Jungoon Lee and Christopher Cain (both Hospitality) are co-authors on the recent article, "Momentum in professional golf: A fixed effects reassessment of the hot and cold hand fallacy." Published in the Journal of Sports Analytics, the study uses a fixed statistical model to re-examine the phenomenon of "streakiness" in golf. The study also…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Diseases 2023 Disease and Injury Risk Factor Collaborators titled, “Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Diseases 2023 Causes of Death Collaborators titled, “Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Diseases 2023 Demographic Collaborators titled, “Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–…
Jeff Schauer (History) published "Chongololo: The Zambian Children's Wildlife Magazine and the Making of an African Environmental Movement" in the Journal of Social History.
Based on research in Zambia and Britain, the article describes the founding of Chongololo (a children's environmental magazine and series of school-…
Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently co-authored an editorial article for Frontiers in Public Health, : "Hospital management and healthcare policy: financing, resourcing and accessibility, volume II."
Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed in a Columbia Journalism Review article titled, "The Case for Unbordered Reporting," about the resistance from editors he faced as a journalist trying to expose President Obama's incarceration of tens of thousands of Central American children separated from their mothers.
After years of building a career at a large accounting firm, Gloribert Roque-Melendez planned an early retirement. Guest lecturing at UNLV gave her an unexpected reason to change course.
From a COVID-Era Student to Occupational Therapy Instructor at UNLV
Kayla Ford was among the first students in the university's OT program. Now she teaches mental health-related courses in the School of Integrated Health Sciences.