As a member of the Inequity in Obesity Prevention Trialists Collaborative Group, Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) worked with a team of international researchers, pooling data from 81 published trials to examine the effectiveness of the interventions. The study was recently published in eClinicalMedicine, part of The…

Kaelyn Griffin and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published three works as part of ongoing research collaborations through the UNLV Behavioral Addictions Lab.  The first paper, "An examination and validation of a short form of the Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire," was published in Spirituality in Clinical…

Joel Snyder (Psychology) and colleagues from around the world have published a Comment article in Nature Neuroscience titled, "What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?" It is accompanied by replies from two other groups of authors and relates to an ongoing debate about the scientific merits of the integrated information theory of…

Danielle Mireles, Norma A. Marrun, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) co-authored a chapter titled, "Between hypervisibility and invisibility: Unpacking what it means to be an HSI on Indigenous lands through critical unearthing of local histories and epistemologies of Latinx communities," published in Contemporary issues in…

Jason Victor (Radiochemistry) published a paper in the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry titled, "Preparation and arc melting decomposition of cerium trichloride."  The article explores high-temperature chemistry of cerium trichloride, a strategic material relevant to molten salt reactor technology in the nuclear field.…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Binita Adhikari (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Factors Associated with Hospital Length of Stay and Intensive Care Utilization Among Pediatric COVID-19 Patients…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Jason Geddes Rising Researcher Award, a distinguished recognition bestowed by the NSHE Board of Regents. This prestigious award celebrates exceptional early-career researchers whose work demonstrates outstanding promise, innovation, and the potential to make a lasting…

Dr. Erum Chowdhry (Medicine) has won second place in the 2025 Clark County Medical Society Virtual Research Symposium. Her presentation on Pediatric Asthma Action Plans placed second among medical students and residents, and she was awarded at their event in the Mob Museum on February 13, 2025.

Norma A. Marrun, Danielle Mireles, Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) and Jori S. Beck from Old Dominion University published an article titled, "The (non) numeric truths behind college and career aspirations: a QuantCrit analysis of the precarious pathways for secondary students of color" in the journal of Race Ethnicity and Education.