Alan Schlottmann (Economics) was presented with a Spotlight Award on Saturday, March 4, by the Las Vegas chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Southern Nevada, a commercial real estate development association comprised of 400 members serving the local Southern Nevada market. The…

Jessica Knurick (Allied Health Sciences) co-authored “Plant-based Nutraceutical Increases Plasma Catalase Activity in Healthy Participants: A Small Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Proof of Concept Trial,” which appeared in the March 4 issue of the Journal of Dietary Supplements. The study assessed the efficacy of a nutraceutical at…

Zach Miles (Economic Development) received $300,000 from the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada to support the development of advanced mobility research and events. He will work with the RTC to explore, understand, pilot, and deploy advances in mobility. Miles will also provide guidance to state, regional, and local…

Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) recently had a paper published in Journal of Business Venturing Insights. The paper, titled “Horse and Cart: The Role of Resource Acquisition Order in New Ventures” uses agent-based simulation to give insight about the order in which entrepreneurs should acquire different types of…

Gregory Borchard (Journalism and Media Studies) is the author of "Beyond Radicalism: The New-York Tribune's Whiggishness and Constructive Democracy," which appears in the March edition of Journalism & Communication Monographs.

Edward Lynch's (Dental) recent paper Spatial distribution mapping of drinking water fluoride levels in Karnataka, India: fluoride-related health effects published in Perspectives in Public Health estimated the concentration of fluoride in drinking water through different zones of 29 districts of Karnataka, India. The research paper…

Bing Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) co-organized an Aspen Center for Physics conference titled, “Fast Radio Bursts: New Probes of Fundamental Physics and Cosmology” in February. The conference hosted approximately 80 scientists from around the world to discuss the nature of fast radio bursts, mysterious radio bursts discovered 10 years ago. The…

Erick B. López and Takashi Yamashita (both Sociology) published an article in Ethnicity and Health titled, "The Relationship of Education and Acculturation with Vigorous Intensity Leisure Time Physical Activity by Gender in Latinos."

Cass Shum, Anthony Gatling, Laura Book, and Billy Bai (all Hotel) are the authors of "The Moderating Roles of Follower Conscientiousness and Agreeableness on the Relationship Between Peer Transparency and Follower Transparency," which explains how peer relational transparency impacts the focal employee's relational transparency through a self- and…