Asma Awan and Manoj Sharma (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper titled, “Tailoring evidence-based interventions and practices in public health workforce development: A mixed methods evaluation of the ARPA Nevada pipeline initiative public health workforce” at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) 77th Annual Conference…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Associations Between Parental Misperceptions of Preschoolers’ Weight and Diet- and Physical Activity-Related Parenting Attitudes and Practices” in collaboration with researchers from Chongqing Medical University in the Maternal and Child Health Journal (…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) spoke with KTNV, Channel 13 News in Las Vegas. I provided reflections upon Ruby Duncan's legacy of activism in the Las Vegas valley, noting it is important to continue her human rights campaign in the modern era.

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was invited to participate at the biennial conference of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, held at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, from April 16 to April 18, 2026. Her presentation, titled “Feature Reassembly and Syntactic Constraints in L2 French and English…

Ph.D. student Debika Jana and associate professor Merryn Cole (Teaching and Learning) presented their research on “Teachers’ conceptual knowledge of Wildfire and Human interaction” on National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Annual Conference, 2026, in Seattle. This study aims to identify the teachers’ understanding about…

Genevieve Milliken (Libraries) was part of a national Data Management Plan Tool (DMPTool) working group that created the newly released template aligned with updated National Institutes of Health Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) requirements, which will be required for proposals due on or after May 25, 2026. She helped revise the…

Marketa Trimble's (Law) new book, Intellectual Property and Conflict of Laws, was published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Kathryn Houk (Libraries; Medicine) earned the Health Literacy Specialist Certificate from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement. The certificate is an accredited, 7-course educational credential program that equips professionals with essential health literacy principles and practices to improve understanding of complex health information and…

Lilla Brody, Berlyn Fife, Sataya Otoo, and Brenna Renn (all Psychology) published their manuscript, "Methodological Considerations for Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression in Later-Life Psychotherapy Trials: A Scoping Review" in the Clinical Gerontologist. This paper reviewed 91 randomized controlled trials of psychotherapy for anxiety and/or…