Dale Melgaard (Film) received a nomination as a "Finalist" for the script The Phatman at the Best Script Awards London.

Brenna Renn (Psychology) was appointed as associate editor to Aging & Mental Health, an international peer-reviewed journal focused on the biological, psychological and social effects of aging on mental health.

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to join the Nevada Cancer Coalition's newly established Head and Neck Cancer Early Detection Task Force that will develop the state’s cancer plan for 2026-2030. In this role, Shah will help to create the plan’s narrative and content for the early detection of oral and oropharyngeal cancers including…

Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published "A Content Analysis of Neurodiversity Constructs in Counseling Journals" in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling with colleagues from the University of Toledo and Oakland University. 

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on Informed Informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post explores why he titled his latest book, Something for Your Money, along the way revealing a bit about his workout routine and musical tastes. For more information…

Nikki E. Bennett (Biological Anthropology) and co-authors Elizabeth A. Johnson (Anthropology; Academic Success Center) and Peter B. Gray (Anthropology) have published the paper, "Veterinary care providers recognize clinical utility of genetic testing but report limited confidence in interpreting direct-to-consumer results," in the American Journal…

Several articles edited by Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs; English) and published in the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States(Faculty Affairs) and published by Oxford University Press have received awards or honorable mentions for the 1921 Prize in American Literature. The prestigious 1921 Prize is awarded by the American…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) in collaboration with GBD 2021 Diarrhoeal Diseases Collaborators coauthored an article as a senior collaborator titled, “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990-2021, for 204 countries and territories: a…

Asma Awan, Timothy Grigsby, Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Visual (Structural) Colorectal Cancer…