Dharini Bhammar (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) is a co-investigator on a five-year, $2.7 million RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine whether overweight children have more breathing limitations, intolerance for exercise, and breathlessness when exercising compared to normal-weight children, leading to possible…

Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute) gave a presentation titled “Insights and Trends on Esports Gambling” at the 2017 XLIVE Esports Summit in New York City in August. The summit brought together esports team owners, esports players, venue operators, tournament organizers, broadcasters, sponsors, agencies, legal experts, consultants,…

Kathrine M. Howard, Karl Kingsley, Jaydene McDaniel, Steven McDaniel, and Amy Tam (all Dental) wrote "Screening a Saliva Repository for Scardovia wiggsiae and Streptococcus mutans: A Pilot Study," for the Journal of Advances in Microbiology. Howard is the senior author.

Laurel Raftery, Andrew Andres, Ai-Sun "Kelly" Tseng, and Boo Shan Tseng (all Life Sciences), and Hong Sun (Chemistry & Biochemistry), have been awarded a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant to purchase a multiphoton fluorescence imaging system titled "MRI: Acquisition of a High Speed Multiphoton Laser-Scanning…

Oscar Espinoza-Parra  (Education) was published in Queer Voices from the Locker Room (Information Age Publishing, 2017), part of the Research in Queer Studies series. He contributed "Chronicles Inside and Outside of the Softball Dugout."

Carolyn Yucha (Nursing) received the Healthcare Hero – Lifetime Achievement Award from Nevada Business magazine on Aug. 30. The publication recognized her as a hero in its educator category in 2009, making her only the second person in history to capture both a category and top honors recognition.

Johan Bester (Medicine) is the author of "Measles Vaccination is Best for Children: The Argument for Relying on Herd Immunity Fails," a peer-reviewed article published in The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. The article examines an argument which is sometimes used to forego vaccination for individual children, and instead argues that all children…

Rachell Ekroos (Nursing) received a certificate of recognition from the U.S. Department of Justice for her contribution to the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting (SAFER) working group and development of the National Institute of Justice publication titled National Best Practices for Sexual Assault Kits: A Multidisciplinary Approach. She…

Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Philosophy) has accepted an invitation to contribute a chapter for a festschrift honoring a historian named Sergio Pagano, who is a priest and the director of the “Vatican Secret Archive.” This is a repository of official documents that have religious, political, or administrative significance. Originally, the archive was…