Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) delivered a presentation on defending clients against financial fraud at the 2025 Dunham Advisory Board event. Drawing from his experience litigating fallout from the Madoff scheme, Professor Edwards offered practical tools to recognize scam tactics, uphold legal responsibilities, and protect reputations.

Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate students Hoor Ul Ain and Rosha Feizilighvan (all Psychology) presented their work at the International Conference for Eating Disorders in San Antonio, TX. Ain and Feizilighvan presented their posters, "Fasting Motivations in Muslim Women" and "ED-Motivated Sleep Behaviors are Associated with Higher ED-Related…

Graduate student Shannon Sagert and faculty mentor Kara Christensen Pacella (both Psychology) published a new study examining the association between imposter syndrome symptoms and eating disorder pathology in the Journal of American College Health. Sagert found that as imposter syndrome symptoms increased among college students, risk of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “The effects of saffron supplementation on inflammation and hematological parameters in patients with sepsis: A randomized controlled trial,” in the Nutrition Journal (impact factor 4.4) in collaboration with coauthors from the Isfahan University of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Testing of a multi-theory model (MTM) to determine factors associated with the initiation and maintenance of adequate sleep behavior among students from a Southeastern United States medical school” in the journal, BMC Public Health (impact factor 3.5) in…

Assistant Professor Megan Griffard, Ph.D., and doctoral student Danette Barber (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published the article, “This Is Not Online Education. It’s Disaster Education”: A Qualitative Study of Remote and Hybrid School Climates During COVID-19" in AERA Open, the open-access journal for…

Kavita Batra, together with Cathleen Danheiser, Alexa Doromal, Molly Drader, Karen Gordon, and Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls (all Medicine), presented the poster, “Advancing Veteran Health Through Collaborative Research,” at the 100th Anniversary of VA Research, hosted by the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System. The presentation underscored the Kirk…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently co-authored a timely and impactful study titled,“One Way or Another: Consequences and Coping Strategies Among Students and Employees Experiencing Stalking,” published in the Iranian Rehabilitation Journal. The research sheds light on the psychological and behavioral toll of stalking in academic and workplace…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), in collaboration with the GBD 2021 Dietary Iron Deficiency Collaborators, has co-authored a landmark study titled, "Global, regional, and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease Study," published in Nature Medicine. The study reveals that despite notable global progress…