Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, " An Authoritative Parenting Model of Offender Rehabilitation" in the journal Sociological Imagination with colleagues from Jackson State University and Auburn University at Montgomery. This interdisciplinary article has important implications for offender rehabilitation.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a virtual, interactive presentation, "Teaching Philosophy to Migrant and Border-Town Children," as part of the Unbordering Migration in the Americas series at the University of Rochester. 

Yong Li (Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) and co-author Jing Li (Simon Fraser University) recently won the Case Centre's best case award for the Strategy and General Management category in 2022 for their case, Amazon Goes Global 2020. The case covers Amazon’s global strategy in the last two decades, with a focus on entry timing…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual and Special Education) presented "Pack Your Bags: The Pyramid Model Goes to College!" at the National Training Institute on Effective Practices: Addressing Challenging Behaviors. As part of the National Center on Pyramid Model Innovations, she presented on embedding the pyramid model, an evidence-…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) received the Outstanding Reviewer Award for the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA). The award was presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. EEPA publishes rigorous, policy-relevant research of interest…

The Arnold Shaw Popular Music Center has a new website! Launched this month, the completely revamped site contains information about the center's lecture series and events, a browsable (and ever growing) catalog of the manuscripts and other items in the collection, a news feed, ways to connect with the center, and much more. Check out the website.

Donghui Lou, Betty Burston, Neeraj Bhandari, and Jay Shen (all Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper, "Characterizing Changes in Medical Expenditures and Outcomes Associated with Health Policy Implementation: The Case of Hospital Care for Type 2 Diabetes in China", in the Journal of Hospital and Healthcare…

David Rice, Jason Steffen (both Physics and Astronomy) and their collaborator, Chenliang Huang from the University of Arizona, published an open-source software package that models the interior structures of rocky and water-rich planets. This code was designed to facilitate the collaboration between UNLV astronomers who study extrasolar planets,…

Kasra Ghaharian (Hospitality and International Gaming Institute) spoke on an expert panel at the 2022 Indian Gaming Tradeshow & Convention. The panel, Responsible Gaming in the Digital Age, addressed how advances in technology are impacting consumer protection policy and practices in the gambling industry.