Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with the GBD 2019 MSK in Adolescents Collaborators, published a study "Global pattern, trend, and cross-country inequality of early musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2019, with projection from 2020 to 2050" in the Med journal. This study aimed to estimate the burden, trends, forecasts, and disparities of…

Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Public Health; Nevada Institute for Children's Research & Policy) presented "Essentials for Childhood: Upstream Prevention" at the Washoe County Prevention Conference on May 31 in Reno, Nevada.   The aim of this presentation was to understand that while the association between chronic exposure to adverse childhood…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently contributed to a study published in Lancet in March 2024 related to the global fertility rates and its forecasting in 2021. The findings of this study were referenced by the Washington Post ("Opinion: A birthrate bomb?") in surveying the world population and what the existing rates of fertility means for…

Jessica Immonen (Dental), Linh Nguyen (Dental) and Jason Ciccotelli (Physical Therapy) published an article titled "Biomechanics of Bruxism Potentially Determine the Sites of Severe TMJ Osteoarthritis" in Biomechanics. They mentored a group of dental students and a dental resident in their work (David Patterson, Samantha Pipkin, Nathan Kent,…

Tony Henthorne’s (Hospitality) book, "Jamaica: Tourism History of an Island Paradise," published by Archway Publishing, is now available on Amazon. The book explores the cultural and political history of the island – from its humble beginnings, to the Hollywood invasion of the 1940s, to its status today as one of the world's most popular tourism…

Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter “Latin America” in the collection Pirandello in Context, edited by Patricia Gaborik for Cambridge University Press. Boselli speaks about the introduction of Pirandello’s plays to Latin America, which started after the controversial Italian success of Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), then…

Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter, “Echoes of Theatre Past: Blasco Ibañez's El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky’s El rufián moldavo,” in the The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction edited by Graham Wolfe. Boselli’s chapter examines El comediante Fonseca (Fonseca, the Actor, 1924) by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibañez (1867–1928…

ScholarGPS recently established Highly Ranked Scholars™ for their exceptional performance in various fields, disciplines, and specialties. ScholarGPS has placed distinguished professor Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide. In particular, Kim was ranked No. 7 in the area of "Smart Materials" as Highly Ranked…

Deborah A. Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra (all Medicine), along with Courtney Coughenour, Max Gakh, William Porter, Darin Mains, Kacie Washburn (all Public Health), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs) presented findings from the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, resulting from SB 236 (2021) at…