Erin Zimmerman (UNLV Writing Center) co-authored an article titled, "Centering MENA Writing Scholarship within U.S. Transnational Framework," in MENA Writing Studies Journal. The article explores what U.S. writing centers can learn from multilingual and decolonial writing practices in Middle East and North Africa contexts.

Leslie T. Snadowsky (Journalism and Media Studies) won the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) first-place 2026 Silver Anvil Organizational Award for leading the “Best In-House Team - Associations/ Nonprofit Organizations” in the nation. The PRSA Anvil Awards, on Thursday, May 14, at the Edison Ballroom in NYC, honored communications…

Riana Durrett (Cannabis Policy Institute) joined the "An Update on Cannabis in Tribal Nations" panel during the most recent Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA) Stakeholder Meeting in Oklahoma, June 9-10. The panel, moderated by Melanie Franks, Tribal Liaison at the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management, included Durrett as well as …

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with her international research collaborators, published a study titled “Effects of Ergonomic Chairs on Workplace Musculoskeletal Health: A Systematic Review” in Physical Treatments. The review examined how ergonomic chair features affect musculoskeletal health among seated workers and found that ergonomic…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole co-authored “Characteristics of the Health-Associated Oral Microbiome in Young Nonhuman Primates,” which published May 16 in the journal Molecular Oral Microbiology. The results provide seminal details of the oral microbiome in this disease model and underpin the ability to elucidate specific microbial changes that can occur…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Transcriptomic analysis of gingival tissues in resolved experimental periodontal lesions of nonhuman primates,” which published May 4 in Journal of Periodontology. The study, which used a preclinical model of experimental periodontitis in nonhuman primates to evaluate the biological features of resolved…

Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) presented a paper, "Land, Blood, History: Edith Wharton and the Embodied Natural World," at the Edith Wharton Summit held June 4-6, 2026 at Wharton's historic home in Lenox, MA. In the paper, Totten explained the connections that Wharton made in her nonfiction and fiction writing between the environment, bloodlines,…

Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy; Social and Behavioral Health), Smriti Neupane (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy), and Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) published a study titled, "Household Food Insecurity Risk and Weight Status Outcomes in Early Childhood: A Public Health…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "Unconditional cash transfer and polarized support," in International Political Science Review. The article examines a unique "unconditional" COVID-19 relief voucher lottery in Taiwan in 2021, in which vouchers were randomly assigned based on the last two digits of citizens’…