Shane Kraus (Psychology) published a paper in American Journal on Addictions, "Psychopathology and Hypersexuality among Veterans with and without Histories of Alcohol‐use Disorders." The paper examined differences among U.S. military veterans with lifetime alcohol use disorder compared with those without on select measures of psychopathology,…

Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently was featured in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Law newsletter. He was interviewed about the use of a Health in All Policies approach to achieve health equity and improve health outcomes.

Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) will read selected poems from the book Everyone in His Own Paradise (Vodoley Publishing, Moscow, 2015), as well as more recent texts gathered under a working title A Canary in a Mineshaft, next month at the Tompkins Square Public Library in New York. The event is organized by…

Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio (Public Policy and Leadership and Brookings Mountain West) recently was selected to present her summer internship research on "The Nexus Between Population and Criminal Arrests in Clark County, Nevada, by Jurisdiction 2006-2016" at the Summer 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium, which took place earlier this month…

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) published his fourteenth book, and eighth with Oxford University Press, "Helping Families of Youth with School Attendance Problems: A Practical Guide for Mental Health and School-Based Professionals." The book is the first in a special series by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (the ABCT…

Peter Grema (Honors College and Brookings Mountain West) recently was selected to present his summer internship research on "The Price of Legal Cannabis and Other Industry Policies" at the Summer 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium earlier this month. Grema's research explores three distinct public policy areas wherein the legal U.S.…

Su Kim Chung, Karla Irwin, and Cyndi Shein (all Libraries) recently presented at the ArchivesSpace Member Forum 2019 and Society of American Archivists/Council of State Archivists Joint Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.  Chung presented "The Death of Publication and Licensing Fees at UNLV"; Irwin presented "Plug In Show and Tell:…

Ember Smith (Economics and Brookings Mountain West) recently was selected to present her summer internship research on "Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Las Vegas" at the Summer 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium, which took place earlier this month. Smith's research draws on work by the McKinsey Global Institute and the…

Joakim Nyoni (Foundation) was selected and participated in the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in July. IEM is a comprehensive executive education program that prepares senior leadership in higher education to address challenges and opportunities that face institutions of higher learning…