Zhiling M. Shea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and her co-author at UCLA published an article, "Patterns of kindergarten mathematics instructional content in the United States’ classrooms and associations with children’s academic gains" in Early Childhood Research Quarterly While most prior research has used variable-…

The UNLV Cyber Clinic took gold last night at the Stars of Nevada Governor’s Points of Light Awards  in the Collegiate Community Leadership category. The Governor’s Points of Light celebrates the individuals and organizations who help make a vibrant future for all Nevadans by generously donating their time and talents in our communities.…

On Sept. 30, the Harrah College of Hospitality hosted an interdisciplinary seminar with faculty and students from Hospitality, Engineering, and the School of Medicine, demonstrating how the college's PGA Golf Management Center can serve as a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in sport performance and entertainment. School of Medicine…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) has edited and contributed an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Emotion, which focuses upon Mariana Alessandri’s Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Times. 

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Mental Disorder Collaborators, coauthored the article, “Burden of 10 mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: A Global Burden of Disease Study” in the journal Med (Impact factor 13.3). The study found that…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Chewing Tobacco Collaborators, coauthored the article, "Global, regional, and national burden of exposure to chewing tobacco, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023" in The Lancet Global Health (Impact factor 22.5). The…

Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published research examining whether asking people for more information following responses to the General Health Questionnaire could affected subsequent responses. It can. Respondents gave fewer psychologically concerning responses when presented with selective and predictable…

Journalist and author Roberto Lovato (English) and his reported memoir, Unforgetting, were mentioned in a Los Angeles Times article about Salvadoran food in Los Angeles as an indicator of that community's coming-of-age.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville), and Avery Kolers (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) presented a webinar entitled "Medicine and Resistance Under Non-Ideal Conditions," which was hosted by the American Philosophical Association and the North American Society for Social Philosophy. The webinar focused on…