Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a chapter, “People with Intellectual Disabilities, Drug Misuse, and Addiction,” in the book, Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions, in association with Ram Lakhan of Berea College. The book has been published by Springer. The chapter covers various facets of substance use among persons…

Yaa Obeng (Public Policy and Leadership, and Nursing) was named Best Master of Public Administration Graduate Student for the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the 2022 College Scholarship and Awards Ceremony. She also is the School of Nursing’s graduate engagement and retention coordinator.

Dr. Moni Ahmadian (Dental) authored and presented "An Unusually Expansile Nasopalatine Duct Cyst Mimicking a Nasolabial Cyst" as a poster during the 2022 American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology annual meeting.   

Lindsay Buczek (Medicine) presented a poster, "The Data Error Criteria (DEC) for Retrospective Studies: Development and Preliminary Application," that was created by Buczek, Fadi Azar, Justin Bauzon, Kavita Batra, Caleb Murphy, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine). The presentation was made at the American College of Physicians Internal…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as a guest editor and organizer of an online forum, Black Las Vegas, published by the award-winning blog Black Perspectives. The forum will run through May 6 and feature five essays on different aspects of Black history in Las Vegas from various scholars based in Southern Nevada…

Karl Kingsley, Tengfei "Sam" Su, Mac Jackson, and Keaton Sacry (all Dental) recently published their manuscript, “Longitudinal Analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) Trends among a Pediatric Dental Patient Population,” in the journal EC Paediatrics.

Giorgio Canarella (Economics) is co-author of a paper, "Topology Identification in Distribution System via Machine Learning Algorithms," that appears in Plos One. This paper contributes to the literature on topology identification (TI) in distribution networks and, in particular, on change detection in switching devices’ status. The lack of…

Rob Levrant (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) spoke on an expert panel at the 2022 Osher Institutes National Conference, "What You Really Need to Know to Ask for Money in Person." His portion of the presentation focused on the nexus between fundraising and community-building in the context of a membership-based lifelong learning community.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, “Social Cognitive Theory Constructs that Predict Betel Nut Chewing among Secondary Students in the Solomon Islands,” published in the Journal of Social Change with coauthors from the Ministry of Health in the Solomon Islands and Fiji Islands. The article found that social…