Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded an Early Career Research Grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention entitled "Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors among Women Sexual Assault Survivors: A Proof-of Concept and Feasibility Study" ($139,728). This funding will help her to investigate and identify risk factors for suicidal thoughts and…

Deborah A. Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra , Noehealani Antolin (all Medicine), along with Courtney Coughenour, Max Gakh, William Porter, Darin Mains, Kacie Washburn (all Public Health), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs), presented findings from the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, resulting from SB 236 (…

Noehealani Antolin, Ana Reyes, Nicole Bacani, Merika Charupoom, Kavita Batra, Bertille Mavegam Tango, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Medicine) presented "An Overview of Nevada Non-adjudicated Citations 2018-2021 - A Descriptive Analysis" at the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) Conference on August 14 in San Diego,…

Darren Noble (Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement) attended the Alumni Career Services Network’s (ACSN) Annual Conference, hosted by the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. The event brought together practitioners from 150 institutions and organizations dedicated to alumni career services support. This year's theme was "Grow * Adapt *…

Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) was invited to and served as a faculty mentor and panelist on the Mid-Career Faculty Consortium at the 2024 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), which is organized by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and is the leading conference of the information…

Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), along with his co-authors Junjie Zhou and Ruochen Liao, received the “2024 Best Paper Award (Senior Category — Honorable Mention)” from the Special Interest Group on IT in Healthcare (SIGHealth) of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for their paper titled “Aging…

Melva Thompson-Robinson (Nursing) co-authored "Barriers and Facilitators That Influence HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)-Prescribing Behaviors Among Primary Care Providers in the Southern United States" in Cureus, a medical journal by Springer Nature. 

Rebecca Benfield (Nursing) gave a podium presentation titled, “A Water Immersion Intervention for Symptoms of PTSD in Student Veterans: A Phenomenological Approach” at the prestigious Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Research Conference in Washington D. C. This clinical intervention study included Co-Investigators Dr(s) Catherine…

The Department of Family and Community Medicine was awarded a three-year grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to continue the Nevada Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (Nevada RESEP). Led by Laura Shaw MD, associate professor, Nevada RESEP provides free medical screenings, education, and…