Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Biologic Modeling of Periodontal Disease Progression,” which determined the synergistic utility of bacterial and inflammatory biomarkers from saliva, serum, and plaque in predicting disease progression. The article appeared in the January 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology.

Johan Bester (Medicine) and a group of co-authors from other institutions published a paper about ethical tensions in pediatric heart transplantation. Their paper examines the ethical issues involved in a case study of a child with congenital heart disease, dependent on life-sustaining treatment, who lacks the family and social support to ensure…

David F. Damore and Michelle Keunzi (both Political Science) are the authors of a paper, "Executive Turnovers in sub-Saharan Africa," that has been accepted for publication in International Area Studies Review. The paper applies competing risks duration analysis to data collected from 47 sub-Saharan African countries between 1960 and 2008, to…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) authored a chapter in the newest edition of An Introduction to Young Children with Special Needs edited by Richard Gargulio and Jennifer Kilgo (both from the University of Alabama Birmingham). This chapter describes intervention and instructional strategies to support young…

Hilla Sang (Libraries) was selected to present a study, "The Relationships Among Enrollment Characteristics and Charter School Closure: A Longitudinal Analysis of Ohio's Urban Counties Between 1998-2015", that she co-authored with Elizabeth Gilblom from the College of Southern Nevada, later this month during the third annual Conference on…

Jennifer L. Rennels and Stephanie A. Verba (both Psychology) recently published, "Gender Typicality of Faces Affects Children's Categorization and Judgments of Women More than of Men" in Sex Roles. Their research shows U.S. children aged 5 to 9 years manifest a better sense of what typifies female than male faces, which subsequently affects…

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) has just published her fifth book, Religion Across Television Genres: Community, Orange Is the New Black, The Walking Dead, and Supernatural. In analyses of contemporary television programming, she and co-author Joseph Valenzano III (University of Dayton) explain how the NBC comedy…

Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries) recently had a paper, "Visual Literacy in Practice: Use of Images in Students' Academic Work," published in College & Research Libraries, the research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries, which is a division of the American Library Association. She co-authored the paper with colleagues…

Jeremy Meronuck (Health Sciences) received the UNLV Outstanding New Advisor award from the Academic Advising Leadership Team within the office of the vice provost for undergraduate education. The award acknowledges demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding academic advising of students for recipients who have served as an advisor for no…