Christina Miskey, Kelsey Mazmanyan, Cory Lampert, and Andrea Wirth (all Libraries) had an article "Integrating Student Assistants into Digital Repository Workflows: Challenges and Best Practices" published in Library Leadership and Management. The article discusses how the scholarly communication initiatives and digital collections…

Dr. John Colombo (Dental) received a $25,000 Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) pilot grant to test his team’s hand-held tool that uses drug-free oxidant-generating technology to remove biofilms from dental pulp. Unlike other electrochemical-driven devices that have metal or boron-doped diamond electrodes, Colombo’s tool generates…

Drs. Jeffrey Ebersole, David Cappelli, Christina Demopoulos, Antonina Capurro, Brian Chrzan, Karl Kingsley, Katherine Howard, and Nathaniel Clark co-authored “Harmful Chemicals Emitted from Electronic Cigarettes and Potential Deleterious Effects in the Oral Cavity,” which appeared last month in the online issue of Tobacco Induced Diseases.…

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Congressional Black Caucus Foundation senior research analyst Naomi Smith, and foundation intern Uju Nwaigwe of Georgetown University have published "Banks and the Black Community: What Can Major Commercial and Retail Banking Institutions Do to Better Support Black Entrepreneurs and…

Seong-min Park, Hong Lu, and Joshua W. Donnelly (all Criminal Justice), along with Young-oh Hong (Korean Institute of Criminology), recently published a peer-reviewed research article, "Untangling the Complex Pathways to Confidence in the Police in South Korea: a Stepwise Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling Analysis" in the Asian Journal of…

Paula Cordero (Chemistry and Biochemistry) received a 2020 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program award from Nevada INBRE to complete a fall research project at UNLV. She will be doing her research in the lab of assistant professor Cory Rusinek.

Xue Xing and Howard R. D. Gordon (both Teaching and Learning) published an article, "Mediating Effects of School Engagement between High School on-Time Completion and Career and Technical Education," in the journal Vocations and Learning. This study found that career and technical education (CTE) coursework had strong positive influence on…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Math) earlier this month gave an invited webinar on ‘The Metamorphosis of Classroom Teaching in the Post Pandemic World: National and International Perspectives." It was organized by Mentorx and KR College of Education (Faridabad), which is affiliated with Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University (India). He is the author of Plums,…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice), along with Diane Pollard of Rainbow Dreams Educational Foundation, and Las Vegas City Councilman Cedric Crear, participated in an episode of KNPR's program, State of Nevada. The title of the episode is "Las Vegas Black Community Hopes Juneteenth Becomes National Holiday."