An Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Foundation grant for $100,000 was awarded to Jingchun Chen and her lab in the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine on March 1, 2023, to study the impact of COVID-19 on Alzheimer's Disease, focusing on sharing genes and pathways in immune cells. This will help with the investigation of the…

Boran Kim, Jungsun (Sunny) Kim, Ashok Singh, Mehmet Erdem (all Hospitality) and Andrew Hardin (Business) have published their study titled, "Factors Predicting Hotel Recommendations: A Comparison of Guest Feedback Before and After the Hotel Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in the International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism…

Alpha Chi Omega national has selected LeAnne Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) for their inaugural Social Justice Institute. This institute is a national initiative to support, empower and educate alumni to assist them in preparing serve their communities. 

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: Application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis,” in the journal, BMJ Open (Impact Factor: 3.007), in…

Arpita Basu, Ph.D., MPH, RD/LD (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Lung-Chang Chien, Ph.D., (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Leigh Ann Richardson (Public Health), along with colleagues recently published, "Longitudinal associations of healthy dietary pattern scores with coronary artery calcification and pericardial adiposity in US adults…

Gregory Brown (History) delivered a paper titled, "The Transatlantic Beaumarchais Correspondence Network: Textual Corpus, Metadata, Social Network Analysis," as part of an interdisciplinary workshop on "Rethinking the Long Eighteenth Century" hosted by the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University. 

On May 13, 2023, Marta Soligo (Office of Economic Development) was invited as a guest speaker for a webinar organized by the Kenya-based consulting company STTA-Sustainable Travel and Tourism Agenda. Soligo’s presentation, titled, “Film-Induced Tourism for a Responsible Future,” focused on the phenomenon of film tourism, touching on topics such as…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a study titled, "Incomplete and Confounded Block Designs in Visual Inference Experiments," during the 2023 International Conference on Design of Experiments on May 8-11 in Memphis, Tennessee. The study explores the use of confounded and balanced incomplete block designs in making visual…

Sarah Jones, Emily Lapworth, and Tammi Kim (all Libraries) had an article, "Assessing Diversity in Special Collections and Archives," published in the May 2023 issue of College & Research Libraries.