Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled “COVID-19 Infection among Family and Friends: The Psychological Impact on Non-Infected Persons” in the journal Brain Sciences. The article was written in collaboration with authors from New Mexico State University, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, University of…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was awarded a four-year $747,500 National Institutes of Health grant titled, "Regulation of Eye Regrowth in Xenopus laevis." The goal of this grant is to understand the mechanisms of eye regeneration. She was also awarded a Research Infrastructure grant from the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium to study the role of…

Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in a column titled, "Latinophobia in mainstream news fuels the radical right," which discusses the dangerous effects of Latinx erasure in and by the major media. "Roberto Lovato, a journalist and visiting professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told me the…

Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) served as lead author of the article "Measurement and Functional Invariance of Psychological Individuation Constructs Across Cultures: Initial Evidence From Taiwan and the United States" published in the journal, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter titled "Animal Ethics" in the Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare. This chapter discusses competing accounts of moral status and ethical theory as they relate to nonhuman animals.

Sunny Kim and Mehmet Erdem (both Hospitality) along with doctoral program alumnus, SungJun Joe, published a research article titled "The bright and dark sides of hotel kiosks: an empirical study" in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. The study introduces a check-in/out kiosk acceptance model using a multi-theoretical approach…

Zachary Frank, a UNLV alumnus, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) published "On the mechanism of performance improvement of electroactive polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel actuators via conductive fillers" in Scientific Reports.

Bowen Liu and Malwane M.A. Ananda (both Mathematical Sciences) published an article titled, "A Generalized Family of Exponentiated Composite Distributions" in Mathematics. This paper proposed a new family of distributions. Two special models within this family were introduced, and both models demonstrated great performance when fitting…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled, “Psychological help-seeking among college students: Applying the multi-theory model of health behavior change in assessing telehealth use for psychological help-seeking” in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine in association with coauthors from the University of…