Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator in the GBD 2021 Adult BMI Collaborators Group titled, “Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: A forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” in The…

Ph.D. student Laurencia Bonsu (Global and Environmental Health) has received the UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees Fellowship. The fellowship is granted over four semesters to doctoral students in the final two years of their program. Bonsu’s research focuses on lead contamination in water sources caused by illegal mining in Ghana. During her…

Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Jonathan C. Hilpert, (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Christy Strong (Life Sciences) published a brief research report titled, "Using the fused graphical lasso to explore the motivational self-system after a multimedia self-regulated learning…

Matthew L. Bernacki, Dan Gianoutsos (Student and Academic Success), and MeganClaire Cogliano (Education) published their manuscript, "Examining Digital Curricular Enhancements to First-Year Seminars and Effects on College Success," in Innovative Higher Education. This five-year longitudinal study examined how digital curricular enhancements, which…

As a member of the Inequity in Obesity Prevention Trialists Collaborative Group, Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) worked with a team of international researchers, pooling data from 81 published trials to examine the effectiveness of the interventions. The study was recently published in eClinicalMedicine, part of The…

Kaelyn Griffin and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published three works as part of ongoing research collaborations through the UNLV Behavioral Addictions Lab.  The first paper, "An examination and validation of a short form of the Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire," was published in Spirituality in Clinical…

Joel Snyder (Psychology) and colleagues from around the world have published a Comment article in Nature Neuroscience titled, "What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?" It is accompanied by replies from two other groups of authors and relates to an ongoing debate about the scientific merits of the integrated information theory of…

Danielle Mireles, Norma A. Marrun, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) co-authored a chapter titled, "Between hypervisibility and invisibility: Unpacking what it means to be an HSI on Indigenous lands through critical unearthing of local histories and epistemologies of Latinx communities," published in Contemporary issues in…

Jason Victor (Radiochemistry) published a paper in the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry titled, "Preparation and arc melting decomposition of cerium trichloride."  The article explores high-temperature chemistry of cerium trichloride, a strategic material relevant to molten salt reactor technology in the nuclear field.…