July.
Published: Jun Yong Kang
Jun Yong Kang (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and his research team (Hai Huang and Jeffery Ash) published a research article, "Tf2O-Promoted Activating Strategy of Phosphate Analogues: Synthesis of Mixed Phosphates and Phosphinate," in Organic Letters. This research reports an efficient, mild synthetic method of phosphates and mixed phosphonates.…
Published: John Boisvert and Jason Steffen
Physics and Astronomy graduate student John Boisvert, along with his advisor Jason Steffen and collaborator Ben Nelson were looking for planets hidden within archival data. There is an important degeneracy where a one-planet model produces the same signal as a two-planet model with a specific orbital configuration. This group developed…
Grant: Cory Lampert
Cory Lampert (Libraries) has received an $80,685 Library Services and Technology Grant to support a large-scale digitization project. The project, “Building the Pipelines: Large-Scale Digitization Models for Nevada Cultural Heritage,” will build upon the University Libraries’ existing efforts to ramp up digitization capacity across the state…
Published: Stephen Miller
Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) recently co-authored a research paper, "Partisan Conflict and Income Inequality in the United States: A Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Approach." The paper examines the predictive power of a partisan conflict on income inequality.
Published: Tanviben Patel, Mark Buttner, Chad Cross, and Dennis Bazylinski
Tanviben Y. Patel, Mark Buttner, and Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), along with David Rivas, '18 Master of Public Health, and physician Joram Seggev, wrote an article, "Variation in Airborne Pollen Concentrations Among Five Monitoring Locations in a Desert Urban Environment," which was…
Published: Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, and Ji Won Yoo
Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences), Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration), and Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) recently published a paper, "Life-Sustaining Procedures, Palliative Care Consultation, and Do-Not Resuscitate Status in Dying Patients With COPD in US Hospitals: 2010-2014", in the Journal of Palliative Care. This study resulted from…
Notable: David Morris
David Morris (English) is the author of The Evil Hours, which director Debra Granik said was an inspiration for her critically-acclaimed feature film, Leave No Trace. She said, "I gave (actor) Ben (Foster) a huge file of articles. A beautiful book he and I found was also very meaningful. It was called The Evil Hours by…
Presentation: Lung-Chang Chien
Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a poster, "Influence of Highly Correlated Cross-Basis Functions in the Distributed Lag Nonlinear Model," in the Joint Statistical Meeting 2018 earlier this month in Vancouver, Canada.
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