Chartae Witherspoon (CAEO) and 10 students from the Upward Bound Math & Science Center participated in the Good Trouble Book Club, sponsored and initiated by the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) in honor of late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The club met twice over the course of six weeks to discuss the chapters of Lewis' Across That…

Artem Gelis (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently published an article, "Recovery of High Specific Activity Molybdenum-99 from Accelerator-induced Fission on Low-enriched Uranium for Technetium-99m Generators," in Scientific Reports. The work is a funded collaboration with Niowave and Argonne National Laboratory and has been accessed 889 times and…

Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently was elected as a member of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Task Force on Sexual Misconduct that was established by the Nevada Legislature pursuant to Senate Bill 347. This membership on the task force was approved by the Board of Regents. The overarching goal of this task force is to…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) presented her findings on "Associations of Neonicotinoids with Insulin and Glucose Homeostasis Parameters in US Adults: NHANES 2015-2016" during the Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome session at the American Public Health Association's 2021 annual meeting.

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) conducted a series of training workshops for educational agencies in September and October regarding supports for elementary, middle, and high school students and their attendance following pandemic-induced shutdowns.  The workshops focused on a multi-tiered approach to support student functioning with respect…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) just returned from the Czech Republic, where he presented "The Default to Truth: On the Topology of Assertion" at a workshop on Why and How we Give and Ask for Reasons sponsored by the European Research Council and the University of Hradec Králové. A week before that, he commented on a paper on the normativity of logic…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented two posters at the American Public Health Association’s 149th annual meeting held as a hybrid virtually and in Denver.  The first presentation was “Technology Use to Improve Social Connectedness among Older Adults during COVID-19: Enhancing Educational Interventions,” and second…

Bradley Marianno (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published, with his co-authors, "Public School Teacher Contracts and State-Level Reforms: Assessing Changes to Collective Bargaining Restrictiveness Across Three States" in the  American Educational Research Journal. 

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) recently published an article, "Branding Kidfluencers: Regulating Content and Advertising on YouTube" in the journal Television and New Media. The article is co-authored by Gavin Feller (Umeå University, Sweden) and analyzes emerging shifts in YouTube, advertising, and children’s digital media…