Student Diversity & Social Justice hosted the 3rd Annual Black Carpet Awards. The Black Carpet was designed as a means to celebrate and recognize the contributions of Black students, staff, faculty, and community members. What started as one of the premier events during Black History Month, the Black Carpet is now an annual campus…

Dieu-My Tran and Nirmala Lekhak (both Nursing), along with Sheniz Moonie and Karen Gutierrez (both Public Health) co-authored a new published article entitled, "Risk Factors Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Among Adult Nevadans."

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) presented at the All Districts Conference hosted by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education on the topic of "Cultivating a Culture of Philanthropy among Alumnx of Color who previously attended Historically White Institutions."

Danica G. Hays (Education) has been elected to serve on the Governing Council of the American Counseling Association. Hays, interim dean and professor of the College of Education, will represent the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling on the governing board, beginning her three-year term on July 1. The association…

April Ursula Fox (Graduate College), Graduate College curriculum manager, has been invited to present to an audience of curriculum specialists in universities and other organizations across the country and abroad during the Digarc U professional conference in March.  Centered around the use of technology and innovative processes,…

Shubhra Bansal (Mechanical Engineering) has received the prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop novel Pb-free and stable mixed halide-chalcogenide perovskite materials for high-efficiency solar cells. Pb-based organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (HPSCs) have shown tremendous promise with a big…

Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was featured on "The Art People Podcast." Learn about her passion for teaching, writing, social justice, and art. She discusses the importance of murals as public art for the Latinx community, the complexities of representation in media, and so much more.

Elizabeth Johnson (Anthropology) and Shelly Volsche, '13 BA Psychology, '15 MA Anthropology, and '17 PhD Anthropology, now of Boise State University, are authors of an article, "COVID-19: Companion Animals Help People Cope during Government-Imposed Social Isolation." The article was published in the journal Society and Animals…

Michael Wong, Dharini Bhammar (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Nicholas Ross, '20 MS Exercise Physiology,  published a paper, “Respiratory and Perceptual Responses to High-Intensity Interval Exercise in Obese Adults” in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports…