Michelle Paul, assistant vice president of Mental & Behavioral Health Training and Workday Endowed executive director of UNLV PRACTICE; John Tuman, executive associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts; and Christopher Kearney, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Psychology received a series of grants from the Nevada…

Brittani Sterling (University Libraries), Brittany Fiedler (University Libraries), and Christopher Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) co-organized UNLV's third annual "Douglass Day Transcribathon," which celebrates the birthday of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass and explores the important legacy he left upon the United…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a public lecture at the Whitney Library exploring the origins of Black History Month. He examined how it is celebrated in the United States and abroad, while providing additional insights into how the event was first celebrated in Las Vegas and how it grew over the decades.

Teresa (Tess) Walker, Lilla Brody, and Brenna Renn (all Psychology) published their manuscript, "Depressive symptomology across adult age groups: Differences in PHQ-9 symptom endorsement in a US sample," in Aging and Mental Health. This analysis of 8325 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) sought to…

All nine students in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program who applied nationwide for predoctoral clinical internships to complete their training obtained a position in the national match conducted by the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers. They will be going to eight states (NV, CA, CO, TX, AL, FL, MI, NH). Their final…

Shane Kraus (Psychology), Tiange Xu (International Gaming Institute), and Andrea Dassopoulos (International Gaming Institute) have been awarded $312,239 from the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission's Responsible Gaming Grant program for their project "The Causal Impact of Sports Betting Promotional Offers." The research will provide…

Gregory P. Brown, Kavita Batra, Anne Weisman, Arianna Palermini, Nezia Rahman, Robert Sottile, Sherine Khanbijan, Noa Klausner, Elizabeth Park, Andrew Wilson, Tiffany Chen, Al Gourner, Paige Hewitt, Soon Cho (all Medicine), along with Jo Woon Chong (SungKyunKwan University, South Korea), presented a poster titled, “AIT, EFT, & EMDR: A QEEG RCT…

Cass Shum (Hospitality) recently co-published a paper, "Why leader empathy backfires: relative LMX and leader work meaningfulness in predicting unethical pro-organizational behaviors," in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Drawing on social exchange theory, this research examines how leadership empathy can…

This article, "Impacts of Increased Free-play on Casino Revenue and Visitation," by Anthony F. Lucas (Hospitality), seeks to measure the effect of increased promotional incentives on casino revenue and visitation frequency. Published in the Journal of Gaming Business and Economics, the research represents the first longitudinal study to…