Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) has published a book titled, Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel (Routledge). The book is the first sustained analysis of the late 19th- and early 20th-century travel narratives and diaries of Theodore Dreiser, an influential U.S. writer. The book discusses prominent themes in Dreiser's travel…

Jaewon Lim and Aaron Collette (Public Policy and Leadership), along with Euijune Kim (a former visiting scholar to UNLV) recently published an article in the Growth and Change journal titled, "Human Capital and Regional Resilience: Nevada Computable General Equilibrium Approach." In this study, they …

Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) has been nominated to serve a three-year term on the Steering Committee of the LD4 Community (Linked Data for Libraries). The LD4 Community is an open, international network focused on advancing the use of linked data in libraries and archives. Its mission is to raise awareness, encourage adoption, and foster…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published the article, “Global burden of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use in 204 countries, 1990-2023: A Global Burden of Disease Study,” as a senior collaborator in the journal, Nature Medicine (Impact factor 50.0). Drug use disorders (DUDs) are among the rising global…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) and co-authors were awarded the Distinguished Special Issue of the Year Award from the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association. The award honors their forum, “Communication Research on High Reliability Organizing: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities for the Future…

Ashley McCoy (Student Life), coordinator of Fraternity & Sorority Life, has been named a recipient of the Inaugural Mardie Trask Sorensen Chapter Advisor of the Year Award by the Order of Omega. This international award honors exceptional chapter advisors who demonstrate extraordinary leadership, service, and commitment to student success.…

Bailey Way, Todd Jennings, Kris Gunawan, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) recently published a paper (Early exposure and emerging risk: A latent profile analysis of pornography use trajectories and their psychological correlates) in Computers in Human Behavior.  Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published a paper (A Network Analysis of…

Sherrie Tennessee, '24 Ph.D., and co-authors Hyelin (Lina) Kim and Mehmet Erdem (all Hospitality), published their article, "Enhancing wellness tourism through self-service user interaction experiences: impacts on value and subjective wellbeing," in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights.  The article investigates how self-…

UNLV researchers Jalal Uddin; Nicole V. DeVille, Miguel Fudolig, Merrill R. Landers, and Jason "Jace" D. Flatt (all Public Health) as well as Chad Cross at Texas Tech have published a new study in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health titled: “Sociodemographic differences in skilled nursing facility discharge among Parkinson’s…