Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education faculty and graduate students recently served as the local arrangements committee for the Council for Learning Disabilities Annual 2021 Conference in Las Vegas. Joseph Morgan, current president of the council, and Monica Brown, chair of the local arrangements committee, along…

Tiange Xu (Hospitality) received a $3,000 research stipend award from UNLV's International Gaming Institute and the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling for his research study examining problem gambling and mental health disorders in Nevadan university students. His mentors for the project are Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute)…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was an invited panelist in two roundtable discussions as part of “Cultural Health: A Forum on Folk Medical Systems," a symposium held in conjunction with the American Folklore Society's 2021 annual meeting. The goal of this virtual symposium was to bring folklorists, doctors,…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored op-ed, "What Do People in Taiwan Think About Their Military?" in The Diplomat. This article traces and analyzes recent polls in Taiwan regarding public opinion on military spending and training. The results suggest that the increasing cross-strait tension had shifted the public…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed for the FAB Gab podcast of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics about her research on abortion bans and pandemic ethics in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and Jinsuh Tark, who is in MBA/MS Hotel Administration dual program, published a business case study "MGM Resorts International: Responsibility versus Profitability" with Ivey Publishing. Ivey Publishing is a leading business case study publisher with a global perspective and it has…

Marketa Trimble (Law) was appointed to the Academic Advisory Board of the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

Nasim Binesh (Hospitality), a doctoral student, recently presented a research paper at the Food Trex Travel Research Summit international conference. Binesh worked with assistant professor Amanda Belarmino to develop the paper, which examines the role historical knowledge of a restaurant plays on a customer's willingness to pay…

James Louis-Jean (Chemistry), a doctoral candidate under the guidance of  S.M. Balasekaran, Paul Forster, and Frederic Poineau published an article in collaboration with the Vietnam University department of inorganic chemistry, "Structural and spectral studies of hydrated hexaamminecobalt(III)–hexafluororhenate(IV)" in the Journal…