Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published the article, “Global burden of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use in 204 countries, 1990-2023: A Global Burden of Disease Study,” as a senior collaborator in the journal, Nature Medicine (Impact factor 50.0). Drug use disorders (DUDs) are among the rising global…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) and co-authors were awarded the Distinguished Special Issue of the Year Award from the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association. The award honors their forum, “Communication Research on High Reliability Organizing: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities for the Future…

Ashley McCoy (Student Life), coordinator of Fraternity & Sorority Life, has been named a recipient of the Inaugural Mardie Trask Sorensen Chapter Advisor of the Year Award by the Order of Omega. This international award honors exceptional chapter advisors who demonstrate extraordinary leadership, service, and commitment to student success.…

Bailey Way, Todd Jennings, Kris Gunawan, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) recently published a paper (Early exposure and emerging risk: A latent profile analysis of pornography use trajectories and their psychological correlates) in Computers in Human Behavior.  Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published a paper (A Network Analysis of…

Sherrie Tennessee, '24 Ph.D., and co-authors Hyelin (Lina) Kim and Mehmet Erdem (all Hospitality), published their article, "Enhancing wellness tourism through self-service user interaction experiences: impacts on value and subjective wellbeing," in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights.  The article investigates how self-…

UNLV researchers Jalal Uddin; Nicole V. DeVille, Miguel Fudolig, Merrill R. Landers, and Jason "Jace" D. Flatt (all Public Health) as well as Chad Cross at Texas Tech have published a new study in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health titled: “Sociodemographic differences in skilled nursing facility discharge among Parkinson’s…

Riana Durrett. Marla Royne Stafford, Julianna Ness, Margaret McLetchie, Jordyn Sanders (all Cannabis Policy Institute at UNLV) had their paper, “Integrating Cannabis and Gaming: Re-evaluating their business intersection,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Cannabis Research, the top ranked journal in the cannabis field.  

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies), with co-author Andres Bernal (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies), recently published "Like, subscribe, profit? Personal finance influencers on YouTube under neoliberalism" in Consumption Markets & Culture. In the article, the authors use natural language processing methods and…

Juha Yoon (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) co-authored a recent peer-reviewed article titled “Artificial Intelligence–Enhanced Analytics in Sport Communication: Advancing Environmental Sustainability Through Stakeholder-Centered Strategies,” published in the International Journal of Sport Communication, highlighting the role of…