Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) and Kendall Hartley (Education) published an article, "Artificial intelligence and communication technologies in academia: faculty perceptions and the adoption of generative AI," at the International Journal of Educational Technology on Higher Education. The study explores higher education faculty’s…

John M. Bowers (English) has won the Dr. Catherine Gullo Bellver Career Achievement Award for his accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. He will be presented with a plaque and a check at the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation on April 23 in the Tam Alumni Center.

Michael Pearson, Samuel Stewart, Linda Ma, Karl Kingsley, and Victoria Sullivan (all Dental) recently published "Differential Antimicrobial Effects of Endodontic Irrigant Endocyn on Oral Bacteria" in the MDPI journal Hygiene. 

Jarret Keene (English) recently presented a talk connecting his desert wanderings with his writing of Western novels as part of "Roots of Wonder," a Curiosity Lab event held at the Vegas Theatre Company in downtown Las Vegas. Sponsored by the Desert Research Institute, Curiosity Lab is a series of community-based events across Nevada that…

Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Andrew Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19…

Megan R. Griffard, Ph.D. (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) Bradley D. Marianno, Ph.D. (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education and the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment) and Mark L. Spinrad, Ph.D. (Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment) presented some of their current research on K-…

Jennifer Vanderlaan, Janice Enriquez, and Melva Thompson-Robinson (all Nursing) were published in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management for their article, "Counting Midwives Providing Clinical Care in Nevada." The study focused on estimating the number of midwives providing care primarily in Nevada and found that 55% of nurse…

Ph.D. candidate Liam Johnson (Anthropology), along with co-authors Ginesse A. Listi, Teresa V. Wilson, and Michael Leitner from the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, recently published their chapter titled, "A Spatial Clustering Analysis of Missing Persons Data to Generate Spatially Informed Community…

Mark Guadagnoli, Whitney Elks, Kencie Ely, Abigail W Cheng, Kavita Batra, Charles Randolph St Hill (all Medicine) published a study, "Good, Better, How,” Educational Intervention: Potential Benefits of Utilizing Feedback in General Surgery; Sequential Mixed-Methods Study of an Educational Intervention" in the Advances in Medical Education and…