Published: Shane W. Kraus
Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published five papers this summer. The first paper "Attachment insecurities and body image self-consciousness among women: The mediating role of pornography use" was published in Computers in Human Behavior. "Reliability, Validity, and Unidimensionality of the Korean Version of the…
Published: Monica Hernández-Johnson, Valerie Taylor, Ravijot Singh, Norma A. Marrun, Tara J. Plachowski, and Christine Clark
Monica Hernández-Johnson (Educational Psychology and Higher Education); Valerie Taylor and Ravijot Singh (both Interdisciplinary, Gender, & Ethnic Studies); and Norma A. Marrun, Tara J. Plachowski, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) coauthored an article, “Like Where Are Those Teachers?”: A…
Published: Jason Flatt
Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) published "Subjective cognitive decline higher among sexual and gender minorities in the United States, 2015–2018," in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions that found that LGBTQ+ people or sexual and gender minorities…
Published: Kavita Batra
Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently published a study titled "Surgical outcomes between temporal, extratemporal epilepsies and hypothalamic hamartoma: Systematic review and meta-analysis of MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy" in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. This study involved…
Published: Kenneth J. Varner, Iesha Jackson, Christine Clark, Averill Kelley, Chelsea DeSalvo, and Norma A. Marrun
Kenneth J. Varner, Iesha Jackson, Christine Clark, Averill Kelley, Chelsea DeSalvo, and Norma A. Marrun (all Teaching and Learning) published an edited book, Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Social Studies and Civic Education.
Published: Ariana Garcia and Blanca Rincón
Ariana Garcia and Blanca Rincón (both Educational Psychology and Higher Education) co-authored a manuscript on how alliance-based STEM enrichment programs broker graduate-related opportunities for students of color. Using a single case study of a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation alliance, they found that these…
Honors: Marc J. Kahn
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) was recently named the Medical Professional of the Year by the Nevada Biotechnology & Health Science Consortium. Kahn, Dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and vice president for health affairs, received the award at a ceremony July 15.
Honors: Aldo M. Barrita
Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) received the 2021 Anastasi Graduate Student Research Award: Early Graduate Student for the APA's Division 52 (International Psychology). This award, named for Anne Anastasi, is for outstanding graduate student research, with priority given to research that focuses on psychometrics and differential psychology…
Notable: Jeffrey L. Cummings
Dr. Jeff Cummings (Brain Health) published "Trial of Pimavanserin in Dementia-Related Psychosis" in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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