Riana Durrett. Marla Royne Stafford, Julianna Ness, Margaret McLetchie, Jordyn Sanders (all Cannabis Policy Institute at UNLV) had their paper, “Integrating Cannabis and Gaming: Re-evaluating their business intersection,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Cannabis Research, the top ranked journal in the cannabis field.  

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies), with co-author Andres Bernal (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies), recently published "Like, subscribe, profit? Personal finance influencers on YouTube under neoliberalism" in Consumption Markets & Culture. In the article, the authors use natural language processing methods and…

Juha Yoon (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) co-authored a recent peer-reviewed article titled “Artificial Intelligence–Enhanced Analytics in Sport Communication: Advancing Environmental Sustainability Through Stakeholder-Centered Strategies,” published in the International Journal of Sport Communication, highlighting the role of…

Katherine Walker (English) completed a research fellowship at the American Museum of Magic. This project is supported by the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. While at the Museum, Katherine made some important archival discoveries on Harry Houdini and spiritualism, which she will be publishing in the upcoming year. 

Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and alumnus Elias Malek (Integrated Health Sciences), along with colleagues from the University of Montana published a study titled, "The effect of acute sleep deprivation on inflammatory and oxidative stress responses to simulated wildland firefighting," in the Journal of Occupational and…

Louis Dumontet and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) have published a research article titled, “Interpretable Kolmogorov-Arnold networks for enzyme commission number prediction," in npj Artificial Intelligence. This study introduces biologically interpretable Kolmogorov-Arnold network strategy, which is known as a next neural network…

Aaron Saiewitz (Accounting) received the 2026 Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT) Best Paper Award for his paper, "Theoretical and Practical Guidance for Incorporating Auditor-Client Communication in Experimental Research." The paper, co-authored with Rick Hatfield (University of Alabama), was published in AJPT in 2022.…

Asma Awan (Public Health) has been selected as the recipient of the SOPHE 2026 Vivian Drenckhahn Student Scholarship Award by the National Office of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). This award is given to only three students annually who have excelled academically and demonstrated a commitment to addressing the public’s health…

Truman D. Rowley (Accounting) recently presented his research at the American Accounting Association Auditing Midyear Meeting in San Antonio, one of the leading conferences in the field of auditing. The paper, titled “Staffing Continuity and Audit Quality: How Anticipated Continuity Affects Auditor Cognition and Skeptical Action,” is coauthored…