Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) has published an article, “McTeague and the Afterlives of Empire,” in the journal Arizona Quarterly. Totten discusses Frank Norris’s novel 1899 McTeague and its Mexican American character Maria Macapa in the contexts of the 1846-48 Mexican-American War and the Californio testimonios gathered afterward as part of…

Ph.D. student Hiraku Nagahori (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences), under the mentorship of Kai Yu Ho, Ph.D., (Physical Therapy) and in collaboration with James Kenyon (Teaching and Learning), is advancing innovative rehabilitation strategies for individuals with chronic low back pain. In their recent study, the team investigated how a simple, low…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual oral paper titled, “The genesis of Perfection Quotient (PQ) in health promotion research,” at the 4th International Congress on Behavioral & Social Science Research (ICBSSR 2026) held in Rome, Italy. Perfection Quotient is a novel behavioral model developed by…

Hannah Novak and Tara McManus (both Communication Studies) published their article "'But What About Me?': How Memorable Messages Received During Catholic Sex Education Contribute to the Development of Identity Gaps." The study involved in-depth interviews with 15 participants to explore how memorable messages received in Catholic sex education…

Members of the Project Wellness executive board along with committee chairs presented to Mission Fulfillment and Sustainability Fellows with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (UNLV's accreditor). Students presented data on the progress Project Wellness has made helping students on UNLV's campus and next steps in preparation for…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Association of age at pancreatic cancer diagnosis with smoking and drinking: A hospital-based and meta-analysis study," which was published in Advances in Digestive Medicine. The study conducted two analyses: First, a systematic review used meta-analysis to examine the association…

Marla Royne Stafford, Ph.D., (Marketing and International Business) had two publications accepted recently on her research about controversial products. The first, "Lived Experiences of Recovering and Recovered Gamblers: A Sentiment and Thematic Analysis," with co-authors Raja Gallina, Matt Zarb Cousin, Ken Martz, and Rob Minnick, will…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on the Black Studies Podcast to discuss his perspectives on the field. In this conversation, he described his intellectual journey toward pursuing research about Black life in the United States and abroad, his current work analyzing the Black experience in Las Vegas, and…

The newest release of the High Marks: Dr. Robin Goldstein’s State Weed Rankings podcast is now live. Co-hosts Cannabis Policy Institute Director Riana Durrett, and Cannabis Economics Group at U.C. Davis Director Robin Goldstein, Ph.D., welcomed special guest Steve DeAngelo, founder of the Last Prisoner Project; the co-founder of Arcview, NCIA, and…