Michael Brown (The Lincy Institute) recently had an op-ed titled "Hollywood handouts" published in the Las Vegas Review Journal. Brown provided commentary on Nevada's attempts to enter the film industry, discussing a recent rebrand of Assembly Bill 238 — a proposal authorizing up to $1.5 billion in transferable film tax credits against the…

Zhiyong Liu and Jay Shen (both Public Health) recently co-authored a paper, "Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: a longitudinal study based on the social ecological perspective", in Journal of Affective Disorders. Liu was a visiting scholar when the study was conducted.

Angela Herrera, Rubaab Wahid, Jasmin Kumar, and Sunny Zhang, along with Amy Stone (all Medicine) received the Louise E. Arnold Excellence in Research or Innovation Poster Session Award with a score of 86/90 for their poster titled "How Group Closeness Shapes the Relationship Between Personality and Engagement in Medical School Learning Communities…

Jeff Schauer (History) was the subject of a feature story that also appears in the newsletter of the Nordic Africa Institute. NAI, based in Uppsala (Sweden), represents a collaboration between Nordic governments, and "conducts research and offers resources that help further understanding about contemporary Africa." The newsletter…

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), coordinator Project PUEBLO (Progressive Understandings of Emergent Bilingual Opportunities), was featured in a KTNV article on project, a scholarship-funded master’s program. The news story highlighted the impact of Project PUEBLO alumnus Etiel Zarco, and Bengochea shared…

Bridget K. Daleiden (Educational Psychology) co-authored a journal article with Abraham E. Flanigan from Georgia Southern University titled, "The role of academic delay of gratification in overcoming digital distraction during class." in New Directions for Teaching and Learning. The article examines how students can manage digital…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) to the AARP PFAC Executive Council.

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk 2023 Collaborators titled, “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023” in…

Hikmet Loe's (Art) was interviewed by The Post and Courier 's editor-at-large Autumn Phillips, then cited in Phillips's published article, "In the secluded Nevada desert, the largest piece of land art in the world offers a pilgrimage."