Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) is the recipient of the SOPHE Leaders in Equity & Diversity (LEAD) Fellowship Award, which will be presented during the 2024 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri from Mar. 19-21. This award is being presented for completion of the fellowship, which sought…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues published an article on "Measurements of brown carbon and its optical properties from boreal forest fires in Alaska summer" in the journal Atmospheric Environment. In this study the team investigated emission and aging of brown carbon (BrC) aerosol from boreal…

Professor Mary Beth Beazley (Law) gave several workshops on Logic and Opinion Writing for the National Judicial College's training on March 13 and 14 at the Thomas & Mack Moot Court. 

Vladislav Pavlovich Zhitny (NYU Anesthesiology Resident), Edgar Lopez Mora, and Eric Kawana (all Medicine) published an article titled, "Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Programs Website Assessment and Recommendations for Fellowship Web-based Platforms," in The Journal of Education in Perioperative Medicine.

Bailey Way and Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Nicholas Borgogna (Texas Tech University) recently published a paper, "Multicultural Considerations for the Psychometrics of the Brief Pornography Screen," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.  In addition, Kraus and colleagues also recently published a paper, "Problematic…

On March 11, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave an invited lecture for the Science Studies Colloquium at the University of California, San Diego. In this presentation, Willoughby discussed his book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools.

Professor Ross P. Berkeley, MD, (Emergency Medicine) was recently appointed by Governor Lombardo to the Advisory Council on Graduate Medical Education for the State of Nevada. Berkeley is chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and serves as program director of the emergency medicine residency.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "First report of natural infection of Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles coluzzii by Wolbachia and Microsprodia in Berlin: a cross-sectional study" in Malaria Journal. Recently, bacterial endosymbiont, including Wolbachia and Microsporidia were found to…

Hong Sun and Hui Zhang (both Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratories recently published a research article titled, “A Methylation-Phosphorylation Switch Controls EZH2 Stability and Hematopoiesis,” in eLife, Feb 12, 2024. This research revealed how the stability of mammalian PRC2/EZH2, the major epigenetic regulator that…