Linc Johnson (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented his research study, "Globalization as a Social Science Problem: Applying the Johnson Ranking of Global Engagement (JRGE) at UNLV," at the National Social Science Association Conference in Las Vegas. This paper re-conceptualizes global engagement as an analytically…

Christina Watanabe (Theatre), head of design/tech and assistant professor of lighting design, recently designed the world premier production of Spread by Jesús I. Valles at INTAR Theatre in New York City. This off-Broadway production has extended its initial run and will have the distinction of being filmed and added to the New York Public Library…

Barb Brents (Sociology), alumni Chris Wakefield and Alessandra Lanti, and an international team of researchers recently co-authored "How crime-based legal regimes shape sexual harm: Sex work, consent and vulnerability," published in the British Journal of Criminology. The research examines how legal regimes in the UK, US, and New Zealand shape the…

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Associations of white potato intake and preparation methods with cardiometabolic health measures in US adults categorised by diabetes status" in the British Journal of Nutrition. 

Sarah Kazemeini, Kendra N. Coleman, Marianne Estrada, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) have published their work titled “Institutional Efforts to Support First-Generation, Low-Income (FGLI) Medical Students in the United States” in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health. This work systematically maps existing evidence on…

Associate Professor Cass Shum (Hospitality) and her co-authors won the Meritorious Paper Award with their paper, "#RudeCustomers: The effects of social media posts about customer mistreatment on viewers’ moral distress and boycott intentions" [Shum, C., Jiang, W., Granito, K., & Bai, B. (2026, February)]. The paper was presented at…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Corporate Governance and Workplace Mental Health Practices: The Mediating Role of Structured Occupational Safety and Health Engagement," which was published in Safety and Health at Work. The study conducted a serial mediation analysis to evaluate whether occupational safety and health…

Han-fen Hu and Rajiv Kishore (Information Systems) had their paper "Making Knowledge Work: An Activity Theory Perspective on Knowledge Management System Effectiveness in Organizational Work and Online Communities" accepted at the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). This paper develops a model of knowledge management…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Conversion to Judaism: A Model of Ethnoracial Identity Change" at the virtual workshop Race at the Margins: Context, Contingency, and Identity.