Peter Gray (Anthropology) lead-authored a chapter with UNLV Anthropology MA graduate Alex Straftis and University of Oklahoma colleague Kermyt Anderson entitled, "Men and reproduction: Perspectives from biological anthropology." The chapter appears in the new edited volume, Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, and offers a concise…

Hyelin Kim, Esra Topcuoglu and Sungeon (Jake) Kim (Hospitality) published "Green message strategies and green brand image in a hotel context" in The Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management. Topcuoglu and Kim are doctoral students. This research investigates the effects of different green (environmental) message types on…

Qingmin Shi, John Crooker, Christina Drum, and Brent Drake (all Decision Support) authored a paper that has been named a Charles F. Elton Best Paper by the Association for Institutional Research. The paper, titled "Investigation of the Effect of First-Year Seminars on Student Success," was presented at the 2019 AIR Forum and will be published…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited talk, "Taking Feline Well-Being Seriously," at the University of Redlands, as part of the university's Human-Animal Studies Speakers Series. This talk explored the moral duty cat guardians have to promote the flourishing of the felines under their care and the derivative duty guardians have to…

Jennifer R. Pharr (Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently published a study titled "Physical and Mental Disabilities among the Gender-Diverse Population Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ... A Propensity-Matched Analysis" in a Healthcare journal.  The findings of this study advocate for developing policies and…

Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research,  Anthropology) has co-authored an article entitled “Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene finds from the 2020 sounding excavation at Girmeler, Southwestern Turkey” in the  2021 issue of peer-reviewed European journal Anatolica. The paper sheds new light on the origins and spread of farming economies in…

Hal Berghe (Computer Science) published an article, "A Collapsing Academy, Part II: How Cancel Culture Works on the Academy," in the October 2021 issue of IEEE Computer.

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues have published two articles: "Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research" in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior Special Issue on Findings, Challenges, and Future Directions in Medical Sociology and "Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Health among Younger U.S…

Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) has co-authored an article that appears in the journal Science & Justice. The article, "Multi-Agent Scavenging Patterns in Hawai‘i: A Forensic Archaeological and Skeletal Case Study," co-authored with William Belcher (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), presents archaeological and anthropological…