An article, "Cops or Coaches? The Statutory Role of Juvenile Probation Officers in a Transformative Age," co-authored by Justin Iverson (Law) and David Tanenhaus (Law/History) has been published in the Michigan State Law Review. 

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Chagas disease in immunocompromised patients" in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews.  As Chagas disease remains prevalent in the Americas, it is important that healthcare professionals and researchers are aware of the screening, diagnosis, monitoring…

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) wrote the article "Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools", which was published on April 1 in the journal Medical History. Willoughby examines how pre-Civil War U.S. medical faculty used data collected…

Benjamin Edwards (Law) presented a working draft paper at a symposium last week at the University of Illinois College of Law. The co-authored paper is tentatively entitled "NAVIGATING DIVERGENT INSTITUTIONAL INTERESTS ACROSS THE BANKING REGULATORY LANDSCAPE" with Hilary Sledge-Sarnor, a partner at Greenberg Traurig. It is forthcoming in the…

Torisha Khonach and Anna Kurz, (both Sociology) recently published an article titled "Challenges of #bodypositivity: social media and hashtag activism" in the journal Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society. Utilizing 200 posts from Instagram and 200 videos from TikTok, they examine the ways social media…

Rocky Rockstraw (Nursing) was awarded FY24 Appropriations Federal Funding. Project Purpose: The project will fund healthcare simulation equipment for the UNLV School of Nursing Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas. Also facilitated by Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, this grant will allow UNLV’s academic health center to provide…

Iwimbong Kum Ghabowen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy; Center for Health Disparities Research), and Xan Goodman (University Libraries) recently published a paper, "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Financial Impact of 30-Day Readmissions for Selected Medical Conditions: A…

Carly Lynn Wolfe (Intensive English Program) published an article titled "Exploring the potential of ChatGPT as a language learning tool" in the Higher Education Interest Section of TESOL. The article describes a method for using generative AI as a supplement for teaching academic vocabulary to English language learners.

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology.