Ariana L. Garcia (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting in Chicago, IL, on April 15, 2023. She presented work from her dissertation titled “The Latina/o/x Graduate Student Experience: Advancing Our Collective Understanding.” AERA is the largest…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) and colleagues A. Khalili, M. Asgharian, both of McGill University, and S. Lin (Ohio State University) co-authored an article titled "Sparse estimation in semi-parametric finite mixture of varying coefficient regression models". The paper introduces an unsupervised learning and feature selection methods…

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and colleagues from New Mexico State, Kansas State, and Portland State universities published Use of the MSJCC: A content analysis of ACA journals in the journal Counselor Education and Supervision, the flagship journal of the Association for Counselor Education…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has received an "Outstanding Mentor" award from the Graduate Professional Student Association at their 25th Annual Research Forum on April 15, 2023. This award recognizes academic faculty who have demonstrated continued success in preparing graduate students and trainees for their academic and professional pursuits. Batra…

Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra,  Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented an oral presentation entitled, "Utilizing community-based participatory research based on the RQFSM model for evaluating health disparity reduction efforts in rural Nevada, 2021-2022," at the Rural…

Professor Diana Eden (Film), who teaches costume design, will be speaking at the Clark County Library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 1 as part of its Las Vegas Stories series.  Eden first came through Las Vegas by train in 1961, stopping in the downtown station for a brief 30 minutes, time in which the just turned 21 years old, and was able to…

Ravisha Bai (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology), Kavita Batra (Medical Education), Charmaine Yap (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology) Kenneth Izuora (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology) (all Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) co-authored an article titled, “Diabetes-related outcomes with basal-bolus vs. premixed insulin among veterans with type 2…

Reimund Serafica (lead author) and Lorraine Evangelista (both Nursing), and Timothy Grigsby (Public Health) and Bradley Donohue (Psychology) co-authored an article, "Occupational Stress: A Concept Analysis with Implications for Immigrant Workers' Mental Health in the United States." The paper conceptually examined occupational stress among…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Peter Wiens (Teaching and Learning) presented their research titled, “Developing Teacher Leadership Course Content: The Experiences of Teachers, Instructional Coaches, and Administrators,“ at the 2023 Annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference.…