Vanessa Booth (Political Science) and Aaron Cheng (Life Sciences and Psychology), both undergraduate researchers, are the recipients of the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award in the arts and health and natural sciences, respectively. Each year during the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR…

Tara McManus (Communication Studies) published the peer-reviewed study "Conditional effects received parental support on emerging adults’ relational satisfaction" in the Journal of Marriage and Family Review. The cross-section survey of emerging adult children suggests parents can be reassured that the support they provide cannot…

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about corresponding nuclear-related programs at the ANS Virtual Graduate School Fair last week. UNLV is the only university that has two recruitment sessions (Nuclear Engineering and Health…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Socially, Not (Necessarily) Legally Undocumented" for the Lewis & Clark College Philosophy Colloquium (online).

Erin Cassin (Life Sciences), a graduate student, was named a 2022 K. Patricia Cross Future Leader by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. She is one of eight people internationally who are selected for this honor.

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) was a presenter at the 18th Confelanyd (Conference of the Latin American Confederation of Nutritionists and Dietitians). One of the major international events for the Latin American and Caribbean community of nutritionists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,…

Sam Leif (Teaching & Learning) published, along with two other authors, "Data Consultations, Racism, and Critiquing Colonialism in Demographic Datasheets" in the Journal of eScience Librarianship. The article synthesizes historical contexts with modern critical thinking about race and data to examine the origins of current…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was invited and presented his research “A Preliminary Study of the Organic and Nonorganic Food Ingredients with Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis” in the NCNR Seminar series of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standard and Technology.  In…

Juanita K. Hinojosa (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) co-presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education in Puerto Rico.  Hinojosa was part of an interactive symposium entitled "Testimonios of Latinx/a/o graduate students: Creating Spaces a Form of Resistance, Persistence, and Comunidad.” This…