Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) gave her Presidential Address at the 2022 Linguistic Association of the Southwest annual meeting at Cleveland State University on September 24. Her paper was titled, "Northwestern Amazonian Spanish as a macro-region: The roles of the (socio)-linguist."  Spanish has coexisted with many…

David Orentlicher (Law and Medicine) published an opinion essay, "Unanimous decision making is essential for preserving the Supreme Court’s legitimacy," in The Hill. The essay discusses concerns about the Supreme Court's legitimacy and how the Court can restore public confidence by deciding its cases unanimously. Unanimous decisions are…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with researchers from India and Saudi Arabia published a study, "Assessing the Compliance of Dental Clinicians towards Regulatory Infection Control Guidelines Using a Newly Developed Survey Tool: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study in India," in the journal Healthcare. The tool developed in this study can be used to…

Valarie Burke (Graduate College) spoke at the 12th annual conference of the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association on September 21. Titled "Did You Hear That? That's Graduate Students Sharing Their Research!," the presentation focused on the many resources offered by the UNLV Graduate College to assist students in…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article on "Early life organophosphate ester exposures and bone health at age 12 years: The Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study" in the journal Science of The Total Environment.  Despite evidence of osteotoxicity, no human studies have evaluated early life…

Graduate student SaMoura Horsley (Anthropology) has been awarded the prestigious UNLV McNair Post-Graduate Scholarship. 

Manoj Sharma, Ravi Batra (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and coauthors from the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Utah have published an article titled, “Assessing the testability of the multi-theory model (MTM) in predicting vaping quitting behavior among young adults in…

LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a guest lecture for the New Mexico State University College of Education doctoral program in leadership. She presented on qualitative methods of research and highlighted photo voice and her past research utilizing qualitative research.

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) and co-author Amirouche Moktefi (University of Talinn, Estonia) had their paper, "John Cook Wilson's 'Hanging Plants': A Contribution to the History of Early Logic Trees," published in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, a volume in the Springer book series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Artificial…