Roberto Lovato (English) joined Pulitzer prize winning authors, MacArthur Geniuses, and other creatives at the "The Border is a Story" conference organized at the Los Angeles campus of Arizona State University from September 19 to the 22. He delivered a talk on his current research, titled "Of Love & Luminous Feathers: Unbordering Stories…

Danielle Finn (Law) moderated a discussion for the American Bar Association's Judicial Division on Borderlands: America's 21st Century Range Wars.

Danielle Finn (Law) was part of a panel discussion on Custody Issues in Tribal Courts for the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada.

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) and Douglas Jones from the University of Iowa published an article entitled "Election Integrity in the United States: How Will 2024 compare to 2020" in the current issue of IEEE Computer.  This is the latest in their series of articles on election integrity since 2014 that coincide with U.S. presidential…

Edwin Oh (Sciences, Medicine) and colleagues from UNLV, the Southern Nevada Water Authority and Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health recently published a first-of-its-kind study using wastewater monitoring to track drug use patterns throughout the Las Vegas Valley.  “Drug Usage Patterns in Wastewater Correlate with…

Gerilyn Slicker, Jenna Weglarz-Ward, and Alain Bengochea (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with Alison Hooper and JoonHo Lee from the University of Alabama, were awarded a three-year, $768,887 grant from the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The team will…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Exploring the barriers and underlying factors of utilizing a motorcycle without a license among adolescent boys: A qualitative study in Iran” in the journal, International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. The article identified the factors of…

Gerilyn Slicker, Alain Bengochea, Melissa Stoffers (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Sarah Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) were awarded $100,000 from the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Secondary Analyses in Child Care and…

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Tim Grigsby (both Social and Behavioral Health), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article on "Emergency Department Visits Among Adolescents for Intentional Assault, Firearm, Poison, and Self-Harm Injuries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States" in the journal Cureus. This…