William Bauer (History) participated on the panel "Retracing The Oregon Trail" at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Boston. Bauer, along with Margaret Huettl, '16 PhD History, discussed developing and including the representation of Indigenous People in the latest version of the computer game The Oregon Trail. Bauer…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) published a manuscript led by her former master in public health student in Plos One journal titled “Socio-demographic, Maternal, and Infant Characteristics Associated with Early Childhood Development Delays among Children of Young Mothers in Brasília, Brazil”. This study explored the social and…

Jason Flatt and Krystal Kittle (both Social and Behavioral Heath) recently authored a paper on "Advancing Gerontological Health Research With Sexual and Gender Minorities Across the Globe" for the Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has been appointed a visiting fellow at Yale University's MacMillan Center for the 2022-23 academic year. 

Jacob White (Anthropology) published an article in the journal Scientific Reports assessing the risks associated with an alternative maternal health-seeking practice. He co-authored the work with collaborators at Jena University Hospital in Germany and his PhD advisor, Daniel Benyshek (Anthropology). White is a doctoral student.

Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza (Educational Psychology, Leadership, & Higher Education) and Renee’ T. Watson (Student Affairs) published an article, “In the Hands of Students: The Charge of a Minority-Serving Institution Student Council at a Dual-Designated Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution and Hispanic-…

Jeff Schauer (History) participated in the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. His paper, "'Sitting Like Robots Doing Extremely Nothing': Expatriates, Work, Loyalty, and Neocolonial Power in 1960s Africa" juxtaposed debates about "model whites" in Kenya, dual loyalties, and meaningless labor in Zambia, and the…

Valarie Burke (Graduate College) and Annie Weisman (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 NASPA Annual Conference.   In the interactive session — titled Best Practices in Crisis/Suicide Prevention: Perspectives from Graduate, Law, Medical, and Post-Graduate Programs — presenters introduced Early Alert, a theoretically grounded,…

Shin Silver (UNLV/CSUN Preschool) has been selected as the assistant director at the UNLV/CSUN Preschool located in the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center. Shin begins her new position at UNLV on April 1 after teaching at the preschool for 20 years through her undergraduate and graduate studies at UNLV. Shin brings an exemplary…