Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) spoke at the HS OnlineEd roundtable, "Strengthening the Bond Between Academic Libraries and Faculty," viewed by more than 400 registrants from 70 countries. Her invitation followed a presentation on the intersection of information literacy and faculty development at LILAC 2024: The Information Literacy…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as part of GBD 2021 Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators were coauthors in “Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021”…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) spoke to students in the Advocacy Scholars Program at the American Medical Student Association about the free Antiracism Module,  funded by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, on which she has worked for the past three years. The Module, videos, and resources are available to everyone online.

Gregory Koenig (Music) presented Guitar class: An opportunity for transformative music education at the National Association for Music education 2024 biannual music research and teacher education conference. 

Scholars working on research at the International Gaming Institute presented four posters at the 25th annual International Center for Responsible Gambling (ICRG) Conference on Sunday, October 6, 2024.  Samantha Wells (Learning & Technology) presented her work on using LLM-based chatbots for supporting responsible gambling education.…

Sarah Wolff, Jonathan Hilpert, Vanessa Vongkulluksn (all (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and their colleagues at UNC published a paper in Contemporary Educational Psychology titled "Self-efficacy inertia: The role of competency beliefs and academic burden in achievement." This paper uses the random-intercept cross-…

Linda Lister (Music) had her song "Ariel Ambitions," from the song cycle Pleas to Famous Fairies, performed at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Soprano Hannah Winston sang the song on the concert Peabody Songbook Series: A Woman's Point of View.

Marta Soligo (Hospitality) was interviewed by USA Today about tourist taxes. While reflecting on the effectiveness of tourist fees, she spoke about the climate crisis as a global phenomenon, the risk of not-so-successful “Band-Aid” approaches, and the importance of including Indigenous knowledge in land management practices. 

Jenna Weglarz-Ward and Melissa Yarczower (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented a session "Functional Frameworks for Inclusive Fieldwork: A Systematic Review", alongside colleagues Maryssa Mitsch from San Francisco State (UNLV Alumni, 2017), Jessica Branch from Murray State University, Prince Estanislao and Hadas…