Patricia A. Heisser Metoyer (Psychology, Interdisciplinary, English), before International Women’s Day on March 8, was selected as a formal delegate to the United Nations Women CSW66 on March 31. UN Women, NGO participants, including the UNA-USA delegation, will identify global strategies to address gender gaps primarily due to discriminatory…

Krystal Kittle (Public Health) received notice of a three-year Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship award for $175,000. Jason Flatt (Social & Behavioral Health) and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) serve as her mentor and co-mentor on the grant. The goals of this grant are to characterize the caregiving experiences…

Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing) and Jay Shen (Public Health) co-authored a new publication, "Sociodemographic Disparities in Utilization of Childbirth Education," in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Co-authors include former UNLV professor Tricia Gatlin.

Dustin Hines, April Contreras, Betsua Garcia, Jeffrey Barker, and Rochelle Hines (all Psychology), all part of The Hines Group, published a manuscript in Molecular Psychiatry along with collaborators from Boston Children's Hospital and Tufts University School of Medicine. The manuscript increases the understanding of the mechanisms behind…

Manoj Sharma, Christopher Johansen, Siddharth Raich (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) have published a manuscript, "Explaining Correlates of Cervical Cancer Screening among Minority Women in the United States" in the journal Pharmacy. The article provides evidence for Sharma's multi-theory model (MTM) of health…

Sherrie Tennessee and her advisor, Hyelin Kim (both Hospitality) received the Best Poster Award at the West Federation Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education Regional Conference, held virtually this month. Their poster explored the underlying wellness attributes used to target African American women, a high-spend group,…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) took part in an online international forum called Innovation, Technology, and Multilingualism earlier this month. She presented a webinar, ‘’Multilingualism and Translation into a Europe of Culture and Knowledge in the Face of the Digital Challenge’’. The conference was organised by the…

Kathryn Houk (Libraries) is the lead author of an article, "We are ML: A Qualitative Case Study on the Medical Library Association’s 2019 Communities Transition," published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. She is an assistant professor and undergraduate medical education librarian in the School of Medicine Library at the…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward, Nicole Atwell, Jessica Ain, Kendra Antill, and Melissa Beck Yarczower (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented their research at the Conference for Research Innovations in Early Intervention. Weglarz-Ward presented with Kimberly Hile from the University of Alabama in Huntsville on use of photo…