Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) provided an invited departmental seminar to the faculty in the department of entomology and nematology at the University of Florida titled "Use of Healthcare Utilization Inpatient Records for Estimating Trends in Vector-Borne Diseases." The seminar highlighted original research on the most…

Emma Regentova and Venkatesan Muthukumar  (both Electrical and Computer Engineering ), Si Jung Kim (Entertainment Engineering and Design), and Jonathan Hilpert (Education)  have received an $882,699 award from the National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning program for implementing the project " NEVADA STEM LAB…

Jennifer R. Pharr (Public Health) & Kavita Batra (Medicine) were recently appointed as guest editors for a special issue titled "The Impact of Exercise on the Mental Health and Quality of Life of People" in the journal Healthcare. This special issue aims to publish innovative studies (original investigations and review…

Susan VanBeuge (Nursing) was named a 2021 American Academy of Nursing Fellow, recognized as a distinguished nurse leader and contributor to health and health care.  She will be officially inducted in October.

Donald Price (Life Sciences) was part of a team that published an article in the July 2021 issue of eLife titled “Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes." The team included scientists from Stanford University, University of North Carolina, University of Washington, University of California Davis,…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published "#MilkTeaAlliance No More?" on Asia Dispatches under The Wilson Center. This article analyzes 62000 #MilkTeaAlliance tweets posted during the protests in Thailand and Myanmar on July 18, and showed the change in both the number and composition of the hashtags. Data also reveals that most #…

Nancy Lough (Education) was part of the research team recently recognized with the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Scholarship from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State University. The award was for a research proposal titled “Communicating for Justice and Equality: Women’s Sport and…

Paul Werth (History) gave a presentation entitled "Conceptualizing Russia's Territorial History" at the Kennan Institute For the Advanced Study of Russia and Eurasia of the Wilson Center in Washington. 

Saha Salahi (Communication Studies, Brookings Mountain West, and The Lincy Institute) was named the inaugural Nevada recipient of the John Lewis Youth Leadership Award by Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske in a recent press release. The John Lewis Youth Leadership Award was established in 2021 by the National Association of…