Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) recently presented for a program organized by the Insurance subsection of the European Law Institute at its Annual Meeting on "Fissures and Fault Lines in U.S. Insurance Law: The Impact of Dual Symptoms and Multiple Forums Creating Divergent Outcomes."

Dean Leah Chan Grinvald (Law) will be part of a panel discussion, hosted by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, on Wednesday, September 20, at 11:30 a.m. PST on, "What is the Pipeline of Legal Professionals in the Wake of Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC/Harvard?"

Xin Fan (Finance) had a research paper, "Publicly Traded Debt Restructuring Methods, Corporate Investment, and Debt Contracting," accepted for publication by Management Science, which is considered an “A+” journal in Business. The study compares the economic role of two publicly traded debt restructuring methods: coercive bond exchange…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) served on the selection committee for the Fulbright Program in Mexico for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship.

Shawn Gerstenberger (Public Health) is the recipient of the Nevada Public Health Association's Public Health Advocate of the Year Award. The award recognizes Gerstenberger's active role in public health in Nevada and the impact that it has on our communities.

Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), along with Robin Cresiski (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Sandip Thanki (Nevada State College), and Lori Navarrete (Nevada State College), have published an article titled, “Unlocking Undergraduate Student Success: A Study of High-Impact Practices in a Comprehensive and Diverse College,” in the Journal…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), presented a paper titled, “Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) Applied to Process Evaluation in Nevada: An Application of the Dovetailing of the RQFSM Model with CBPR,” at the 13th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society in Vancouver, Canada. Participants…

Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies), Zhan Xu (Northern Arizona University), and Suji Park (Konkuk University) have published an article titled, "Using Virtual Reality in E-Cigarette and Secondhand Aerosol Prevention Messages: Implications for Emotional Campaign Design," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. The study…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore to give a talk, titled "Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election: Explanation of Public Opinions and Implications," on September 13. In this talk, Wang analyzes the recent trend of emerging non-partisans in Taiwan since 2016,…