On July 26, Christopher D.E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) presented on the history of racism and medical research in professor Elizabeth Chuang's Research Ethics Seminar at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition to his presentation, Willoughby led a discussion of how this history informs contemporary…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Sex effects on gingival transcriptomic patterns during initiation, progression, and resolution of periodontitis,” which published February 28 in Journal of Periodontology. The study used a nonhuman primate (Macaca mulatta) model of experimental ligature-induced periodontitis…

Keoni Kins, DPT, (Physical Therapy) and Brian K Schilling, Ph.D., (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) along with colleagues Dustin Dunnick Ph.D., CSCS (Arkansas Tech University) and Dharini M Bhammar, Ph.D., (The Ohio State University) recently published, "The Effect of Body Armor on Pulmonary Function Using Plethysmography." This was published…

Eda Anlamlier (Marketing and International Business) co-authored an article titled, "Consumer Hacks in the Sharing Economy," in the Journal of Business Research, as part of a special issue on the dark side of sharing economy. Focusing on a popular designer apparel rental platform, Rent the Runway, this paper suggests how consumer hacks…

Amber Sewell (Libraries) recently published an article, "Designing an Augmented Reality Learning Experience for Library Instruction as a Technology Novice" in the International Journal of Designs for Learning. The article describes Sewell's experience creating an augmented reality learning experience for students with no budget and little…

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies Program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by Insider journalist Hannah Beckler about the use of attack dogs throughout American history, specifically their use against Black people throughout the era of slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, and…

Victoria Sullivan, Katherine Howard, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) have published their latest study with pediatric residents Melika Shayegh, Praneeti Sodhi, and dental students Chase Sorenson, Jackson Downey, Summer Lin, and Yuxin Jiang on the oral pathogen Scardovia wiggsiae in the latest issue of the MDPI journal Methods and Protocols.

Peter Kaufmann, Sara Rosenkranz (both Integrated Health Sciences), and Nicole Short (Psychology) proudly represented UNLV during the NIH’s Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials in Washington, D.C. The Summer Institute, created by Kaufmann in 2001 when he served as NIH’s acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social…

Kenyon Lee Whitman and graduate student Rachel De Vera (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published an op-ed in The Imprint, exploring the challenges and solutions that contribute to educational (in)equity for foster youth in the state of Nevada.