Professor Lori Johnson (Law) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), the leading organization of legal writing professors. LWI supports legal writing teaching and scholarship, as well as works to improve the status of legal writing faculty nationwide.

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently co-authored a publication titled "Unmasking the sky: high-resolution PM2.5 prediction in Texas using machine learning techniques" in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. This study addresses the challenge of limited regulatory monitors for PM2.5 in Texas by…

Nantiya Ruan (Law) was one of eight law professors that submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson case, on the compelling history and context necessary for protecting the rights of unhoused people to allow them to live with dignity.

Shawn Gerstenberger, Jorge Bertran, Melissa Marshall, Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article on "Environmental hazards and likelihood of mitigation in renter-occupied housing units in Clark County, Nevada" in the journal Housing and Society…

Hyunhwa 'Henna' Lee (Nursing) and her transdisciplinary team, including graduate students Cynthia Lee (Integrated Health Sciences), and Ye Eun Nam (Medicine), published “Association between depressive symptoms and dynamic balance among young adults in the community” in Heliyon. The team found a significant…

During the recent American Dental Education Association (ADEA) annual meeting, Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) led a seminar titled, “Facing a Public Health Crisis: Initiatives in Dental Sleep Medicine,” and Dr. Sonal Shah and Dr. Jessica Owens (also Dental) presented “Road to Residency” to dental students from around the country regarding the…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Assessment and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: a sexual medicine perspective," in Sexual Medicine Reviews. 

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) coauthored the recent publication, "Toward the integration of speciation research," in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. This paper outlines the major roadblocks to — and potential solutions for — both the integration of the many subfields of speciation biology and the entry into these…

Robert Futrell (Sociology) and Emily Wagner (Sociology Ph.D. student) recently published the third edition of American Swastika: Inside the U.S. White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate. Co-authored with Pete Simi (Chapman University, UNLV Sociology Alumnus 2002), the book uses powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts…