Noria Litaker (History) was awarded a Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award by the Newberry Library for her forthcoming book, Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria (University of Virginia Press, fall 2023). The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that concern European civilization before 1700…

On Monday, April 17 2023 at the Nevada legislature, assistant professor LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Policy and Leadership) was invited to present and testify before the education senate committee. A.B. 43 Revises provisions relating to school emergency operations plans. (BDR 34-238) Improving Access to Dual Language Education and…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) has received a subaward grant from the project titled, "Suicide Death Among Older Adults Receiving Residential Long-Term Care," sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of this study is to evaluate systematically the risk for suicide mortality among nursing home and assisted…

Jesse Barnes, M.S. (Public Affairs) presented the first study from his dissertation work at the 80th annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) hybrid conference in Chicago titled, "Contested Federalism and Local Drinking Water Administration: The Effect of a Federal Rollback in Clean Water Act Enforcement.” Barnes is a Ph.D. candidate…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published her first book Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times with New York University Press.

On April 14, Ph.D. student and instructor Dennis Baloglu (Hospitality) delivered an educational workshop titled, "An Introduction to Data Science: A Roadmap to a Career in Analytics," at the THEREPS conference, where he served as an industry keynote speaker. Using the "Inspire, educate, instill a call to action" approach, Baloglu…

April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology) presented her work titled, "Self-Coherence: An Integrative Behavioral Mechanism Aimed at the Pursuit of Well-Being — A Qualitative Phenomenology Study," at the AERA 2023 conference in Chicago. Her presentation received funding from the UNLV GPSA.

This article is the product of a research project conducted by two of the DMD graduates at the School of Dental Medicine (Audrey Morris and Patricia Grabowski) with the supervision of the faculty members at SDM, Dr. Tanya Al Talib and Dr. Neamat Hassan. 

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by Duke University to deliver a public speech titled, "How The Ukraine Crisis Shapes Public Opinion In Taiwan & The World," on April 13, 2023. The talk analyzes how the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict updates the calculation and foreign policy preference in Taiwan, China, and the United…